July of 2012

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Compound bows don't kill people, archers do

Archery

Jul 13, 2012 4 mins read 443 views
The Wangduephodrang wake-up call

Wangduephodrang Dzong Fire

Jul 13, 2012 3 mins read 376 views
Four takins radio-collared

Wildlife

Jul 13, 2012 3 mins read 386 views
Land Bill should come through in the next session

Letter to the editor

Jul 13, 2012 1 mins read 426 views
Irregularities galore

Editorial

Jul 13, 2012 2 mins read 390 views
Roadblock strand students and buses

Roadblock

Jul 13, 2012 1 mins read 384 views
Widespread flooding in Gelephu

Flood

Jul 13, 2012 2 mins read 434 views
Taxis to help collect waste

Waste

Jul 13, 2012 1 mins read 417 views
What the flash flood left behind

Flood

Jul 13, 2012 1 mins read 364 views
22 private lessees in Thimphu

Lease Land

Jul 13, 2012 2 mins read 383 views
Bhutan-India meet

Bhutan-India

Jul 13, 2012 0 mins read 450 views
RIM convocation

RIM

Jul 13, 2012 0 mins read 0 views
Let the Games begin .

Athletics

Jul 12, 2012 1 mins read 432 views
Terton blocks Sikkimese team's entry to quarterfinals

Archery

Jul 12, 2012 1 mins read 406 views
Community forest chairman fined for illegal felling

Forest

Jul 12, 2012 1 mins read 420 views
Fears from flood, slides subside

Landslide

Jul 12, 2012 2 mins read 499 views
Will it fold up?

Bhutan Development Bank

Jul 12, 2012 2 mins read 457 views
INR withdrawal limit affecting students in India

Letter to the editor

Jul 12, 2012 1 mins read 371 views
Back to its core business?

Editorial

Jul 12, 2012 2 mins read 407 views
Driver caught in the act of skimming off the cream

Crime

Jul 12, 2012 2 mins read 405 views
FCB's new shoe bites

FCB

Jul 12, 2012 2 mins read 419 views
A new payment system comes into play

ATM card

Jul 12, 2012 2 mins read 411 views
Can the airport security system be beaten?

Crime

Jul 12, 2012 3 mins read 421 views
Likely to be delayed yet again

Dungsam Cement

Jul 12, 2012 2 mins read 409 views
A strategy to fight tobacco use together

Tobacco

Jul 11, 2012 2 mins read 438 views
Thimphu's `mini' Olympics begins

Athletics

Jul 11, 2012 1 mins read 385 views
Folded up after four months

Weaving

Jul 11, 2012 1 mins read 457 views
Three minors arrested for a series of break-ins

Crime

Jul 11, 2012 1 mins read 421 views
Does gridlock dog P/ling the day after?

Pedestrians' day

Jul 11, 2012 2 mins read 389 views
Additional 23 join in

Labour Ministry

Jul 11, 2012 3 mins read 390 views
Landlords rule

Letter to the editor

Jul 11, 2012 2 mins read 381 views
Still hooked

Editorial

Jul 11, 2012 2 mins read 421 views
41 search and rescue kits for schools

Disaster management Department

Jul 11, 2012 1 mins read 430 views
"A party with wisdom"

Politics

Jul 11, 2012 2 mins read 383 views
21-day sitting draws to a close

National Assembly

Jul 11, 2012 1 mins read 348 views
Victims downgrade damage status

Earthquake Update

Jul 11, 2012 2 mins read 452 views
Out on a limb

Bhutan Development Bank

Jul 11, 2012 2 mins read 384 views
HM

RBA

Jul 11, 2012 0 mins read 0 views
Catching `em young

Football

Jul 10, 2012 1 mins read 367 views
Local services underused

Tourism

Jul 10, 2012 2 mins read 412 views
Lab machine up and running

Lab machine

Jul 10, 2012 1 mins read 458 views
Misuse of facility prompts clampdown

RMA

Jul 10, 2012 2 mins read 479 views
GNH is but a vision to aspire for

Letter to the editor

Jul 10, 2012 2 mins read 363 views
Breaking the deadlock

Editorial

Jul 10, 2012 2 mins read 430 views
Not so lucrative for taxis in Mongar

Pedestrians' day

Jul 10, 2012 1 mins read 408 views
Both even and odd ply on Tuesdays

Pedestrians' day

Jul 10, 2012 1 mins read 421 views
Not so Haa (ppy) ending

Festival

Jul 10, 2012 1 mins read 451 views
People's power for hydropower

Electricity

Jul 10, 2012 3 mins read 449 views
The two decide to meet halfway

National Council

Jul 10, 2012 1 mins read 378 views
HM

Wang

Jul 10, 2012 0 mins read 0 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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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