October of 2017

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Upgrading MMSS to central school not possible: PM

Schools

Oct 23, 2017 1 mins read 299 views
Did we fail to include them in our plans?

Letter to the editor

Oct 23, 2017 1 mins read 301 views
Inclusive development?

Editorial

Oct 23, 2017 2 mins read 307 views
FM launches Remit Bhutan in UAE and Kuwait

Launch

Oct 23, 2017 1 mins read 368 views
Design change delays car park construction

Construction

Oct 23, 2017 2 mins read 343 views
Denmark to support Bhutan's organic agriculture

Agriculture

Oct 23, 2017 2 mins read 301 views
PISA-D test to understand education status

Education

Oct 23, 2017 1 mins read 410 views
Queens' Road Relay

Athletics

Oct 23, 2017 0 mins read 292 views
RBA wins 4th departmental basketball title

Basketball

Oct 22, 2017 1 mins read 314 views
Small Nations, Big Lessons

Perspective

Oct 22, 2017 5 mins read 308 views
Yak herders capture snow leopard images in Soe

Snow leopard

Oct 22, 2017 2 mins read 351 views
Dasho Wangchen

Obituary

Oct 22, 2017 6 mins read 448 views
Rice blast in Punakha not severe, say agriculture officials

Agriculture

Oct 22, 2017 2 mins read 280 views
Falling cardamom price worries farmers

Cardamom

Oct 22, 2017 2 mins read 344 views
Mortgaging properties without consent

Letter to the editor

Oct 22, 2017 1 mins read 341 views
Need to bolster preparedness

Editorial

Oct 22, 2017 1 mins read 298 views
Undergrad gets six years in prison for trafficking drugs

Drugs

Oct 22, 2017 1 mins read 335 views
Police office opens in Laya

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Oct 22, 2017 1 mins read 323 views
Festive season halts potato auction

Food Corporation of Bhutan Ltd. (FCBL)

Oct 22, 2017 1 mins read 315 views
Elderly destitute indicates deteriorating family care

National Statistics Bureau (NSB)

Oct 22, 2017 5 mins read 288 views
Lighting of 1000 Butter Lamps

Bhutan-Thailand

Oct 22, 2017 0 mins read 282 views
Care Bhutan for recovering addicts

Drugs

Oct 20, 2017 2 mins read 303 views
MPs visit European Parliament in Brussels

MPs visit

Oct 20, 2017 1 mins read 308 views
What's unsocial about social media in Bhutan?

Perspective

Oct 20, 2017 3 mins read 305 views
Healthy soil, healthy waters and healthy food

Perspective

Oct 20, 2017 6 mins read 304 views
Local vendors prefer roadside to market shed for business

Vendors

Oct 20, 2017 2 mins read 318 views
Mongar gets 21 contract teachers to address shortage

Teachers

Oct 20, 2017 2 mins read 289 views
Plastic and restorative surgical camp underway in Thimphu

Surgical camp

Oct 20, 2017 3 mins read 318 views
Bureaucratic red tapes and inapt system hinder intl. trade

Business

Oct 20, 2017 5 mins read 283 views
In response to data consumption notification

Letter to the editor

Oct 20, 2017 0 mins read 347 views
How media literate are we?

Editorial

Oct 20, 2017 1 mins read 346 views
Three arrested for possessing 15kg gold

Crime

Oct 20, 2017 0 mins read 361 views
PM visits Lhuentse

PM visits

Oct 20, 2017 2 mins read 308 views
Chukha court alters sentence for lack of evidence

Crime

Oct 20, 2017 1 mins read 338 views
Pregnant woman given reduced sentence

Crime

Oct 20, 2017 2 mins read 289 views
Zhemgang DT resolves to make all wear national dress

National dress

Oct 20, 2017 3 mins read 298 views
SOEs to implement six months maternity leave from 2018

State owned enterprises (SOE)

Oct 20, 2017 3 mins read 285 views
Royal Highland Festival

Royal Highland Festival

Oct 20, 2017 0 mins read 0 views
Bhutan-Denmark talks

Bhutan-Denmark talks

Oct 20, 2017 0 mins read 325 views
WHO gives medical camp kits to health ministry

World Health Organisation (WHO)

Oct 19, 2017 1 mins read 331 views
Phuentsholing police retrieves a stolen bolero

Crime

Oct 19, 2017 2 mins read 336 views
JDNWRH needs to be better prepared for disasters

Disaster

Oct 19, 2017 2 mins read 303 views
Need to identify landslide prone areas in Thimphu

Disaster

Oct 19, 2017 2 mins read 386 views
Rural Bhutan grapples with the misuse of social media

Social media

Oct 19, 2017 2 mins read 345 views
On Bhutan Telecom's data consumption notification

Letter to the editor

Oct 19, 2017 1 mins read 359 views
Take development to the highland

Editorial

Oct 19, 2017 1 mins read 291 views
Thimphu at risk of rainfall induced flood

Disaster

Oct 19, 2017 2 mins read 310 views
Goshing gup accused of embezzlement

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Oct 19, 2017 2 mins read 325 views
142 aspiring candidates register for NC election

National Council (NC)

Oct 19, 2017 3 mins read 272 views
It's the beginning for me

Sports

Oct 18, 2017 2 mins read 317 views
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