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Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay around two weeks ago wrote to the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) to revisit and look into the grievances of the Supervisory and Support (S&S) category of civil servants. “These S&S civil servants would know what is good for them,” said the PM. The main complaint of …

The Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay has written to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) asking them to refrain from criticizing the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), and to not challenge the ACC in the court of law on the Trongsa land case. The OAG after reviewing the Trongsa Land …

A Civil service hike would only be considered once hydro revenue starts flowing in The government on 22nd February, 2017 announced the formation of the third Pay Commission to look into the pay, allowances and benefits of the local government (LG). The commission was formed based on the recommendations of …

In a sign that the Parliament is still trying to resolve the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal Motor vehicles agreement (BBIN) quandary the 4th May Joint Sitting for BBIN was postponed to 15th June. According to a Member of Parliament (MP) this postponement was decided on after a meeting between …

The Parliament’s ‘National Committee on Parliamentary Entitlements’ comprising of members from the ruling party, opposition party and National Council recently met to discuss and propose two entitlement issues that came before it. The first was on exemption of sales tax and customs duty or vehicle quota  for both the outgoing …

The Thimphu Thromde has relaxed the tracksuit rule by a day and decided to allow students in the capital to wear tracksuits on Fridays and Saturdays, but not on other days. According to earlier directives students were allowed to wear tracksuits only on Saturday during their health and physical education …

Now the challenge in Bhutan is to convince the joint committee and then the joint sitting to defer the BBIN agreement    A release from the Foreign Ministry on 27th April said that Bhutan has decided to give its consent for the activation of the BBIN Agreement among the three member …

Thimphu city is still recovering from the tragic news of the four-year-old boy Loday who went missing on Thursday afternoon only to be fished out the next morning from the Wangchu or Thimp Chhu River, below the Terma Linca Resort in Babesa. The child’s shirt was stuck in a rock …

The main underlying current against the BBIN agreement started from the exponential increase in the numbers of regional tourists coming into Bhutan with their own vehicles. The vehicles, most of which are from India cannot be directly stopped unless there are specific reasons like lack of immigration clearance or the …

Over the years one of the main financial demands of Bhutan’s big business and industrial sector has been about allowing them to borrow from outside Bhutan given the limited liquidity in Bhutan for major projects. However, the ground reality has been that even the major business houses have not been …