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WORLD TB DAY, FRIDAY MARCH 24,2017 (Supplement)

WORLD TB DAY

Mar 23, 2017 2 mins read 647 views
This, too, shall pass

k2

Mar 31, 2017 3 mins read 719 views
The bold and beautiful women of Tsirang

k2

Mar 31, 2017 4 mins read 681 views
Planting watermelon to diversify cash crop

Cash crop

Mar 31, 2017 1 mins read 563 views
Social media for effective governance

Social media

Mar 31, 2017 2 mins read 717 views
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: An essential ally in a superbug age

Perspective

Mar 31, 2017 4 mins read 687 views
What values does corporal punishment teach?

Perspective

Mar 31, 2017 2 mins read 690 views
Leaking irrigation channels worry Sergithang farmers

Irrigation

Mar 31, 2017 2 mins read 589 views
Inflation gradually increasing

Inflation

Mar 31, 2017 1 mins read 632 views
Tshojong villagers await rural water supply scheme

Water

Mar 31, 2017 1 mins read 577 views
Need culture Act urgently

Letter to the editor

Mar 31, 2017 1 mins read 593 views
Getting at the root of the problem

Editorial

Mar 31, 2017 1 mins read 786 views
Two lands in prison for consensual sex with minor

Crime

Mar 31, 2017 2 mins read 635 views
Thromde to do away with parking spaces on Norzin Lam

Parking space

Mar 31, 2017 2 mins read 667 views
Nubi residents against burl collectors

Burl collectors

Mar 31, 2017 2 mins read 628 views
Bhutan among 100 happiest countrie

Gross National Happiness (GNH)

Mar 30, 2017 2 mins read 657 views
Chamkhar fire victims switch to stone and mud

Fire accident

Mar 30, 2017 2 mins read 552 views
Parking fee increase irks Phuentsholing vehicle owners

Parking fee

Mar 30, 2017 1 mins read 589 views
Rejoinder to Kuensel

Letter to the editor

Mar 30, 2017 2 mins read 597 views
We learn from mistakes

Editorial

Mar 30, 2017 2 mins read 632 views
Commercial papers, the newest debt instrument

Commercial papers

Mar 30, 2017 2 mins read 577 views
Locally built sports car debuts at innovation competition

Innovation

Mar 30, 2017 3 mins read 673 views
New bus service to decongest Lungtenzampa area traffic

Traffic

Mar 30, 2017 2 mins read 626 views
Drakteng residents reject MHPA compensation

Hydropower

Mar 30, 2017 2 mins read 588 views
Rinchen Nadun - The Seven Precious Possessions

k2

Mar 24, 2017 4 mins read 709 views
Simple ways to keep yourself fit and healthy

k2

Mar 24, 2017 1 mins read 0 views
Choesham

k2

Mar 24, 2017 4 mins read 789 views
Oman hammers Bhutan 14-0

Football

Mar 29, 2017 2 mins read 607 views
Police arrest illegal immigrant for burglaries

Crime

Mar 29, 2017 1 mins read 647 views
Double harvest to boost rice production

Rice production

Mar 29, 2017 1 mins read 631 views
Thimphu Thromde, BPC sign MoU to take power cables underground

Bhutan Power Corporation (BPC)

Mar 29, 2017 2 mins read 571 views
Penalise house owners for violation of tenancy Act

Letter to the editor

Mar 29, 2017 1 mins read 613 views
Housing issues need special attention

Editorial

Mar 29, 2017 1 mins read 633 views
Using science for better policies

Workshop

Mar 29, 2017 1 mins read 585 views
Nubi and Tangsibji road widening damage to be assessed

Road

Mar 29, 2017 2 mins read 665 views
PM delivers keynote address at GEF meet in Paris

PM visits

Mar 29, 2017 1 mins read 593 views
Reinvestigation confirms Tendu school allegations

School

Mar 29, 2017 3 mins read 569 views
Samtse municipality not swayed by shopkeepers' pleas

Samtse

Mar 29, 2017 2 mins read 535 views
National flower, Blue Poppy is a new species

Flower

Mar 28, 2017 2 mins read 673 views
Minor arrested for lhakhang vandalism

Crime

Mar 28, 2017 1 mins read 587 views
New recurring schemes to encourage saving

Bank of Bhutan (BoB)

Mar 28, 2017 2 mins read 593 views
Need for a conducive environment to save and earn

Letter to the editor

Mar 28, 2017 1 mins read 595 views
Beware fake news

Editorial

Mar 28, 2017 2 mins read 706 views
Members seek re-election of HDSB board members

Hindu Dharma Samudaya of Bhutan (HDSB)

Mar 28, 2017 3 mins read 593 views
S/J Thromde forms a housing dispute committee

Housing

Mar 28, 2017 3 mins read 559 views
Residents of Dophuchen asked to vacate town

Dorokha

Mar 28, 2017 3 mins read 619 views
Four-week international break for Thimphu football league

Football

Mar 27, 2017 2 mins read 640 views
The milk men of Panbang

Business

Mar 27, 2017 2 mins read 588 views
PM leaves for France

PM visits

Mar 27, 2017 1 mins read 647 views
Exhibition centre for made and grown in Bhutan products

Exhibition

Mar 27, 2017 1 mins read 624 views
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A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

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Unshackling the state

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The environmental toll of wars

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A costly fiasco

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Living hand to mouth

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A call for shared responsibility

The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely intervention. The initiative calls for shared responsibility amid rising fuel costs and a supply line...

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When Words Create Worlds

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When the watchdog has no teeth

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Culture under threat?

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A costly reality

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Recents

RAA uncovers major procurement lapses in the Nu 610M BITS projects

A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.

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What solutions for Amochu project?

Phuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with the latest disruption occurring even before the onset of the monsoon.

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RCSC faces growing ‘missing middle’ amid exodus

A widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raising concerns about leadership succession, institutional continuity and the long-term resilience of the country’s public sector workforce.

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Reform or stay shut

The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.

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