Rest could be met by other countries, GoI and possibly Moderna The Danish government announcing 250,000 AstraZeneca doses for Bhutan on Thursday has come as a major boost for Bhutan’s second dose efforts whose 16-week gap now ends by the end of July. The Prime Minister Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering …

Lyonchhen may not have been able to visit Nganglam due to COVID-19, but he told the paper that he had made hundreds of calls to the constituency and especially to politically active people that included hardcore supporters of DPT to support the DNT candidate.  According to sources, in the Chhoekhor-Tang …

The Mines and Minerals Bill of Bhutan 2020 was deferred by the Speaker after the Chairperson of the Joint Committee for the Bill, MP Kinley Wangchuk recommended that the Mines and Minerals Bill of Bhutan 2020 be deferred in the Joint Sitting. The Chairperson submitted that despite holding meetings for …

Nanglam got a rude shock on the 19th of June when it found its first two COVID-19 cases as part of a routine enhanced surveillance testing in the Dungsam Cement factory premises. One was a security guard from the private security company Heruka Security Services and another was a loader. …

A solution could be to scrap or amend the Tobacco Act (Amendment 2014) to legalize tobacco import and sales during the pandemic The RBP officials on 30th September 2020 could not believe their eyes when they looked at the infra red camera late at night. They saw around 10 people …

Depending on which day you took your vaccine in March 2021, Bhutan will be finishing its 12-week gap between the 19th and 26th of June with it extending to 29th June for some latecomers. However, after that Bhutan will have well and completely finished the 12-week gap and it will …

It has emerged that when Penjore was detained or arrested on 6th of May by the Royal Bhutan Police, it was done without an arrest warrant at the time. Section 165 of the Civil and Criminal Procedure Code of Bhutan (CCPC) lays out 14 conditions for arrest without warrant like …

As the 12 weeks gap from the first dose comes to a close by 29th June there is a growing sense of anxiety in the government to get hold of the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccines. The anxiety is all the more given a much more infectious strain that has …

The ‘Penjore Penjore’ defamation case will be one of the biggest tests of the credibility and wisdom of the judiciary in recent times. This is because the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) wittingly or unwittingly has made the Judiciary the main victim in the case alleging that Penjore has …

The 6th May press release of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said that there is a prima facie case of defamation (section 317) and libel (section 320) charges against Penjore, but at the same time it also included sedition under section 331 (9).  In the penal code section …