His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen returned home yesterday, following a successful official visit to India, this week, from January 6 to 10 on invitation of the President of India, Dr Pranab Mukherjee. Their Majesties were accompanied by Home and Cultural Affairs Minister Lyonpo Damcho Dorji, Foreign …

Contributed By Pema Thinley A Brief Background A significant move in the Bhutanese economy was the major investment and development of the Chukha hydro power plant in the 6th Five Year Plan (FYP) with support from the government of India. In the latter period of the same FYP, Bashochu Hydro …

It has not been guaranteed that the amendment of laws against drug pushers will put an end to the crime The number of drug abusers in the country has been on the rise each year. While many have attributed the rise to increase in drug dealers and smugglers, many others …

RTI will automatically generate information, which in turn, will be transformed into knowledge that is useful to the people and the country to create a knowledge society. A knowledge based society is the only secured source of security and sovereignty for Bhutan in this present knowledge-century. This knowledge, developed due …

If one reads the State of the Nation Reports in the last couple of years then one would get a feeling that everything was going on very well and the ‘untrustworthy media’ except for a ‘credible few’ was blowing everything out of proportion. Even when the rupee and credit crisis …

This is the second release of funds by GoI for the ESP The Ambassador of India to Bhutan, V.P. Haran handed over a cheque amounting to Indian Rupee (INR) 1.5bn to Finance Minister Namgay Dorji yesterday for the government’s Economic Stimulus Plan (ESP), in the presence of Prime Minister Tshering …

The 16th cabinet meeting held earlier this week on December 4, at the Tashichhodzong approved the establishment of Business Opportunity and Information Centre (BOIC) in the Ministry of Economic Affairs as a time bound autonomous agency for implementation of the Revolving Fund created as part of Economic Stimulus Program. The …

The 2013 Elections, was equivalent to the ‘Bhutan Spring’ – where a powerful and increasingly autocratic political structure fell down to put the world’s smallest Opposition party in power. There were several factors like- the state of the economy and unemployment, but the critical voices and stories that surfaced in …

Arelease by the Health Ministry found 25 new HIV cases in the last six months. This would mean that the total aids cases now goes up to 346 of which 173 are male and 173 are female. Of the numbers so far 84 are unemployed, 57 are farmers, 52 are …

The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has embarked on the post-parliamentary elections review process which is being undertaken in the form of the Learning from Experience Programme (LEP) for the second parliamentary elections. This process follows the completion of the conduct of the elections, the preparations for which began as …