January of 2019

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NC questions capacity of education ministry to implement TVET stream

National Council

Jan 13, 2019 3 mins read 461 views
280 students participate in While (in) g Programme

Students

Jan 13, 2019 1 mins read 405 views
Nangkhar Ama's pudenda

Cliff

Jan 13, 2019 3 mins read 376 views
Thank you for giving one more vaccination for free

Letter to the editor

Jan 13, 2019 1 mins read 412 views
Bracing urban development

Editorial

Jan 13, 2019 1 mins read 405 views
Overseas programs will continue

National Assembly

Jan 13, 2019 2 mins read 423 views
P'ling's multi-car parking building opens at Nu 10 per hour

Multi-level car parking (MLCP)

Jan 13, 2019 1 mins read 408 views
External debt to hit 204B in 2018-19

External debt

Jan 13, 2019 3 mins read 340 views
His Majesty The King grants kidu to Metabkha community

His Majesty The King

Jan 13, 2019 1 mins read 427 views
EU commits continued support

European Union (EU)

Jan 13, 2019 2 mins read 408 views
T20: Bhutan plays Indonesia

Cricket

Jan 13, 2019 0 mins read 407 views
Population control done on flawed data: PM

Population control

Jan 11, 2019 2 mins read 357 views
New economic development officer to promote business

Business

Jan 11, 2019 2 mins read 473 views
Judiciary decides 8,542 cases last year

Judiciary

Jan 11, 2019 2 mins read 389 views
Smooth sailing on the "Seven C's"

Perspective

Jan 11, 2019 2 mins read 399 views
An insight into the construction industry of Bhutan: Part III

Perspective

Jan 11, 2019 6 mins read 419 views
NC to recommend assistants for teachers

National Council

Jan 11, 2019 2 mins read 446 views
OAG reviews fraud and embezzlement case

Office of the attorney general (OAG)

Jan 11, 2019 4 mins read 463 views
REDCL to stay

National Assembly

Jan 11, 2019 3 mins read 450 views
Health ministry introduces PCV into routine immunisation

Health

Jan 11, 2019 3 mins read 473 views
Bhutanese can now export cardamom to India

National Assembly

Jan 11, 2019 2 mins read 451 views
Chamkharchu project discussions lose track

National Assembly

Jan 11, 2019 4 mins read 374 views
Accountability should be the focus

Letter to the editor

Jan 11, 2019 1 mins read 442 views
The population dynamics

Editorial

Jan 11, 2019 2 mins read 448 views
GNH in action

GNH

Jan 11, 2019 3 mins read 425 views
MHPA misses fourth commissioning deadline

Hydropower

Jan 11, 2019 2 mins read 385 views
Bhutan's population projected at 883,866 by 2047

National Statistics Bureau (NSB)

Jan 11, 2019 4 mins read 545 views
Parliament agenda on Monday

Parliament

Jan 11, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
Lhendup Dorji to play with Lonestar Kashmir FC in India

Football

Jan 10, 2019 2 mins read 460 views
S'jongkhar thromde yet to ban total use of plastic bags

Ban

Jan 10, 2019 1 mins read 425 views
Samdrupjongkhar prepares for fifth flower exhibition

Flower exhibition

Jan 10, 2019 2 mins read 398 views
Thimphu thromde disposes of body of abandoned newborn

Crime

Jan 10, 2019 1 mins read 435 views
Imposing fines would not solve guntong problems

Letter to the editor

Jan 10, 2019 1 mins read 386 views
Need for tax reforms

Editorial

Jan 10, 2019 2 mins read 440 views
NA discuss challenging natural resource permit procedures

National Assembly

Jan 10, 2019 2 mins read 436 views
Decentralisation policy to guide local governments in 12th Plan

12th Five Year Plan (FYP)

Jan 10, 2019 2 mins read 414 views
NC dissects the 12th Plan

National Council

Jan 10, 2019 2 mins read 401 views
Fourth Pay Commission established

Pay Commission

Jan 10, 2019 2 mins read 382 views
Parliament agenda today

Parliament

Jan 10, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
His Holiness consecrates lhakhang in Tormazhong

Consecration

Jan 09, 2019 1 mins read 428 views
35 villages to receive reliable mobile network

Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC)

Jan 09, 2019 2 mins read 465 views
BTFEC approves Nu 90.63M for eight projects

Bhutan Trust Fund for Environment Conservation (BTFEC)

Jan 09, 2019 2 mins read 409 views
NA discuss citrus greening

National Assembly

Jan 09, 2019 2 mins read 428 views
Let's be responsible

Letter to the editor

Jan 09, 2019 1 mins read 461 views
TVET short-changed

Editorial

Jan 09, 2019 2 mins read 402 views
Two arrested for malicious mischief in Tsimasham

Crime

Jan 09, 2019 1 mins read 467 views
Monk gets nine months for accidental homicide

Accident

Jan 09, 2019 1 mins read 400 views
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༉ 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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