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 …

The government will not do away with the USD 200 per day Sustainable Development Fee (SDF) for tourists and INR 1,200 per day (SDF) for Indian tourists, but it is considering giving major waivers to promote the tourism sector in Bhutan which is in a major slump after the pandemic. …

So far it is well known that business outlets in major towns like Thimphu and Phuentsholing are not doing well with reduced customers, but now even the iconic Paro Town is suffering with the same issue. The reporter talked to a range of business outlets and found that it is …

In what is the most senior figure detained till date, the Anti Corruption Commission recently detained the Deputy CEO of the DrukPNB bank and a credit officer from the Thimphu branch of the bank. The two were detained for some days after seeking a remand order from the court and …

The focus so far has mainly been on the large numbers of students leaving for Australia, but on the other hand there is also a silent and significant migration happening to the Middle-East. Qatar has around 1,000 Bhutanese and a lot of them have come recently. When the Prime Minister …

At a special High-Level Thematic discussion called ‘Supporting Sustainable and Irreversible Graduation from the Least Developed Country Category,’ the Bhutanese delegation to the Least Developed Countries conference represented by Foreign Ministry Chief of the Social and Development Division in the Multilateral Department, Ugyen Dorji, expressed Bhutan’s fears and expectations over …