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BHUTAN_TODAY

  1. 4 men arrested by the Mongar police after being caught with 16 sticks of hash weighing 78 grams at Yadi, near Mongar.
  2. Damphu and Dagana higher secondary schools have been closed for a week after students started falling sick with symptoms of H1N1 influenza.
  3. A recent survey done from January - june this year shows that men topped the mortality rate, and in total 96 men died compared to 71 female.
  4. Bank of Bhutan (BoB) has plans to install 100 ATM in Bhutan by 2015.
  5. 26 workers hired by the Bhutan Engineering Company are struggling to make ends meet as the company has not paid them for a month now.
  6. QnA with Kesang Anayat, an upcoming Thimphu-based fashion designer; sells her products under the brand LHB - Lingshays handicraft Boutique.
  7. Chiphen Rigphel project to promote universal IT literacy, which includes taking ICT to 168 schools.
  8. The Buddha Dordenma statue at Kuenselphodrang in Thimphu will be consecrated by his holiness the je Khenpo Trulku Jigme Choeda, tomarrow.
  9. what seems to be a tug of war between the ministers and the secretaries the civil servants are feeling squeezed in between.
  10. The misconception that the Land Commission only has the mandate to settle cases amicably;the sole prerogative of the parties to a dispute.
  11. RBP has charge sheeted the 23 Tsentops, who had allegedly robbed 27 Narops of 21,920 pieces of cordyceps.
  12. Beginning from May 2010, Bhutanese air had been becoming cleaner. BHUTAN TODAY tells you: how?
  13. Most parents have started complaining that some English books in schools teach more broken English than proper English.
  14. Olympic Day festival held at Gelephu on July 18.
  15. People in some parts of the world rely on the monsoons for drinking water. But in Thimphu it is just the opposite
  16. two chortens vandalized in Thimphu in a span of two days.
  17. It is the system that matters and not individuals. For a government to perform well, the system should be good, said Dr Prajapati Trivedi
  18. Bhutan electricity authority which functions under the ministry of economic affairs will be declaring the revised electricity tariff.
  19. The question, however, is how long will Bhutan be allowed to rest under the safe canopy of the World Bank (WB)?
  20. With Bhutan’s per capita income of 2000 dollars and as world’s fastest growing economy, Bhutan has now reached a tricky financial crossroads