September of 2011

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Bangladeshi Artists : Weeklong retreat to draw inspiration

Art Exhibition

Sep 30, 2011 2 mins read 439 views
Shongphu gup elect exonerated

Election Commission

Sep 04, 2011 2 mins read 355 views
In Touch With China

Tourism

Sep 30, 2011 0 mins read 443 views
Samtse Mining Case : OAG rebutspoints of appeal

Crime

Sep 30, 2011 2 mins read 890 views
Garsha - To keep alive an ancient link

Buddhism

Sep 04, 2011 2 mins read 396 views
"Dispense with `one engineer per project' rule" : CAB

Construction Development Board - Annual General Meeting

Sep 30, 2011 2 mins read 399 views
2nd E-W highway - A view from the ground

Letter to Editor - My say

Sep 30, 2011 1 mins read 345 views
A 2011 wishlist of eight projects

Hydro Projects

Sep 04, 2011 2 mins read 443 views
The rupee pickle

Editorial

Sep 30, 2011 2 mins read 447 views
Bhutan should mainstream climate change

Human Development Report

Sep 04, 2011 2 mins read 401 views
Lyonchheon Met WB Official

Foreign Relation

Sep 30, 2011 0 mins read 345 views
Mobile Highway Inspection : Four Indians deported

Immigration

Sep 30, 2011 1 mins read 481 views
Land Transactions : Temporary freeze

National Land Commission

Sep 30, 2011 1 mins read 451 views
Some equity and justice in the job market, please

Letter to Editor

Sep 04, 2011 2 mins read 389 views
Foreign Exchange : Rupees run dry

Royal Monetary Authority

Sep 30, 2011 3 mins read 426 views
Let's diversify

Editorial

Sep 04, 2011 2 mins read 425 views
Motorists will have to adjust to a new regime in the capital

Traffic police

Sep 04, 2011 1 mins read 418 views
A 13-member judicial delegation from Thailand

Bhutan-Thailand

Sep 04, 2011 0 mins read 420 views
Construction materials narrow city roads

City Corporation

Sep 04, 2011 2 mins read 432 views
Yonphula passes test flight

Drukair

Sep 04, 2011 2 mins read 437 views
Traditional Healers : Worked to the well and good

Bjaney

Sep 02, 2011 3 mins read 529 views
Landowners sign pooling agreement

Doksum Town

Sep 02, 2011 2 mins read 433 views
Handloom centre closed for lack of budget

Drongsep Tshogpa

Sep 02, 2011 2 mins read 464 views
ATR back in the air

Druk Air

Sep 02, 2011 1 mins read 434 views
The hidden benefits of the Shingkhar - Gorgan road?

RoadDevelopment

Sep 02, 2011 4 mins read 578 views
Mongar Minor Rape : Dzongkha teacher placed under arrest

Crime-Rape

Sep 02, 2011 1 mins read 480 views
Bhutan can export more marble to India

Trade - Export Import

Sep 02, 2011 2 mins read 385 views
Role of Calculus in Engineering Calculations

Engineering

Sep 02, 2011 3 mins read 489 views
Why I'm on Facebook: PM

16th Meet The Press

Sep 01, 2011 2 mins read 467 views
Land Prices : Through the roof, across the board

Land Price

Sep 02, 2011 3 mins read 413 views
After a decade of lying dormant, signs of life

Bondeyma Industrial Estate

Sep 02, 2011 2 mins read 470 views
JDW National Referral Hospital : Chronic drug shortage continues

Health - Drug shortage

Sep 02, 2011 3 mins read 494 views
Fine paid for one of four

Sherabling Monastry- Himachel Pradesh

Sep 02, 2011 1 mins read 437 views
The curious case of BoB's big gain

Bank of Bhutan

Sep 02, 2011 2 mins read 506 views
Taking stock of the tobacco act

Editorial

Sep 02, 2011 2 mins read 430 views
BNB-Gelephu Case : Various verdicts handed down

BNB- Commercial bank

Sep 02, 2011 3 mins read 429 views
Multiple moves to cut down crime

46th Raising Day

Sep 01, 2011 2 mins read 453 views
Land Act 2007 : Major reforms on the cards

Land Act

Sep 02, 2011 2 mins read 426 views
Graft at the Gateway to Bhutan

Regional Immigration Office

Sep 01, 2011 2 mins read 441 views
Round Table Meeting : Donors communicate continued aid

Round table meeting

Sep 02, 2011 3 mins read 408 views
How housing (or the lack of it) impoverishes the working class

Letter to Editor

Sep 01, 2011 1 mins read 464 views
Not ready or set

Editorail

Sep 01, 2011 2 mins read 507 views
An opportunity to set a precedent

Gyelpoizhing Land Case

Sep 01, 2011 2 mins read 517 views
Shingkhar-Gorgan Highway : To connect dead-end dzongkhags

National Highway

Sep 01, 2011 2 mins read 456 views
Winter session to discuss amendment

Tobacco Control Act

Sep 01, 2011 3 mins read 426 views
Donor aid crucial to democracy

Round Table Meeting

Sep 01, 2011 3 mins read 442 views
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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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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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Where tradition meets treatment

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Reform or stay shut

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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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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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Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Between Homes

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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No amount of money can replace you

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Sundays at Le Méridien

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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 3,851 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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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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