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2 in operation by year-end
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Single operator of domestic air service to be decided on March 15
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| Bathpalathang Airport: The govt. owned land in Bumthang identified for the purpose
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Domestic airports 9 March, 2010 -
Work on the domestic airport at Bathpalathang in Bumthang will begin early next week to have it ready for use by the end of September this year.
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16 Class XII students explain to the PM how they practise the philosophy
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Feedback Session The prime minister interacts with participants of the Education For GNH workshop |
9 March, 2010 - A few students in the capital, who lived within walking distance from school, but would rather have their parents chauffeur them to school in a car, have now begun walking.
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The why’s and wherefore’s of the Wagon R’s
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The old controversy of misuse of official vehicles
9 March, 2010 - In addition to their designated Toyota Prado vehicle, the 10 cabinet ministers were issued with a Wagon R small car each in August 2009 for secretarial duties, like delivery of letters and documents during office hours.
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9 March, 2010 - (From left: Director of department of school education, Tshewang Tandin, and Proprietor of Yana Expeditions, Tashi Kelson Tobgay)
Yana Expeditions, a tour company based in Thimphu, and president of Unique Journeys International in Canada, Linda Sawyer, donated the first batch of around 3,000 English library books to the education ministry for rural students yesterday. The proprietor said that they would be donating more library books to the department this year.
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Ministry holds up allotment
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The Grass Is Growing For reasons unknown, a long awaited township is still awaited for |
Dekiling Town 9 March, 2010 -
The much-awaited new Dekiling town site in Bumthang is ready with 75 plots ready for development, but it is not clear when the plots will be allotted.
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Women still playing catch-up
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While female unemployment rose, they remain under-represented in governance
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| International Women’s Day Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck at the College of Business Studies in Gedu for the celebrations |
Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2010 9 March, 2010 -
Although Bhutanese men and women enjoy equal inheritance rights, men still continue to lead in the political sphere and labour force participation, states the Asia-Pacific human development report 2010, launched yesterday coinciding with the international women’s day.
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Crossed wires between lower courts and police have led to overcrowding of Thimphu detention centre
Thimphu Centre Box 8 March, 2010 - Miscommunication between the district courts and police is causing an unnecessarily high number of citizens to be arrested and detained at the detention centre (centre box) here in Thimphu, Kuensel has found.
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Backlog builds on empty bench
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More than a hundred appeal cases await the appointment of HC judges
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| Appeals to the High Court continue to increase in absence of judges |
High Court 8 March, 2010 - The hunt for nine high court judges, including the chief justice, has not even begun even as appeal cases continue to inundate the high court.
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Domestic revenue exceeds previous year’s by Nu 1.7 billion
National Revenue Report 8 March, 2010 - Domestic revenue in the first year of the 10th plan, 2008-09, amounted to Nu 14.049 bn, a Nu 1.7 bn rise from the previous year, and exceeding the revised target by more than Nu 200 mn, according to the national revenue report.
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Blueprint for ICT-literate society
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5-pronged program expected to kick off by late April 2010
Total Solutions 8 March, 2010 - The Nu 2.05 bn total solutions project will see 7,200 civil servants, including the prime minister, cabinet ministers, government secretaries and dzongdas attending specialised ICT courses to improve the ICT capacity of the government.
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Thimphu to Paro run against domestic violence
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8 March, 2010 - Calling attention to advocate against domestic violence in Bhutan, Ms Robin Martz, an American living in Bhutan will run the 50 km highway between Thimphu and Paro, as Bhutan joins the world to observe International Women’s day today.
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Home fires — with a vengeance
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A mysterious fire — an evil spirit, some say — plagues a Thrimshing village
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| Mystery: The fire burns even inside locked boxes |
8 March, 2010 - Norbu Wangdi’s two storeyed traditional house in Tsangpo village, Thrimshing, is famous in the area for a unique reason – mysterious fires that spring up from nowhere inside their home.
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Raising the dropout census issue
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| Lyonpo Minjur Dorji with the dzongdas |
Dzongda’s Conference 7 March, 2010 - The government should review the cases of people, whose census were dropped after the nationwide census registration. Dzongdas voiced this concern during the 18th annual dzongdag’s conference, which began yesterday.
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Traffic fines get stiffer … tenfold
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7 March, 2010 - Motorists will soon land up paying fines, 10 times higher than today, if they are caught violating traffic rules. This means that a motorist, who paid Nu 50 for parking in the wrong area, will now have to pay Nu 550.
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Feature: The pink elephant in the room
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Health ministry study reveals that more than half Bhutan’s drinkers are its youth
Feature 7 March, 2010 - Bhutanese down 12.5 million litres of alcohol a year and a staggering 54 percent of the country’s total 56 percent youth population below 24 years are the main consumers.
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