Bhutan’s Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has said that Bhutan’s 26th spot ranking in the Transparency International ranking, an improvement from 2016 and 2015, is the best ever performance of Bhutan since it featured on the list in 2006, around 12 years ago. Going by the ACC, this result is not …

Did you know gross investment as a percentage of GDP was the highest in Bhutan, in a sample of 40 prominent developing countries. This includes rapid industrializing countries like China, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Ethiopia, etc. Part of this is explained by the high share of imports in Bhutan. It is …

The Prime Minister Lyonchhen Dasho Tshering Tobgay, joined the armed forces, police personnel, Punatsangchhu  project staff, Desuups, locals and WangduePhodrang Dzongkhag officials in battling the forest fire in Nahi on 11th February.

With the ruling and opposition party trading allegations in the public domain, there have been calls from many for not doing so and preserving our societal ‘harmony’. Both sides are accused of ‘politicization’ and even asked to handle issues quietly like writing secret letters to the ACC or RAA and …

OXFORD – Germany’s Network Enforcement Act – according to which social-media platforms like Facebook and YouTube could be fined €50 million ($63 million) for every “obviously illegal” post within 24 hours of receiving a notification – has been controversial from the start. After it entered fully into effect in January, there was …

For Buddhists, Beyul Langdra in Wangdue Phodrang represents a real paradise where hundreds of devotees come every year to receive blessings from the sacred monuments believed to have been left behind by the great Buddhist Master, Guru Padmasambhava during the eighth century. The oral tradition has it that when Guru …

Recently the NRDCL carried out reforms to counter the growing trend of truckers acting as middlemen and inflating sand prices. In protest, the truckers tried to organize a virtual strike by trying to stop fellow truckers from going for sand collection. Taxi drivers outside the arrival terminal of the Paro …

Bhutan can earn around an additional Nu 540 mn a year from the 336 MW Chukha as India hikes tariff by 30 cheltrums per unit. The hike will be effective from 1st January 2017. Chukha produces around 1800 million units a year. This can also push up the total revenue …

WASHINGTON, DC – In recent years, Russia and China have poured considerable resources into arenas typically associated with “soft power,” a term coined by the American political scientist Joseph S. Nye and understood as the “ability to affect others by attraction and persuasion.” Either directly or through compliant surrogates, these two countries …

His Majesty offered a Shiva statue at the Samtse Tashichhoeling Shiva Mandir on the 30th of January 2018. The three-and half-decade-old Mandir is considered to be one of the oldest Shiva Mandirs in the country. After granting Land Kidu to the people of the dzongkhag on the 29th of January …