August of 2019

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Missing monk found in Trashigang

Missing

Aug 16, 2019 1 mins read 253 views
TTIs' admission drops this year

Education Ministry

Aug 16, 2019 2 mins read 257 views
Tsirang DT decides not to impose parking fees

Tsirang Dzongkhag

Aug 16, 2019 1 mins read 263 views
WeChat brings home missing yaks in Soe

Perspective

Aug 16, 2019 3 mins read 277 views
Mines and Minerals Bill will not be tabled as urgent Bill

Parliament

Aug 16, 2019 4 mins read 269 views
Taxes are levied on net profit, not on total turnover: HC

Crime

Aug 16, 2019 3 mins read 289 views
Trashigang DT forms four committee

Trashigang Dzongkhag

Aug 16, 2019 1 mins read 223 views
Teachers forced to rent hotel rooms in Nganglam

Pemagatshel Dzongkhag

Aug 16, 2019 2 mins read 258 views
Problems with sub-standard set-top boxes

Letter to the Editor

Aug 16, 2019 1 mins read 297 views
In the interest of Bhutan and India

Editorial

Aug 16, 2019 2 mins read 272 views
Man sentenced for attempt to rape

Crime

Aug 16, 2019 0 mins read 277 views
OAG reviews a separate 19kg gold smuggling case

Crime

Aug 16, 2019 5 mins read 266 views
Bhutan is India trusted friend and neighbour: PM Modi

Indo-Bhutan

Aug 16, 2019 2 mins read 324 views
Digital Drukyul to empower citizen and improve service delivery

Technology

Aug 16, 2019 3 mins read 294 views
Compliance notification

Briefly

Aug 16, 2019 0 mins read 243 views
Highway damage: Commuters use 30-year-old suspension bridge

Disaster

Aug 15, 2019 2 mins read 243 views
MHPA formalises electricity export

Hydro Project

Aug 15, 2019 1 mins read 256 views
Trashigang dzongkhag to deploy an engineer for two gewogs

Trashigang Dzongkhag

Aug 15, 2019 1 mins read 224 views
Aftercare facility to help kidney patients

Health

Aug 15, 2019 2 mins read 260 views
Outstanding youth recognised with awards

Awards

Aug 15, 2019 1 mins read 279 views
Experts meet to thrash ICT policies and regulation issues

Technology

Aug 15, 2019 2 mins read 253 views
Bad side of social media use

Letter to the Editor

Aug 15, 2019 1 mins read 249 views
In the right direction

Editorial

Aug 15, 2019 2 mins read 247 views
Pilot project to reduce gastric cancer in Bhutan

Health

Aug 15, 2019 3 mins read 237 views
A milestone in Bhutan's space science and technology

Technology

Aug 15, 2019 4 mins read 269 views
PM Modi's visit marks five decades of hydropower cooperation

With the inaugural of 720MW Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Plant and opening of official discussion on the Sunkosh, the...

Aug 16, 2019 4 mins read 253 views
Roads to remain closed on August 17 and 18

Briefly

Aug 15, 2019 0 mins read 238 views
MHPA all set for the big day

Hydro Project

Aug 14, 2019 2 mins read 246 views
Yalang gewog service centre remains defunct

Trashiyangtse Dzongkhag

Aug 14, 2019 2 mins read 279 views
Stakeholders looking at revising Youth Policy

Youth

Aug 14, 2019 3 mins read 238 views
Engaging youth meaningfully

Youth

Aug 14, 2019 2 mins read 272 views
Ensuring sustainable collection of natural resources

Letter to the Editor

Aug 14, 2019 1 mins read 285 views
Looking to the future?

Editorial

Aug 14, 2019 2 mins read 271 views
NCWC and BNEW launch Bhutan Women Parliamentary Caucus

NCWC

Aug 14, 2019 4 mins read 246 views
Another strategy to fight corruption

Anti Corruption Commission's (ACC)

Aug 14, 2019 3 mins read 247 views
Digitisation drive in banking reaches new heights

Bank

Aug 14, 2019 4 mins read 278 views
NCHM predicts rainfall and thunderstorm

Briefly

Aug 14, 2019 0 mins read 238 views
Windstorm affects about 87 households in Phongmey

Disaster

Aug 13, 2019 1 mins read 262 views
Transport FC leads table without a loss

Sports

Aug 13, 2019 1 mins read 271 views
Dagana to have a recreational park by November

Dagana dzongkhag

Aug 13, 2019 1 mins read 266 views
Lack of farm road maintenance affects farmers

Pemagatshel Dzongkhag

Aug 13, 2019 1 mins read 248 views
Zhemgang's Goshing gewog without gup for a year

Local governments (LG)

Aug 13, 2019 2 mins read 278 views
JAB conducts media literacy in Soe

Journalists' Association of Bhutan (JAB)

Aug 13, 2019 1 mins read 275 views
Ensure safety on the dzong and the highway

Letter to the Editor

Aug 13, 2019 1 mins read 265 views
The cost of wrong planning

Editorial

Aug 13, 2019 2 mins read 278 views
SDF to finance USD 13M for ATR 42-600

Foreign Affairs

Aug 13, 2019 2 mins read 268 views
Police not implementing prison Act: RAA

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

Aug 13, 2019 3 mins read 249 views
US govt. commits support to STEM education

Foreign Affairs

Aug 13, 2019 2 mins read 276 views
Trained nurses sent to work abroad

Health

Aug 13, 2019 2 mins read 236 views
PM to launch NIACS

Briefly

Aug 13, 2019 0 mins read 284 views
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Honouring the legacy of the Great Fourth

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The urgency of civil service transformation

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Should we control social media?

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Need bold reforms to advance women in leadership roles

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Fraudulent businesses must be punished

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Safe spaces, unsafe realities

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A teacher’s gift to the nation

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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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