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Know Your NC Candidate: Thimphu

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Know Your NC Candidate: Thimphu

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Thimphu

National Council

Apr 02, 2018 1 mins read 417 views
Bhutan concludes AFC Asian Cup campaign without a win

Football

Apr 02, 2018 2 mins read 402 views
EU assures assistance beyond 2020

European Union (EU)

Apr 02, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Integrated farming still popular among civil servants

Integrated Agriculture Technology Farming (IATF)

Apr 02, 2018 2 mins read 379 views
Monitoring house rents

Letter to the editor

Apr 02, 2018 1 mins read 377 views
Our children deserve better

Editorial

Apr 02, 2018 2 mins read 366 views
BKP declares two candidates

Politics

Apr 02, 2018 1 mins read 359 views
Truck catches fire in Rinchending

Accident

Apr 02, 2018 0 mins read 364 views
Using WeChat to practice Buddhism

Bhutanese have adapted technology to our culture and social practices, according to a PhD student of Macau University, Dorji Wangchuk.

Apr 02, 2018 2 mins read 426 views
Police detain two Indian men and three Bhutanese women

Crime

Apr 02, 2018 1 mins read 414 views
Allegations against Tshokey Dorji baseless: ECB

Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB)

Apr 02, 2018 2 mins read 397 views
ADC commits EUR 170,000

Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC)

Apr 02, 2018 0 mins read 349 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Sarpang

National Council

Apr 01, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Sarpang

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Sarpang

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Sarpang

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Sarpang

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Sarpang

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Sarpang

National Council

Apr 01, 2018 0 mins read 403 views
Tsheringma Drupchu block opens to traffic

Road

Apr 01, 2018 1 mins read 400 views
Lochoe wards off misfortune and rejuvenates good karma

Vajrayana conference

Apr 01, 2018 1 mins read 364 views
Tsamang PS in Mongar in dire need of repair

Schools

Apr 01, 2018 2 mins read 396 views
Mules and horses transport transmission tower materials

Transportation

Apr 01, 2018 1 mins read 397 views
Taking services of female health workers to gewogs

Health

Apr 01, 2018 2 mins read 404 views
Thimphu footpath and drainage

Letter to the editor

Apr 01, 2018 1 mins read 423 views
Education, teachers, challenges, and beyond.

Editorial

Apr 01, 2018 2 mins read 363 views
A town in need of infrastructure maintenance

Gomtu

Apr 01, 2018 1 mins read 339 views
Towards achieving vegetable self-sufficiency

Vegetable

Apr 01, 2018 2 mins read 458 views
Teachers will require master's degree in the 12th Plan

Teachers

Apr 01, 2018 2 mins read 409 views
His Majesty The King grants audience to India's foreign secretary

His Majesty The King

Apr 01, 2018 1 mins read 386 views
GoI releases Nu 649.4M

Government of India (GoI)

Apr 01, 2018 0 mins read 365 views
Problems facing our schools

Editorial

Apr 26, 2018 1 mins read 414 views
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You’re not what you think you are

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Sundays at Le Méridien

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Insolvency law, a long overdue

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Fighting online scams

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ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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Recents

GST debate intensifies as inflation rises, government proposes expanded exemptions

Just five months into the new 5 percent GST regime, food inflation has soared to 6.83 percent, leaving consumers asking: where are the promised savings? While lawmakers push to exempt 22 new essential items like cooking oil and rice to protect the poor , tax officials warn that adding more exemptions will only invite massive tax evasion. Who is really winning here? The consumers or the businesses?

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