The conduct of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG),  has been controversial to say the least, from giving a clean chit to all the accused in the Gyelpozhing land case to now defending two private cases against the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), a government agency, which in the opinion …

This year 100 enumerators of 2012 trained by the health ministry (MoH) and 40 supervisors from the ministry will carry out a health survey in the 20 dzongkhags as they visit the field by the 22nd of this month. The survey was not held since last 12 years. The General …

The absence of a proper designated facility sends a female patient from one venue to another where even the authorities are clueless with regards to her referral. First it was the WCPU of police station and now it’s the psychiatric ward of JDWNR hospital After the one month and two …

Korphu completes Rural Electrification Around 210 households under Korphu gewog will get electricity as the gewog finally completed the Rural Electrification (RE) schemes. According to the Gewog Gup Tsheltrim Dorji the project was started in the year 2008 and would complete this year. He said the Bhutan Power Corporation Limited …

With Thimphu’s ever-growing affinity to night life, people moonlighting under this umbrella find a growing need for convenience stores like the 24/7 When you stand watch as security personnel out of duty or when you have to work the late hours and early mornings out of necessity or just out …

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Gasa might have a tough race in the 2013 elections strictly going by the proportion or percentage of voters reserve in respective constituencies. Owing to eligible voter masses, PDP Gasa MP Damcho Dorji may have a shaky political career as his part of …

Response to ‘OL says Govt’s UNSC bid and foreign policy has damaged Bhutan’s national interests’ Both OL and PM are very capable, talented and well deserving people in the present post. I see them as the best debaters. But, what I also see in them is, they are more concerned …

The last four years of Bhutanese democracy has seen an evolution in the roles of democratic institutions like the Anti Corruption Commission, Judiciary, Media, Election Commission of Bhutan, Royal Audit Authority and the Parliament. A lot of the evolution would not have been possible without conflict, either with the executive …

One of the first parties to declare an interest in the 2013 elections the Druk Mitser Tshogpa (DMT) represented by its party symbol of a farmer plowing the field has officially been dissolved as a political party. DMT President, Dasho Penjor Dorji who ironically was one of the founders of …

ACC to state its position in court today The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) defended its suspension order for the Home Minister Lyonpo Minjur Dorji and Tshogpon Jigme Tshultim saying that since it is an administrative procedure and not a disciplinary action there was no requirement to inform the head of …