The current Punatsangchu I dam site is likely to be abandoned as a third party foreign expert has recommended that the Punatsangchu I project abandon its current dam site and instead build a barrage upstream. This recommendation is the final nail in the coffin of the P-1 dam which was …

The PM said the government will religiously follow and implement the Kashos unconditionally His Majesty The King on 17th December 2020, during the National Day address, announced that two Royal Kashos on Civil Service Reform and Education Reform would be issued. The Royal Kashos were symbolically handed over to the …

The 2,560 MW Sunkosh project may be the most discussed hydro project in South Asia that is yet to take off. However, the fate of the project will become clear by June 2021 as the Ministry of Economic Affairs has given itself this timeline by when the fate of the …

Of the 7 recovered Bhutanese COVID-19 patients contacted by the paper 5 still suffer from some lingering effects Bhutan has so far got 859 COVID-19 cases of which  841 have recovered so far  with only 17 active cases and 1 death. Despite the encouraging numbers, there is an increasing body …

As the fear of COVID-19 dissipates with some people starting to compare it to the Flu and others coming out to say they will not take the vaccine, The Bhutanese talked to doctors who treated COVID-19 patients to understand what Bhutanese COVID-19 patients go through. Apart from that, there is …

While the 18 Dzongkhags are in the green zone and back to normal with offices and schools having resumed, Thimphu and Paro have unlocked phase wise into the yellow zone after tests from one household each largely came up negative. This is especially so in Thimphu where mass testing was …

On 18th of January the Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering came on air and accepted there have been major lapses and the mistakes have happened from the Paro airport, leading to the second outbreak. He said the government has done its own review, but he did not assign accountability …

With India explicitly committing to meet Bhutan’s vaccine needs for 533,000 eligible people and other arrangements in the pipeline, it is becoming clearer now that the main challenge of getting the COVID-19 vaccine is largely resolved. This now leaves two issues at hand for Bhutan. One is the safety of …

More details have emerged on the various factors contributing to the second outbreak and its spread. Government officials still regard the most probable source of the second outbreak as being the 27th November 2020 flight, mentioned by The Bhutanese last week, where 33 to 34 of the 52 to 55 …

Last weekend, The Bhutanese published a 2,400-word investigative article with the headline “How complacency and lax protocols led to the nation’s second COVID-19 outbreak,” which focused primarily on the systemic lapses that led to the second outbreak.  It examined measures inside the airport, logistics and coordination issues and found lapses from the …