The Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP) will put people first and politics second. People from the BKP camp said that it is the hallmark of its manifesto to take the nation and its people forward. BKP unlike the ruling party and incumbent government’s ‘Gross National Happiness’ will take an approach, of …

The party now has 39 candidates The Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP) in a press conference yesterday announced the addition of seven more candidates. The Party Interim President Sonam Tobgay said “The party’s suffers no illusions that this will be an easy process, it will be a challenge. And that is …

As the figures on traffic violations rise rapidly year by year, Superintendent of Thimphu traffic division, Major Pasang Dorji, emphasized that they have no tolerance for traffic violators. Records with the Thimphu traffic division show that there has been a drastic increase in traffic violations over the span of a …

A 22-year old man is currently recovering from a stabbing wound after undergoing an operation at the JDWNR hospital. The victim was referred from Phuentsholing General Hospital on the evening of Sunday after the incident, which had taken place at around 4:30 pm on the same day. The initial report …

It is extremely unfortunate that Druk Net a government Internet Services Provider has blocked or disabled Bhutannomics. Going by the reluctance of Druk Net official to say who asked them to block it the guess is that it is someone senior in the government. Going by the list of people …

Bhutan has around 67,000 vehicles and in 2012 itself there were around 26,000 cases of traffic violations across the country with around 17,000 just in Thimphu. There were also 96  deaths in the last one year. These numbers have all been increasing at an alarming rate in the last few …

In a press conference last Wednesday the Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP) introduced five people who endorsed what the party stood for and planned to do for the nation. “People comes first and then politics for second,” said the president of the BKP, Sonam Tobgay during the conference which was held …

Workman ship in Bhutan is very poor especially in Government funded projects. Karma Wow!  Claiming no procedural lapses even when the whole bridge went down. What caused it to fall down if there were no procedural lapses? Was it then caused by Nedhag Zhidag of that place?ACC should also get …

It is a welcome development that a host of international experts are working on the New Development Paradigm (NDP) in Thimphu, an endeavor which has implications way beyond this small Himalayan Buddhist state. Bhutan in many ways has the historical credibility and moral authority to propose and host such a …

The Dungkhag court of Lhamoizingkha under Dagana court announced a prison term of seven months to the 23-year old man who was harassing his 17-year old younger sister. The verdict was passed on 29 January. The 17-year old victim had reported the matter against her elder brother to the Lhamoizingkha …