Tashi Tshering (43), the patient at the heart of the Druk Air deplaning controversy passed away on Thursday 1st October at 8 pm in Bangkok Hospital after fighting for his life for the past few days. Yesterday, this paper talked to the daughter Dolka Tenzin (17) and the wife Tenzin …

Bhutan Civil Aviation Authority to ask Druk Air for report on deplaning of patient The recent deplaning of a medical patient Tashi Tshering over smell concerns by Druk Air will not end at a few press releases. The Minister for Information and Communication (MoIC) Lyonpo D.N Dhungyel said that the …

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) president Ugen Tsechup Dorji has announced that he would be resigning by the end of November 2015, a good four months before his three year term ends in March 2016. Ugen Tsechup said that he is stepping down because in spite of …

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay said that the government would not rate itself on its performance in the last two years and would rather leave it to the people, but in terms of effort it would give itself 10 out of 10. “We have used the successes of the past governments …

The two women at the heart of the ‘chilli controversy’ Daw Zangmo (27) and Mindu Wangmo (26) denied the RBA press release allegations of them sleeping with other men or having male ‘customers’. In the interview with the paper they, for the first time, gave their own version of events …

Unknown to most, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) and the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) have been engaged in a long standing and escalating tussle since 2010 over who has the final authority on Human Resource decisions like recruitment, promotions, administrative actions etc for ECB. The RCSC, through all …

Tenzing Lamsang/Thimphu The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) in the recent past had been at logger heads with the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) over the need to have more independence in terms of its Human Resource (HR) options. In fact the main heart of ACC’s demand for more independence was …

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) filed five cases yesterday against five business entities that were found to be running fronting businesses after an Anti Corruption Commission investigation. The OAG charge sheet based on the ACC investigation has asked for a total of Nu 244.697 mn in restitution in …

For the last few weeks a social media post posted by an anonymous user has gone viral. The post is about how two wives of two soldiers were beaten, chilli applied on their private parts and then chased from the Gelephu Army camp. However, now the alleged two women themselves …

Out of a total of 83 cases filed by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) around 73 have been convicted in the Phuntsholing Immigration scam investigated by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). Of the 73 convicted so far there are 27 Department of Immigration officials who as per the …