P Political campaigning and the inevitable politicking by political parties that go with it are an important component of Bhutanese democracy. It allows for voters to make informed choices, and also gives them an opportunity to observe, at close quarters, their potential leaders in both positive and negative light. However, …

  Annual consultative workshop   A four- day long workshop on Market Access and Growth Intensification Project (MAGIP) and Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWPB) began yesterday in Samdrup Jongkhar. About 50 officials from RNR sector, accountants and budget officers from six eastern dzonkhags, and project staff, sector managers and …

The beneficiary was his Social Secretary who is a mid level protocol officer in the Foreign Ministry The Bhutanese has found that the Prime Minister using his own prerogatives allotted a Prado as a ‘special case’ to his former Social Secretary Ugyen Wangchuk. The year 2000 model Prado was allotted …

A senior official with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told this paper that though a request for information and evidence for the Bhutan Lottery case was sent last year in around November 2012, the Bhutan government has not cooperated with the investigation. The letters from CBI was directed to …