October of 2011

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Teacher Transfer : New retention criteria framed

MoE

Oct 31, 2011 3 mins read 606 views
SAARC Twenty20 : Bhutan faces host in opener

Cricket

Oct 31, 2011 1 mins read 491 views
Candidates ripen for thromdey elections

Local Government

Oct 31, 2011 2 mins read 527 views
Thimphu Tech Park : Inauguration today

IT

Oct 31, 2011 2 mins read 533 views
Looking for leaders

My Say

Oct 31, 2011 2 mins read 574 views
A way forward

Editorial

Oct 31, 2011 2 mins read 552 views
Accident kills one, injures another

Accident

Oct 31, 2011 1 mins read 0 views
Indo-Bhutan Relations: Royal couple visit adds new dimension

His Majesty

Oct 31, 2011 2 mins read 564 views
ICT for GNH Conference : What IT will take

ICT

Oct 31, 2011 3 mins read 594 views
Baby jumbos a big hit

Royal Wedding

Oct 15, 2011 1 mins read 540 views
Dunglagang, Tsirang: `Chicken' tshogpa beats 10th Plan target

Poultry

Oct 15, 2011 2 mins read 517 views
Getting value for waste

Waste Management

Oct 15, 2011 1 mins read 561 views
Positive discipline is enlightened punishment

My Say

Oct 15, 2011 2 mins read 0 views
A Bhutanese celebration

Editorial

Oct 15, 2011 1 mins read 488 views
Royal Wedding: Bomb blasts fail to spoil celebrations

Bomb Blast

Oct 15, 2011 1 mins read 479 views
Taekwondo championship

Taekwondo

Oct 30, 2011 0 mins read 496 views
Farm Road : Mending a road that was tampered with

CDG

Oct 30, 2011 2 mins read 510 views
Entitlements : Medical technician denied his gratuity

Audit

Oct 30, 2011 2 mins read 489 views
Positive discipline is enlightened punishment

My Say

Oct 30, 2011 2 mins read 631 views
A building code for mud, stones and wood

Editorial

Oct 30, 2011 2 mins read 533 views
Thousands receive blessing for long life

Religion

Oct 30, 2011 1 mins read 524 views
Royal State Visit : "Through the Lens of the King"

HM Visit

Oct 30, 2011 1 mins read 467 views
Shumar, Pemagatshel : One gup, his nine ex-wives .

Pemagatshel

Oct 30, 2011 5 mins read 577 views
State funding : More about need than legality

Party

Oct 30, 2011 4 mins read 439 views
Test ride

Bikes

Oct 30, 2011 0 mins read 524 views
His Holiness graces Dobji's maiden tshechu

Religion

Oct 28, 2011 2 mins read 453 views
Storehouse Construction : Two spanners in the works

Trashigang

Oct 28, 2011 3 mins read 416 views
Joint project to address an address system

Bhutan Post

Oct 28, 2011 1 mins read 491 views
Briquettes doing brisk business

NRDCL

Oct 28, 2011 1 mins read 510 views
September 18 Quake : Learning a natural lesson

Disater

Oct 28, 2011 3 mins read 510 views
How not to live in a `high rise'

Perspective

Oct 28, 2011 4 mins read 477 views
Cardamom Farmers : Happy days are here again!

Agriculture

Oct 28, 2011 3 mins read 476 views
Trading Sector : Lays off expatriate workers

Immigration

Oct 28, 2011 3 mins read 441 views
A gradual changing of the guard

Civil Aviation

Oct 28, 2011 2 mins read 546 views
Poverty, etc. as yardstick for growth

Development Economics

Oct 28, 2011 2 mins read 485 views
Police should not investigate the YHS case

My Say

Oct 28, 2011 1 mins read 559 views
Overlooked and undervalued

Editorial

Oct 28, 2011 2 mins read 464 views
The market moves in multiples of five

Money

Oct 28, 2011 3 mins read 474 views
Deadlines missed : Mandarin biz. dissed

Dawa Gyelmo, Tsirang

Oct 28, 2011 2 mins read 452 views
Building code for rural housing soon

Bhutan Standards Bureau

Oct 28, 2011 2 mins read 480 views
Trashigang Dzong : A fortress that's about to fall

Tashigang Dzong - Heritage

Oct 28, 2011 3 mins read 522 views
Royal Wedding Archery

Archery

Oct 27, 2011 0 mins read 515 views
ICT for GNH conference

ICT

Oct 27, 2011 1 mins read 528 views
The case of the cashiered constable

Police

Oct 27, 2011 2 mins read 492 views
Timber, Sand & Stones : Despite staff shortage incidence drops

Smuggling

Oct 27, 2011 1 mins read 446 views
Chunzom-Isuna Road : Precaution's all there is to it

Construction

Oct 27, 2011 2 mins read 497 views
The smiling campaign

My Say

Oct 27, 2011 1 mins read 475 views
Why our roads grow deadlier

Editorial

Oct 27, 2011 2 mins read 475 views
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