Dzongkha Development Commission’s (DDC ... A pioneer in the promotion of the national language, Dasho Sherab spent a moment with Kuensel’s Thinley Zangmo to share his experience working with the ...

Education: Students of classes preprimary (PP) to XII must now pass Dzongkha in order to be promoted to a higher class, it was decided at the ongoing National Education Conference in Phuentsholing ...

Lyonchhen said that the government would support the only private Dzongkha newspaper and Kuensel to bring out quality news stories in Dzongkha. This is in the interest of the people who can read only ...

Education: Dzongkha could become one of the main subjects should the upcoming national education conference endorse it as recommended by Dzongkha teachers during the national curriculum review. The ...

Some lawyers Kuensel spoke to said that given a choice they feel comfortable ... while they have only a yearlong training in national law. “The common view that Dzongkha is the court language is not ...

Education ministry is facing a shortage of 571 Dzongkha teachers. This was revealed yesterday at the opening of the 19th National Education Conference (NEC) in Phuentsholing. Officials say they would ...

With the Dzongkha Development Commission (DDC) now subsumed under the home ministry as one of its departments, many wonder about the fate of the national language. It is renamed as the Department of ...

Another issue the conference will deliberate will be on whether Dzongkha should be reinstated as a main and compulsory subject as recommended by the Dzongkha teachers during the last national ...

An eleven member Dzongkha expert committee met in Thimphu for two days to standardise Dzongkha spelling and conduct research on the use of uniform pronunciation, proper use of grammar and to create ...

While litigants reasoned out their right to submit in English, judges refused citing Dzongkha as the court language. Judges, therefore, stated that court proceedings have to be in the language of the ...

However, without a proper school, Bhutanese children are often deprived of learning the national language, Dzongkha. According to the founder of EducationPro, Tandin Dorji, the parents do not have ...

Signboards in the thromde must have a blue background with white letters. The Dzongkha fonts should not be smaller than the English fonts. However, only a few shops and newly opened hotels and ...