Of the 10 incumbents who contested only two made it back In the 2013 National Council (NC) elections, of the 18 contesting incumbents a total of six made it back which is around 34 percent of the contesting incumbents. In the 2018 NC elections of the 12 contesting incumbents a …

The large scale migration from Bhutan in the last few years has generated much debate and even more theories on the causes. This paper in a series of articles so far looked at all the immediate causes mentioned by people leaving and those who have left like livelihood, higher education, …

And international theories of migration applicable to Bhutan In our current thinking of the migration issue we assume that people move simply to earn more money or due to local factors like unemployment, red tape etc but migration is an outcome of far more complex decisions. With the large levels …

In what may be seen as a controversial decision the government has allowed two tour operator companies Amen and Rewa to bring in around 1,600 tourists at the old SDF rate of USD 65. Under the new SDF policy introduced last year tour operators were allowed to register tourists who …

On 24 August 2022 the Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) announced that the wining tender bid for the replacement of the artificial turfs at the Changlimithang National Stadium and the Changjiji worth USD 560,000 in total or Nu 45.87 million (mn) was awarded to an international sports supplier company named Limonta …

It is said that a court speaks through its verdicts and in recent times a string of verdicts from the Supreme Court, High Court and even district court shows a higher conviction rate of sexual harassment cases and a willingness to give weight to the voices of victims. The verdicts …

A joint statement on the visit of His Majesty The King to India announced that the Bhutanese side welcomed India’s offer to revise the tariff of the 336 MW Chukha project to Nu 3 per unit, which represents a 17% increase over the earlier tariff. The tariff currently is Nu …

This is after Indian media outlets misrepresented his interview to a Belgian newspaper and blew it out of proportion The Prime Minister Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering told The Bhutanese that he had said nothing new in his statements to the Belgian paper, La Libre, over Doklam and the Bhutan-China boundary …

One big question on the minds of civil servants are how they will be assessed individually, what will be the rewards or punishments and what are they expected to do. The RCSC said that civil servants will be assessed through an improved version of the current Managing for Excellence (MaX) …

A second smaller pedestrian terminal will come up too The Indian side has agreed to Bhutan’s proposal to keep the Pedestrian terminal at Phuentsholing open for 24 hours so that Indian visitors can come and go at any time. This will also allow Bhutanese people stuck across the border at …