July of 2017

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BFF sitting on Drukpol FC appeal

Bhutan Football Federation (BFF)

Jul 18, 2017 1 mins read 420 views
Breaking barriers through art

Art

Jul 18, 2017 2 mins read 469 views
A student detained for alleged murder in Chamgang

Crime

Jul 18, 2017 1 mins read 410 views
Parties await ACC's findings in PNB embezzlement case

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Jul 18, 2017 2 mins read 397 views
Need to address air pollution

Letter to the editor

Jul 18, 2017 0 mins read 421 views
The troubled

Editorial

Jul 18, 2017 2 mins read 462 views
43 arrested for abuse and trafficking of controlled substances

Crime

Jul 18, 2017 0 mins read 487 views
Officials clear debris at Thruepang Palace

Disaster

Jul 18, 2017 1 mins read 398 views
Police fish out five bodies from two rivers

Accident

Jul 18, 2017 1 mins read 386 views
Flood destroys crops in Lhuentse

Disaster

Jul 18, 2017 1 mins read 390 views
OAG drops 23 cases in ATM scam over no-show defendants

Office of the Attorney General (OAG)

Jul 18, 2017 3 mins read 394 views
Blood donation

Blood donation

Jul 18, 2017 0 mins read 503 views
Professional coaching to uplift basketball

International Basketball Federation (FIBA)

Jul 17, 2017 1 mins read 442 views
BAC accreditates five education institutes

Bhutan Accreditation Council (BAC)

Jul 17, 2017 2 mins read 371 views
Sarpang to grow mass chilli this winter

Chillies

Jul 17, 2017 2 mins read 437 views
NCWC develops SOP to address women and child issues effectively

National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC)

Jul 17, 2017 2 mins read 447 views
Tobacco inspectors fine 41 for noncompliance

Tobacco

Jul 17, 2017 1 mins read 438 views
Need for equal representation

Letter to the editor

Jul 17, 2017 1 mins read 412 views
The call for accountability

Editorial

Jul 17, 2017 2 mins read 467 views
Tsirang DT discusses govt. land encroachment cases

Land

Jul 17, 2017 2 mins read 554 views
Ministry issues executive order to address wasting and stunting

health

Jul 17, 2017 2 mins read 456 views
Monastic institutes to recruit 200 English teachers

Monastic institutes

Jul 17, 2017 2 mins read 403 views
Dilemma over seized properties

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Jul 17, 2017 4 mins read 420 views
No PE in Gelephu and Mongar

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Jul 17, 2017 0 mins read 360 views
Cordycep collectors prefer market to auctions

Cordyceps

Jul 16, 2017 2 mins read 456 views
Kuenjung FC lifts Gyalsey Futsal league trophy

Futsal

Jul 16, 2017 2 mins read 444 views
Transport United draws with Thimphu City

Football

Jul 16, 2017 1 mins read 420 views
Teachers deserve holidays

Perspective

Jul 16, 2017 3 mins read 573 views
Two students to represent Bhutan at ICDL Asia Digital Challenge

Students

Jul 16, 2017 1 mins read 460 views
Man gets 13 years for voluntary manslaughter

Crime

Jul 16, 2017 1 mins read 437 views
Justice delayed is justice denied

Letter to the editor

Jul 16, 2017 1 mins read 0 views
BEAR leads the way

Editorial

Jul 16, 2017 2 mins read 483 views
Thimphu records eight dog bite cases a day

Dogs

Jul 16, 2017 4 mins read 434 views
Broken Lorikhachhu bridge yet to be repaired

Bridge

Jul 16, 2017 1 mins read 429 views
Members decide to dissolve Assembly's house committee

National Assembly

Jul 16, 2017 2 mins read 396 views
Suicide still high despite an action plan

Suicide

Jul 16, 2017 3 mins read 417 views
12th Plan consultation in southern dzongkhags

12th Plan consultation

Jul 16, 2017 0 mins read 383 views
Namchu Wangden

k2

Jul 14, 2017 3 mins read 524 views
Right choice of rice

k2

Jul 14, 2017 1 mins read 386 views
Giving face and voice to the differently-abled

k2

Jul 14, 2017 3 mins read 421 views
3,844 graduates to appear prelims

Graduates

Jul 14, 2017 2 mins read 398 views
Foot and mouth disease outbreak in four gewogs of Paro

Livestock

Jul 14, 2017 1 mins read 392 views
Bhutanese youth calling!

Perspective

Jul 14, 2017 6 mins read 433 views
Electric fencing eases farming life in Salipong

Electric fencing

Jul 14, 2017 1 mins read 425 views
Unidentified disease kills layers in Samrang

Poultry farms

Jul 14, 2017 2 mins read 393 views
BEAR saves 10 lives and is growing strong

Bhutan Emergency Aeromedical Retrieval Team (BEAR)

Jul 14, 2017 3 mins read 405 views
South Thimphu residents face water shortage

Water

Jul 14, 2017 1 mins read 417 views
Merak's road is non-pliable during summer and winter

Merak

Jul 14, 2017 2 mins read 479 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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