December of 2017

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KD Builders and NST win volleyball championship

Volleyball

Dec 31, 2017 1 mins read 487 views
Putting waste to use

Plastic-made products

Dec 31, 2017 1 mins read 574 views
Former teacher to contest for NC

National Council

Dec 31, 2017 1 mins read 528 views
Curbing substance use problem from the source

Bhutan Narcotic Control Authority (BNCA)

Dec 31, 2017 3 mins read 472 views
Startups lack platform to showcase products

Letter to the editor

Dec 31, 2017 1 mins read 489 views
The burden of farming

Editorial

Dec 31, 2017 2 mins read 544 views
ACC to auction confiscated goods

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC )

Dec 31, 2017 3 mins read 542 views
Foreign ministry to be relocated in 12th Plan

MPs' office

Dec 31, 2017 2 mins read 554 views
Local industries suffer post GST

Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Dec 31, 2017 4 mins read 567 views
Return of the Sun

Festival

Dec 31, 2017 0 mins read 527 views
Home for the downtrodden

k2

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 490 views
Bhutan ecological society

k2

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 474 views
Pel Drukdraling Foundation

k2

Dec 29, 2017 0 mins read 565 views
Gyalyum Charitable Trust

k2

Dec 29, 2017 0 mins read 524 views
For development of sports

k2

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 549 views
For professional development of journalism

k2

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 466 views
BARC for animal welfare

k2

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 504 views
Vajrayana

k2

Dec 29, 2017 4 mins read 539 views
Fitness and performance

k2

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 0 views
A focal point for the hospitality industry

k2

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 483 views
Lawyer aspires to become lawmaker

National Council

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 502 views
Tests confirm E.Coli presence in Wangchhu

Health diseases

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 573 views
Illumination Dorokha.

Perspective

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 498 views
Dzongpon Kunzang Thinley and the Raven Crown

Perspective

Dec 29, 2017 6 mins read 548 views
Carbide gas cylinder explosion raises safety concerns

Explosion

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 527 views
Recitation observes Zhabdrung's birth anniversary

Religion

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 484 views
Man get nine years for impregnating minor

Crime

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 531 views
Bhutan signs UN's Rapid Deployment Level agreement

Rapid Deployment Level (RDL)

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 511 views
For a harmonious democratic society

Letter to the editor

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 480 views
Mental healthcare must go nationwide

Editorial

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 507 views
407 Tsirang farmers await agro-cooperative loan

Loan

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 503 views
Thromde to reconstruct damaged road in Babesa

Road

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 452 views
Multidimensional poverty halved, but highest among children

National Statistics Bureau (NSB)

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 615 views
Haa opens as schools in villages close

Schools

Dec 29, 2017 6 mins read 522 views
Oath taking ceremony

Oath taking ceremony

Dec 29, 2017 0 mins read 0 views
Camp Raven, engaging the young meaningfully

Camp

Dec 28, 2017 2 mins read 471 views
Monastic community engaged to address social issues

Training

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 491 views
Opposition Leader visits Tsirang

Visits

Dec 28, 2017 2 mins read 486 views
Former IT officer to contest for NC from Gelephu

National Council

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 505 views
MoWHS to blacktop Baylangdra feeder road

Road

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 472 views
Education must cultivate happiness

Letter to the editor

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 505 views
Powers of the empowered

Editorial

Dec 28, 2017 2 mins read 495 views
Poverty incidence decreases in agriculture sector

Poverty

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 502 views
A society for sustainable tourism

Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB)

Dec 28, 2017 2 mins read 490 views
Investigation on-going in retired colonel's death

Investigation

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 535 views
Undercutting is illegal but mostly hearsay: PM

Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB)

Dec 28, 2017 3 mins read 474 views
Road construction already monitored, says minister

Road

Dec 28, 2017 3 mins read 427 views
National football team selection

Football

Dec 28, 2017 0 mins read 486 views
"Participants would hesitate to raise issues in the presence of media" - PM

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay

Dec 27, 2017 1 mins read 424 views
Transportation hampers milk supply to dairy plant

Dairy

Dec 27, 2017 3 mins read 455 views
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