December of 2015

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Survey to identify off-grid households for electrification

National Assembly

Dec 09, 2015 2 mins read 355 views
Bringing private sector on board to fight corruption

Royal Institute of Government Strategic Studies (RIGSS)

Dec 09, 2015 2 mins read 376 views
USD 4.6M to upgrade city bus system

Transport

Dec 09, 2015 3 mins read 360 views
Sixth session of the second Parliament concludes

Parliament

Dec 09, 2015 3 mins read 340 views
Human Rights in the GNH context

GNH

Dec 09, 2015 0 mins read 351 views
Yeedzin FC beats Kuenjung FC 5-2

Futsal

Dec 08, 2015 1 mins read 359 views
Farmers shift to growing hardwood

Income

Dec 08, 2015 2 mins read 360 views
422 black-necked cranes arrive in Bhutan

Conservation

Dec 08, 2015 3 mins read 335 views
Bhutan bags Radiant Launch Award

Award

Dec 08, 2015 0 mins read 362 views
Respect the law equally

Letter to the editor

Dec 08, 2015 1 mins read 380 views
Who are we protecting?

Editorial

Dec 08, 2015 2 mins read 390 views
Juveniles to be charged for theft

Crime

Dec 08, 2015 1 mins read 395 views
Opposition questions authenticity of employment figures

Parliament

Dec 08, 2015 1 mins read 367 views
Council questions sustainability of central schools

Education

Dec 08, 2015 3 mins read 377 views
"Govt. financially stable for thromde elections"

National Assembly

Dec 08, 2015 2 mins read 344 views
Drowned guide's body recovered

Accident

Dec 08, 2015 0 mins read 317 views
Film industry mourns loss of pioneering director

Obituary

Dec 07, 2015 2 mins read 312 views
Bhutanese car set ablaze in Assam

Accident

Dec 07, 2015 1 mins read 365 views
Power supply restored after 30 hours

Power

Dec 07, 2015 2 mins read 433 views
Guwahati lab clears treatment plant water for toxicity

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Dec 07, 2015 1 mins read 358 views
RSCS's stand on CE graduates

Letter to the editor

Dec 07, 2015 2 mins read 380 views
Using free time effectively

Editorial

Dec 07, 2015 1 mins read 369 views
Companies Bill to go into joint sitting

Parliament

Dec 07, 2015 2 mins read 344 views
E-taxi drivers and dealers reach a truce

Transport

Dec 07, 2015 2 mins read 342 views
GoI releases Nu 960.275M

Government of India (GoI)

Dec 07, 2015 0 mins read 331 views
Quake relief medical team recognized

Nepal Earthquake

Dec 07, 2015 1 mins read 370 views
Orange trucks held at Burimari

Export

Dec 07, 2015 2 mins read 366 views
HM appoints eminent members, RMA governor, dzongdags

Appointment

Dec 07, 2015 2 mins read 366 views
International Anti Corruption Day

International Anti Corruption Day

Dec 07, 2015 0 mins read 368 views
Development comes to Dophuchen with road

Roads

Dec 06, 2015 1 mins read 333 views
Sheep farming to be revived in Bumthang

Livestock

Dec 06, 2015 2 mins read 406 views
Two local business ideas pass first round of international competition

Innovation

Dec 06, 2015 2 mins read 369 views
Brenglung grapples with water shortage

Water

Dec 06, 2015 2 mins read 387 views
Kumchi village gets rural water supply

Water

Dec 06, 2015 1 mins read 363 views
Creation of Innovation and Creativity Officers

Letter to the editor

Dec 06, 2015 1 mins read 342 views
Public discourse, a necessity

Editorial

Dec 06, 2015 2 mins read 353 views
Pre-vocational education for the hearing impaired

Vocational Training Institutes (VTIs)

Dec 06, 2015 2 mins read 368 views
Colony awaits streetlight repair

Power

Dec 06, 2015 1 mins read 373 views
Wildlife compensation Trust Fund in 56 gewogs

Wildlife

Dec 06, 2015 2 mins read 344 views
Fair compensation for landowners: PM

National Assembly

Dec 06, 2015 2 mins read 393 views
Accident kills one

Accident

Dec 06, 2015 0 mins read 0 views
Ngenpa Guzom: The Day of Nine Evils

k2

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 422 views
How to prevent over training

k2

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 407 views
Reviving the culture of dyeing organically

k2

Dec 04, 2015 4 mins read 369 views
Armyworm attack buckwheat fields in Nganglam

Agriculture

Dec 04, 2015 1 mins read 349 views
Jabmi bill goes to joint siting

Parliament

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 349 views
Three smokers fined every hour for violating Tobacco Act

Tobacco

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 401 views
BOiC trains small business owners

Business Opportunity and Information Centre (BOiC)

Dec 04, 2015 1 mins read 355 views
Prayer flags prohibited at Mebartsho

Safety

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 335 views
As strong as its bulls

Livestock

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 331 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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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