April of 2019

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Trashiyangtse chillies hit the market

Chilies

Apr 17, 2019 1 mins read 564 views
Sustainable land management programme helps farmers in Thangrong

Agriculture

Apr 17, 2019 1 mins read 561 views
Enact Pay Commission Act: PC

Pay Commission

Apr 17, 2019 3 mins read 517 views
Delhi embassy to benefit most from proposed FSE revision

Pay Commission

Apr 17, 2019 2 mins read 577 views
The plastic ban

Letter to the editor

Apr 17, 2019 1 mins read 553 views
Bhutan Day observed in Bonn

Bhutan-German

Apr 17, 2019 1 mins read 510 views
More than Nu 300M sanctioned for PSL schemes

Priority Sector Lending (PSL)

Apr 17, 2019 2 mins read 550 views
ACC implicates Mongar DT thrizin for fraud

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Apr 17, 2019 2 mins read 520 views
GDP growth slips for the second time: ADB

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Apr 17, 2019 4 mins read 511 views
His Majesty The King granted dhar

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Apr 17, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
Three years on, GC blacktopping works remain incomplete

Road

Apr 16, 2019 1 mins read 599 views
Dungkar Goenpa tshechu attracts more visitors

Dungkar Goenpa tshechu

Apr 16, 2019 1 mins read 516 views
Cardamom buyback price disappoints farmers

Cardamom

Apr 16, 2019 3 mins read 490 views
Cabbies join the fight against waste

Waste

Apr 16, 2019 2 mins read 498 views
Task force to study delinking of RITH

Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB)

Apr 16, 2019 3 mins read 568 views
Ranking schools for what?

Letter to the editor

Apr 16, 2019 1 mins read 550 views
The gaydrung enigma

Editorial

Apr 16, 2019 2 mins read 530 views
Four suicide cases in two weeks

Crime

Apr 16, 2019 1 mins read 462 views
Four men detained for alleged gang rape

Crime

Apr 16, 2019 1 mins read 556 views
Labour minister leaves for Japan to meet Bhutanese youth

Youth

Apr 16, 2019 3 mins read 558 views
Opposition reserves its opinion on pay commission report

Pay Commission

Apr 16, 2019 1 mins read 580 views
RCSC waits for judgment to take action against DG

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Apr 16, 2019 2 mins read 499 views
Election across the border closes 98 shops in P'ling

Border

Apr 16, 2019 3 mins read 524 views
9 volleyball clubs affiliated

Volleyball

Apr 16, 2019 0 mins read 634 views
Construction owners demand better quality sand

Construction

Apr 15, 2019 2 mins read 514 views
Cardamom farmers question grounds of rejection

Cardamom

Apr 15, 2019 1 mins read 515 views
Farmers disappointed with cardamom price

Cardamom

Apr 15, 2019 2 mins read 501 views
Maize shortage hits Karma Feeds and poultry farmers

Maize

Apr 15, 2019 2 mins read 518 views
Adopt a pet

Letter to the editor

Apr 15, 2019 1 mins read 563 views
Make ranking schools meaningful

Editorial

Apr 15, 2019 2 mins read 535 views
Non-Bhutanese arrested for robbing tourists

Crime

Apr 15, 2019 1 mins read 555 views
Bhutan and Bangladesh sign five bilateral instruments

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Apr 15, 2019 2 mins read 536 views
Cabinet extends gaydrung's tenure by three years

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Apr 15, 2019 2 mins read 699 views
"If you want to be a good doctor, you have to be a good human being"

Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering

Apr 15, 2019 3 mins read 487 views
Accident kills one in Trongsa

Accident

Apr 15, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
Traditional papermaking centre opens in Yangtse

Papermaking

Apr 12, 2019 1 mins read 549 views
Challenges facing dog control programme

More than 300 dogs were sterilised and vaccinated during the two-week mass dog sterilisation and vaccination campaign that began on April 2 in Thimphu.

Apr 13, 2019 2 mins read 567 views
Mothers volunteer to help lone ECCD facilitator

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)

Apr 12, 2019 2 mins read 513 views
Stray horses a problem in Trashigang

Stray horses

Apr 12, 2019 1 mins read 553 views
Is Gelephu turning into a concrete jungle?

Gelephu

Apr 12, 2019 3 mins read 569 views
Views on the 4th Pay Commission Report

Perspective

Apr 12, 2019 5 mins read 598 views
Table pay revision as report not money bill: PC

Pay Commission

Apr 12, 2019 2 mins read 498 views
Summer session of parliament from May 23

Parliament

Apr 12, 2019 2 mins read 526 views
For want of electricity

Electricity

Apr 12, 2019 2 mins read 573 views
Biogas to the rescue

biogas plants

Apr 12, 2019 2 mins read 586 views
63 fire incidents reported this year

Fire accident

Apr 12, 2019 2 mins read 542 views
Transport loan reforms hit trading businesses

State trading cooperation of Bhutan limited (STCBL)

Apr 12, 2019 3 mins read 553 views
BFL Fund commits Nu 2.4 billion

Bhutan for Life (BFL) Fund

Apr 12, 2019 1 mins read 523 views
PC recommends annual salary indexation

Pay Commission

Apr 12, 2019 3 mins read 564 views
A good example

Letter to the editor

Apr 12, 2019 1 mins read 0 views
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Bored stiff

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All's well when it ends fairly

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Recents

Removing children is not discipline but systemic failure

Recent events involving two students from Sonamthang Central School raise a concern extending well beyond one school, one discipline committee or controversy. The issue is whether a school confronted with an adolescent relationship responds as an institution of education and child protection, or as one that removes a perceived problem from its premises.

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All's well when it ends fairly

It is not often that students expelled from school, for whatever reason, make it to the media or a national newspaper. However, when the parents of two students, who have now been relocated to a new school, approached Kuensel seeking help, they hoped that a story going public through the media would help them get some justice and make decision-makers rethink.

Read More

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