July of 2014

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Govt. embarks on cost cutting exercise

Savings

Jul 13, 2014 2 mins read 363 views
Dry weather scares Wangdue farmers

Agriculture

Jul 13, 2014 2 mins read 390 views
Meet-the-people program to go on

Meet-the-people program

Jul 13, 2014 3 mins read 382 views
NC's move, a dangerous precendent: PM

Salary

Jul 13, 2014 4 mins read 375 views
Yangphel archery

Archery

Jul 13, 2014 0 mins read 373 views
My impressions of Bhutan

Perpsective

Jul 11, 2014 4 mins read 379 views
Eastern farmers upbeat about potato prices

Agriculture

Jul 11, 2014 2 mins read 352 views
The takin and the white man

Wildlife

Jul 11, 2014 4 mins read 422 views
Farmers at wit's ends in fight against wildlife

Agriculture

Jul 11, 2014 2 mins read 367 views
Yangphel open archery tournament begins

Archery

Jul 11, 2014 1 mins read 383 views
First-timers on artificial turf

Festival

Jul 11, 2014 2 mins read 400 views
From community mapping to positive change

Bhutan centre for media and democracy (BCMD)

Jul 11, 2014 2 mins read 455 views
Tourism continues to be exempt from vehicle import taxes

Taxes

Jul 11, 2014 3 mins read 405 views
Lack of procedures leads to result oriented issues

Letter to the editor

Jul 11, 2014 1 mins read 394 views
Stuck-up or stoked

Editorial

Jul 11, 2014 2 mins read 390 views
External grants expected to decline

Hydropower projects

Jul 11, 2014 2 mins read 384 views
Arrow-struck boy airlifted to Kolkata

Accident

Jul 11, 2014 1 mins read 521 views
Paro airport expansion impasse

Aviation

Jul 11, 2014 3 mins read 410 views
Pay revision can be paid for : PM

Salary

Jul 11, 2014 4 mins read 426 views
Community police centre

Community police centre

Jul 11, 2014 0 mins read 378 views
Rights of the children through art

UN/VAST

Jul 10, 2014 3 mins read 402 views
Chicks die by the thousands on Tsirang and Sarpang poultry farms

Poultry

Jul 10, 2014 2 mins read 394 views
From crunch to near crisis

Housing

Jul 10, 2014 2 mins read 379 views
IMF advocates introduction of VAT

Taxes

Jul 10, 2014 2 mins read 363 views
Readers be the judge

Letter to the editor

Jul 10, 2014 2 mins read 391 views
On cars again

Editorial

Jul 10, 2014 2 mins read 381 views
`Parkades' to precede pedestrianisation of Norzin lam

Thromde

Jul 10, 2014 2 mins read 377 views
Jungshina landowners object to proposed workshop

Thromde

Jul 10, 2014 1 mins read 381 views
Vehicle ban to be `formally' lifted next week

Vehicle ban

Jul 10, 2014 1 mins read 411 views
Sachu bumter for Wangdue dzong laid

Wangduephodrang dzong

Jul 10, 2014 2 mins read 403 views
Community Mapping

Workshop

Jul 10, 2014 0 mins read 398 views
11th national school meet starts in Thimphu

Athletics

Jul 09, 2014 2 mins read 389 views
Man arrested on three charges

Crime

Jul 09, 2014 1 mins read 445 views
The grass is always greener

Agriculture

Jul 09, 2014 1 mins read 0 views
Initiative to insure against wildlife depredation

Wildlife

Jul 09, 2014 1 mins read 376 views
Miners and quarry workers most industrious

Employment

Jul 09, 2014 2 mins read 400 views
Bhutan-Thailand friendship offer pays off but .

Tourism

Jul 09, 2014 4 mins read 363 views
The pros and cons of salary revision for civil servants

Letter to the editor

Jul 09, 2014 2 mins read 495 views
Financing further education

Editorial

Jul 09, 2014 2 mins read 385 views
Insurance company and burnt house-owner lock horns over claims

RICBL

Jul 09, 2014 2 mins read 391 views
Falling like ninepins

Media

Jul 09, 2014 3 mins read 347 views
Bhutan to host 8th SAFTA ministerial council

SAARC

Jul 09, 2014 1 mins read 405 views
Govt. to consider Japanese embassy

Diplomacy

Jul 09, 2014 2 mins read 380 views
Injection of funds frees up bank lending

Economic stimulus plan (ESP)

Jul 09, 2014 2 mins read 373 views
Ceremony

Ceremony

Jul 09, 2014 0 mins read 487 views
Country's first two electric cars call it a day

Electric cars

Jul 08, 2014 2 mins read 373 views
Japan donates fire engine and truck pump

JICA

Jul 08, 2014 1 mins read 465 views
Proper planning is must

Letter to the editor

Jul 08, 2014 1 mins read 482 views
Daring to be decisive

Editorial

Jul 08, 2014 2 mins read 394 views
Weeklong search fails to find missing forester

Missing

Jul 08, 2014 1 mins read 413 views
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