September of 2020

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Tigers win first Paro derby of the season

Sports

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 495 views
Bhutan and Japan hold consultations on economic cooperation

Economy

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 523 views
Poor chilli yield worries farmers

Agriculture

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 515 views
Three youth pursue commercial vegetable farming

Farming

Sep 30, 2020 2 mins read 501 views
Gangtey tshechu ends today

Culture

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 539 views
Commercial paddy production in Gelephu takes a dip

Agriculture

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 543 views
Farmers need more support to produce dairy products

Letter to the editor

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 510 views
Saving Paro from another planning disaster

Editorial

Sep 30, 2020 2 mins read 500 views
Ridhawo will receive sufficient irrigation water

Water

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 536 views
Security guard held for murder

Crime

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 548 views
Sergithang farmers hope to reduce consumption of imported rice

Agriculture

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 440 views
Covid-19 sends food prices ratcheting up

Health

Sep 30, 2020 2 mins read 525 views
Opposition Party questions govt. on CFM closure

Politics

Sep 30, 2020 2 mins read 547 views
Residents unhappy with Paro valley development project

Dzongkhag

Sep 29, 2020 2 mins read 534 views
Pawo's Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom enters 2021 Oscars

Entertainment

Sep 29, 2020 1 mins read 492 views
An app could do the contact tracing

Letter to the editor

Sep 29, 2020 1 mins read 499 views
Sharing cost

Editorial

Sep 29, 2020 2 mins read 0 views
S/jongkhar schools to resume on October 4

Education

Sep 29, 2020 2 mins read 489 views
Highlanders use technology to survey pastureland

Technology

Sep 29, 2020 2 mins read 452 views
Global Covid-19 death toll touches million mark

Health

Sep 29, 2020 3 mins read 463 views
MoF calls for uniform travel allowances for all agencies

Finance

Sep 29, 2020 5 mins read 562 views
Wholesale traders waiting for SOP to start importing

Trade

Sep 25, 2020 3 mins read 497 views
Netizens on social media are neither an investigating officer nor a judge

Letter to the editor

Sep 25, 2020 2 mins read 483 views
The tobacco dilemma

Editorial

Sep 25, 2020 2 mins read 521 views
Bhutan and Bangladesh to sign preferential trade agreement

Foreign Affairs

Sep 25, 2020 2 mins read 483 views
Bhutan's first govt. bond, worth Nu 3B, well-received

Finance

Sep 25, 2020 2 mins read 446 views
An independent office to address water shortage: PM

Water

Sep 25, 2020 3 mins read 492 views
Tenzin Lekphel is the ideal candidate for BIMSTEC SG: PM

Politics

Sep 25, 2020 3 mins read 626 views
Paro United FC scores first win

Sports

Sep 24, 2020 1 mins read 506 views
Policeman stabs comrade to death

Crime

Sep 24, 2020 1 mins read 453 views
No mandate to give a legal opinion: ACC

ACC-RAA-OAG

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 482 views
Solar fence proves effective in Shongphu

Agriculture

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 524 views
Phuentsholing truckers are jobless

Labour

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 0 views
Phuentsholing truckers are jobless

Labour

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 519 views
Online learning needs parents and teachers' effort

Letter to the editor

Sep 24, 2020 1 mins read 483 views
Rethinking education

Editorial

Sep 24, 2020 3 mins read 0 views
Thimphu Thromde ready for a second lockdown

Thromde

Sep 24, 2020 3 mins read 461 views
Thimphu devises measures from the lockdown lessons

Dzongkhag

Sep 24, 2020 3 mins read 0 views
Thimphu devises measures from the lockdown lessons

Dzongkhag

Sep 24, 2020 3 mins read 484 views
Coming together important to fight Covid-19 pandemic: PM at the UNGA

Foreign Affairs

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 468 views
12th Plan reprioritisation focuses on social sectors

Finance

Sep 24, 2020 4 mins read 469 views
Trhuebab

Perspective

Sep 20, 2020 3 mins read 0 views
Dagana aims to produce over 270MT of tomato and onion

Agriculture

Sep 20, 2020 1 mins read 458 views
Paro FC routed twice on home ground

Sports

Sep 20, 2020 1 mins read 504 views
Samdrupjongkhar lifts lockdown

Lockdown

Sep 20, 2020 2 mins read 0 views
Samdrupjongkhar lifts lockdown

Lockdown

Sep 20, 2020 2 mins read 464 views
To safeguard our national heritage

Letter to the editor

Sep 20, 2020 1 mins read 482 views
Going abroad to work

Editorial

Sep 20, 2020 2 mins read 548 views
Tashi Air redeploys its employees

Transport

Sep 20, 2020 2 mins read 488 views
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Recents

Hailstorm damages crops and property in Sarpang

In what residents are describing as the worst hailstorm of their lifetimes, a violent downpour of hailstones swept across Sarpang dzongkhag on April 7, leaving a trail of destruction that damaged homes, poultry farms, vehicles, and standing crops.

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