September of 2011

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Electrical Energy: Supply dips as demand rises

Hydropower

Sep 09, 2011 1 mins read 609 views
Contractor detained

Court

Sep 29, 2011 1 mins read 583 views
5th Intra School Mini-Competition : A nursery for future stars

Tennis

Sep 29, 2011 1 mins read 571 views
Bhutan Narcotic Control Agency : Contraband burned in Gedu

Tobacco

Sep 29, 2011 1 mins read 625 views
Honours Programme ; Majors given a minor shock

Education

Sep 29, 2011 2 mins read 616 views
Does ongoing assessment mean getting kicked upstairs?

My Say

Sep 29, 2011 1 mins read 615 views
Providing the public breathing space

Editorial

Sep 29, 2011 2 mins read 570 views
Doteng & Tsento, Paro : His Majesty assures help

Earthquake

Sep 29, 2011 1 mins read 575 views
Quake : Je Khenpo's Televised Address : HH brings calm to the nation

Earthquake

Sep 29, 2011 1 mins read 0 views
Thimphu City : Seeking options to closing Norzin Lam

Traffic

Sep 29, 2011 2 mins read 670 views
Quake : Je Khenpo's Televised Address : HH brings calm to the nation

Earthquake

Sep 28, 2011 1 mins read 649 views
Departmental Championship : MoH3 just about beats Bhutan Telecom

Football

Sep 28, 2011 1 mins read 587 views
Minor sentenced to 17 years

Crime

Sep 28, 2011 1 mins read 620 views
World Rabies Day : Death cases at five, 2011 records highest

Health

Sep 28, 2011 2 mins read 490 views
September 18 Quake : 990 structures damaged in Chukha

Earthquake

Sep 28, 2011 2 mins read 496 views
Traffic problem? Public transport solution!

My Say

Sep 28, 2011 1 mins read 621 views
The last nail in the coffin of an Act?

Editorial

Sep 28, 2011 2 mins read 536 views
International Union of Architects : PM delivers keynote address

Diplomacy

Sep 28, 2011 2 mins read 628 views
September 18 Quake : Govt. structures uninsured

Earthquake

Sep 28, 2011 3 mins read 539 views
Dongkola Monastery : Lhakhang on the verge of collapse

Earthquake

Sep 27, 2011 2 mins read 648 views
Green Hiker Campaign : To save the golden goose

Tourism

Sep 27, 2011 3 mins read 603 views
Poultry Ban : Poultry farmers worry about their business

Poultry

Sep 28, 2011 2 mins read 520 views
Qualification in hospitality unappreciated

My Say

Sep 27, 2011 2 mins read 570 views
Not for awards but our wellbeing

Editorial

Sep 27, 2011 2 mins read 568 views
Bird Flu : Poultry import banned

BAFRA

Sep 14, 2011 2 mins read 785 views
Assistance squads formed on royal command

Earthquake

Sep 27, 2011 1 mins read 611 views
Sept. 18 Quake : Damage assessment in full swing

Earthquake

Sep 27, 2011 2 mins read 579 views
Hydropower : Joint ventures

Hydropower

Sep 27, 2011 2 mins read 533 views
First Past the Post : Present voting system not truly representative

Election

Sep 26, 2011 2 mins read 549 views
Solution to jobseeker-job mismatch?

TVET

Sep 26, 2011 2 mins read 587 views
Nganglam-Pangbang Road : Awaiting ADB grant

Road

Sep 26, 2011 3 mins read 554 views
World Tourism Day 2011

Editorial

Sep 26, 2011 5 mins read 512 views
Central planners callous about local sensibilities

My Say

Sep 26, 2011 2 mins read 503 views
Society's sin of omission

Editorial

Sep 26, 2011 2 mins read 580 views
Future Policy Award : Short-listed Bhutan falls short

Forestry

Sep 26, 2011 1 mins read 584 views
Thrue Bub : Four days of rain and counting

Weather

Sep 26, 2011 1 mins read 540 views
Sankosh Hydropower Project : No dent despite downsizing

Hydropower

Sep 26, 2011 2 mins read 639 views
His Majesty comforts victims in Haa

His Majesty

Sep 26, 2011 2 mins read 595 views
Disabled Persons' Association of Bhutan : Changgidaphu centre opens

Advocacy

Sep 25, 2011 1 mins read 576 views
Narrow escape for driver, passenger

Highway- Landslide

Sep 25, 2011 2 mins read 582 views
DoR to resume work on nation's longest bridge .

Bridge

Sep 25, 2011 1 mins read 527 views
Changju, Bara : The first Bhutanese village to feel the shock

Earthquake

Sep 25, 2011 1 mins read 638 views
Appeal to allow import of `doc's from unaffected areas

My Say

Sep 25, 2011 1 mins read 569 views
Affording public safety

Editorial

Sep 25, 2011 2 mins read 619 views
Families forced to camp outside

Earthquake

Sep 25, 2011 2 mins read 534 views
Buddha Air : Nepal air crash claims 19 lives

Accident

Sep 25, 2011 1 mins read 603 views
Chukha Hydropower Plant : Limb caves in, a week post silver jubilee

Hydropower

Sep 25, 2011 2 mins read 586 views
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Where tradition meets treatment

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United for Project 108

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A missed opportunity

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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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༉ 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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Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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No amount of money can replace you

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Recents

ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged wrongful implication and institutional failure after the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) closed two long-running investigations into the handling of private donations and the establishment of a radiotherapy facility at the national referral hospital.

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The gift of children

Punakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another child?

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