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March of 2020

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His Holiness advises against crowds at cremation

Religious

Mar 31, 2020 2 mins read
Farm road without bridge not benefitting villagers

Infra-settlement

Mar 31, 2020 1 mins read
A lone farmer tries spring paddy in Mongar

Agriculture

Mar 31, 2020 2 mins read
Lessons from Covid-19

Letter to the editor

Mar 31, 2020 1 mins read
When beliefs blind reasoning

Religious

Mar 31, 2020 2 mins read
Trongsa running out of chillies

Agriculture

Mar 31, 2020 1 mins read
Farmers keen on taking up vegetable farming

Agriculture

Mar 31, 2020 2 mins read
Contributions pouring into the Covid-19 relief fund

Health

Mar 31, 2020 1 mins read
Contributions pouring into the Covid-19 relief fund

Health

Mar 31, 2020 1 mins read
The fear of testing positive haunted us

Health

Mar 31, 2020 3 mins read
Joint Parliamentary committee discusses lockdown

Health

Mar 30, 2020 2 mins read
No Covid-19 fear in Samtse

Health

Mar 30, 2020 2 mins read
Farmer's group contribute vegetables

Agriculture

Mar 30, 2020 1 mins read
Good sale of medium-priced mobile phones

Trade

Mar 30, 2020 1 mins read
The menace of Covid-19 and Optimistic me

Letter to the editor

Mar 30, 2020 1 mins read
The dawn of new age for Bhutanese education

Editorial

Mar 30, 2020 1 mins read
Even and odd number rule to prevent crowding

Health

Mar 30, 2020 2 mins read
American woman recovering from Covid-19

Health

Mar 30, 2020 3 mins read
Fire guts house in Bumthang

Disaster

Mar 29, 2020 0 mins read
Let us take `one step forward' in Covid - 19

Perspective

Mar 29, 2020 2 mins read
Make agriculture an all-time national agenda

Perspective

Mar 29, 2020 3 mins read
Fake products in Bhutan

Letter to the editor

Mar 29, 2020 2 mins read
Positivity shines amid dark clouds

Editorial

Mar 29, 2020 2 mins read
No clue on missing monks

Disaster

Mar 29, 2020 0 mins read
All well-stocked in Trashigang and Trashiyangtse

Health

Mar 29, 2020 2 mins read
Govt. cannot order house rent wavier

Health

Mar 29, 2020 2 mins read
MoIC and telcos readies eLearning data package

Technology

Mar 29, 2020 3 mins read
Second Bhutanese tests positive to Covid-19

Health

Mar 29, 2020 3 mins read
Keep physical distance

Health

Mar 27, 2020 2 mins read
FCB supplies rations to eastern dzongkhags

Health

Mar 27, 2020 2 mins read
Government bans contact sports until further notice

Sports

Mar 27, 2020 1 mins read
Paro tshechu to be closed-door affair

Religious

Mar 27, 2020 1 mins read
One quarantined in Mongar

Health

Mar 27, 2020 1 mins read
Covid-19 affects handicraft business

Trade

Mar 27, 2020 3 mins read
Reviving the old East-West trail

Tourism

Mar 27, 2020 1 mins read
Govt. starts providing economic relief package

Economy

Mar 27, 2020 2 mins read
Right to privacy law necessary not luxurious

Letter to the editor

Mar 27, 2020 2 mins read
The Bhutanese spirit

Editorial

Mar 27, 2020 2 mins read
Vegetables, essentials and factory goods keep coming

Agriculture

Mar 27, 2020 2 mins read
BIT and CIT deadline deferred to June 30

Economy

Mar 27, 2020 1 mins read
Learning should continue, e-Learning is optional: PM

Education

Mar 27, 2020 3 mins read
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Recents

A big problem for a small airport

There is another record, one we would rather not be associated with. In just the first five months of 2025, nearly 29 kilograms of brown sugar (heroin), a highly addictive and dangerous drug, have been seized by customs and police. This is the largest amount ever intercepted.

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Agripreneur experiments with trout farming in Gedu Chu

Chukha—Thirty-three-year old Kumar remembers the first fish he ever caught. He was a schoolboy in Gongtsakha, a remote village in Jigmecholing in Sarpang, trailing the riverbanks with his father. Together they dried their haul and sold it in the nearest market, cash that put food on the table and paid his school fees.

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Bhutan hosts regional training on soil information systems

Amid growing recognition of the critical role of reliable soil data in sustainable land management, 40 participants from 13 member countries of the Asian Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (AFACI) are attending a regional training workshop on National Soil Information Systems (NSIS) in Thimphu.

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