News Archive- February 2008

News Archive

February 2008

DATE	HEADLINES

February 1	PDP and DPT finalize their candidates
	Class X results to be declared this afternoon
	Launch of broadband service postponed

February 2	2,174 people retire in 2006-2007
	Tobacco products worth Nu. 60,000 seized
	Strike in Assam, India called off

February 3	A spate of chorten robbery reported in Trashi Yangtse
	Damage to undersea broadband cables disrupts business
	Farmer’s group helps market oranges in Gomdar

February 4	Discussions on unemployment dominate PDP meeting with youth

February 5	His Majesty grants audience to SAARC Secretary General
	Bomb explodes in Samtse
	Police identify man suspected of planting bomb in Dagapela
	PDP pulls out of proposed BBS debate
	Proprietor of Eastern Bhutan Coal Company receives a three years nine months prison sentence
	Two men go on trial for robbing tourists last year
	Improving banking services

February 7	Two traditional houses gutted by fire
	Prisoners entitled to postal ballot
	Workshop owners reluctant to move to Olarongchu

February9	His Majesty awards red scarf to Gyalpoi Zimpon
	Party Presidents to debate Live on BBS TV
	Conjunctivitis outbreak in Gasa tshachu
	Bhutanese welcome the year of the male earth rat
	Construction of Dremitse-Narang farm road suspended once again
	Housing crunch in Samdrupjongkhar

February 10	Religious activities not allowed during the election period
	Fire destroys 500 acres of mixed forests
	Woman stabbed to death

February 11	DPT and PDP to be guided by GNH

February 12	Police detains a man accused of poisoning two men
February 12	Broadband service restored

February 13	RBA apprehends six militants
	Class XII results out
	REWA to be shutdown
	Long wait at Tanalum

February 14	New thongdrol of Kuenkhen Pema Karpo to be inaugurated on February 16
	Dzongs to be insured
	Forest fires in Paro controlled
	Dog sterilization campaigns, a failure

February 15	Thai ambassador presents credentials to His Majesty the King
	Ambassadors of European Commission and Norway present credentials to His Majesty the King
	Private schools face admission pressure
	Transportation, a problem in Monggar

February 16	DPT launches campaign
	Do's and Don'ts during campaign
	Syllabus change impacts student's performance
	Schools cope with admission pressure

February 17	Dechencholing shopkeeper shift to the new town

February 18	10th Round Table Meeting begins
	Trashigang residents face LPG shortage
	ECB debate draws less viewers
	Damphu town to soon get reliable power supply
	School authorities cope with admission pressure
	Hundreds rush to Phuentsholing to buy uniforms and stationeries

February 19	His Majesty the King grants audience to Indian Foreign Secretary
	Shera Dra-gu Lhakhang in Dotey gewog, Paro vandalized
	ADB commits US$ 15 million to RGOB
	ECB extends postal ballot registration date
	Round Table Meeting, a success
	EC commits 14 million Euros
	Three men detained for possession of detonating cap
	Exhibition on Bhutan's flora and fauna and culture and tradition in Japan

February 21	Bhutan receives 179 power tillers from Japan
	Tour operators request for postal ballot
	Low English marks cloud students' dream

February 22	Nation celebrates His Majesty's birthday
February 22	RUB introduces online admission

February 23	15 member EU mission to observe National Assembly elections
February 23	10 statues vandalized from Shera Dra-gu Lhakhang

February 24	Separate polling station for Metakha gewog, Chhukha

February 25	His Holiness presides Bazaguru dungdrup in Punakha

February 27	PDP files charges against DPT

February 28	Exhibition on Buddhist arts opens in Honolulu

February 29	ECB investigating PDP's allegation against DPT

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