The Bhutanese is in possession of the letter sent by the Foreign Secretary to the Indian Ambassador on 2nd December 2014. The letter was sent on the instructions of the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) to protest against some news articles in Enertia and allegations of corruption in the hydropower sector. …

The Cabinet decision to surrender three Secretaries and discontinue the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) is mainly based on the four meetings held by the CoS between October 2 and November 27, which discussed two articles published by ENERTIA. The issue first came up through a letter from the Ministry of …

The National Assembly on Monday, 1st December 2014 endorsed and passed the Human Rights Committee (HRC) report that recommended that Financial Institutions (FIs) should not publish the pictures of loan defaulters in the media. It says that the final decision to publish such pictures or not should be left to …

Asenior Royal Bhutan Police official in Samtse said that he was ‘100 percent sure’ that the death of the maid was not caused by ‘rape and murder’ as alleged by some Indian media outlets. He said that when the police reached the spot the maid was found lying in the …

Concerned with an Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) report against Rabdhuen, the sole private company dealing in explosives, and also a separate Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) report, the cabinet is looking into the possibility of the government taking over the explosives sector. The cabinet already met and discussed the issue a …

This is also in the backdrop of concerns over the performance of some of its MPs and some government decisions   The PDP government came to power in July 2013 with a mandate of change, and one of the first things the party did was to come up with an …

In response to questions on the government’s reaction to the recent Royal Audit Authority (RAA) Performance Audit report on Bhutan’s mining sector, the MoEA minister Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk said that the report on the surface was a good professional job done by the RAA and he had conveyed his compliments …

The service center will also buy farm produce from farmers One of the key points of the PDP’s manifesto that caught the imagination of the people, especially of the rural masses, was a promise of one power tiller per chiwog, two helicopters, a local bank for every gewog, and a …

Pointing out the many shenanigans of mining companies in creating subsidiary companies or businesses that took away the profits from the main company and hence minority shareholders, the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) had recommended legal provisions to protect them. The new Companies Bill 2014 is expected to address this lacuna …

With the government counting on mining as one of the key growth areas of the economy, however, the performance audit on Bhutan’s mining sector by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) points out some issues in service delivery and delays in processing mining applications. The data provided by Department of Geology …