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Lumang gewog’s five women candidates for the upcoming local government elections are beginning to have a change of heart as election day draws closer. No final election dates have been announced yet but three of the candidates say they are not ready and two say they do not feel confident. …
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Phuentsholing police hands over stolen vehicle to Sikkimese owner
Phuentsholing police have handed over the abandoned vehicle which was found parked near Norgay compound in Phuentsholing. The vehicle, a Toyota Inova with a Sikkim registration number was spotted abandoned and later on the incident was communicated with the Sadar police station, Sikkim, Gangtok. Later on it was found that …
Read More »A commentary on the chapter on ‘Government’ for Class V Social Studies
Our text books are littered with mistakes. Spellings, facts, grammar and much more! This is unacceptable! We cannot teach children using text books containing such errors. Take the following page for example. In every paragraph, there are errors of all kinds imaginable. I will comment on the first four paragraphs. I …
Read More »Vehicle misuse
A great deal of significance has been attached by many to the Supreme Court’s verdict that exonerated the former Foreign Minister of criminal charges for government vehicle misuse imposing only administrative sanction. This is, as if to say, that a verdict to the contrary would have solved the issue of …
Read More »Bhutan looking to bring in revolutionary GST reform
In what will be the biggest reform of Bhutan’s indirect taxation system the Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) under the Ministry of Finance is aiming to replace the current sales tax, customs duty tax and excise duty tax with a single Goods and Services Tax or GST. Though not …
Read More »MoF to define ‘Emergency need’ after Lhakhang Karpo verdict
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) will now sit down to define ‘Pressing and emergency personnel need,’ mentioned in a 13th December 2000 circular issued by it. The Supreme Court on 28th July 2016 acquitted MP Rinzin Dorje of embezzling public property and not violating the 13th December 2000 MoF circular …
Read More »RICB may take over and enhance govt’s rural life insurance scheme
Under the directive of the Prime Minister, the Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan (RICB), with support from the Ministry of Finance (MoF), has submitted a proposal to the Cabinet to take over and enhance the existing Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RILS) into the National Life Insurance Scheme (NLIS). The proposal …
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