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His Majesty The King granted an Audience to the 15th Batch DeSuung trainees at the Military Training Center in Tencholing, Wangduephodrang Addressing the 80 men and 41 women volunteers participating in the 15th DeSuung Training Programme, His Majesty spoke to the volunteers about the numerous concerns facing our country in …

The Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) in a release called for teacher welfare to be given priority. The party said two major initiatives, “Educating for GNH” and “Education blueprint” by two successive governments, although the laudable intentions have failed to provide teachers with the environment they deserve. “It is very well …

Although Bhutan aims to achieve food security through increasing the production of cereal crops especially rice the effort has been mired with many challenges such as lack of irrigation water and loss of potential wetland to the developmental activities. According to a study carried out by the Research Development Centre …

The Student Loan Scheme for tertiary education made possible under the Economic Stimulus Plan will provide students with the funds to continue their education. According to the Prime Minister, pursuing higher education should not be a luxury for the privileged only, but for all the Bhutanese students. The Student Loan …

The World Health Day – 2015, under the theme ‘From Farm to Plate, Make Food Safe’ will be celebrated in Phuentsholing on April 7. The day will bring focus on the need to strengthen food safety systems in and between all countries as our food supply becomes increasingly globalized. A …

In efforts to encourage agribusiness, the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) along with the Department of Agriculture and Marketing Cooperatives (DAMC), Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, is holding a RNR (Renewable Natural Resources) Innovative Business Idea Competition 2015. The competition will select and promote the innovative and cost …

The Bangladeshi community in Thimphu observed the 44th Independence Day of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh on March 26 in the capital. The day was celebrated with the hoisting of the Bangladeshi national flag by the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Bhutan, Jishnu Roy Choudhury. Ambassador Jishnu Roy Choudhury also read …

Although there were thousands of football fans and enthusiasts filling every single seat in the Changlimithang National Stadium during second leg of the World Cup qualifying match played on March 17, however, hundreds more spectators wanted to be let into the stadium. They left disappointed as they were denied entry …

As directed by the government, Thimphu Thromde in partnership with the Bhutan Post has initiated a project to develop a city addressing system using geographic information system (GIS) to provide efficient door-to-door service delivery. The City Address System (CAS), when in place, would benefit the government offices and public-oriented entities, …

Finding safe drinking water is one of the biggest challenges faced by rural communities, apart from the lack of irrigation water, human wildlife conflict, farm labour shortage and access to market. Such challenges have hindered the pace of gaining food-sufficiency, nutritional improvement and the income generation capacity of the farmers. …