July of 2017

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JAAB plants saplings to revive membership

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Jul 27, 2017 1 mins read 363 views
Bhutan felicitates 14th President of India

Felicitation

Jul 27, 2017 1 mins read 377 views
BNCA can update banned drugs list: SC

Bhutan Narcotics Control Authority (BNCA)

Jul 27, 2017 4 mins read 378 views
APA 2017-18 signing

Annual Performance Agreement (APA)

Jul 27, 2017 0 mins read 348 views
Taekwondo coaching camp popular in Mongar

Taekwondo

Jul 26, 2017 1 mins read 341 views
With price dropping, potato farmers call for more bidders

Potatoes

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins read 362 views
A fresh look at the Buddha's message on Drugpa Tshezhi

Perspective

Jul 26, 2017 3 mins read 376 views
Reading retreat engages 230 students

Students

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins read 359 views
How many monsoons more do we wait?

Letter to the editor

Jul 26, 2017 1 mins read 381 views
Dealing with our waste

Editorial

Jul 26, 2017 1 mins read 350 views
Summit focuses on youth as change makers

Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy (BCMD)

Jul 26, 2017 1 mins read 364 views
Achieving land degradation neutrality collectively

Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins read 350 views
Boy found, police search for parents

Missing

Jul 26, 2017 1 mins read 376 views
Thimphu grapples with mounting waste

Waste

Jul 26, 2017 3 mins read 415 views
Supreme Court judgment alters SP+ imprisonment sentences

Crime

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins read 362 views
Druk PNB opens in Samtse

Druk Punjab National Bank

Jul 26, 2017 0 mins read 445 views
Ugyen Academy FC slips to third in National league

Football

Jul 25, 2017 1 mins read 412 views
Samdrupcholing-Dewathang road blacktop after monsoon

Roads

Jul 25, 2017 2 mins read 338 views
Haa police forwards Rangtse BDBL case to OAG

Crime

Jul 25, 2017 1 mins read 333 views
Man sentenced to 16 years for stabbing mother

Crime

Jul 25, 2017 1 mins read 399 views
Residents allege monastic structures were constructed without approval

Department of Culture (DoC)

Jul 25, 2017 2 mins read 437 views
GST's impact on industries

Letter to the editor

Jul 25, 2017 1 mins read 363 views
Honour the people and laws

Editorial

Jul 25, 2017 2 mins read 414 views
CSOs familiarise themselves with SDGs

Workshop

Jul 25, 2017 2 mins read 372 views
Herb collectors of Naro get drying house

Drying house

Jul 25, 2017 2 mins read 358 views
SAARC to improve regional tourism

SAARC

Jul 25, 2017 2 mins read 335 views
Trashigang grapples with high fallowing of land

Land

Jul 25, 2017 2 mins read 325 views
MoEA cancels 10 education consultancy licences

Department of Adult and Higher Education (DAHE)

Jul 25, 2017 2 mins read 361 views
Land Degradation Neutrality workshop

Workshop

Jul 25, 2017 0 mins read 324 views
Making Table Tennis popular in Bhutan

Bhutan Table Tennis (TT)

Jul 24, 2017 1 mins read 362 views
Sarpang Strikers wins women's T20 club championship

Sports

Jul 24, 2017 1 mins read 326 views
Township building begins in Tshangchuthang

Township building

Jul 24, 2017 1 mins read 357 views
Damphu CS principal deny allegations against him

Crime

Jul 24, 2017 2 mins read 390 views
Fire guts Thangrong gup's house

Fire accident

Jul 24, 2017 1 mins read 369 views
Wetland managers discuss conservation issues

Wetland

Jul 24, 2017 2 mins read 365 views
Bad road condition in Yusipang

Letter to the editor

Jul 24, 2017 0 mins read 394 views
The spectacle called drayangs

Editorial

Jul 24, 2017 2 mins read 385 views
Trongsa-Gelephu highway closed to traffic

Roads

Jul 24, 2017 1 mins read 375 views
Value chain in Agro-industries need to advance

Agro-industries

Jul 24, 2017 3 mins read 413 views
A lone school in an isolated community

Schools

Jul 24, 2017 3 mins read 346 views
Members reinstate house committee

National Assembly

Jul 24, 2017 3 mins read 390 views
Awareness on alcohol and substance abuse

Drugs

Jul 24, 2017 0 mins read 352 views
Phuentsholing City FC scores its first goal of the league

Football

Jul 23, 2017 2 mins read 419 views
Nursing teak saplings is a business in S/Jongkhar

Business

Jul 23, 2017 1 mins read 360 views
Volunteers repaint 130 choetens in three months

Volunteers

Jul 23, 2017 2 mins read 380 views
A commitment to the PM must be kept

Letter to the editor

Jul 23, 2017 1 mins read 367 views
E.Coli in our rivers should shake us to action

Editorial

Jul 23, 2017 2 mins read 372 views
SAARC CCI to discuss youth and tourism issues

SAARC

Jul 23, 2017 1 mins read 465 views
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