August of 2012

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Paro International Airport: Apron awaits govt. green light

Drukair

Aug 10, 2012 2 mins read 397 views
Locals picking up

Vegetables

Aug 10, 2012 1 mins read 461 views
20th Boundary Talks: Same old same old

Bhutan-China

Aug 10, 2012 2 mins read 394 views
Gain from the benefits that accrue

Letter to the editor

Aug 10, 2012 1 mins read 412 views
Stayin' alive

Editorial

Aug 10, 2012 2 mins read 385 views
Private Newspapers: Up against the ropes

Media

Aug 10, 2012 3 mins read 415 views
Extant Political Parties: Status reports still under review

Election

Aug 10, 2012 1 mins read 394 views
Hydropower : Four JV projects to be finalised by Sept.

Hydropower Project

Aug 10, 2012 2 mins read 407 views
International Youth Day

International Youth Day

Aug 10, 2012 0 mins read 524 views
Druk Drupdrey Delivery Service: The porterage experiment

Employment

Aug 09, 2012 2 mins read 434 views
A new phenomenon in town

Graffiti

Aug 09, 2012 3 mins read 467 views
Student dies an "unnatural" death

Diseased Personalities

Aug 09, 2012 1 mins read 406 views
Three injured in vehicle accident

Accident

Aug 09, 2012 1 mins read 388 views
When the stakes are too high

Letter to the editor

Aug 09, 2012 1 mins read 379 views
Warming up to our north

Editorial

Aug 09, 2012 2 mins read 427 views
Observations from Japanese teachers

Bhutan-Japan

Aug 09, 2012 1 mins read 394 views
Poverty Environment Initiatives: Planting green into development plans

Environment

Aug 09, 2012 2 mins read 424 views
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: No to Truvada for now

HIV

Aug 09, 2012 2 mins read 428 views
Off-Season Vegetables: First crop proves successful

Crop

Aug 09, 2012 2 mins read 433 views
Bhutan-China

Visitors

Aug 09, 2012 0 mins read 440 views
Human-Wildlife Conflict: Conservation versus livelihood

Human-Wildlife Conflict

Aug 08, 2012 2 mins read 403 views
Third Dzongkha Tshogdu: Quarry truckers running amok

Accident

Aug 08, 2012 3 mins read 388 views
Clock Tower, Thimphu: Gambling den busted

Crime

Aug 08, 2012 1 mins read 382 views
It is time for China and Bhutan...

Bhutan-China

Aug 08, 2012 3 mins read 463 views
To keep or do away with the orderly system

Letter to the editor

Aug 08, 2012 1 mins read 399 views
From university to universality

Editorial

Aug 08, 2012 2 mins read 425 views
Most tour operator against tariff hike

Tourism

Aug 08, 2012 2 mins read 407 views
Money Supply: Growth rate in a steady decline

Finance

Aug 08, 2012 1 mins read 389 views
Immigration Rules And Regulations: Bringing clarity to a vital service

Home Ministry

Aug 08, 2012 1 mins read 449 views
Chikungunia: 77 suspected cases in 7 days

Diseases

Aug 08, 2012 2 mins read 393 views
Betekha Land: Farmers stand their ground

Land

Aug 08, 2012 3 mins read 372 views
Firefighting Exercise: Training Rinpung dzong residents

Firefighting Exercise

Aug 07, 2012 2 mins read 431 views
Thimphu Maternity/Birthing Centre: A boom in Dragon babies

Thimphu Maternity/Birthing Centre

Aug 07, 2012 2 mins read 411 views
Don't apply a civilian yardstick to the armed forces

Letter to the editor

Aug 07, 2012 1 mins read 411 views
What's the next move?

Editorial

Aug 07, 2012 2 mins read 408 views
Workshop Owners: No leg to stand on without lease

Private Sector

Aug 07, 2012 2 mins read 378 views
Gelephu Thromde: Landowners to pay higher levy

Urban Tax

Aug 07, 2012 2 mins read 420 views
Sino-Bhutan boundary talks

Bhutan-China

Aug 07, 2012 1 mins read 437 views
NPPF: Student Loan Scheme: No drop despite restrictions

NPPF

Aug 07, 2012 2 mins read 464 views
Honorary consulate of Belgium in Bhutan

Inauguration

Aug 06, 2012 0 mins read 378 views
Mending roads on fixed budget

Road

Aug 06, 2012 2 mins read 411 views
Changshingpeg, Mongar: One house, two challenged

Disability

Aug 06, 2012 1 mins read 361 views
Woman charged for possession of hashish

Crime

Aug 06, 2012 1 mins read 416 views
Export to Bangladesh: Exporters beset by a trio of problems

Apple

Aug 06, 2012 2 mins read 367 views
A monetary and psychological problem

Letter to the editor

Aug 06, 2012 2 mins read 393 views
(Un)orderly business

Editorial

Aug 06, 2012 2 mins read 405 views
Tshongdue, Paro: Four more prostitution arrests

Crime

Aug 06, 2012 2 mins read 393 views
The Orderly System: Govt. to decide on Ata

RBP

Aug 06, 2012 2 mins read 421 views
The Supreme Court: Woman judge completes full bench of five

Judiciary

Aug 06, 2012 2 mins read 443 views
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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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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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