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The plan is to eventually provide free Wi-Fi to students in all 20 Dzongkhags As per the Ministry of Education’s recommendation, four thromdes, Thimphu, Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Samdrup Jongkhar have put up proposal to the Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) to provide free Wi-Fi to students. The Education Minister …

A solution could be to scrap or amend the Tobacco Act (Amendment 2014) to legalize tobacco import and sales during the pandemic The RBP officials on 30th September 2020 could not believe their eyes when they looked at the infra red camera late at night. They saw around 10 people …

His Majesty The King arrived in Thimphu yesterday, after concluding a tour of the high risk areas along the eastern and southern border, and entered quarantine as per COVID protocol. His Majesty was accompanied by His Royal Highness Gyaltshab Jigme Dorji and the Prime Minister, Lyonchen Dasho Lotay Tshering.  His …

Bench 1 of the Thimphu District Court dismissed the OAG’s sedition case against Penjore on four grounds. The first is that during the investigation and when the remand order for Penjore had been sought, the case was about defamation but now it had turned into sedition. The second point was …

The Genome Sequencing of around 30 COVID-19 samples from Bhutan done in a lab in Bangkok show that the Delta Variant or B.1.617.2, first detected in India, is the main dominant COVID variant in Bhutan driving the cases here. It is in 87 percent of the samples, with 10 percent …

As the 12 weeks gap from the first dose comes to a close by 29th June there is a growing sense of anxiety in the government to get hold of the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccines. The anxiety is all the more given a much more infectious strain that has …

The ‘Penjore Penjore’ defamation case will be one of the biggest tests of the credibility and wisdom of the judiciary in recent times. This is because the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) wittingly or unwittingly has made the Judiciary the main victim in the case alleging that Penjore has …

The 6th May press release of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said that there is a prima facie case of defamation (section 317) and libel (section 320) charges against Penjore, but at the same time it also included sedition under section 331 (9).  In the penal code section …

587 cases from the community since last seven weeks A total of 1,826 COVID-19 cases reported in the country so far, out of which there are 358 active cases in seven dzongkhags. Until Friday quarantine facilities in Thimphu had one positive case, Phuentsholing had 71 active cases, Paro had 28 …

A lot of the corruption allegations and prices centered around Nepal but a ACC team never left for Nepal ACC used information from one of the accused traders in Nepal to find out Gypsum prices From the beginning, it was clear that the cross border nature of allegations of corruption …