His Majesty The King will embark on a Royal Visit to India beginning Friday. While in India, Their Majesties will visit Her Majesty’s old school, The Lawrence School Sanawar, where His Majesty has been invited to grace the concluding ceremony of the school’s 167th Founder’s Day celebrations. Their Majesties will …
Read More »Nyamrup’s concern on the politicization of media
Media in Bhutan is at its nascent stage. Despite that fact, Bhutanese media is dutifully carrying the heavy burden of its responsibility – to inform, to educate, and to encourage free and healthy dialogue on issues of national importance, among others. That is why maintaining the freedom of media, print …
Read More »Transparency in hydropower projects
The escalating cost of the 10,000 MW projects has been a perennial issue that has featured in the media and public discussion. It has also been mentioned, many times, how majority of the national debt is hydropower debt. The size and number of the projects coupled with escalating costs and …
Read More »Community comes together for social wellness
The Young Volunteers In Action (Y-VIA), Youth Development Fund (YDF) have come to the rescue of a 76-year-old man, Chari, who was living in a dilapidated hut without electricity. Y-VIA of Tsebar Lower Secondary School have built a small concrete house and a pit toilet for him a few days …
Read More »India’s Solar FIT (Feed-in-Tariff) policy has potential scope for expansion into SAARC
Bhutan & Nepal can be First beneficiaries as Hydropower & Solar make the perfect hybrid power trading portfolio for Himalayan region especially Bhutan and Nepal. While, Hydropower offers great potential scope for expansion of the economic contribution to Bhutan, it will be critical that the fledging economy of Bhutan refrains …
Read More »Financial Responses to Watchdog RMA Dogged With Its Own Irregularities In RAA Report
Now we understand how our Apex bank is functioning and also why the INR crises occurred. The management should backside their own interest and upfront the nation interest. I doubted the functioning of RMA since import and export had created problem for the nation. By Aito I don’t believe Bhutanese …
Read More »Putting the focus back on the Economy
This maybe the umpteenth reminder, but the 2013 elections was largely won and lost on the state of the economy. Therefore, it goes without saying that the focus of the new government should be mainly on the economy. In reports emanating from the government there seems to be a lot …
Read More »Bhutan taking part in UN Peacekeeping Operations
Dear Sir, My chest swelled with pride to learn that Bhutan will be sending three senior officers as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. I felt that a country that has been so dependent on the international community and so vulnerable is coming into its own. It was also a …
Read More »On the Eastern Development Initiative
I would like to applaud the government for coming up with the Eastern Development Initiative to develop the six Dzongkhags of Eastern Bhutan. The PDP during its election pledges had talked of developing the East and now I am happy to see that in power they intend to keep their …
Read More »Harnessing Social Media for good
The Ministry of Information and Communication’s (MoIC) draft Social Media Policy is not only an interesting document but it is also an interesting idea of sorts. Firstly, an immediate response to any world of ‘policy or regulations’ around media or social media invites instant and understandable suspicion. However, the draft …
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