March of 2021

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Archery ranges need more safety

Sports

Mar 31, 2021 1 mins read 570 views
Archers being trained in safe compound bow draw technique

Sports

Mar 31, 2021 1 mins read 593 views
Trouble for community company as SMCL denies extension

Mining

Mar 31, 2021 1 mins read 622 views
"We look forward to strengthening our partnership"

Foreign Affairs

Mar 31, 2021 2 mins read 607 views
No campaign funding support for thromde elections

Letter to the editor

Mar 31, 2021 1 mins read 562 views
Hear the heron's parting call?

Editorial

Mar 31, 2021 2 mins read 528 views
Bhutan records 567 glacial lakes, 17 potentially dangerous

Wild Life

Mar 31, 2021 2 mins read 574 views
Two Bhutanese test positive for Covid-19 during PM's visit to Bangladesh

Foreign Affairs

Mar 31, 2021 2 mins read 550 views
Parliamentarians draft gender scrutiny action plan

Parliament

Mar 31, 2021 2 mins read 491 views
Snowman race secretariat adopts saplings in Kuenselphodrang

Sports

Mar 31, 2021 2 mins read 583 views
Covid-19 increases public debt

Health

Mar 31, 2021 2 mins read 590 views
Three get double shots of Covidshield accidentally

Health

Mar 30, 2021 3 mins read 576 views
13 get the jab in Esuna

Health

Mar 30, 2021 1 mins read 687 views
Taking the vaccine to the furthest village in Lunana

Feature Story

Mar 30, 2021 2 mins read 610 views
A P/ling resident wishes

Letter to the editor

Mar 30, 2021 1 mins read 612 views
For women and children

Editorial

Mar 30, 2021 2 mins read 572 views
Three thromde tshogpa candidates disqualified

Election

Mar 30, 2021 2 mins read 511 views
Only 27 percent registered voters for third thromde election

Election

Mar 30, 2021 2 mins read 507 views
Upgrading and strengthening Deaf Education

Education

Mar 30, 2021 3 mins read 558 views
ECB spends more than a million for every bye-election

Election

Mar 30, 2021 2 mins read 480 views
No white-bellied herons sighted in Phochhu and Mochhu

Wild Life

Mar 30, 2021 2 mins read 557 views
Lhuentse dzongkhag resolves to fight GLOF and floods

Feature Story

Mar 29, 2021 4 mins read 500 views
Cabbies in Kanglung cry out for parking space

Traffic

Mar 29, 2021 1 mins read 487 views
Milk processing unit makes profit during pandemic

Industries

Mar 29, 2021 1 mins read 542 views
Cash rewards for dog catchers

Letter to the editor

Mar 29, 2021 1 mins read 527 views
Misinformation could derail vaccination programme

Editorial

Mar 29, 2021 2 mins read 522 views
Gembo and his family get help

Dzongkhag

Mar 29, 2021 1 mins read 529 views
Korphu GC road blacktopping behind schedule

Road

Mar 29, 2021 2 mins read 548 views
Bhutan to construct chancery in Dhaka

Foreign Affairs

Mar 29, 2021 1 mins read 576 views
NCWC shortchanged to look into women and child cases

NGO

Mar 29, 2021 3 mins read 498 views
56 percent of eligible recipients vaccinated in three days

Health

Mar 29, 2021 2 mins read 515 views
The road to reusing

Road

Mar 28, 2021 1 mins read 541 views
DeSuung water project to benefit 24 households of Tashicholing

Desuup

Mar 28, 2021 2 mins read 498 views
ECCD needs to be monitored strictly

Letter to the editor

Mar 28, 2021 1 mins read 491 views
Keeping health protocols tight

Editorial

Mar 28, 2021 1 mins read 482 views
First vaccine receivers say

Health

Mar 28, 2021 10 mins read 461 views
Task force suggests economic development board under PMO

Economy

Mar 28, 2021 3 mins read 494 views
Nearly 40 percent of eligible population vaccinated in two days

Health

Mar 28, 2021 3 mins read 516 views
Mongar and Lhuentse eager for vaccination

Health

Mar 26, 2021 1 mins read 505 views
Wangdue, Punakha and Gasa prepared for nationwide vaccination

Health

Mar 26, 2021 1 mins read 471 views
SDF project grant disbursement crosses USD 50 million

Finance

Mar 26, 2021 2 mins read 492 views
Bumthang and Trongsa all set for vaccination

Health

Mar 26, 2021 1 mins read 491 views
Bringing makeup services home

City

Mar 26, 2021 1 mins read 507 views
Business going well for new minor markets

City

Mar 26, 2021 2 mins read 501 views
Mom At School : Education and beyond

Feature Story

Mar 26, 2021 3 mins read 541 views
Trashiyangtse DT members to monitor house construction in gewogs

Dzongkhag

Mar 26, 2021 1 mins read 568 views
Dagapela town plot owners await land demarcation

Dzongkhag

Mar 26, 2021 3 mins read 490 views
No tenants for Taktse house owners

House

Mar 26, 2021 2 mins read 502 views
Shortage of commercial LPG

Fuel

Mar 26, 2021 2 mins read 537 views
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