April of 1996

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NEC draft document finalised

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 569 views
Cement block making machine installed

Hydro Project

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 591 views
First batch of meter readers and linespersons

Power

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 574 views
Taekwondo coaches' refresher course

Sport

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 626 views
Trashigang 's only sawmill picks up

Dzongkhags

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 566 views
Driglam Namzha course for UN staff

Driglam Namgshag

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 574 views
Better blocks

Letters to the Editor

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 618 views
Painful formalities

Letters to the Editor

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 573 views
Speed breakers

Letters to the Editor

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 0 views
Not just locals

Letters to the Editor

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 642 views
Dogs without teeth

Letters to the Editor

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 629 views
A valuable lesson

Editorial

Apr 05, 1996 2 mins read 605 views
The travails of travel

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Apr 05, 1996 2 mins read 636 views
House near border burgled

Crime

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 581 views
Chilip in national tournament

Archery

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 612 views
Lecturers begin orientation

Sherubtse College and Graduates

Apr 05, 1996 2 mins read 626 views
Entrepreneur of the year

Private Sector

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 0 views
Stronger winds this year

Meteorology-Climate/Weather

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 569 views
Price of meat to be regulated

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 603 views
Exhibition on the history of Bhutan

Bhutan - History

Apr 05, 1996 2 mins read 590 views
Sweeping Thimphu town clean

City Corporation

Apr 05, 1996 2 mins read 604 views
Fire razes huts

Accident

Apr 05, 1996 2 mins read 611 views
ICSE students to repeat Dzongkha paper

Education-BBE

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 564 views
Seventh round of Bhutan-Nepal talks on in Kathmandu

Bhutan - Nepal Refugee Issue

Apr 05, 1996 2 mins read 519 views
Forest fire

Forest Fire

Apr 05, 1996 0 mins read 0 views
Mineral trainees

Training/Workshop/Seminar/Country

Apr 05, 1996 0 mins read 671 views
Sex education

Health-HIV/AIDS

Apr 05, 1996 0 mins read 713 views
Films

Special Commission For Cultural Affairs/ Bhutan Music/ RAPA

Apr 05, 1996 0 mins read 560 views
Archery

Archery

Apr 05, 1996 0 mins read 0 views
Entrepreneurs course

Private Sector

Apr 05, 1996 1 mins read 549 views
Research on hypertension and anemia

Health Mother and Child Programme

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 608 views
The Central Maintenance Unit : more than what it seems

Power

Apr 12, 1996 3 mins read 589 views
Orientation an eye-opener, say lecturers

Sherubtse College and Graduates

Apr 12, 1996 2 mins read 561 views
Communication training for health staff

Health/ BHU/ Dispensary/ ORC

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 627 views
Authentic music

Letters to the Editor

Apr 12, 1996 0 mins read 645 views
Traffic control needed

Letters to the Editor

Apr 12, 1996 0 mins read 612 views
Awareness and initiatives on environment

Letters to the Editor

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 606 views
We must live up to our parents' efforts

Letters to the Editor

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 550 views
Schools need libraries

Letters to the Editor

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 616 views
Bilateral process vital

Editorial

Apr 12, 1996 4 mins read 562 views
Paintings for the Machen of the Punakha Dzong in progress

Handicraft

Apr 12, 1996 2 mins read 576 views
The Village Health Worker to the rescue

Health/ BHU/ Dispensary/ ORC

Apr 12, 1996 5 mins read 640 views
Monk falls to death

Accident

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 629 views
Druk Air wins archery tournament

Archery

Apr 12, 1996 2 mins read 750 views
Consumers agree on water charges

City Corporation

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 598 views
STCB wins case Recovery may be difficult

State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCB)

Apr 12, 1996 2 mins read 523 views
Clean-up campaign: a disappointment

City Corporation

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 583 views
Bilateral process to continue

Bhutan - Nepal Refugee Issue

Apr 12, 1996 1 mins read 621 views
Music

Special Commission For Cultural Affairs/ Bhutan Music/ RAPA

Apr 12, 1996 0 mins read 643 views
Table tennis

Tennis

Apr 12, 1996 0 mins read 0 views
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Empowering women through waste upcycling

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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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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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What solutions for Amochu project?

Phuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with the latest disruption occurring even before the onset of the monsoon.

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RCSC faces growing ‘missing middle’ amid exodus

A widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raising concerns about leadership succession, institutional continuity and the long-term resilience of the country’s public sector workforce.

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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.

Read More