There are many reporters, who on bended knees and with unyielding spirit want to flag information from the roof tops but the impression that most people have of reporters is that they are more akin to animals than the homo-sapiens. Hello! Let’s talk off the record; we have hides of …

Tashi Wangmo/ Thimphu A spate of wildlife smuggling and poaching incidents in Bhutan show that Bhutan needs to be on the guard against wildlife smugglers and poachers. Recently, a man from Nanglam, Pemagatshel, was caught selling a rhino horn weighting 850 grams to a Jaigoan businessman for Nu 3mn. In …

  Indians holding Bhutanese bank accounts across the border are encouraging Bhutanese to get visa and maestro cards from Druk PNB and Bank of Bhutan to withdraw rupee from Jaigoan atms for a commission of at least 5%, this paper has found. Many small Bhutanese businessmen, mainly who run paan …

On the surface, the border towns may seem to be on a rupee famine, but, the informal market exchange  on Rupee against the Ngultrum is on a slow but steady rise The rupee crunch hullabaloo has just begun. On the other side of the border,   the Jaigaon Merchant Association has …

On March 13, the larger bench of the High Court held an opening statement on the case against Dechen Wangmo, the former principal of Phajoding Lower Secondary School, and a social worker versus the Office of the Attorney General (OAG). Dechen Wangmo had been sentenced by the Phuentsholing Dungkhag Court …

Precursor chemicals are posing a problem worldwide as only a mere fraction of these chemicals is required to produce illegal drugs. Bhutan owing to its geographical location and its growing trade and industry could be in murky waters if used as a transit gateway for such lethal chemicals. Precursors are …

  Bhutan could have more education city centers in different dzongkhags if the education city project in Thimphu takes off. This could come as an incredible statement as the first education city project is still in its infancy. But DHI believes that if the concept takes off then it will be …

On March 6, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) forwarded an embezzlement case involving the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) accountant, Karma Chophel, to the district court. He has been charged for embezzling a little more than Nu 5.5mn from his earlier workplace, the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement …

One of Anti Corruption Commission’s first controversial corruption cases, the Phobjika land transfer case is still in the High Court since November 2007. The high court is yet to come out with any judgment on the case which was forwarded to them from the Wangdue Phodrang District Court in November …

A high level scanning was carried out by the Druk Holdings and Investment (DHI) to identify business and economic opportunities in eastern Bhutan. The business opportunities identified are cement bonded particle board, Silicon Carbide, fruit processing,  gypsum-based value-added product, industrial township development and maintenance, maize processing (Industrial Starch), dolomite refractory …