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Tashi Dorji was elected as the National Council rep with his 5,848 votes secured by 5,426 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes and 422 postal ballot votes (PB). The incumbent NC member Sonam Yangchen managed 3,540 votes with 3,156 EVM votes and 384 postal ballot votes while Chado Namgyal with 629 …

  Incumbent National Council (NC) member Tshering Dorji with 1,866 total votes (EVM-1630- Postal Ballot- 236) won the NC elections to be re-elected as the dzongkhag’s NC representative. His contenders Choda Jamtsho received 631 votes (EVM-603, PB- 28), Khadu Wangchuk got 634 votes (EVM- 546, PB-88) and Tenzin Norbu got …

Lone candidate, Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga, former National Council representative from Trashigang is once again victorious securing an overwhelming 11,219 ‘yes’ votes and just 2,620 ‘No’ votes. Dasho Dr. Sonam Kinga secured 7,826 yes votes through the EVM and 3,393 votes through postal ballot votes. He was nominated from Shongphu …

Nima Gyeltshen, 29 nominated from Chang Gewog secured the most votes in Thimphu Dzongkhag. 2,250 people voted for him, of which 137 were postal ballots. After the elections, Nima said “people have shown faith and trust in me. They really understood whatever I said during the common forums.” He worked …

The country’s economy is on a sound footing and any new government that comes in will enjoy huge economic growth, was the message sent out by the government during the last and 25th monthly ‘meet the press’ session on Thursday. This was in response to a question asked by The …

Police have apprehended an expatriate worker in connection with the murder of the 13-year-old girl in Sarpang. The suspect was arrested the same day. The suspect has, however, not confessed to the crime A minor girl was brutally murdered by unidentified assailant(s) and was found about 20 meters away from …

Samdrup Jongkhar dzongkhag has come up with new drainage and treatment plants, roads, flood protection walls, traffic post and town planning for the 11th year five year plan. The drainage in the town is spread in two places with one in the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) colony below the …

The Wangduephodrang dzongkhag court on 5 April pronounced a prison term of nine years on a 29-year old man from Punakha for the offence of rape of a minor, a child above 12 years on the night of 1 February. Though the convict had argued that it was a consensual …

The Zhemgang district court granted bail to six suspects involved in the burglary of a 330-page sergi jatongpa (a religious scripture written in gold). The six are among the 10 people arrested for their involvement in the burglary from Nyakhar lhakhang in Nangkor, Zhemgang. Four of the suspects were granted …

With legalization of Cordyceps collection, the highlanders are bound for collection in droves every season. These collectors meanwhile take in all the garbage and come out only with Cordyceps. A tell-tale sign, that irrespective of individual gains, nature stands to be polluted consistently and damagingly. Concerns are raised that if …