August of 2017

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Exhibition on trima opens to public

Exhibition

Aug 31, 2017 2 mins read 456 views
Flash flood damage Gelephu-Assam highway, again

Disaster

Aug 31, 2017 1 mins read 494 views
You are what you eat!

Health

Aug 31, 2017 2 mins read 499 views
Need to address disaster in a long term

Letter to the editor

Aug 31, 2017 1 mins read 530 views
Time to change health focus

Editorial

Aug 31, 2017 1 mins read 478 views
Climate change and TB in WHO's regional meeting agenda

WHO

Aug 31, 2017 1 mins read 420 views
Paro students to monitor traffic near schools

Students

Aug 31, 2017 1 mins read 462 views
Cardamom price plummets

Cardamom

Aug 31, 2017 2 mins read 418 views
Culture, key to Bhutan's survival

Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA)

Aug 31, 2017 3 mins read 456 views
More rain in the next 48 hours

National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM)

Aug 31, 2017 0 mins read 470 views
Bhutan outplayed Sri Lanka 6-0

Football

Aug 20, 2017 1 mins read 474 views
Policy drafted to address housing issues

Housing

Aug 20, 2017 2 mins read 460 views
Ministry prepares for one female health assistant for BHU II

Basic Health Unit (BHU)

Aug 20, 2017 2 mins read 492 views
Lack of study leads to bad road

Roads

Aug 20, 2017 2 mins read 570 views
NC finds lapses in implementation of Dzongkhag Development Grant

National Council (NC)

Aug 20, 2017 4 mins read 462 views
A message from the east

Editorial

Aug 20, 2017 2 mins read 409 views
Police and public meet for a collective response

Drugs

Aug 20, 2017 1 mins read 450 views
42 Bhutanese in Qatar complaint against recruitment agent

Labour

Aug 20, 2017 3 mins read 451 views
Kholongchhu blasting damages properties in Koncholing

Kholongchhu project

Aug 20, 2017 3 mins read 442 views
Pass GST benefits to consumers: PM

Goods and services tax (GST)

Aug 20, 2017 3 mins read 547 views
Bhutan to host SAFF U-18 Championship 2017

Football

Aug 30, 2017 1 mins read 459 views
Samdrupcholing BHU in need of ultrasound and x-ray services

Basic Health Unit (BHU)

Aug 30, 2017 2 mins read 503 views
Lhuentse DT endorses request to upgrade Minji MSS to central school

Schools

Aug 30, 2017 1 mins read 429 views
Beat the beating habit

Letter to the editor

Aug 30, 2017 1 mins read 440 views
Taking the lead

Editorial

Aug 30, 2017 2 mins read 402 views
Preparing for earthquake in Bhutan

Disaster

Aug 30, 2017 2 mins read 463 views
Govt. undecided on how to utilise Edu City land

Education City project

Aug 30, 2017 2 mins read 464 views
First six years determines the child's future

Health

Aug 30, 2017 2 mins read 447 views
Tshethar tshogpa coordinators to sue Kanglung gup for defamation

Crime

Aug 30, 2017 2 mins read 485 views
Machinery distributed

Machinery

Aug 30, 2017 1 mins read 406 views
Hydropower committee to develop sector's roadmap

Hydro projects

Aug 30, 2017 1 mins read 409 views
Mumps suspected

Health diseases

Aug 30, 2017 0 mins read 496 views
KSPO donates Nu 600,000 worth of sports equipment to BOC

Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC)

Aug 29, 2017 2 mins read 389 views
India has to give more: Shashi Tharoor

Mountain Echoes

Aug 29, 2017 2 mins read 372 views
Shemagangkha primary school short of students

Schools

Aug 29, 2017 2 mins read 472 views
SC asks police to produce prime accused in property dispute

Judiciary

Aug 29, 2017 2 mins read 478 views
"Bottom line of good health is food and the healing process"

Health

Aug 29, 2017 1 mins read 416 views
What we told the reporter was the truth

Letter to the editor

Aug 29, 2017 1 mins read 426 views
This is the question

Editorial

Aug 29, 2017 1 mins read 463 views
Appointments for 11 notary services available online

Internet

Aug 29, 2017 2 mins read 536 views
Preserving culture through its stories

Mountain Echoes

Aug 29, 2017 2 mins read 425 views
Two caught in gold smuggling case

Crime

Aug 29, 2017 0 mins read 391 views
Bhutan welcomes disengagement of troops at Doklam area

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)

Aug 29, 2017 2 mins read 491 views
Mandatory drug test for civil servants from Jan 1, 2018

Drugs

Aug 29, 2017 3 mins read 411 views
Earthquake Contingency plan

Workshop

Aug 29, 2017 0 mins read 411 views
Traditional architecture on the brink of modernisation

Traditional architecture

Aug 28, 2017 1 mins read 520 views
Lhuentse DT proposes to regularise NFE and ECCD instructors

Education

Aug 28, 2017 1 mins read 414 views
Non-Wood Forest Products need attention

Non-wood forest product (NWFP)

Aug 28, 2017 3 mins read 430 views
Bhutan and Jeevan Vidya

Letter to the editor

Aug 28, 2017 2 mins read 426 views
Tshogpa's voice necessary

Editorial

Aug 28, 2017 2 mins read 373 views
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