EDITORIAL

There have been a lot of opeds and articles in the Indian press questioning why Prime Minister Modi is ‘soft on China’ or not able to take punitive measures for putting a hold in the UNSC on listing JeM chief Masood Azhar as a terrorist. However, the view point of …

If there is one sector of the economy to be concerned about right now, then it is the Hotel sector. This paper has done a series of stories showing the major issues in the sector already. In 2013 the tourism loans, which were mainly hotel loans, was only the fifth …

Two major mistruths of the government have been discovered in the past one week and both of them portray the government in poor light. The first was the claim that the government had achieved or partly achieved most of its pledges. However, a closer look by the paper showed that, …

There are many ways in which we can love and care for our country, society and people. One important way is in fighting for your rights and fighting injustice. Now some may wonder how this is related or if it is even advisable. In fact this is one of the …

One of the main pleas coming out of the tourism conference is from the hotel industry asking the TCB to do away with soft regulations to control the large numbers of regional tourists coming to Bhutan. They say that this does not allow them to fill their hotel rooms and …

The upcoming Mining Bill will not just be any ordinary bill, but it will dictate the future of mining sector by focusing on mine ownership, allocation of mines, regulation of mines, levies and tax systems, community benefit sharing, environmental impact mitigation and more. However, the most important decision for the …

The Prime Minister has revealed that the government has asked the 4th Pay Commission to come up with a performance based pay hike system where pay will be determined by performance. This move, if well planned and implemented, can be revolutionary in terms of reforming the civil service. It has …

Some of the worst crimes in history have been committed with the best of intentions. The government, as part of its periodic austerity measures, wants to save costs and so one of the measures is e-procurement bypassing advertising in the media. In the larger scheme of things, the advertisement budget …

The trend with every new elected government is to go for an austerity drive at the beginning of its term, until it ends its term with an even more bloated current expenditure. The third democratic government seems set to implement new austerity measures, but unless it learns from what did …

The unemployment debate in Bhutan, for a long time, has been focused on the number of jobs to be provided, but the debate must now switch to the quality of jobs. The rush to provide youth jobs for the sake of providing jobs or filling up employment numbers will not …