May of 2019

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Wangdue uproots marijuana to mark No Tobacco Day

No Tobacco Day

May 31, 2019 1 mins read 431 views
Six ideas win business idea competition

Business Idea Competition of Bhutan (BICOB)

May 31, 2019 3 mins read 451 views
MPs raise concerns on erratic power supply

National Assembly

May 31, 2019 2 mins read 419 views
Council questions decision to remove Class X cut-off point

National Council

May 31, 2019 2 mins read 511 views
20 years of BBS TV

Perspective

May 31, 2019 4 mins read 485 views
Buddha's place of enlightenment is getting a lighting facelift

Perspective

May 31, 2019 9 mins read 469 views
Bio-bins lead to better waste management in Dagana

Waste

May 31, 2019 1 mins read 452 views
Guidelines to ensure education needs of children with disabilities

Education

May 31, 2019 2 mins read 476 views
Police Act Amendment in the fourth session

National Assembly

May 31, 2019 1 mins read 441 views
Impeachment Bill gets underway

National Council

May 31, 2019 3 mins read 414 views
Assembly instructs MoAF to subsidise electric fencing

National Assembly

May 31, 2019 2 mins read 397 views
Revised load capacity makes no difference to boulder business

Boulder business

May 31, 2019 3 mins read 587 views
Entrepreneurship club- a house of innovation at school

Letter to the editor

May 31, 2019 1 mins read 394 views
Where sobriety is expected

Editorial

May 31, 2019 2 mins read 448 views
Bhutan attends 87th Session of World Animal Health Assembly

World Animal Health Assembly (OIE)

May 31, 2019 1 mins read 417 views
Boulder trucks remain parked despite revised load capacity

Boulder business

May 31, 2019 3 mins read 501 views
Discussions on withdrawal of Bills turn ugly

National Assembly

May 31, 2019 4 mins read 429 views
NA discusses minimum qualification for LG members

National Assembly

May 31, 2019 4 mins read 501 views
ECCD Forum

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)

May 31, 2019 0 mins read 406 views
No packaged products as tshogs: Thimphu thromde

Waste

May 30, 2019 2 mins read 451 views
Bangchung weaving dying in Mongar

Weaving

May 30, 2019 1 mins read 455 views
Flood protection wall planned in Sakteng

Flood protection wall

May 30, 2019 1 mins read 460 views
NA endorses 10 recommendations to FNCR, 2017

National Assembly

May 30, 2019 4 mins read 381 views
Foreign minister attends UN-ESCAP's 75th Commission session

UN

May 30, 2019 1 mins read 434 views
Irrigation channel damage will be repaired immediately

Irrigation

May 30, 2019 1 mins read 420 views
Bhutan recorded highest temperature of 40Ù‘C last year

National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM)

May 30, 2019 2 mins read 461 views
Tit for tat business model

Letter to the editor

May 30, 2019 1 mins read 439 views
Using religion to tackle waste

Editorial

May 30, 2019 2 mins read 478 views
Man detained for alleged murder

Crime

May 30, 2019 1 mins read 431 views
TCB to regulate mass tourism

National Assembly

May 30, 2019 3 mins read 456 views
3,460 acres of forest lost to hydropower projects

Hydropower

May 30, 2019 2 mins read 407 views
Loading capacity of trucks increased

National Assembly

May 30, 2019 3 mins read 454 views
Assembly agenda today

National Assembly

May 30, 2019 0 mins read 388 views
Veteran football kicks off in Samdrupjongkhar

Football

May 29, 2019 1 mins read 396 views
Lab machine in Gelephu hospital to be functional next week

Hospitals

May 29, 2019 2 mins read 391 views
Celebrating family farming

Perspective

May 29, 2019 3 mins read 382 views
YE Banking reaches Laya

Youth Ethics (YE) Banking

May 29, 2019 1 mins read 403 views
10 sections of CCPC proposed for amendment

National Assembly

May 29, 2019 1 mins read 455 views
TVET review report collects more recommendations

National Council

May 29, 2019 2 mins read 416 views
A call for a major shift

Letter to the editor

May 29, 2019 1 mins read 410 views
There is a lot to do

Editorial

May 29, 2019 2 mins read 397 views
BCCI appeals to revisit load-carrying limit

Bhutan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (BCCI)

May 29, 2019 4 mins read 451 views
Mines and Minerals Bill deferred

National Assembly

May 29, 2019 2 mins read 414 views
Penal Code in for second amendment

National Assembly

May 29, 2019 3 mins read 414 views
Domestic power tariff revision proposed

Bhutan Power Corporation (BPC)

May 29, 2019 4 mins read 449 views
PM visit to India

Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering

May 29, 2019 0 mins read 474 views
Traditional medicine to diversify and specialise therapeutic services

Traditional medicine

May 28, 2019 2 mins read 433 views
Buy back scheme prices announced: Minister

National Assembly

May 28, 2019 2 mins read 419 views
Load shifts to weighbridge issue

Natural Resources Development Corporation Limited (NRDCL)

May 28, 2019 2 mins read 390 views
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