DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Phuentsholing police have detained a taxi driver and truck driver for smuggling tobacco products into the country. Acting on a tip off police apprehended the taxi driver, 46, on the evening on 28 September in Phuentsholing with two bags of tobacco. The taxi driver, from Gairigaun, Tsirang, had already loaded …

An official press release by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that Bhutan will be pulling out of the SAARC summit in Pakistan. This would make Bhutan the fourth country after India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to pull out of the summit over increased tensions in the region especially after …

A cross section of voters feel that local government elections should be given priority since it strengthens democracy at the grassroots, is closest to people and pressing development needs and can also address issues like unemployment among youth. Tshering, a civil servant, said LG is the root level for the …

Nominated local government candidates in Dagana’s Gozhi gewog are going from house to house and briefly introducing themselves to individual households as part of their door-to-door campaign for the second LG elections on September 27. But the unpredictable weather conditions with either hot sun or heavy rain have made campaigning …

The Ground Breaking Ceremony of Construction of Urban Infrastructure for Lower Taba (LAP) in Thimphu took place on friday morning. Infrastructure such as road and drainage, water supply, sewerage Net-Work System, electricity, communication facilities will be put in place in the next 30 months. Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay spoke about the need to …

Over the past four days the candidates contesting for Gup, Mangmi and Tshogpa in Karna gewog, Dagana, had the opportunity to present their manifestos and interact with their voters through the common forum platform organized by the election commission. Each candidate got 10 minutes to present their manifesto. The first …

At 60, Penjor Dorji is giving one more shot at serving his community as an elected local government official, something he did for 15 years in the past. But he is doing so after a gap of five years and on the insistence of the people of Bjacho Chiwog in …

On an average, at least two people are apprehended in a day for possession of controlled and illegal substances in the border town of Phuentsholing, according to police. Drug related cases in the southern border town are on the rise with at least seven to eight cases in a week …

Civil servants who say they are affected by the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) reforms have refused to accept the commission’s stand of addressing the issue of stagnation and have suggested reverting to the old system or consider revisiting the current system to make it agreeable to both parties. “In …

Thimphu Police, while searching a house in Changzamtog for a stash of restricted prescription drugs, ended up seizing four foreign breed canines from the same location. On the afternoon of September 3 Thimphu police, based on a tip off, apprehended two men, aged 26 and 29, from Changzamtog. On searching …