January of 2016

Archives

Construction of Pemagatshel dzong to progress full swing

Pemagatshel dzong

Jan 22, 2016 2 mins read 652 views
Gelephu: thromde election and security issues

Letter to the editor

Jan 22, 2016 1 mins read 589 views
Beauty of empowering young minds

Editorial

Jan 22, 2016 2 mins read 556 views
Suspect confesses to murder

Crime

Jan 22, 2016 1 mins read 578 views
Drukair dismisses poor safety rating

Aviation

Jan 22, 2016 3 mins read 810 views
Consensual sex provision to be revisited

Legislation

Jan 22, 2016 4 mins read 547 views
Former Phuentsholing thrompon disqualified

Election

Jan 22, 2016 2 mins read 566 views
Thromde elections

Election

Jan 22, 2016 0 mins read 841 views
TT tournament sees large participation

Table Tennis

Jan 21, 2016 1 mins read 520 views
Kushuthara's lead Cooper shoots new film in Bhutan

Film

Jan 21, 2016 1 mins read 560 views
People find BNCA strategies confounding and unfair

Tobacco

Jan 21, 2016 3 mins read 569 views
How do animals end up free ranging in the city?

Thromde

Jan 21, 2016 1 mins read 572 views
57 taxi drivers miss deadline to avail permit

Transport

Jan 21, 2016 2 mins read 596 views
Areas where govt. can intervene to address unemployment

Letter to the editor

Jan 21, 2016 1 mins read 651 views
The onus is on the user

Editorial

Jan 21, 2016 2 mins read 552 views
His Majesty meets DeSuung trainees

DeSuung

Jan 21, 2016 1 mins read 583 views
Thimphu Court to have specialized benches

Judiciary

Jan 21, 2016 2 mins read 600 views
Cabinet approves social media policy

Media

Jan 21, 2016 3 mins read 546 views
Prosecution of former regional director starts

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Jan 21, 2016 4 mins read 577 views
Republic Day

Republic Day

Jan 21, 2016 0 mins read 0 views
All schools to introduce archery programme by 2020

Archery

Jan 20, 2016 1 mins read 583 views
Internet, fixed line phone services improve in Bumthang

ICT

Jan 20, 2016 1 mins read 601 views
Social media health advice hook netizens

Health

Jan 20, 2016 2 mins read 698 views
What is the magic in delivering quality constructions?

Letter to the editor

Jan 20, 2016 1 mins read 574 views
All for one

Editorial

Jan 20, 2016 2 mins read 582 views
Gola Bazaar residents on verge of transforming their town

Township

Jan 20, 2016 3 mins read 725 views
Gelephu voters want security

Election

Jan 20, 2016 2 mins read 574 views
Rivers still alive despite threats from settlements

Water

Jan 20, 2016 3 mins read 534 views
Parts of Bhutan received long-awaited snowfall

Snowfall

Jan 20, 2016 2 mins read 680 views
PM to inaugurate wind power project

Inauguration

Jan 20, 2016 0 mins read 560 views
Lone thrompon candidate attends public debate

Election

Jan 19, 2016 2 mins read 557 views
Bangladeshi firm to build government's e-procurement system

ICT

Jan 19, 2016 2 mins read 595 views
200 farm shops to be up and running by 2018

Farm shops

Jan 19, 2016 2 mins read 561 views
Policy drafted to strengthen RNR marketing

Agriculture

Jan 19, 2016 3 mins read 581 views
Samtse pleads for artificial turf

Letter to the editor

Jan 19, 2016 1 mins read 583 views
Reading is not about stats

Editorial

Jan 19, 2016 3 mins read 632 views
Police arrests taxi driver for trafficking drugs

Crime

Jan 19, 2016 1 mins read 612 views
Reducing alcohol import will require curbing local demand

Alcohol policy

Jan 19, 2016 1 mins read 602 views
Bhutan-Japan friendship offer launched

Tourism

Jan 19, 2016 3 mins read 547 views
Don't get bogged down by party politics: PM

PM visits

Jan 19, 2016 3 mins read 533 views
Inguration

Inguration

Jan 19, 2016 0 mins read 498 views
Rain and snow in next 48 hours

Hydromet services

Jan 18, 2016 0 mins read 543 views
Irregular bus timing irks commuters

Transport

Jan 18, 2016 2 mins read 542 views
Paro children's park to open tomorrow

Recreation

Jan 18, 2016 2 mins read 529 views
Prayer flags around Mebartsho removed for safety

Safety

Jan 18, 2016 1 mins read 514 views
Yurung farmers: we want additional power tillers

PM visits

Jan 18, 2016 1 mins read 581 views
It's time for the labour ministry to act than defend

Letter to the editor

Jan 18, 2016 2 mins read 538 views
More than a garbage problem

Editorial

Jan 18, 2016 2 mins read 573 views
Man stabbed to death

Crime

Jan 18, 2016 0 mins read 0 views
Bhutan Telecom introducing WiFi hotspots

Bhutan Telecom (BT)

Jan 18, 2016 3 mins read 735 views
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Recents

Removing children is not discipline but systemic failure

Recent events involving two students from Sonamthang Central School raise a concern extending well beyond one school, one discipline committee or controversy. The issue is whether a school confronted with an adolescent relationship responds as an institution of education and child protection, or as one that removes a perceived problem from its premises.

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All's well when it ends fairly

It is not often that students expelled from school, for whatever reason, make it to the media or a national newspaper. However, when the parents of two students, who have now been relocated to a new school, approached Kuensel seeking help, they hoped that a story going public through the media would help them get some justice and make decision-makers rethink.

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