February of 2016

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Ministry still facing doctor shortage

Midterm review (MTR)

Feb 29, 2016 2 mins read 409 views
The leap year babies

Leap year

Feb 29, 2016 2 mins read 459 views
Forest fire cause havoc in Trashigang

Forest fire

Feb 29, 2016 2 mins read 444 views
Dust creates problems for Samdrupjongkhar village

Road

Feb 11, 2016 2 mins read 399 views
Night brawls in Bajothang on the rise

Letter to the editor

Feb 11, 2016 1 mins read 392 views
Don't be fanatical, but respect sacred images

k2

Feb 05, 2016 2 mins read 496 views
Top favourites of 2015

k2

Feb 05, 2016 4 mins read 413 views
Gyalpoizhing's artificial turf to be ready by April

Football

Feb 11, 2016 1 mins read 424 views
Two new species discovered in Phrumsengla

Environment

Feb 11, 2016 2 mins read 399 views
Potato production drops in 2015

Potato

Feb 11, 2016 1 mins read 351 views
Moving on

Editorial

Feb 11, 2016 2 mins read 0 views
Hotels refrain from serving meat

Ban

Feb 11, 2016 2 mins read 429 views
Ministry gets funds required for developing irrigation schemes

Agriculture

Feb 11, 2016 2 mins read 423 views
Local leaders to miss out on LG entitlements

LG

Feb 11, 2016 2 mins read 447 views
Sherubtse reduces IT intake

ICT

Feb 11, 2016 3 mins read 370 views
Looking ahead as we reflect on our past

Editorial

Feb 08, 2016 1 mins read 472 views
Windstorms wreck havoc in past year

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 431 views
What the Sheep reminded about health care

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 422 views
Tukuli and the Kuensel Editorial

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 449 views
More than a sheepish frisk in hydropower

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 3 mins read 476 views
Football still dominates sporting realm

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 4 mins read 557 views
Plenty of heat in Parliament

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 410 views
More reforms was RCSC's main task in the Sheep year

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 397 views
A (baa)ad Sheep for the tourism sector

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 524 views
The meaty slaughterhouse debate

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 406 views
One down more to come

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 522 views
Crime rate drops in 2015

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 1 mins read 477 views
Still labouring to create jobs

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 374 views
Bhutan reaches out to Nepal in time of need

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 413 views
Central school era begins in 2015

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 495 views
Online public services get much deserved attention during the Sheep

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 3 mins read 446 views
What's on the tree?

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 3 mins read 393 views
A tale of a Shepard turned rich

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 2 mins read 398 views
Indian government sanctions widening of Chuzom-Haa highway

Road

Feb 08, 2016 1 mins read 474 views
The Fire Male Monkey year

Astrology

Feb 08, 2016 1 mins read 546 views
Looking back the year gone by

Yearender news

Feb 08, 2016 3 mins read 417 views
Archery rescues Bhutan at South Asian Games

12th South Asian Games (SAG)

Feb 07, 2016 2 mins read 404 views
Woman who blocked road agrees to deal

Land

Feb 07, 2016 2 mins read 436 views
Travellers may import Zika: Dr Ornella Lincetto

Q&A

Feb 07, 2016 3 mins read 366 views
The auspicious Fire Male Monkey Year explained

Astrology

Feb 07, 2016 3 mins read 588 views
Please consult public before making rules

Letter to the editor

Feb 07, 2016 1 mins read 357 views
Cheating the nation

Letter to the editor

Feb 07, 2016 0 mins read 419 views
Water: solving the problem of plenty

Editorial

Feb 07, 2016 2 mins read 446 views
Small scale illegal currency exchange thrives down south

INR

Feb 07, 2016 2 mins read 512 views
Two economic indices, two different ranking

Ranking

Feb 07, 2016 2 mins read 407 views
Rongthong celebrates Gyalsey's birth

Celebrations

Feb 07, 2016 2 mins read 389 views
27,000 acres under paddy cultivation by 2032

Irrigation

Feb 07, 2016 3 mins read 413 views
Blessing

Blessing

Feb 07, 2016 0 mins read 0 views
A Moment... A Nation... A Destiny...

Perspective

Feb 06, 2016 4 mins read 367 views
Trees planted to celebrate the Birth of The Gyalsey

Plantation

Feb 06, 2016 2 mins read 467 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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