Media and the Democratic Process The media really took off during March 2008 Parliamentary elections, as for the first time a grueling election process between the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) saw the once mighty pre-democracy ministers going around in the most humble homes and …

For a small Himalayan country mentioned occasionally in the travel sections of the international media, the business focused ‘Vibrant Gujarat’ summit saw world leaders and business tycoons giving the most applause for Bhutan. Major Indian publications and media outlets splashed Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay’s speech on January 11 across their …

One of the issues around the 2014 pay revision report was the proposal to not pay the 20 percent house rent allowance (HRA) to those who are already occupying government accommodation. There were negative reactions on the issue from rural teachers and dzongkhag-based civil servants staying in relatively poor quality …

Background and Evolution of the Bhutanese Media   Media, in a modern sense of the word, started only from the 1970’s onwards in Bhutan.  Media, like much else, took off as a part of Bhutan’s process of planned development and modernization that started from 1962 onwards with the country’s five-year …

Education minister says final decision from BCSEA coming in next one or two days   Though no minister in the monthly, meet the press, said it explicitly yesterday, there was a clear preference from the cabinet and the PM to give the students their original English II marks and then …

Taking a clear position on the issue of RCSC issuing a limited number of Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) jobs, the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay said that the assumption that every B.Ed graduate student would automatically get a government job is wrong to begin with. There were 182 vacancies for …

One of the big surprises of the winter session of Parliament was an amendment in the National Assembly Bill that requires the National Assembly to form a ‘Budget Committee’ of MPs who would study the Budget Bill in detail and provide their feedback before it can be passed. This was …

The report also proposes some new solutions which are finding traction with the private media   The private newspapers have been voicing out on the business downturn due to the reduced government advertisement revenue and the priority given to the state media over the last few years. But nothing was …

In a major breakthrough, the Alipurduar District police under North Bengal recently arrested eight people responsible for robbing Bhutanese passengers along a deserted highway. The police has also seized and impounded some Maruti vans used by the eight in their highway robbing operations. Bhutan’s Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs …

Bhutan’s neighbor Assam, or at least its Bodo dominated areas consisting of four districts including adjoining areas are up in flames after 81 people got killed in violence initiated by militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-S) of the I.K Songbijit faction on 23rd December 2014. Of the …