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In a move to revamp the buyback scheme, and to improve and strengthen the agricultural marketing system, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MOAF) plans to buyback only the mandatory products which the ministry will identify and declare to the farmers, in order to overhaul the buyback scheme. Unlike the …

Thimphu’s Norzin Lam and Changlimithang parking would normally be crowded with people spending the holidays with their loved ones, going through the various food stalls, games stalls, shops and restaurants, during Thimphu Tshechu. People, young and old, wore bright and colourful ghos and kiras to witness the scared mask dances …

Thimphu Police arrested 7 people in connection to cattle lifting. The seven suspects, aged between 25 years to 35 years, are from the southern region of the country. The arrests of the suspects have enabled the police to solve 11 cases of cattle lifting lodged by households in Mewang and …

Schools in the high-risk zones are still on high alert even though no positive COVID-19 cases have been found in the past few weeks. There are also schools taking face-to-face classes without interruption in the low-risk dzongkhags, at the same time, the schools are well prepared and equipped if any …

More than 59,000 children, which accounts for 78.6 percent of the eligible children in the 12 to 17-years category, have been vaccinated with Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. There are around 20,000 children who have not received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine as yet. Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo the …

Currently, within the existing national protocol, every tourist must undergo a 21-day quarantine facility, so tourists who wish to visit are welcome to do so as long as they follow the regulations. However, for the formal reopening, the Tourism Technical Advisory Group has worked on reopening guidelines and Standard Operating …

Ministry of Economic Affairs(MoEA) held it’s first awareness program on fronting to the business community on 19th of August 2021 in two sessions with different sets of business community and associations. During the awareness program, officials of MoEA thoroughly introduced the concept of fronting, laws governing fronting, negative impacts of …

On the 3-4th of August 2021, a National Logistics Preparedness Inception workshop was held by the Department of Disaster Management and MoAF in collaboration with WFP. The workshop was organized as a part of activities under the Global Logistics Cluster Field-Based Preparedness Project. The interactive workshop aimed to support local …

The Cabinet has decided to allow the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) to look into doing away with the Route Permits that require tourists to seek additional route permits to travel to destinations beyond Paro and Thimphu. The Chairman of the TCB and Foreign Minister Dr Tandi Dorji said that …

Even with the ban of tobacco sale and import lifted, some of the tobacco consumers still complain about buying cigarettes at high costs, same as before when the ban was on.  Tenzin Dorji who is a smoker said he cannot make it to the tobacco outlets as he lives far …