August of 2002

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His Majesty commends the government as new prime minister takes over

On the sixth day of the seventh Bhutanese month (August 14), in the presence of His Majes...

Aug 17, 2002 8 mins read 512 views
Prime minister looks ahead to his tenure, another looks back

Government Department

Aug 16, 2002 2 mins read 0 views
Prime minister looks ahead to his tenure, another looks back

Government Department

Aug 16, 2002 2 mins read 441 views
Judiciary will uphold the rule of law

Judiciary

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 378 views
India celebrates Independence Day

Indian National Day Celebration

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 0 views
Five prostitutes arrested

Social Problem (Bhutan)

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 524 views
Growing with change

Editorial

Aug 16, 2002 2 mins read 505 views
Corruption in Bhutan

Kuensel

Aug 16, 2002 5 mins read 472 views
Why did Bhutan Agro fail ?

Kuensel

Aug 16, 2002 3 mins read 425 views
First national flag designed in 1949

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Aug 16, 2002 2 mins read 428 views
Thai ambassador presents credentials

Bhutan-Thailand

Aug 16, 2002 0 mins read 0 views
Thimphu is rabies free : RSPCA

Animal Husbandry Disease

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 414 views
Bhutan Power Corporation inaugurated

Power

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 387 views
Apple grading facility available but no users

Agriculture/Horticulture

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 402 views
Jangchub Chorten (Pic. story)

Chortens

Aug 16, 2002 0 mins read 433 views
Graduates and the employment dilemma

Sherubtse College and Graduates

Aug 16, 2002 2 mins read 423 views
World summit: low expectations

World Summit for Children

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 397 views
Northern tree shrew sighted in Bhutan

Wild Animal

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 401 views
SAARC ministers adopt "common position" on environment

SAARC Activities

Aug 16, 2002 2 mins read 388 views
BDFC takes khuru trophy

Sport

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 444 views
Yangphel archery begins

Sport

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 356 views
Project to help farmers manage forests

Forest Social/Project/ Afforestation

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 376 views
Student suffers from "writers cramp"

Health/Doctors/Patients

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 360 views
A "different" meeting

Companies

Aug 16, 2002 2 mins read 360 views
Disabled children (Pic. story)

Disabled

Aug 16, 2002 0 mins read 362 views
Vegetable market too crowded

Sunday market/Vegetable market

Aug 16, 2002 2 mins read 432 views
Rural credit in Trashigang

Bhutan Development Finance Corporation (BDFC)

Aug 16, 2002 1 mins read 422 views
Orientation

Sherubtse College and Graduates

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 0 views
Deputy army chief visits Bhutan

Bhutan- India Defence

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 0 views
Second table tennis friendly

Sport

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 415 views
Good price for potatoes

Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB)

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 426 views
A search engine for Bhutan

Computer/Internet

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 376 views
Reopened swimming pool much safer

Education-Youth/Counselling/Deliquesce

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 410 views
Group formed to improve bargaining power

Agriculture Activities

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 405 views
Students choose bike over buses to go to school

Education- Student

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 707 views
FIFA agrees to finance BFF's sports complex

Sport

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 404 views
"...there's nothing you can't achieve"

Visitors

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 394 views
Toorsa threatens village's survival

Landslides and Floods

Aug 09, 2002 2 mins read 374 views
SAARC ministerial meeting on environment

SAARC Countries

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 343 views
Land act should not be breached

Act

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 432 views
Foreign minister in Myanmar

Foreign Affairs

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 713 views
East-west highway to be improved

Roads

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 369 views
Boy drowns

Accident

Aug 09, 2002 0 mins read 0 views
Depression tops list of psychiatric cases

Health Disease

Aug 09, 2002 2 mins read 438 views
Looking for cure ?

Health Disease

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 390 views
The row over removal of export tax

Exports

Aug 09, 2002 3 mins read 390 views
Negative trends

Editorial

Aug 09, 2002 2 mins read 416 views
Our town

Editorial

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 429 views
Gyelkhab Gyi Peljor Gongphel

Letters to the Editor

Aug 09, 2002 2 mins read 366 views
Nowhere to go

Kuensel

Aug 09, 2002 1 mins read 429 views
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Recents

GST debate intensifies as inflation rises, government proposes expanded exemptions

Just five months into the new 5 percent GST regime, food inflation has soared to 6.83 percent, leaving consumers asking: where are the promised savings? While lawmakers push to exempt 22 new essential items like cooking oil and rice to protect the poor , tax officials warn that adding more exemptions will only invite massive tax evasion. Who is really winning here? The consumers or the businesses?

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