EDITORIAL

When the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 was introduced in Parliament, there was a clear attempt by some MPs to politicize the issue. The Bill is not encouraging slaughter houses but only retains the provisions of the old Bill that already permitted slaughter houses. The new bill was an attempt …

The death of 33-year-old Biren Kumar Kafley in police custody is one of those cases that tests public trust in law enforcement, institutional transparency, and the rule of law itself. The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) and its Narcotics Division have given their version of events that Biren attempted to escape, …

The Global Peace Prayer Festival has drawn to a close and it can be said that it was a grand success. Bhutan has always called itself the last Vajrayana Buddhist country and rightly so, but there was always a sense of insecurity about the term, almost like a last man …

A great deal has been written and analyzed about His Majesty The Fourth King over the years, and more will be written in the years to come. It is also not just books, academic papers, news articles and videos, but the Great Fourth, through his wise leadership and heroics, is …

Two recent examples not only show how difficult it is for entrepreneurs in Bhutan, but how the system can turn vindictive when they raise their voices.  The National Post Harvest Center (NPHC) and the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives (DAMC) had come under some criticism a few months ago over …

The unfolding PandoraBiz SRC case has become a textbook example of how slow and reactive regulation can enable fraudsters to thrive, and how ordinary Bhutanese citizens are left to pay the price. The tragedy is not only that so many fell for it, but that regulators knew about Sandeep’s activities …

For years now as we scrolled on Facebook, we must have come across PandoraBiz or its owner at some time sounding very serious and making different claims of earning well through Crypto Trading. Be it regulators, the media and ordinary people we took it at face value and probably presumed …

The overtopping of the 1,020-MW Tala Hydropower Project, the single largest revenue-earner for Bhutan is more than an isolated technical failure. It is a wake-up call on operational discipline, maintenance culture, and accountability in one of the country’s most critical infrastructures. According to officials, the overtopping occurred after power supply …

There has been a lot of public anger on the ESP issue among others online. One can dismiss this as yet another online campaign that will fizzle out with time, but there is something different this time and it fits in with a larger trend. Be it the ESP or …

The Economic Stimulus Program (ESP) could have become the most popular initiative of the government ,but it is rapidly heading to be its most controversial one with more unhappy people than those happy with it. The ACC will let us know in due time if there is corruption involved in …