The Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL) has now extended its social security services outside the country to Bhutanese students under a new health insurance scheme. The RICBL signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) on Thursday. With this, RICB shall insure all …

  In a first-of-its-kind survey by the health ministry (MoH) to find out the effectiveness and reliability of diagnostic facilities and clinical laboratories, two district hospitals of Trashiyangtse and Dagapela topped with 95% ratings. While in the case of referral hospitals, the Thimphu national referral hospital (JDWNRH) scored top ranks …

In an event to mark the world intellectual property (IP) day organized by the IP division of the economic affairs ministry (MoEA), the inventors yesterday, spoke on their inventions and on how they intended to use their inventions. The first invention titled “A New Composition containing Plant Extracts for Cosmetic …

The outcomes of the recently concluded National Council (NC) elections have been a fairly sound and comforting bases for the second round ‘successfully-conducted’ by the Election Commission (ECB). It has in the process ensured general thoroughfare for the young Bhutanese Democracy, in terms of its growth and health. Still, and …

  It’s a well deserved perk. However, in their benevolence and any moral discomfort they may experience due to an exchequer in heavy debt, they should be most welcome to refuse or donate to a good cause. Sanja   It is sad to see our leaders would not show an …

  Be it the corporate world or the government one of the most important attributes of leadership is to lead by example. However, two recent instances have shown our politicians being great at prescribing  medicines but unwilling to swallow some of their own. The first is the case of the …

Tashi Dorji was elected as the National Council rep with his 5,848 votes secured by 5,426 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes and 422 postal ballot votes (PB). The incumbent NC member Sonam Yangchen managed 3,540 votes with 3,156 EVM votes and 384 postal ballot votes while Chado Namgyal with 629 …

  Incumbent National Council (NC) member Tshering Dorji with 1,866 total votes (EVM-1630- Postal Ballot- 236) won the NC elections to be re-elected as the dzongkhag’s NC representative. His contenders Choda Jamtsho received 631 votes (EVM-603, PB- 28), Khadu Wangchuk got 634 votes (EVM- 546, PB-88) and Tenzin Norbu got …

Lone candidate, Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga, former National Council representative from Trashigang is once again victorious securing an overwhelming 11,219 ‘yes’ votes and just 2,620 ‘No’ votes. Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga secured 7,826 yes votes through the EVM and 3,393 votes through postal ballot votes. He was nominated from Shongphu …

With 22 years of experience under the education department as school principal and teacher, Rinzin Dorji, 48, was voted-in as the National Council (NC) member from Punakha Dzongkhag with 3,449 votes. He was nominated from Toedwang Gewog. “I should be very thankful to the people of Punakha. Now it is …