While the two incumbent parties reintroduced themselves, the three new parties for the first time introduced themselves and presented their party visions and objectives at the first common forum held for the five political parties at The Royal Thimphu College (RTC) last Wednesday. The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) was represented …

Response to ‘Indifferent Ministry and careless contractors mess up Nu 30 mn renovation of Pangrizampa Monastery’ It is not the problem of procurement rules. The rules are clear and stringent. The problem lies with the engineers who take up this project. They are supposed to come up with structurally sound …

Though the government through official figures has shown high GDP growth rates and lower poverty rates there has not been adequate focus on inflation which can negatively impact both of the above. A troubling overall trend in the last five years is the strong rise of inflation in Bhutan which …

His Majesty the King on 30 March 2013 granted Land Kidu to 3,173 thram holders in Haa Dzongkhag and Thromde, whose cases were submitted after the completion of the National Cadastral Resurvey. The beneficiaries faced several types of land issues such as excess land, building houses and lhakhangs or cultivating …

His Majesty the King on 30 March 2013 granted Land Kidu to 3,173 thram holders in Haa Dzongkhag and Thromde, whose cases were submitted after the completion of the National Cadastral Resurvey. The beneficiaries faced several types of land issues such as excess land, building houses and lhakhangs or cultivating …

For any discerning user of the Expressway these days in Thimphu one is usually greeted by the sight of school children practicing marathon along the road. What is more dangerous is that most of the practice happens in the evenings when the lighting is not good and it is not …

Bhutanese audiences are being bombed on a daily basis with information and pledges by aspiring candidates, political parties, party workers, etc. The platform being used is the media, social media, informal campaigning by party workers, and ultimately as the D-Day approaches it will culminate in face to face debates in …

MoIC Minister Lyonpo Nandalal Rai, former Director of Civil Aviation Phala Dorji and Deputy Executive Engineer Gyem Dorji held accountable for most irregularities and lapses in the report The final RAA report on the construction of Domestic Airports issued on December 2012 has confirmed most of the findings of the …

As a mark of respect to the Late President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Mr. Md. Zillur Rahman, prayer ceremony including a thousand butter lamps were offered at the Kuenrey of Tashichhodzong by Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley, the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Cabinet Ministers and senior officials of the …

  The present Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) candidate from Dogar-Shaba constituency in Paro and a former Zimpon wogma to His Majesty the King was conferred the award of Young Global Leader 2013 by the World Economic Forum recently. “I am pleasantly surprised and doubly humbled that I have been named …