February of 1991

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Junior camp concludes

Sport

Feb 08, 1991 1 mins read 581 views
Coaching camp to raise sports standard

Sport

Feb 08, 1991 1 mins read 625 views
Scientific survey confirms UCI

Health Immunization

Feb 22, 1991 2 mins read 576 views
Expanded Programme of Immunisation in Bhutan: a background

Health Immunization

Feb 22, 1991 4 mins read 836 views
Bhutan declares Universal Child Immunisation (UCI)

Health Immunization

Feb 22, 1991 2 mins read 569 views
Mill cloth affects weavers<br>

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 683 views
Why compulsory insurance for vehicles

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 586 views
Water not hygienic<br>

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 656 views
Language is not static<br>

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 601 views
Lost<br>

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 788 views
Stamps<br>

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 743 views
Bitekha short of rations

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 619 views
There is hope for Pemagatshel farmers

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 696 views
Watch children's diet<br>

Letters to the Editor

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 617 views
Man injured

Accident

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 0 views
UN official visits Zone IV

UN Agencies

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 581 views
Gups for Lalai and Surey

Home Affairs

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 535 views
Zone IV discusses Seventh Plan

Home Affairs

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 566 views
Truck damaged

Accident

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 555 views
Accident kills one<br>

Accident

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 587 views
Truck and Hilux collide<br>

Accident

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 632 views
Religious items uncovered

Antique Preservation

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 551 views
Dancers selected<br>

Dzongkhags

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 581 views
Kanjur recital

Religion

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 0 views
Annual health meeting

Health- Conference/Workshop/Meeting

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 582 views
Doyas pledge to serve Tsawa Sum

Dzongkhags

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 594 views
EPI coverage in Geylephug

Health Immunization

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 538 views
Study on ear problems<br>

Health Activities

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 613 views
Pasture training<br>

Animal Husbandry Activities

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 596 views
Office shifted

Dzongkhags

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 658 views
First Bhutanese aircraft engineers licenced

Druk Air

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 580 views
New stamps released

Bhutan-Post

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 720 views
Militia training is serious

Volunteers

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 569 views
NAPE has many advantages<br>

Education- CAPSS

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 554 views
Fire destroys trees

Forest Fire

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 668 views
Education trains teachers in four subjects

Education-Teacher

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 606 views
Food price index rises

Central Statistical Organisation (CSO)

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 606 views
Head teachers have important responsibilities

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 559 views
Dzongkha teachers complete training

Education-Teacher

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 584 views
Detailed health surveys

Health Activities

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 544 views
Tour re-affirms Secretary's faith in Bhutan's policies

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 527 views
(From Chinese Horoscopes by Theodora Lau)

Astrological College

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 576 views
The Metal Sheep Personality (1871, 1931, 1991)

Astrological College

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 613 views
West Bengal will not allow agitation against Bhutan

Bhutan- India

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 536 views
Castrol sale suspended

Bhutan Oil Distributor (BOD)

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 621 views
Geneva Conventions

International Convention

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 678 views
Gulf

Bhutan - Kuwait

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 615 views
Terrorists continue raids on villagers

Terrorist

Feb 22, 1991 2 mins read 655 views
Ambassador presents credentials

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Feb 22, 1991 1 mins read 0 views
SAARC <br>

SAARC Activities

Feb 22, 1991 0 mins read 690 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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What solutions for Amochu project?

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RCSC faces growing ‘missing middle’ amid exodus

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Reform or stay shut

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