A 19-year-old girl escaped her attacker in Wangduephodrang by crying and screaming at the top of her voice on May 27. The victim is a school dropout. At the time of the incident, the girl went to switch on the lights to her father’s construction site where laborers …

As impressive as the scale of the ongoing construction of two major hydropower projects in Wangduephodrang may be, however, it has not struck the right chord with the voters there. This is obvious from the primary round elections of the National Assembly (NA) when the former ruling government of the …

Dissatisfied with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) serving a warning to the DPT’s Jomotshangkha–Martshala candidate for supposedly bribing voters during the recent elections, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) coordinator of Serthi and Lauri gewog said they want to take the matter further to its logical conclusion. A  ‘last warning’ …

Response to, “PDP says it will do away with Pedestrian Day”   Never understood why DPT started the Pedestrian day in the first place. They enforced rules using police, who were ordered to not let a single vehicle inside the town. Business in border towns like Phuentsholing and Samdrupjongkhar dried …

One of the pertinent issues arising in the 2013 elections is that of “horse trading” – first raised by the incumbent party, Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT). The position of the party has been that candidates should stick to their original parties, irrespective of the election win or loss.  DPT pointed …

The incumbent DPT government has, so far claimed, in various forums that out of its broad 153 pledges it has fully or partially fulfilled 150, and only three remain unfulfilled. However, after the primary round of elections, the DPT lost 12 seats to PDP, two seats to DNT, and also …

  One of the biggest upsets of the 2013 primary round elections was in the constituency of Thrimshing in Trashigang where the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa(DNT)  president Dorji Choden won a landslide victory, keeping DPT at a distant second, and PDP at an even more distant third. Of the 3301 votes …

Today, most people in urban areas across the country will either be walking to work or using public transport as Pedestrian Day is followed to commemorate the World Environment Day on June 5. A Press Release sent by the Cabinet Secretariat on behalf of the Interim Government says, “In keeping …

The generals are wearing-thin the days as July 13 approaches on the political map where the primary round already left many holes for the two contending parties, Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to repair in respective territories. The parties both have enough under their arms …

  A flashflood in Kabisa (Whakuna) under Punakha washed away cash crops and caused some damages to paddy fields. The incident took place on June 4 at around 6am in the morning. The main cause of the flood was cited to be the continuous rainfall. The regional police officer in-charge …