If the Southern Belt is the main frontline in the fight to prevent COVID-19 from coming into the country its weakest link emerging so far is Samtse. This Dzongkhag has witnessed the maximum violations of people crossing the border and not following the quarantine protocol with 50 cases involving 61 …

Thimphu Dzongkhag Court on 23 July convicted 51-year-old Sangay Lhendup to 4 years in prison. On 2 July, the convict sneaked across the border and travelled to his home in Kabisa, Thimphu after coming from Nepal, to escape the mandatory quarantine protocol. As per the police, the convict had tried …

Wamrong Drungkhag Court has sentenced the Drangpon’s wife Tshering Yangki to 18 months in prison in connection to a battery case on 22 July. The defendant was charged for battery and trespassing with 1 year and 6 months and 1 year respectively. However, the court has ordered her to serve …

The Department of Local Governance (DLG) has submitted a proposal on rationalizing of gewogs in the country. The proposal has five gewog merger options which the government can choose from. The Cabinet will decide and submit its choice to the Parliament for discussions and endorsement. Local leaders stated that they …

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has registered 192 of drugs and tobacco related cases, which includes abusing, illicit trafficking and illegal possession since March when the first COVID-19 case was reported. A maximum number of cases took place along the border, whereby some people crossed the border illegally to get the …

Dzongkhags along the border, like Samtse, Phuentsholing, Sarpang and Samdrupjongkar are in the process of making the usage of facemask mandatory after the implementation of the new normal. Moreover, they are making people use Druk Trace App compulsorily.  100 additional DeSuups are deployed in each of the dzongkhags for a …

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has received 335 cases so far this year, including 105 COVID-19 related cases. Phuentsholing, Samtse, Sarpang and Gelaphu have the maximum COVID-19 related cases. Within the three months’ time, Samtse has contributed 42 COVID-19 related cases, which is the highest, followed by Sarpang …

As of June 2020, the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has registered 66 Missing of Person (MoP) cases nationwide, out of which 8 are children. Thimphu police  alone has registered 31 MoP cases so far. RBP is yet to find 13 missing people. Likewise, 186 cases were registered with RBP in …

The President of Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) who is the Opposition Leader (OL) Dr Pema Gyamtsho will be joining the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) as its new Director General in mid-October after the retirement of its current DG Dr David Molden. This is according to an announcement …

The standard setter in terms of involving Bhutanese in Construction is the Construction Development Corporation Limited (CDCL) which took the first major steps in this field. CDCL now has absorbed a good number of Bhutanese laborers who are VTI graduates and a few uneducated ones at construction sites. CDCL CEO, …