January of 2021

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The boon of monopolistic nature of Civil Service

Perspective

Jan 21, 2021 5 mins read 455 views
Entertainment centres need interim measures to stay afloat

Letter to the editor

Jan 21, 2021 0 mins read 411 views
The never-ending chilli issue

Editorial

Jan 21, 2021 2 mins read 572 views
Entertainment businesses seek rental support

Entertainment

Jan 21, 2021 1 mins read 390 views
Vaccination to start with Bhutanese travelling outside

Health

Jan 21, 2021 3 mins read 412 views
Man escapes quarantine centre in Paro

Crime

Jan 21, 2021 1 mins read 432 views
Opposition's appeal

Politics

Jan 21, 2021 1 mins read 423 views
MDP workers asked to leave as mechanisation takes over

Labour

Jan 21, 2021 3 mins read 396 views
Economic growth projection downgraded to negative 6.8 percent

Economy

Jan 21, 2021 2 mins read 382 views
4,454 people avail medical service during lockdown

Health

Jan 20, 2021 1 mins read 374 views
Wangdue-Khuruthang road targeted to complete by July

Road

Jan 20, 2021 1 mins read 402 views
A check post at Tshobali eases movement

Transport

Jan 20, 2021 1 mins read 400 views
Not many come to avail nicotine replacement therapy

Narcotic

Jan 20, 2021 1 mins read 406 views
Thank you media houses

Letter to the editor

Jan 20, 2021 1 mins read 401 views
Ministry and school administration must guarantee safety

Editorial

Jan 20, 2021 2 mins read 455 views
Delivery of emergency contraceptives improves in second lockdown

Health

Jan 20, 2021 2 mins read 405 views
373.42MT of mandarin exported from Samtse

Trade

Jan 20, 2021 2 mins read 395 views
CFM vendors fight for chillies

Trade

Jan 20, 2021 1 mins read 447 views
Lack of coordination amongst officials impact farmers

Farming

Jan 20, 2021 3 mins read 426 views
A gift from India

Award-Grant

Jan 20, 2021 3 mins read 447 views
Youth find employment at Wangdue Dzong reconstruction project

Youth

Jan 19, 2021 1 mins read 371 views
Fewer calls for mental health aid during the second lockdown

Health

Jan 19, 2021 1 mins read 499 views
Livestock officials investigate Dorokha pig deaths

Health

Jan 19, 2021 1 mins read 385 views
Traffic in Thimphu

Traffic

Jan 19, 2021 2 mins read 452 views
Most Tsirang and Dagana chilli to hit market next month

Agriculture

Jan 19, 2021 2 mins read 461 views
Start-ups need help

Letter to the editor

Jan 19, 2021 1 mins read 449 views
There is no need to rush

Editorial

Jan 19, 2021 2 mins read 416 views
No significant increase in agriculture credit in 2020

Agriculture

Jan 19, 2021 2 mins read 381 views
Schools to re-open in February as scheduled

Education

Jan 19, 2021 3 mins read 425 views
Police arrests elderly man for sharing videos

Crime

Jan 19, 2021 1 mins read 458 views
Agriculture ministry trying to bridge the chilli gap

Agriculture

Jan 19, 2021 3 mins read 423 views
Dana helps Bhutan to prepare for vaccination programme

Health

Jan 19, 2021 4 mins read 456 views
Paro FC and Sudeva FC sign MoU to develop football

Sports

Jan 18, 2021 2 mins read 408 views
Samdrupjongkhar thromde grappling with green chilli shortage

Agriculture

Jan 18, 2021 2 mins read 385 views
Cost escalation and skilled labour shortage impede construction

Construction

Jan 18, 2021 3 mins read 503 views
Internet slows as more remain online

Technology

Jan 18, 2021 2 mins read 367 views
Aspiring entrepreneurs attend virtual training

Entrepreneurs

Jan 18, 2021 1 mins read 391 views
MoE should issue the transfer orders now

Letter to the editor

Jan 18, 2021 1 mins read 373 views
Uniform application of laws necessary

Editorial

Jan 18, 2021 2 mins read 407 views
Gender-based violence during second lockdown cross 200 mark

Gender

Jan 18, 2021 1 mins read 437 views
Opposition recommends improvement in Covid-19 management

Politics

Jan 18, 2021 3 mins read 414 views
Gas price increases amid lockdown

Fuel

Jan 18, 2021 1 mins read 394 views
Last two mega zones turn yellow

Health

Jan 18, 2021 2 mins read 387 views
Govt. plans nationwide Covid-19 vaccination

Health

Jan 18, 2021 3 mins read 387 views
Gelephu residents question lack of accountability

Crime

Jan 17, 2021 1 mins read 380 views
Taking challenges as experience

Health

Jan 17, 2021 2 mins read 409 views
Lockdown - a death rehearsal

Perspective

Jan 17, 2021 4 mins read 386 views
Lockdown delays Dagana's tourism plans

Health

Jan 17, 2021 2 mins read 390 views
Sand demand at lowest in 2020

Natural Resource

Jan 17, 2021 2 mins read 404 views
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Where tradition meets treatment

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Between Homes

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No amount of money can replace you

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You’re not what you think you are

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Sundays at Le Méridien

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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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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A costly fiasco

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Recents

Fighting online scams

The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.

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