January of 2018

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SP+ is the most abused pharmaceutical drug

Drugs

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 563 views
BKP nominates candidate from Samtse-Phuentshopelri

National Assembly elections

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 374 views
BAC accredits three more colleges

Colleges

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 533 views
Former DDC secretary allegedly made false claim of Nu 0.226M

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC )

Jan 08, 2018 2 mins read 705 views
ACC reviews tax exemption allegation

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC )

Jan 08, 2018 2 mins read 443 views
JICA hands over maps to NLC

JICA

Jan 08, 2018 0 mins read 408 views
Former RAPA artist to contest as Mongar NC candidate

National Council

Jan 07, 2018 1 mins read 463 views
Health knowledge and job satisfaction keeps VHW going

Village Health Worker (VHW)

Jan 07, 2018 1 mins read 442 views
Former BBS employee to run for NC from Tashiyangtse

National Council

Jan 07, 2018 1 mins read 440 views
DoR prepares for emergency

Road

Jan 07, 2018 1 mins read 438 views
Need to do more to address unemployment issue

Letter to the editor

Jan 07, 2018 0 mins read 468 views
Corruption paved roads?

Editorial

Jan 07, 2018 2 mins read 422 views
Loose mandate leads to poor quality roads

Road

Jan 07, 2018 1 mins read 437 views
One inclusive school in one dzongkhag in the 12th Plan

Education

Jan 07, 2018 1 mins read 447 views
Driver charged for alleged rape of minors

Crime

Jan 07, 2018 1 mins read 559 views
ACC implicates 19 in five RICBL cases

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC )

Jan 07, 2018 2 mins read 518 views
Govt. working with Indian counterparts on GST

Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Jan 07, 2018 2 mins read 418 views
Draft policy asks for a climate Act

Climate

Jan 07, 2018 2 mins read 425 views
Arrow victim flown in to JDWNRH

Accident

Jan 05, 2018 1 mins read 466 views
Poor turn out for national basketball team selection

Basketball

Jan 05, 2018 2 mins read 458 views
High temperature and rainfall affects winter chillies in Nichula

Chilies

Jan 05, 2018 2 mins read 431 views
Harvard Alumni from 14 Nations Discover Happiness in Bhutan

Perspective

Jan 05, 2018 4 mins read 677 views
Former journalist to contest for National Council

National Council

Jan 05, 2018 1 mins read 436 views
RSTA goes paperless in conducting license theory test

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Jan 05, 2018 1 mins read 627 views
Drukair ATR further grounded

Drukair

Jan 05, 2018 2 mins read 435 views
Body of missing lab assistant found

Missing

Jan 05, 2018 1 mins read 489 views
Gyalpoizhing-Nganglam highway to be completed next month

Road

Jan 05, 2018 1 mins read 440 views
To vote of not for 2018 elections

Letter to the editor

Jan 05, 2018 1 mins read 408 views
Bringing national priority into focus

Editorial

Jan 05, 2018 2 mins read 415 views
OL asks ACC to reinvestigate alleged REDCL loan scam

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC )

Jan 05, 2018 4 mins read 444 views
Govt. asks ACC to investigate MoLHR

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC )

Jan 05, 2018 1 mins read 468 views
JICA to reconstruct Passang Zam in Gelephu

Bridge

Jan 05, 2018 1 mins read 439 views
Govt. to introduce non-subsidised LPG

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)

Jan 05, 2018 2 mins read 442 views
GST shatters the Dungsam dream

Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Jan 05, 2018 4 mins read 412 views
Power tiller handing over ceremony

Bhutan-Japan

Jan 05, 2018 0 mins read 473 views
South Korean Olympian to train national archers

Archery

Jan 04, 2018 2 mins read 450 views
Cardamom: boon and bane for Sangbaykha?

Cardamom

Jan 04, 2018 2 mins read 431 views
Former Sherubtse lecturer and a development worker to contest for NC

National Council

Jan 04, 2018 2 mins read 466 views
JDWNRH to improve patients waiting time

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH)

Jan 04, 2018 2 mins read 403 views
An apology

Letter to the editor

Jan 04, 2018 1 mins read 481 views
Please enlighten us

Editorial

Jan 04, 2018 2 mins read 462 views
Martial arts class more than engage students

Martial arts

Jan 04, 2018 1 mins read 406 views
Students learn to prepare vegetarian dishes

Students

Jan 04, 2018 2 mins read 399 views
City bus service to school likely to expand

City Bus Service

Jan 04, 2018 2 mins read 445 views
School closure in Radhi affects residents

Schools

Jan 04, 2018 2 mins read 429 views
Session on stock exchange

Royal Security Exchange

Jan 04, 2018 0 mins read 350 views
National sports meet ongoing in Tsirang

Sports

Jan 03, 2018 1 mins read 433 views
Additional construction leads to footpath construction delay

Construction

Jan 03, 2018 1 mins read 396 views
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United for Project 108

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A missed opportunity

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Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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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།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...

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Recents

Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).

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Drayang closure to remain permanent

More than two years after promising to review the closure of drayangs, the government has ruled out the possibility of reviving the entertainment venues, signalling a definitive end to an industry that once formed a significant part of the country’s nightlife economy.

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