July of 2017

Archives

Bhutan Telecom board decides not to suspend CEO

Bhutan Telecom

Jul 10, 2017 3 mins read 272 views
19 years on, a physically challenged employee awaits regularisation

Personalities

Jul 10, 2017 2 mins read 232 views
Roadblocks close six highways

Roads

Jul 10, 2017 2 mins read 0 views
Roadblocks close six highways

Roads

Jul 10, 2017 2 mins read 222 views
Golden Youth

Golden Youth

Jul 10, 2017 0 mins read 0 views
Athletics break five national records

National school athletics

Jul 09, 2017 2 mins read 252 views
Thimphu prepares for star-studded Lit Fest

Festival

Jul 09, 2017 1 mins read 241 views
Point of sales machines unpopular at fuel stations

Fuel

Jul 09, 2017 1 mins read 208 views
Dumseygang to get drinking water supply

Water

Jul 09, 2017 2 mins read 220 views
Landslides block roads across the country

Disaster

Jul 09, 2017 1 mins read 215 views
Switched Off - the story of how technology impacts lives

Book

Jul 09, 2017 1 mins read 259 views
Teach children values of farming: PM

PM visits

Jul 09, 2017 1 mins read 216 views
Fix the drainage problem

Letter to the editor

Jul 09, 2017 1 mins read 243 views
The agriculture crisis

Editorial

Jul 09, 2017 2 mins read 265 views
Gelephu-Zhemgang road to open by today afternoon

Roads

Jul 09, 2017 1 mins read 223 views
Heavy rains trigger flood alert

Disaster

Jul 09, 2017 1 mins read 218 views
Drying water thwarts rice self-sufficiency dream

Water

Jul 09, 2017 3 mins read 239 views
Delayed DNA reports prolong judgement for 14 cases

Crime

Jul 09, 2017 3 mins read 202 views
Travel Advisory

Travel Advisory

Jul 09, 2017 0 mins read 0 views
Being a good human being is more important than having money

k2

Jul 07, 2017 2 mins read 239 views
Making of a drug- and alcohol free society

k2

Jul 07, 2017 3 mins read 246 views
First batch of sports instructors graduate

Sports

Jul 07, 2017 1 mins read 230 views
A 15-year-old wins gold in the national athletic meet

National school athletics

Jul 07, 2017 1 mins read 240 views
Former tshogpa detained for alleged choeten vandalism

Crime

Jul 07, 2017 0 mins read 251 views
Dumseygang farmers try lychee farming

Agriculture

Jul 07, 2017 1 mins read 255 views
Merak highlanders return for the annual kurim

Religion

Jul 07, 2017 2 mins read 213 views
Patshaling: The gewog that produces organic vegetables in Tsirang

Organic

Jul 07, 2017 2 mins read 245 views
Dengue fever outbreak in Samtse

Health disease

Jul 07, 2017 1 mins read 218 views
PCAL to procure second hand gearbox

Penden Cement Authority Limited (PCAL)

Jul 07, 2017 2 mins read 222 views
Flash floods: Bhutan's biggest dilemma

Perspective

Jul 07, 2017 5 mins read 238 views
300-year old mani choeten washed away

Disaster

Jul 07, 2017 0 mins read 283 views
FabLab Bhutan to foster innovative minds

Inauguration

Jul 07, 2017 2 mins read 273 views
What could have gone wrong with LFSR?

Letter to the editor

Jul 07, 2017 1 mins read 229 views
Teacher attrition a national concern

Editorial

Jul 07, 2017 2 mins read 232 views
High Court dismisses Penjore's constitutional case against BNBL

Judiciary

Jul 07, 2017 1 mins read 251 views
Drug incinerator needed to dispose expired medicines

Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA)

Jul 07, 2017 2 mins read 233 views
120 teachers resign in five months

Education

Jul 07, 2017 2 mins read 271 views
ACC suspends top RICBL executives

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Jul 07, 2017 3 mins read 249 views
Heavy rainfall in Southern and Eastern dzongkhags

Rainfall

Jul 07, 2017 0 mins read 233 views
Drukpol FC appeals to BFF's decision

Football

Jul 06, 2017 1 mins read 237 views
Cooperative chairman accused of alleged embezzlement

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Jul 06, 2017 1 mins read 212 views
Why can't we conduct statutory audit locally

Letter to the editor

Jul 06, 2017 2 mins read 262 views
Employ caution this season

Editorial

Jul 06, 2017 1 mins read 245 views
Bhutan to participate in world music conference

International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)

Jul 06, 2017 1 mins read 259 views
10th Golden Youth Award camp begins

Award

Jul 06, 2017 1 mins read 220 views
Heaters and carpets warm Merak ECCD centre

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)

Jul 06, 2017 1 mins read 220 views
Local rice scheme to continue despite poor price

Food Corporation of Bhutan Ltd. (FCBL)

Jul 06, 2017 2 mins read 228 views
BDBL official faces 211 charges worth Nu 576 million

Office of the Attorney General (OAG)

Jul 06, 2017 6 mins read 374 views
Women's league under way

Football

Jul 06, 2017 0 mins read 271 views
National school athletics meet begins in Thimphu

National school athletics

Jul 05, 2017 1 mins read 221 views
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Recents

Honouring the legacy of the Great Fourth

The story of His Majesty the Fourth King is an extraordinary one in our history. At 16, His Majesty became King, following the untimely passing of his father, the Third Druk Gyalpo. His Majesty inherited a nation in transition, a country taking its first steps toward modernisation, while gradually coming out from years of isolation. Geo-politically, it was a time of turmoil and uncertainty.

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The selfless Warrior-King

The winter of 2003 would forever be etched in Bhutan’s history as the time when a King walked into the jungles of the south, especially in Samdrupjongkhar, not as a ruler commanding from afar, but as a warrior leading from the front. The air was cold, heavy with mist, and beneath the thick canopy of trees lay the sound of tension.  A nation’s patience was stretched to its limit.

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Tribute to His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo

Throughout history, the world has seen countless leaders, yet only a few have embodied the rare harmony of wisdom, compassion, and courage that defines true greatness. Bhutan is fortunate to have been blessed by such a leader in His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, a visionary Monarch whose reign ushered the nation into an era of peace, progress, and profound transforma

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King who sacrificed his youth to build a future for us

Among the many extraordinary acts of greatness that define the reign of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, what moves the heart most profoundly is something far more silent, far less seen: the quiet, invisible sacrifice of his own youth. It is a story etched deeply in the soul of the nation, for in giving up his own, he gifted a future to us.

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The Vajrayana King

As Bhutan reflects on its journey as the world’s last Vajrayana kingdom, it becomes ever more evident that the reign of His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, marks one of the most sacred and transformative eras in our history.

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