DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Two men aged 38 and 32 from Kahgochen and Khebisa were admitted to the Dagapela hospital as both of them were bitten by snakes on their left hand. The type of snake has not been identified. Both of them were bitten while working in the Cardamom field. The case was …

The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) in a press release issued yesterday said that it would start the election process for the vacant North-Thimphu seat of the former DPT MP Kinga Tshering from October onwards. The ECB said that it received a letter on 22nd of August 2016 from the Speaker of …

The Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) has received an official complaint from the people of Khaling gewog, which accused its former gup of misappropriating the gewog’s development funds. The complaint letter accuses the gup of embezzling about Nu 80,000 from the total of Nu.0.6 mn allocated for irrigation work at Jeri …

Officials of the Royal Civil Service Commission have clarified that the main reason for bringing reforms to the Supervisory and Support Category (S&S category) was to address stagnation faced by the large majority of civil servants in this category who provide important services. Prior to the reform, career movement in …

Over 40 members of the press, supporters of the defendants and the general public crammed into the small Bench 1 courtroom of the Thimphu district court where the preliminary hearing of Sonam Phuntsho’s (Ap SP) charges of libel against Namgay Zam and Dr. Shacha Wangmo was held on Thursday, August …

Thimphu police arrested three suspects in relation to a burglary in a week’s time. However, one suspect is at large. On August 8, Thimphu police arrested a 19- year-old man for burglarizing a house in Babesa. The suspect stole Nu 110,000, one gold ring, one mobile phone and B-Mobile and …

The Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa has criticized the Central Schools program of the government  calling it archaic and reversing the advances made in self-reliance. The party said that while there is no disagreement on the consolidation of the school system to improve efficiency and quality of education in the long run. …

Dzongkhag election team in Zhemgang is busy informing and sending circulars to the heads of Local Government since the date for the 2nd Local Government election is scheduled on August 9. Election Commission of Bhutan notified that the elections to the Gewog Tshogdes of 205 Gewogs of 20 Dzongkhags and …

Lumang gewog’s five women candidates for the upcoming local government elections are beginning to have a change of heart as election day draws closer. No final election dates have been announced yet but three of the candidates say they are not ready and two say they do not feel confident. …

Phuentsholing police have handed over the abandoned vehicle which was found parked near Norgay compound in Phuentsholing. The vehicle, a Toyota Inova with a Sikkim registration number was spotted abandoned and later on the incident was communicated with the Sadar police station, Sikkim, Gangtok. Later on it was found that …