Of 172 cases on day six 20 cases are from flu clinics, 62 from mass screening and 32 from community surveillance with 58 close contact cases Within the last nine days of the lockdown that first started in Thimphu there has been a total of 172 local transmission cases averaging …

On day 3 of the lockdown on 22nd December the Prime Minister along with an announcement for a National Lockdown also announced mass testing for Thimphu. He said a total of 15,000 to 20,000 people in Thimphu will be tested in a few days and we will have an idea …

The Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering announced that the lady (50-year-old) who was identified as suffering from an auto-immune disease and who had come back from Kolkata after treatment had passed away at 3 am on 25th December. Lyonchhen said that the lady had initially tested positive for COVID-19 …

Early on Sunday morning or 20th December social media was abuzz with rumors of a lockdown in Thimphu due a to a positive case being detected. People went rushing to buy vegetables and other necessities. Sure enough, well before 9 am came the announcement for a lockdown along with the …

RCSC also outlines important roles for the Principal Secretary In a significant development ever since the new Cabinet Secretary Sangay Duba was appointed from 12th March 2020 he had to join office a smaller ‘Office of the Cabinet Affairs,’ with the reduced roles of mainly conducting cabinet meetings and Committee …

His Majesty grants Kasho for reforming the Civil Service and Quality of Education A traditional and popular Bhutanese saying is, ‘A King’s Command is heavier than the mountains and more precious than gold.’ A whole nation glued to their TV sets on 17th December will now better understand the full …

The untimely death of Karma Choechung, one of the leading actors in the Bhutanese film industry, has brought up the issue of the lack of safety in the film industry and the need for both investment and rules to prevent such tragedies again. Close calls A film director, on the …

With Bhutan being one of the last 10 countries in the world whose Parliament is yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) the Prime Minister said that he is not against Bhutan joining UNCRP but it must be staggered. He said more …

Not long after the former Cabinet Secretary Kesang Wangdi finished his term on 31st August 2019 an extraordinary change took place in the Prime Minister’s Office. The spacious office of the Cabinet Secretary was physically shifted away from the PMO in the National Assembly building to smaller quarters in Tashichhodzong …

One of the contentious issues discussed in the National Assembly this time was a motion moved by the Dewathang-Gomdar MP Ugyen Dorji asking the government to increase the retirement age of civil servants from 56 and 58 to 60 for all civil servants. The motion was only narrowly defeated as …