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3,499 criminal cases reported in 2022

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) registered a total of 3,499 criminal cases in 2022. The top five crimes reported in 2022 are offence of substance abuse, battery, larceny, burglary and deceptive practice. Battery recorded the highest with 778 cases followed by offence of substance abuse with 604 cases. Larceny contributed 308 …

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BTP gearing up for the upcoming NA election

A new political party, Bhutan Tendrel Party (BTP), joins the race in the National Assembly election 2023. The party was officially registered on 9 January 2023 and the party’s election symbol is an elephant, which symbolizes strength, character and stability. According to BTP, the party has a mix of highly …

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Country to have operational forensic lab by mid 2023

The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) is expecting to have a fully functional forensic lab by mid next year as 60 percent of the construction work on the building is complete. A Police Forensic Science Laboratory in Serbithang, which started its building construction in September 2021, is expected to complete by …

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Highlanders worried about GLOF in the future

The importance of glaciers, especially the threat posed by melting glaciers, was fully realized only after the incident of the Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) in 1994. The sporadic studies done on glaciers in Bhutan before 1994 did not have much focus. Therefore, realizing the importance of glaciers, in 2000 …

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