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Rest could be met by other countries, GoI and possibly Moderna The Danish government announcing 250,000 AstraZeneca doses for Bhutan on Thursday has come as a major boost for Bhutan’s second dose efforts whose 16-week gap now ends by the end of July. The Prime Minister Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering …

Lyonchhen may not have been able to visit Nganglam due to COVID-19, but he told the paper that he had made hundreds of calls to the constituency and especially to politically active people that included hardcore supporters of DPT to support the DNT candidate.  According to sources, in the Chhoekhor-Tang …

Many high school graduates and their parents are worried about the opportunity to go for further studies. Since the government and private colleges’ seats are filled up, the parents are hesitant to send their child outside Bhutan, due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and worsening situation in India. …

Nanglam got a rude shock on the 19th of June when it found its first two COVID-19 cases as part of a routine enhanced surveillance testing in the Dungsam Cement factory premises. One was a security guard from the private security company Heruka Security Services and another was a loader. …

The Foreign Minister Dr Tandi Dorji said that as the 12-week vaccine gap dose officially ends on 27th June the government is working hard to get the vaccines for the second dose. One major source of hope is India which according to the Foreign Minister had been giving assurances of …

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP), Department of Law and Order (DLO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), and Department of Immigration (DoI) collaborated to rescue 163 Bhutanese women, some as young as 21 to as old as 50 years, in 7 batches from Iraq after a Royal Command.  The first batch was …

The plan is to eventually provide free Wi-Fi to students in all 20 Dzongkhags As per the Ministry of Education’s recommendation, four thromdes, Thimphu, Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Samdrup Jongkhar have put up proposal to the Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) to provide free Wi-Fi to students. The Education Minister …

A solution could be to scrap or amend the Tobacco Act (Amendment 2014) to legalize tobacco import and sales during the pandemic The RBP officials on 30th September 2020 could not believe their eyes when they looked at the infra red camera late at night. They saw around 10 people …

His Majesty The King arrived in Thimphu yesterday, after concluding a tour of the high risk areas along the eastern and southern border, and entered quarantine as per COVID protocol. His Majesty was accompanied by His Royal Highness Gyaltshab Jigme Dorji and the Prime Minister, Lyonchen Dasho Lotay Tshering.  His …

Bench 1 of the Thimphu District Court dismissed the OAG’s sedition case against Penjore on four grounds. The first is that during the investigation and when the remand order for Penjore had been sought, the case was about defamation but now it had turned into sedition. The second point was …