August of 1999

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India's 46th Independence Day celebrated

Bhutan- India

Aug 20, 1999 1 mins read 529 views
Bhutanese team unsuccessfull

Olympics

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 601 views
Training referees

Sport

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 709 views
Olympic Solidarity: supporting sports

Olympics

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 728 views
Golf : Back to Back victory

Golf

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 613 views
Efforts continue to protect Matsutake

Agriculture/Horticulture

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 560 views
Tourism industry: major developments expected

Tourism

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 658 views
Apple prices fixed

Agriculture/Horticulture

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 575 views
Driver education important for road safety

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 682 views
Learning new skills

Education- Student

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 615 views
Teachers take oath of allegiance

Religion

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 575 views
IT sector on the road to development

Computer/Internet

Aug 06, 1999 6 mins read 634 views
His Holiness appoints two new lams

Appointed

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 618 views
Health awareness through music

Health Policy

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 595 views
NRTI graduates: contributing to the workforce

Institutions

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 791 views
Druknet trudges on

Computer/Internet

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 518 views
Entrepreneur of the Year

Private Sector

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 689 views
Her Majesty Ashi Sangay meets students in Thimphu schools

Education- Student

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 528 views
Alternative for unclaimed lottery prize

Letters to the Editor

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 581 views
Bhutan's development commendable

Letters to the Editor

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 523 views
Support for dog pound

Letters to the Editor

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 598 views
What a visitor saw

Letters to the Editor

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 567 views
Unemployment... now ?

Editorial

Aug 06, 1999 3 mins read 559 views
Model bridge underway

Bridges

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 535 views
Expertise for vital power sector

Bhutan-Australia

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 568 views
77th session of the National Assembly concludes

National Assembly

Aug 06, 1999 3 mins read 522 views
Monastic school

Monastic School

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 584 views
Young ambassadors

Bhutan-Embassies

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 527 views
Burglary

Crime

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 721 views
Road block

Roads

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 751 views
Condolence

Bhutan- India

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 616 views
Glacial expedition leaves for Lunana

Lake

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 601 views
Multi-sectoral approach to population control

Health Family Planning

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 515 views
Change in tourism trends

Tourism

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 598 views
Police officers educated on new chargesheet

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 596 views
Lhadrip Ugen Lhendrup: between religion and art

Bhutan - Tradition

Aug 13, 1999 5 mins read 554 views
Wangdue villages electrified

Power

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 533 views
Phuentsholing's truck frenzy: where will it end?

State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCB)

Aug 13, 1999 3 mins read 519 views
Dead body found

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 875 views
Location important for bridges

Bridges

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 622 views
Burglary and theft cases drop

Crime

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 541 views
Improving reading habits in children

Education- Student

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 658 views
Standardising genetic records

National Plant Protection Centre (NPPC)

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 648 views
Jaigaon gets a face lift

Bhutan- India

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 539 views
The problems of urbanisation

Letters to the Editor

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 549 views
Educating our youth

Letters to the Editor

Aug 13, 1999 3 mins read 597 views
Media momentum

Editorial

Aug 13, 1999 3 mins read 609 views
Timber prices still high

Forest Timber/ Firewood

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 546 views
Tashi lays off workers

Tashi Commercial Corporation

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 655 views
Developments for Thimphu & Phuentsholing

Housing

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 605 views
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ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...

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Recents

RAA uncovers major procurement lapses in the Nu 610M BITS projects

A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.

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