By the evening of 15th September, 2018, it was clear that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had been knocked out of the Primary Round in the third National Assembly elections. This came as a shock as the party was hoping to form the government, albeit with less MPs. On 17th …

The Bhutan Tendrel Party (BTP) was the last party to register with the ECB on 11th January 2023 but it was the first party to declare all 47 candidates. BTP in a short period not only got together seasoned candidates from politics, civil service and business but it conducted a …

The big question for the 30th November 2023 poll day is which are the two parties that will make it to the final round. When one talks to senior members of the five political parties taking part in the race they all feel that their party has a good chance …

On Thursday evening, during the live broadcast of the Vice President’s debate, the first segment was on the economy and when it was the turn of parties to ask question of each other the Vice Presidents of the four parties Druk Thuendrel Tshogpa (DTT), Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT), Bhutan Tendrel …

It has been 15 days since the announcement of the election period on 3rd November, and Bhutan is in the thick of election campaigns by five competing parties, but the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has not received a single complaint from any party against another party. This is highly …

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in a period of around a week has got two cases where the husbands in marriages are being charged with rape of child above 12 due to their wife being underage. The first case is where a father and mother in Paro had …

The Bhutanese talked to the five Party Presidents with two simple questions. The first was on their chances of going to the General Round of the National Assembly Elections 2023-24, of which all Presidents are confident, and the second query was on the reasons for their optimism. The sequence below …

The National Assembly Elections are a national election, but it is also true that there are major geographical electoral regions in the country, like the East, South and West, that can determine who gets through to the General Round and also form the government. While DPT swept the whole country …

In the last financial year from July 2022 to June end 2023 a record number of 15,552 Bhutanese got visas to Australia which was around the same number of Bhutanese moving out in the last seven financial years. It was expected that this rush would slow down this financial year …

It has been learnt that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has dropped the Abuse of Function case against the former PDP Ministers Dasho Dorji Choden of Ministry of Works and Human Settlement and Namgay Dorji of Ministry of Finance. The ACC had charge sheeted an Abuse of Function …