October of 2013

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Police officer convicted of child abuse

Crime

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 448 views
"You are what you eat"

Health

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 385 views
In new township shopkeepers play lords

Township

Oct 18, 2013 3 mins read 340 views
Three dungkhag courts inaugurated

Judiciary

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 392 views
T/gang taxi tshogpa hike shot down

RSTA

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 334 views
Feeding Foreign Investors

Perspective

Oct 18, 2013 5 mins read 356 views
The RTI Bill: Need for caution

Perspective

Oct 18, 2013 5 mins read 344 views
Hotel occupancy's gone through the roof

Tourism

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 385 views
531 receive land kidu in Tangsibji

Land

Oct 18, 2013 1 mins read 363 views
What do old folks want?

Royal Society for Senior Citizens (RSSC)

Oct 18, 2013 3 mins read 375 views
The combine harvester - A panacea to Paro's paddy problems

Agriculture

Oct 18, 2013 3 mins read 404 views
Women's empowerment, a priority

Visitor

Oct 18, 2013 1 mins read 385 views
Revived `Move For Health' walk today

Move For health

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 368 views
Service delivery at RSTA has still not improved

Letter to the editor

Oct 18, 2013 1 mins read 361 views
P/ling gridlock

Editorial

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 392 views
Bhutan to be net energy importer for the first time

Power

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 381 views
Phailin contributed Nu 90M to DGPC

Cyclone

Oct 18, 2013 2 mins read 352 views
Don't privatise, improve, health service

Health

Oct 18, 2013 4 mins read 355 views
Mountain festival

Festival

Oct 18, 2013 0 mins read 426 views
Banks see increasing defaulters

Banks

Oct 17, 2013 3 mins read 407 views
New chief engineer takes charge

DANTAK

Oct 17, 2013 2 mins read 391 views
Tsimatsham hoteliers yet to switch to commercial cylinders

Cylinders

Oct 17, 2013 2 mins read 402 views
1,450 power tillers under KR II grant

Grant

Oct 17, 2013 2 mins read 351 views
Two three-year EWS projects launched

Hydromet

Oct 17, 2013 2 mins read 363 views
Gups aghast at slashes in current gewog budgets

Local Government (LG)

Oct 17, 2013 3 mins read 356 views
The government's response?

Letter to the editor

Oct 17, 2013 1 mins read 343 views
What galls city traffic

Editorial

Oct 17, 2013 2 mins read 344 views
Nine of 10 gewogs affected in Paro

Agriculture

Oct 17, 2013 2 mins read 376 views
Rife with radiation leakage

X-ray

Oct 17, 2013 3 mins read 338 views
Royal wedding at Domkhar dzong

Royal wedding

Oct 17, 2013 1 mins read 380 views
Health Walk

Health Walk

Oct 17, 2013 0 mins read 336 views
City wins comfortably

Football

Oct 16, 2013 1 mins read 346 views
DoR picks up private sector slack

Road

Oct 16, 2013 2 mins read 365 views
Orong's Tshechu

Tshechu

Oct 16, 2013 2 mins read 390 views
RSTA among top ten revenue earners

RSTA

Oct 16, 2013 2 mins read 366 views
Mongar farmer wins World Food Day Award

Award

Oct 16, 2013 2 mins read 360 views
The must-see three lakes of Lhuentse

Tshog nag

Oct 16, 2013 1 mins read 356 views
Nipping disputes in the bud

Student

Oct 16, 2013 2 mins read 379 views
A separate gewog it should be

Letter to the editor

Oct 16, 2013 1 mins read 371 views
A progression towards self-sufficiency

Editorial

Oct 16, 2013 2 mins read 395 views
Encouraging the young to engage in farming

Food

Oct 16, 2013 2 mins read 342 views
Why farmers weren't warned

Weather

Oct 16, 2013 3 mins read 346 views
Health services get most people's thumbs up

Health

Oct 16, 2013 3 mins read 369 views
Alert!

Students

Oct 16, 2013 0 mins read 379 views
Frostbitten

Frostbitten

Oct 16, 2013 0 mins read 368 views
Pilgrims not happy with catering en route to drupchen

Religion

Oct 15, 2013 2 mins read 396 views
The blind businessman

Personalities

Oct 15, 2013 3 mins read 403 views
Clear skies expected today

Weather

Oct 15, 2013 2 mins read 340 views
Indian ambassador on tour of central/southern Bhutan

Visitor

Oct 15, 2013 2 mins read 363 views
Back from pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

Oct 15, 2013 1 mins read 372 views
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