Not vessels to be filled but fires to be kindled
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Education is the bedrock of any country. Therefore, efforts to further improve and solidify this foundation must be a constant activity.
View ArticleWHO donates books
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Donation: The World Health Organisation donated more than 200 Buddhist scripts, Sowa Rigpa textbooks, and medicine booklets to the library of the Faculty of Traditional...
View ArticleGovt. working on illegal immigration
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Immigration: Responding to the media yesterday during the Meet-the-Press, home minister Dawa Gyaltshen said that his ministry is working on the illegal immigration problem and...
View ArticleFootball club puts prize money to good use
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Charity: The Nganglam bazaar football club that emerged as runners up during the veteran football tournament held in Nganglam dungkhag spent the cash prize they won to buy...
View ArticleSeventh session of the second Parliament concludes
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : His Majesty The King addressed the closing session yesterday Parliament: Endorsement of the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal transport agreement, and the controversial Paro...
View ArticleNorgaygang gewog road to be blacktopped
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Road: Blacktopping of the remaining portion of Norgaygang's gewog connectivity road has finally come through.
View ArticleMasala Library to go global in next 12 months, says Zorawar Kalra
Yahoo! News : US : New Delhi, July 9 Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra is opening its doors for food lovers in the national capital soon. Zorawar Kalra - the man behind the restaurant - says it will be the...
View ArticleFiscal incentives not hitting target
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Government will revise the fiscal incentive policy after the EDP is revised Audit: The fiscal incentives rendered to the business establishments through the Economic...
View ArticleTo understand the burden of teenage pregnancy
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Public health department has prepared teenage pregnancy reporting guideline Health: To help outline a reporting mechanism for incidences of teenage pregnancies in the country,...
View ArticleLack of irrigation water puts Govt. under pressure
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Irrigation: Delayed monsoon and drying water sources is causing irrigation problems leaving farmers in Thimphu, Punakha, Wangdue, and Trongsa at the mercy of the environment...
View ArticleThis is no spelling bee
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : The country requires standard spellings for the names of dzongkhags, gewogs and chiwogs. Standardised spellings are important today as incorrect spellings can have legal...
View Article10 percent GDP growth unachievable: PM
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : IMF has projected that GDP will grow at 8.4 percent this year Economy: Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has said that the government will not be able to achieve an annual...
View ArticleAmochhu land reclamation to begin by 2017
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Land: The Amochhu land reclamation project could begin by next year said works and human settlement minister Dorji Choden at the Meet-the-Press on July 7.
View ArticleA failed reservoir tank
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Some farmers have alleged that they were not consulted on the location of the reservoir Irrigation: A water reservoir tank that was built to help irrigate paddy fields of six...
View ArticleDefining the Constitutional provision of 60 percent minimum forest cover
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : The minimum 60 percent forest cover was first mentioned in the National Forest Policy 1974. It states: In consideration of the geo-physical conditions of Bhutan and the...
View ArticleLives and knives
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : I write this with a sense of chronic pessimism. That's because the open letter I wrote to the then home minister two years ago for a commonsensical archery regulation to make...
View ArticleYouths attempt to invent devices to help
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Innovation: The young scientists of the Golden Youth Award camp invented different types of prototype devices for the physically challenged during the afternoon session at the...
View ArticleHospitality graduates find jobs
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Employment: The first batch of 75 graduates trained in hotel management at the Yarab Institute for Hospitality Management in Thimphu are already employed in various tourist...
View ArticleBNCA to accredit drop-in and rehabilitation centres
Kuensel Newspaper : BT : Service: With the launch of the Guidelines for Accreditation of Drop-in Centres and Treatment cum Rehabilitation Centres in Bhutan,' last month, the Bhutan Narcotics Control...
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