The BEO or Japan case has mainly been discussed in terms of contractual obligations and their violations, and the financial implications. However, the human toll brought out by students and parents in this paper, last week, gave pause for thought. Two dead, one in coma, 30 plus with Tuberculosis, two …

Of all the world’s regions, it is the Americas (North and South) that has suffered the greatest deterioration (3.6 percent) in its regional score measuring the level of press freedom constraints and violations. This was not just due to the poor performance of the United States, Brazil and Venezuela. Nicaragua (114th) fell 24 places, one …

Nothing will get a civil servant as worked up as a pay commission report. With their dominance of the social media and their consumption of the media, their voices will be heard, loud and clear. Back this up with the fact that they form a sizeable and influential voting block, …

For more than two years, China has waged a campaign of unparalleled repression against its Islamic minorities, incarcerating an estimated one-sixth of the adult Muslim population of the Xinjiang region at one point or another. Yet, with the exception of a recent tweet from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling on China to …

After the release of the Fourth Pay Commission report, the debate inevitably has focused around the increase in basic pay which is 14 percent at higher levels to 21 percent at lower levels in the civil service ranks from O 1 to Ex 1. There is also a 14 percent …

The Thimphu Structure Plan has clearly outlined residential areas where apart from some small shops, not much commercial activity is allowed. However, the Thimphu Thromde, since 2016, decided to allow a great degree and level of commercial activity in these areas- including buildings hotels and service apartments for tourists, by …

MoWHS, which has ‘learnt’ of the rule change 2 years later, feels it violates LG Act and has sought OAG’s opinion Thimphu is currently in the midst of record land prices, tenants being asked to move out in large numbers by landlords converting their buildings into hotels or  service apartments, …

Thimphu Thromde after numerous discussions with relevant stakeholders has decided to move all the entertainment centers (registered under Thimphu Throm) into the Thromde core area. The process of reallocation of the entertainment centers has already begun and by the end of 2019, everything will be shifted in one location. As …

There have been a lot of opeds and articles in the Indian press questioning why Prime Minister Modi is ‘soft on China’ or not able to take punitive measures for putting a hold in the UNSC on listing JeM chief Masood Azhar as a terrorist. However, the view point of …

The Home Minister Lyonpo Dasho Sherub Gyaltshen said that on 16th January in the 1st session of the third Parliament, after in-depth discussions, the NA decided to retain the post of gaydrungs (gewog clerks) and under favorable circumstances regularize their services [long-term contract]. Today there are 199 Gaydrungs of whom …