A Draft Royal Audit Authority report has unearthed Nu 152.876 in illegal overpayments and more than Nu 83 mn in avoidable costs out of the total Nu 427 mn spent on the three domestic airports. The RAA also uncovered tenders being given to ineligible companies, fake bills, sub-standard works, conflict …

Earlier, the group of 50 had announced a sojourn from Trashigang to petition against the court verdict that convicted the two ministers The petition to be submitted by the 50 Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) supporters from Trashigang to the Supreme Court chief justice has been withdrawn. The submission was with …

With this, the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) has introduced 34 candidates till date although DNT members say the party tentatively has 47 candidates.     Dorjee Wangmo Dorjee Wangmo, 25 is a fresh graduate from Sherubtse College with a B.Sc in computer science. She believes that youth should come forward …

The Thimphu District Muncipality’s new project for this year is supplying water in four different areas in Lungtenphu, Semtokha, Babesa and in Changbangdu which are under the local area plans (LAP) . There are two different packages for the water supply namely the water mains which will extend the water …

A Forest fire that broke out in Trashiyangtse and Zhemgang was contained by Forestry officials with the help of the officials of Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)and Desuup residents. More than 160 people were engaged to suppress the fire which started from Tongshang gewog under Trashiyangtse on the afternoon of 8 …

The community police center at Taba busted a racket of fuel (diesel) theft and seized 307 liters of diesel on 1 March from one of the shops in Dechencholing, Thimphu. Frequent cases of fuel theft from trucks, tripper, and excavators belonging to Nima Construction located near the Pangrizampa in Dechencholing, …

Development activities completed in the gewog The Kinzangchoeling lhakhang in the gewog which was under maintenance for a long time has finally been completed and the people in the gewog are happy with it. The budget allocated for the work is Nu 700,000. There are a total of four and …

The Bhutanese has found that buildings owned by some serving Cabinet Ministers and their wives house government offices and corporations paying large amounts of rent. In what is a case of conflict of interest and also violation of procurement norms these office spaces have been hired by the respective agencies …

The verdict of the Gyelpozhing land case has garnered mixed views from different sections of people across the country with many having mixed feelings on the sentencing of the committee members. These civil servants face a double jeopardy of, conviction of a year and termination without benefits. Some people have …

The Opposition Party has come out with its own 3,000 word ‘official response’ report to the governments 37,000 word State of the Nation which had primarily highlighted their achievements in the last five years. The Opposition party’s response has focused on critical issues like the State of the Economy, Rupee …