May of 2014

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Accident kills three

Accident

May 30, 2014 1 mins read 629 views
Life & Death from the Himalaya to Factory Floors

Perspective

May 30, 2014 5 mins read 604 views
Airlines register growth in passenger traffic

Aviation

May 30, 2014 2 mins read 555 views
On the last leg

Highway

May 30, 2014 4 mins read 586 views
Getting their heads around number crunching

Agriculture

May 30, 2014 2 mins read 560 views
Wangchu advisory

Weather

May 30, 2014 1 mins read 599 views
Hydromet monsoon forecast

Weather

May 30, 2014 0 mins read 616 views
Farm road blacktopping in 16 gewogs to begin from June

National Assembly

May 30, 2014 2 mins read 602 views
New `resignation' provision added to amendment

National Assembly

May 30, 2014 2 mins read 603 views
Dagana town to be facilitated with urban infrastructure

Township

May 30, 2014 1 mins read 555 views
Misusing authority?

Letter to the editor

May 30, 2014 1 mins read 631 views
Balking at an alcohol bill?

Editorial

May 30, 2014 2 mins read 606 views
PM defends BOIC's establishment

National Council (NC)

May 30, 2014 3 mins read 594 views
The cost of pay hike

Salary

May 30, 2014 4 mins read 810 views
PM and cabinet ministers take the biggest cut

Salary

May 30, 2014 4 mins read 603 views
World No Tobacco Day

Tobacco Day

May 30, 2014 0 mins read 704 views
Sources of the pay raise

National Assembly

May 29, 2014 2 mins read 583 views
Community contract project thrives in Trashigang

Gewog development grant (GDG)

May 29, 2014 2 mins read 615 views
Principal released on bail in student suicide case

Crime

May 29, 2014 2 mins read 606 views
No compensation for land lost to farm roads

National Assembly

May 29, 2014 1 mins read 577 views
Council asks govt. to withdraw RTI bill

Parliament

May 29, 2014 3 mins read 544 views
An impressive music concert by the youth

Letter to the editor

May 29, 2014 1 mins read 559 views
Pay hike proposals challenged

Editorial

May 29, 2014 2 mins read 564 views
Recommended allowances

Salary

May 29, 2014 4 mins read 627 views
Proposed pay hike

National Assembly

May 29, 2014 3 mins read 599 views
Parliament agenda

Parliament

May 29, 2014 0 mins read 0 views
Boosting tourism in Eastern Bhutan

National Assembly

May 28, 2014 1 mins read 579 views
Knowledge not legislation is key to alcohol issue

Parliament

May 28, 2014 2 mins read 553 views
Sampheling poultry farmers pan Karma Feeds

Poultry

May 28, 2014 3 mins read 606 views
First hearing on wife murder case

Crime

May 28, 2014 2 mins read 555 views
NA decides not to increase land tax

Parliament

May 28, 2014 1 mins read 556 views
No weighing machines at bus terminals

Letter to the editor

May 28, 2014 1 mins read 626 views
After Shingkhar-Gorgan road

Editorial

May 28, 2014 2 mins read 605 views
Education loan at 5 percent interest from July

National Assembly

May 28, 2014 2 mins read 595 views
The tables are turned

Parliament

May 28, 2014 2 mins read 640 views
Land issues hold up new township development

Land

May 28, 2014 1 mins read 520 views
A successful visit: PM

PM visits

May 28, 2014 2 mins read 601 views
Shingkhar-Gorgan road makes it into 11th Plan

National Assembly

May 28, 2014 3 mins read 646 views
NA rejects ACC surveillance during elections

National Assembly

May 27, 2014 2 mins read 548 views
Four Tsangkhar households denied access to drinking water

Resource

May 27, 2014 3 mins read 592 views
Amochu project status - down but not out

Hydropower projects

May 27, 2014 2 mins read 629 views
Bhutan needs well-integrated regional air connectivity

Letter to the editor

May 27, 2014 2 mins read 613 views
Supervision of electoral processes

Editorial

May 27, 2014 2 mins read 548 views
Lack of power for the want of a mule track

Electricity

May 27, 2014 1 mins read 574 views
Autonomous schools await financial autonomy

Education

May 27, 2014 2 mins read 600 views
Two more bodies of boat victims recovered

Accident

May 27, 2014 1 mins read 553 views
Govt.'s first loan of USD 87.8M

National Assembly

May 27, 2014 2 mins read 594 views
PM Modi assures unflinching support

PM visits

May 27, 2014 2 mins read 534 views
Meat ban on

Meat ban

May 27, 2014 0 mins read 622 views
S/J forest division too stretched to tackle poaching

Poaching

May 26, 2014 3 mins read 580 views
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