In a move that will be welcomed by industrialists and investors, the government will start allocating plots in all or most of the four new planned Industrial Estates from July 2015 onwards. The Minister for Economic Affairs Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk said, “The government will finalize the Economic Development Policy by …

The catch is that the performance based allowance has been increased In what will be welcome news for 6,627 employees  of Druk Holdings and Investment (DHI) owned companies, the DHI board has approved a pay hike of 24.5 percent to 32 percent. The hikes have been applied in a staggering …

A 39-year-old man, Gyembo, from Punakha was arrested on February 8, in connection to the Olakha homicide case that took place on January 13. The suspect was handed over to the Punakha police by a person who had held the suspect and alerted the police. In a press conference, the …

The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) found that the kidnappers from across the border, operating in mostly southern dzongkhags of Bhutan, are using Bhutanese SIM cards to contact the families and relatives of the hostages for ransom money. The entire issue of the sale and misuse of Bhutanese SIM card was …

The mandarins and denizens of Thimphu would have found that there were no ministers in Thimphu on Thursday and Friday. This was because the entire cabinet led by the Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay had shifted base to the border town of Phuntsholing for two days. The main reason for the …

The Bhutan Council for School Examinations and Assessment (BCSEA) said the overall Class X pass percentage in the Bhutan Certificate of Secondary Education (BCSE) examination has dropped by 2.20 percent this year. The BCSE 2015 pass percentage is at 93.73 percent while it was 95.93 percent last year. 11836 candidates …

Bhutan’s largest and oldest Education Exhibition the 9TH Career Fair, is set to take place in the city of Thimphu on the 14th & 15th February 2015 at Clock Tower, Thimphu. The event is organized by Nukareer Education Consultancy a major educational consultant in collaboration with SAPE event organizer and …

With the DPT Vs Dasho Benji case now entering the evidence stage the DPT presented a set of seven documentary ‘evidences’ to prove its alleged case of defamation against Dasho Benji. MP Nidup Zangpo and MD Duptho from DPT represented the case for DPT. The plaintiff said that the seven …

I think if a poll on the world’s biggest hypocrites are taken then we Bhutanese would feature somewhere at the top. I say this because of our senseless policy of meat bans during the so called ‘holy months’ and our general attitude to meat. In fact one ban is right …

While doing the main story on MPs and vehicle quotas, one MP, on the condition of anonymity, told the writer that no public interest would be served and it would only cause a ‘sensation’ and sell more papers. The statement in itself shows the large gap and disconnect between many …