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Among the biggest learnings of the recent national lockdown, one was firstly on how to do lockdowns in the future to minimize the economic cost and inconvenience and secondly to prevent repeated and long national lockdowns. Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering said there are a lot of invaluable lessons learnt …

His Cabinet colleagues and key staff across the 10 ministries also stayed away from family with ministers in a guest house and officers camped in the ministries Unknown to many, while the nation was in lockdown at home, the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers, senior officials and key staff across the …

His Majesty The King led the government and the Indian Ambassador in offering prayers and a thousand butterlamps for His Excellency Pranab Mukherjee at the Simtokha Dzong on 1 September, 2020. The former President of India passed away on 31st August. His Excellency was well loved across party lines in …

If the economy was in a bad enough condition with the COVID-19 measures, the nearly one-month lockdown has put it in a deep freeze. The Finance Minister Namgay Tshering and his core team in Paro are racking their brains, going through a lot of data and coming up with important …

Domestic tourism plan also being drawn up The Tourism Industry and the tourism season is dead for the entire 2020, but there is some hope in 2021 as the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) is working on and proposing the concept of ‘Bubble Tourism’. A TCB official, on the condition …

COVID-19 testing for identified yellow zone will start on Saturday The Health Minister Dechen Wangmo yesterday at a press conference highlighted the plans and the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that will be followed in the coming days at Phuentsholing and its neighboring parts. She said that increasing cases from Dantak, …

Expect big cuts in expenditure and reworking of the 12th plan too The three-week national lockdown is not only having an impact on the private sector, but it is also playing havoc with government’s revenue target and hence its finances. The Finance Minister Namgay Tshering said that the tax revenue …

56 confirmed to test positive for antibodies of 10,282 samples 43 are DANTAK cases Phuentsholing is staring at a massive COVID-19 problem as of Monday with 41 Mini Dry Port (MDP) linked local transmission cases and  community survelliance cases. Of the 62 community survelliance cases 43 are Dantak and 1 …

Ministry also proposes to postpone exams for the above to March 2021 The Ministry of Education (MoE) has proposed that classes IX, X, XI and XII to be reopened when the lockdown is lifted and if the situation is under control. This means that classes Pre-Primary (PP) till VIII will …

22,955 beneficiaries of Druk Gyalpo’s Relief Kidu got Nu 284 mn in relief for August 9,532 children also covered under Child Support Kidu Before the lockdown of 11th August the phone line 1188 was for the Druk Gyalpo Kidu Relief for those who had lost their livelihood due to COVID-19 …