The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has forwarded the case of the ‘Water Terrorist,’ Sangay Dorji to the Office of the Attorney General. Sangay Dorji, who is a man servant not only confessed to pumping in kerosene but also bathroom cleaner Phenol, paint thinner and paint at different times on multiple …
Read More »A North Thimphu landslide with national consequences
PDP swept all 14 polling stations with wide margins The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Tshering won the North Thimphu by-election with a landslide picking up 75.5 percent of the votes coming to 2032 votes. The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) candidate Kessang Wangmo got 24.5 percent of the votes coming …
Read More »PM Vs OL over North Thimphu contest
In a sign of the importance of the North Thimphu contest, both the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader criticized each other’s party candidate’s statements and both also said that they are confident of a win. The Prime Minister focused on the statement made by the DPT candidate Kezang Wangmo …
Read More »Stabilization fund to be set up from Hydro revenue
The Ministry of Finance and the Royal Monetary Authority have started working on setting up a Stabilization Fund where a percentage of hydropower revenue and free royalty energy will be saved. The aim is to have the fund in place before the end of the current government’s term. The fund …
Read More »RBP nabs Water Terrorist who confesses to pumping Phenol and Chemicals into drinking water supply of five Thimphu buildings
The residents of five upper Mothithang buildings comprising under a 100 residents thought that the worst of their water problems was a saboteur repeatedly pumping kerosene and chilli into their drinking water supply. However, when the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) recently nabbed the culprit, Sangay Dorji, he not only confessed …
Read More »Saboteur strikes again pumping fuel into drinking water supply of 6 Mothithang buildings
A saboteur, on 29th September had pumped diesel into the Thromde drinking water supply of a Mothithang building above the minister’s enclave. A baby residing in the building even had to be rushed to the hospital for checks after the parents, without realising, fed the baby with food made from …
Read More »Lowered loan interest rates applicable to existing or old loans
Most FI’s though will not apply lowered rates on defaulters With all banks slashing loan interest rates on a variety of products like housing, transport, personal, service, education, manufacturing, agriculture etc, the main question that has emerged is on what will happen to the existing clients and existing loans. …
Read More »‘Diesel water’ marks third deliberate sabotage of Thromde drinking water to same Mothithang Building
At 3 pm on Thursday 64 year old Tshering Wangmo went to the kitchen and turned on her tap, but to her shock instead of water she got ‘diesel water’ and frothy bubble coming through the pipe. Soon her kitchen was covered in the fumes from the fuel. Still not …
Read More »Increasing deposit rates and making Fixed Deposits tax free
After getting the banks to reduce loan interest rates the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) and the government now want to encourage people to save through more attractive deposit rates and also tax free fixed deposits. While the RMA is already working towards a monetary policy of encouraging banks to come …
Read More »All Banks slash loan interest rates
Private sector welcomes the cuts Following the Bank of Bhutan’s (BoB) move to slash its loan interest rates earlier this month, all other banks like Bhutan National Bank (BNB), Tashi Bank (T-Bank), Bhutan Development Bank (BDB) including the National Pension and Provident Fund (NPPF) have also cut interest rates …
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