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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 …

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 …

The Ministry of Education (MoE) will hand over 748 tablets to 744 students in 23 schools with Special Education Needs (SEN), including three new inclusive schools before the second term this year. The tablets were purchased with monetary support of about Nu 12 million (mn) by Save the Children under …