March of 2017

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Emergence of more parties could hurt chances of BKP, DCT and DNT

Politics

Mar 10, 2017 2 mins read 416 views
Movie director urges ACC to investigate recent film awards

Film

Mar 10, 2017 3 mins read 413 views
Driving is a responsibility

Letter to the editor

Mar 10, 2017 2 mins read 0 views
Addressing modern health challenges

Editorial

Mar 10, 2017 1 mins read 420 views
India hands over Nu 526.8M to Bhutan

Bhutan-India

Mar 10, 2017 1 mins read 400 views
Court seeks NCWC and RENEW intervention

Judiciary

Mar 10, 2017 1 mins read 492 views
NCWC to review women quota for elected posts

National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC)

Mar 10, 2017 4 mins read 390 views
Chief Justice cautions judicial officials on breaches of conduct

Judiciary

Mar 10, 2017 2 mins read 475 views
Chhuzanggang Sherabling Anim Shedra

Anim Dratshang

Mar 10, 2017 0 mins read 351 views
Building the capacities of track and field referees

Training

Mar 09, 2017 2 mins read 332 views
Combating addiction professionally

Bhutan Narcotics Control Authority (BNCA)

Mar 09, 2017 2 mins read 393 views
Bhutan observes World Kidney Day

World Kidney Day

Mar 09, 2017 1 mins read 412 views
Exorbitant hostel electricity bills at GCBS

Letter to the editor

Mar 09, 2017 1 mins read 463 views
A more gender sensitive media

Editorial

Mar 09, 2017 2 mins read 410 views
Sustainability of geo-synthetics reinforced walls questioned

Geo-synthetics Reinforced Walls (GRW)

Mar 09, 2017 2 mins read 436 views
National film awards: Filmmaker cries foul

Film

Mar 09, 2017 2 mins read 409 views
Trade deficit widens to Nu 32B

Trade

Mar 09, 2017 2 mins read 441 views
Preserving native cereals

Agriculture

Mar 08, 2017 1 mins read 439 views
Hema Hema wins award at international film festival

Film

Mar 08, 2017 1 mins read 667 views
Tshorwa grabs most awards

Film

Mar 08, 2017 1 mins read 393 views
Nu 200M town hall for Thimphu city in the pipeline

Town hall

Mar 08, 2017 1 mins read 419 views
794kgs of green chillies seized in Bajo

Chillies

Mar 08, 2017 1 mins read 399 views
Yak rearing on the decline

Letter to the editor

Mar 08, 2017 2 mins read 438 views
Reform must achieve integrity

Editorial

Mar 08, 2017 2 mins read 487 views
Jomotsangkha residents call for immediate flood protection measures

Flood protection

Mar 08, 2017 2 mins read 456 views
Supporting the widows of the 2014 boat accident

Boat accident

Mar 08, 2017 2 mins read 407 views
Bhutan observes International Women's Day

International Women's Day

Mar 08, 2017 3 mins read 502 views
Severe weather alert

Weather

Mar 08, 2017 0 mins read 460 views
The young entrepreneur of remote Gakiling

Business

Mar 07, 2017 2 mins read 417 views
Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030

Perspective

Mar 07, 2017 3 mins read 467 views
Murder suspect surrenders to police

Crime

Mar 07, 2017 1 mins read 438 views
Working on gender in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

Perspective

Mar 07, 2017 4 mins read 419 views
Empower women in the workplace, advance health and development

Letter to the editor

Mar 07, 2017 2 mins read 455 views
Be bold for change

Editorial

Mar 07, 2017 1 mins read 438 views
Reconstruction of Denchukha bridge yet to start

Bridge

Mar 07, 2017 2 mins read 465 views
Judiciary to endorse regulation on accountability this week

Judiciary

Mar 07, 2017 2 mins read 438 views
A fuel depot for Tingtibi by March

Fuel station

Mar 06, 2017 1 mins read 437 views
New bird sighting takes avian count to 718

Birding

Mar 06, 2017 1 mins read 477 views
Japan provides Nu 334.2M for four grant projects

Bhutan-Japan

Mar 06, 2017 1 mins read 472 views
Unnecessary honking by city bus drivers in Kabisa

Letter to the editor

Mar 06, 2017 0 mins read 390 views
Need to streamline Dzongkha spellings

Editorial

Mar 06, 2017 2 mins read 410 views
Former mangmi elected as Dangchu's new gup

By-election

Mar 06, 2017 1 mins read 423 views
Dechheling to revive paddy cultivation

Agriculture

Mar 06, 2017 2 mins read 418 views
BBS refutes BICMA's charges

Film

Mar 06, 2017 4 mins read 394 views
Int'l Women's Day

International Women's Day

Mar 06, 2017 0 mins read 467 views
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Stop recording, start living

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The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

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A memoir of hustle and heartache

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From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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Café by the waterfall

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Where tradition meets treatment

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Between Homes

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Overseas employment isn’t the solution

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United for Project 108

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Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

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A missed opportunity

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Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

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Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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May 23, 2026 2 mins read 2,231 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

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GMC was a masterstroke

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Fighting online scams

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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་ཁ...

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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,547 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 5,087 views
You’re not what you think you are

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Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 4,107 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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When will we feed ourselves?

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

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Recents

Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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