July of 2013

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Last week for mass dog sterilisation program

Dogs

Jul 23, 2013 2 mins read 335 views
Election dust settles in Mongar and Lhuentse

General Election

Jul 23, 2013 2 mins read 340 views
First council visit to India

National Council

Jul 23, 2013 1 mins read 348 views
Tshokhana cleared of sand

NRDCL

Jul 23, 2013 2 mins read 356 views
Wandering child of divorced parents handed over to grandmother

Missing

Jul 23, 2013 1 mins read 343 views
For government

Letter to the editor

Jul 23, 2013 1 mins read 386 views
Face off

Editorial

Jul 23, 2013 2 mins read 394 views
Inflation not diversion

Bhutan-India

Jul 23, 2013 2 mins read 0 views
Inflation not diversion

Bhutan-India

Jul 23, 2013 3 mins read 408 views
Party affiliated graduates can sit BCSE

RCSC

Jul 23, 2013 2 mins read 385 views
Special Education Program

Education

Jul 23, 2013 0 mins read 369 views
Another game of draw

Football

Jul 22, 2013 2 mins read 356 views
All alone on Yotongla top, for 12 years

Personalities

Jul 22, 2013 1 mins read 387 views
The farmer turned baker of Peljorling

Occupation

Jul 22, 2013 2 mins read 357 views
Tagkhambi chiwog will be lit up by August end

Power

Jul 22, 2013 1 mins read 376 views
An even further hike in power tariff?

Power

Jul 22, 2013 2 mins read 416 views
Government to shoulder school feeding programs

World Food Programme (WFP)

Jul 22, 2013 2 mins read 411 views
Preliminary Examination: Should we have?

Letter to the editor

Jul 22, 2013 1 mins read 396 views
A full plate of pledges to fulfill

Editorial

Jul 22, 2013 2 mins read 377 views
Sarpang's sixth abductee

Crime

Jul 22, 2013 1 mins read 373 views
The 15-point ball is in the ECB court

Politics

Jul 22, 2013 1 mins read 392 views
Voters go over PDP promises

Politics

Jul 22, 2013 3 mins read 377 views
Interim govt. to exit on July 26

Government

Jul 22, 2013 1 mins read 412 views
King's Cup

Football

Jul 22, 2013 0 mins read 409 views
Nepal and Sikkim clubs in 1-1 King's Cup tie

Football

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 397 views
Tournament for awareness

Football

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 378 views
Nepal club has a treat for fans at King's Cup

Football

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 393 views
A kilo of cordyceps fetches more than a million

Cordyceps

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 395 views
Rinchengang's rice revolution

Agriculture

Jul 21, 2013 3 mins read 353 views
DNT: Neither gone nor forgotten

Politics

Jul 21, 2013 2 mins read 379 views
Man detained for assaulting teenaged stepsister

Crime

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 366 views
Forget irrigation channel, deal with elephants, say villagers

Wildlife

Jul 21, 2013 2 mins read 380 views
All is not fair for diploma holders

Letter to the editor

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 383 views
Lessons drawn, time to move on

Editorial

Jul 21, 2013 2 mins read 397 views
4th edition of Mountain Echoes next month

Festival

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 399 views
Increase now, lose later

Power

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 390 views
List of ministers to be released on July 25

Governance

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 357 views
Indian media: Subsidy will be restored next month

Bhutan-India

Jul 21, 2013 1 mins read 409 views
DPT will come as the opposition

Politics

Jul 21, 2013 2 mins read 373 views
Monsoon tournament starts tomorrow

Basketball

Jul 19, 2013 1 mins read 376 views
Yeedzin to face Arambagh krira Shangha

Football

Jul 19, 2013 2 mins read 375 views
The 70s play

Archery

Jul 19, 2013 2 mins read 418 views
Space crunch threatens reptile-breeding program

Crocodile

Jul 19, 2013 2 mins read 360 views
First monthly report on inflation rate released

Statistic

Jul 19, 2013 2 mins read 396 views
No standing passengers to be entertained on city buses

RSTA

Jul 19, 2013 1 mins read 350 views
Lingkhar's last blacksmith

Occupation

Jul 19, 2013 1 mins read 386 views
The case of the stolen Dzongkha answer scripts

Education

Jul 19, 2013 2 mins read 480 views
New low in applications received to construct houses

Thimphu City Corporation

Jul 19, 2013 2 mins read 333 views
In Samdrupcholing elephants are like cattle

Wildlife

Jul 19, 2013 2 mins read 362 views
Role of business as the engine of growth

Perspective

Jul 19, 2013 3 mins read 359 views
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Recents

Hailstorm damages crops and property in Sarpang

In what residents are describing as the worst hailstorm of their lifetimes, a violent downpour of hailstones swept across Sarpang dzongkhag on April 7, leaving a trail of destruction that damaged homes, poultry farms, vehicles, and standing crops.

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