Assembly turns down Council's tax bill recommendation
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Parliament: The National Council's recommendations for the tax reform bill failed to muster adequate support in the National Assembly yesterday. The budget will be submitted...
View ArticleA third operator?
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Many of us may have cursed out of frustration at not being able to finish a conversation or at the amount of time wasted waiting for data to download onto a phone.
View ArticleNot enough hostel facilities at Tendu Central School
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Education: The Tendu Central School campus is moist from last night's rain. Students have completed their first mid-term paper.
View ArticleThree incumbent gups yet to decide on re-contesting
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : LG: Of the five gups in Trongsa, only two have decided to re-contest in the second Local Government elections this year. Nubi Gup Tashi Pendhen and Langthel Gup Sonam Dhendup...
View ArticleWhat really is the Tashi Gomang?
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Culture: Many people today do not know what a Tashi Gomang is. Tashi Gomang can be loosely translated as the many doors of good fortune'.
View ArticleLaya experiences low growth of cordyceps fungi
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Income: Some Layaps have already started returning home despite their one-month permits not expiring given poor growth of cordyceps this year.
View ArticleStudy finds mining sector suffers from weak governance
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Research: Investing in the geology and mines department and providing stronger legislative support will result in better returns for the country, a multi-agency study has...
View ArticleePIS to be introduced in all health centres in Paro
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : The pilot project will begin in July as part of Bhutan's e-Health Action Plan Health: As part of the health ministry's vision to move away from paper-based medical records and...
View ArticleTurning dark into light
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Profile: Lemo, 42, lives in a single-storey house below the road to Enducholing Dzong, located a few meters above the Trongsa-Zhemgang highway in Langthel, Trongsa.
View ArticleFCB auction yard records high potato turnover
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Samdrupjongkhar's auction yard is unusually busy at this time of the year Agriculture: It is the height of the potato season in Samdrupjongkhar with the Food Corporation of...
View ArticleHis Majesty The King in Jomotshangkha
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : His Majesty The King, visited Dawathang village in Jomotshangkha, where 31 families have begun a new life, and granted land kidu.
View ArticleMan gets 17 years for choeten vandalism
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Crime: The Mongar district court has sentenced a 20-year old man to 17 years in prison for vandalising the Jangchub choeten in Jurmey gewog in Mongar earlier this year.
View ArticleHate Brexit Britain? 7 of the best places for political progressives to...
New Statesman : UK : If you don't think you're going to get your country back, time to find another. Never mind the European Union, the UK is so over. Scotland's drifting off one way, Northern Ireland...
View ArticleRising multi-drug resistant TB cases
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Despite Bhutan's laudable progress in the TB control programme WHO: Despite Bhutan's laudable progress in the Tuberculosis control programme over the years, the increasing...
View ArticleEconomic minister quizzed again
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Assembly: As if the National Council calling the economic affairs minister Lekey Dorji for a second time to the house was not enough, National Assembly members, both from the...
View ArticleGovt. allocates budget for local polls
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : LG: The government has allocated a total of Nu 75.9 million to the Election Commission of Bhutan for various activities in the financial year 2016-17.
View ArticleUSD 4.26M for improvement of city roads
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : However the grant will be released only if ADB's requirements are met Infrastructure: Residents in Lungtenphu, Thimphu will soon have improved and broader roads with road...
View ArticleEfforts to boost mushroom farming
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Partnership: The University of the Ryukyus, Japan and the National Mushroom Centre signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday to boost commercial mushroom farming in five...
View ArticlePedestrian safety on the expressway
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run incident on the expressway this week. This is not the first death to occur on this road.
View ArticleAPA evaluation to begin soon
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Development: The government Performance Management Division will evaluate the 2015-16 annual performance of the dzongkhags and some 36 government agencies next month.
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