The National Council Elections have thrown up more surprises for candidates and observers alike giving us an intriguing look into the minds of Bhutanese voters. The first major noticeable trend is what seems to be an unhappy and unimpressed electorate who has voted out the majority of incumbent NC …

As per the latest results from the Election Commission of Bhutan the winners are as follwos. In Trongsa Tharchen (33) won by getting 1862 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes and 221 Postal Ballot (PB) votes leading to a total of 2083 votes. In Bumthang Nima (34) has won by securing …

The Druk Chirwang Tshogpa has introduced three more candidates and will announce the remaining candidates in the coming days. Kinga Dorji – Bardo-Trong, Zhemgang has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. He has been running his cable network business in Zhemgang for over four years now. “I am going to be …

The country’s economy is on a sound footing and any new government that comes in will enjoy huge economic growth, was the message sent out by the government during the last and 25th monthly ‘meet the press’ session on Thursday. This was in response to a question asked by The …

With the political prospects of the Home Minister and Speaker already looking increasingly bleak due to the Gyelpozhing case, the Minister for Information and Communication, Lyonpo Nandalal Rai could join them due to his inability to get Audit Clearances. The MoIC Minister has seven pending Audit Memos and three supervisory …

In what has been an unexplored aspect of the Gyelpozhing case the current Speaker of the National Assembly Jigme Tshultim enjoyed a meteoric rise in his civil service career after the allocation of plots to influential people in Gyelpozhing. This happened in the presence of ministers in the cabinet that …

A Council member will be elected from each Dzongkhag next week on 23 April Five years ago the nation made history when it ushered in democracy that was given to the people and not forged through remnants of struggles and revolutionary upheavals. This year on the poll day for the …

To be afflicted by a lifelong disease is curse enough, but due to a malfunction in a check-up machine, the life of one HIV positive patient has been a living hell. What is more is he says he is not the only one suffering and is speaking for many other …

Among the four new People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidates disclosed yesterday 44 year old Jigme Drukpa who went up against PM Jigmi Y. Thinley is one of them, once again up for the 2013 race from Nanong-Shumar constituency against his titanic rival. Jigme Drukpa for Nanong-Shumar, Pemagatshel He has an …

The prevalence of a loophole in the law which does not prohibit candidates of parties from switching to another after the primary rounds may very well give rise to practices called horse-trading and coalition in political lingo to be very visibly demonstrated by parties and individuals after the primary elections. …