The Zhemgang police detained 33-year old man after he was accused of raping a 19-year old girl in her house on the afternoon of 16 April. The incident took place in Zhemgang and the complaint was filed by the victim’s father who during the time of incident was out for …

Former school principal and 2008 PDP candidate Kaka Tshering from Paro edged a victory over his four other rivals in Paro with 2,422 votes of which the Electronic Voting Machine votes 2,190 and the Postal Ballot votes were 232 votes. The others who were not were far behind were Kinley …

As per the latest results from the Election Commission of Bhutan the winners are as follwos. In Trongsa Tharchen (33) won by getting 1862 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes and 221 Postal Ballot (PB) votes leading to a total of 2083 votes. In Bumthang Nima (34) has won by securing …

The Druk Chirwang Tshogpa has introduced three more candidates and will announce the remaining candidates in the coming days. Kinga Dorji – Bardo-Trong, Zhemgang has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. He has been running his cable network business in Zhemgang for over four years now. “I am going to be …

With the political prospects of the Home Minister and Speaker already looking increasingly bleak due to the Gyelpozhing case, the Minister for Information and Communication, Lyonpo Nandalal Rai could join them due to his inability to get Audit Clearances. The MoIC Minister has seven pending Audit Memos and three supervisory …

In what has been an unexplored aspect of the Gyelpozhing case the current Speaker of the National Assembly Jigme Tshultim enjoyed a meteoric rise in his civil service career after the allocation of plots to influential people in Gyelpozhing. This happened in the presence of ministers in the cabinet that …

The prevalence of a loophole in the law which does not prohibit candidates of parties from switching to another after the primary rounds may very well give rise to practices called horse-trading and coalition in political lingo to be very visibly demonstrated by parties and individuals after the primary elections. …

The dzongkhag municipality has set many new town-planning measures to advance the town area. As per the Thrompon and engineers of the Dzongkhag they have looked on the maintenance and the renovations of the specific places, roads and the undergoing constructions. Some of the activities included under this grand scheme …

Living in a one room bamboo makeshift house, Dhan Kumari, a 61-year old from Homa village under Lhamoizingkha dungkhag, Dagana Dzongkhag, has been living there for more than seven months. Ever since she fell from a one storied house about 10 feet tall, back in her village, her legs got …

Police have apprehended an expatriate worker in connection with the murder of the 13-year-old girl in Sarpang. The suspect was arrested the same day. The suspect has, however, not confessed to the crime A minor girl was brutally murdered by unidentified assailant(s) and was found about 20 meters away from …