November of 2020

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Small hotels bear the brunt of pandemic

Trade

Nov 12, 2020 2 mins read 444 views
A school for business and technology

Education

Nov 12, 2020 2 mins read 478 views
Linking GNH with the rule of law

Education

Nov 12, 2020 2 mins read 437 views
Govt. spends more than Nu 289M on quarantine facilities

Health

Nov 12, 2020 2 mins read 455 views
DPT president dissect DNT's pledges for Chhoekhor-Tang

Politics

Nov 10, 2020 3 mins read 420 views
Zhabten for the 4th Druk Gyalpo

Perspective

Nov 10, 2020 4 mins read 0 views
Himalayan gorals succumb to FMD and PPR

Wild Life

Nov 10, 2020 2 mins read 447 views
The return of the natives in Chubjakha

Agriculture

Nov 10, 2020 2 mins read 416 views
It is time to create impactful startups

Letter to the editor

Nov 10, 2020 1 mins read 482 views
It is time to act

Editorial

Nov 10, 2020 2 mins read 458 views
DNT candidate gets reminder from RO

Perspective

Nov 10, 2020 1 mins read 455 views
ADB and Bhutan: Looking beyond 40 years of development journey

Banks

Nov 10, 2020 4 mins read 445 views
Western garment tailoring training to boost employment

Entrepreneurs

Nov 10, 2020 1 mins read 379 views
NA reconsiders its resolution to decriminalise homosexuality

National Assembly

Nov 10, 2020 2 mins read 450 views
JDWNRH campus to host the super-speciality hospital

Health

Nov 10, 2020 3 mins read 488 views
Switzerland donates Nu 4 million worth of test kits

Award-Grant

Nov 09, 2020 1 mins read 430 views
Road construction to Lunana begins

Road

Nov 09, 2020 1 mins read 446 views
The roller coaster of all elections

Perspective

Nov 09, 2020 4 mins read 459 views
A new cafe bags best innovative business idea

Entrepreneurs

Nov 09, 2020 1 mins read 456 views
It is time for the mask again

Letter to the editor

Nov 09, 2020 1 mins read 449 views
Creating a media literate society

Editorial

Nov 09, 2020 2 mins read 432 views
47 arrested trying to smuggle controlled substances so far

Narcotic

Nov 09, 2020 2 mins read 477 views
First cohort of vulnerable persons complete training

Entrepreneurs

Nov 09, 2020 2 mins read 405 views
Covid-19 second wave: what does it mean for Bhutan?

Health

Nov 09, 2020 3 mins read 481 views
NCWC calls for a harsher penalty for sexual assault perpetrators

Crime

Nov 09, 2020 3 mins read 490 views
Dramatic comeback against Paro FC takes City closer to title

Sports

Nov 08, 2020 1 mins read 455 views
Tsirang Covid-19 task force initiates escort service for transporters

Transport

Nov 08, 2020 1 mins read 418 views
An eventful year for artists

CSO

Nov 08, 2020 2 mins read 446 views
Fight against corruption taking a back seat?

Letter to the editor

Nov 08, 2020 1 mins read 428 views
The road to winning Chhoekhor-Tang

Editorial

Nov 08, 2020 2 mins read 405 views
Ferrosilicon price dips as the cost of raw materials increase

Industries

Nov 08, 2020 1 mins read 414 views
Forest clearance hinders youth farming

Youth

Nov 08, 2020 1 mins read 440 views
More than 300 graduates withdraw from PE

RCSC

Nov 08, 2020 2 mins read 456 views
Purjang of late 68th Je Khenpo

Religious

Nov 08, 2020 1 mins read 473 views
The road to Parliament?

Parliament

Nov 08, 2020 2 mins read 438 views
His Majesty and Royal Family members attend Purjang ceremony

Royal

Nov 08, 2020 1 mins read 515 views
A healthy year for the health sector

Health

Nov 06, 2020 4 mins read 418 views
Pasture norms cost dearly in Lunana

Phurpa Lhamo

Nov 06, 2020 2 mins read 455 views
Lower Haa farmers grow winter vegetables

Agriculture

Nov 06, 2020 2 mins read 420 views
NLCS launches online land mortgaging system and tsamdro app

Land

Nov 06, 2020 2 mins read 463 views
Youth group upbeat about agriculture

Youth

Nov 06, 2020 1 mins read 416 views
BBP workers could get a raise soon

Labour

Nov 06, 2020 2 mins read 431 views
Garden gateway and public transportation for Bhutan Gate enhancement

Perspective

Nov 06, 2020 2 mins read 438 views
Engineering Council to ensure professional development

Construction

Nov 06, 2020 2 mins read 420 views
Pandemic triggers development of agriculture sector

Agriculture

Nov 06, 2020 4 mins read 464 views
Unfair and unreasonable contractual obligation on innocent farmers

Letter to the editor

Nov 06, 2020 2 mins read 427 views
Learning from the pandemic year

Editorial

Nov 06, 2020 2 mins read 471 views
Covid-19 triggered more initiatives in education sector

Health

Nov 06, 2020 4 mins read 434 views
Women enhance livelihoods through tailoring

Entrepreneurs

Nov 06, 2020 1 mins read 382 views
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The house that must never be empty

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Empowering women through waste upcycling

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NA directs talks on reducing high lending rates to ease burden

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DoT spends 85 percent of budget, but key infrastructure projects lag behind

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NC endorses annual budget as per NA

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Stop recording, start living

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Stop recording, start living

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Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

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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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May 02, 2026 2 mins read 3,021 views
Where tradition meets treatment

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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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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 2,428 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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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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No amount of money can replace you

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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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When will we feed ourselves?

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,904 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 7,059 views

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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