Archer Karma faced India’s Deepika Kumari in the women’s individual recurve archery in Japan on 28 July at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Karma lost all the three sets to Deepika Kumari. However, she maintained a competitive game with India’s best archer. The three sets scores were 26-23, 26-23 and 27-24 …

National Commission of Women and Children (NCWC) registered 162 different cases in 2021 as of now, of which 61 cases are related to Gender Based Violence (GBV). The statistic with the NCWC shows that of the total registered survivor, 8 are male while 53 are female. Likewise, in 2020 they …

Bhutan celebrated its first world music festival, “Hidden Kingdom” (HK) from 28 -31 July this year. The unique event served as an opportunity for the Bhutanese musicians to showcase their talents, and also their music in the coming years. Artist Director of the festival, Ugyen Panday, said that the festival …

Under the ambit of India at 75 ‘Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav’ celebrations to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of India’s Independence, the Embassy and the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority of India (APEDA) organised a virtual Buyer-Seller Meet on 29th July  between the Uttar Pradesh State Horticultural Co-operative …

The government has two and a half years left in office, and people are still waiting for the SuungJoen App and free WiFi. One of the government’s 25 pledges in the first 120 days in office was to “…develop the SuungJoen App to enable Bhutanese to communicate freely without the …

In July 2020 as part of the monetary measures for COVID-19 the RMA announced Short Terms loans or bridging loans to businesses by banks at a 5% interest rate to pay for wages and salaries to employees, overhead expenses like rents, utility bills, lease, insurance premiums and procurement and purchase …

A few weeks ago, the Government of India (GoI) decided to allow the import of seven vegetables including cabbage from Bhutan. There was an over supply of cabbages last year, and the government bore Nu 24 million in losses when buying back cabbages from the farmers. This year too, the …

Students will move by mid-August, 2021 Classes IX to XII students in Phuentsholing are to be relocated to Phaduna in Punakha so that they can continue their second term in the 2021 academic year. The primary students will continue with online teaching and learning in Phuentsholing itself. Phaduna is on …

In a statement the DPT Vice President Lily Wangchuk said she has resigned from the post of Vice President of the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa and applied to withdraw from the primary membership of the party. She said he has had great experience working with the most seasoned politicians of Bhutan’s …

Bhutan has once again achieved an impressive task of vaccinating more than 90 percent of its eligible adult population within one week, drawing global acclaim once again. If that was not enough, the country has now started vaccinating those between 12 and 17 which has the potential to push us …