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The current government has around 20 months left before the 2018 General Election process starts. Before that, in a major push to bring down youth unemployment the government is planning to hire around 11,000 youths starting from January 2017 till June 2018 in an 18th month period under its ‘Job …

The Bhutan Information Communications and Media Bill (ICM Bill), 2016 has taken a lengthy 237 page ICM Act of 2006 and reduced it down to a more upto date and simpler 78 page ICM Bill by removing many bye-laws and rules in the original Act. The ICM Bill has also …

The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has forwarded the case of the ‘Water Terrorist,’ Sangay Dorji to the Office of the Attorney General. Sangay Dorji, who is a man servant not only confessed to pumping in kerosene but also bathroom cleaner Phenol, paint thinner and paint at different times on multiple …

PDP swept all 14 polling stations with wide margins The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Tshering won the North Thimphu by-election with a landslide picking up 75.5 percent of the votes coming to 2032 votes.  The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) candidate Kessang Wangmo got 24.5 percent of the votes coming …

A surrogate mother from Hyderabad, India, gave birth to a baby girl on 29th October Saturday night in the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital, making it perhaps the first recorded birth of its kind in Bhutan. The baby will be handed over to the real parents by 5th November. …

After over two weeks of trekking across the most difficult places in Bhutan, His Majesty The King arrived at Sephu, the first settlement since Thanza in Lunana, and spent Coronation Day on 1st November with the thousands of people who had gathered at Bechu Goenpai Thang to welcome their King. …

In a sign of the importance of the North Thimphu contest, both the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader criticized each other’s party candidate’s statements and both also said that they are confident of a win. The Prime Minister focused on the statement made by the DPT candidate Kezang Wangmo …

The Prime Minister Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay said that the cabinet in a meeting on Friday decided to make Fixed Deposits exempt from taxes. Currently interest earned from fixed deposits in bank is considered to be part of one’s income and so is taxed under the Personal Income Tax. The Bhutanese …

Both the ruling People’s Democratic Party and the Opposition Druk Phuensum Tshogpa party candidates have released their respective party manifestos. PDP’s Tshering who has a more detailed and longer manifesto made specific promises for different parts of the North Thimphu constituency. The main focus of the candidate is on giving …

The Ministry of Finance and the Royal Monetary Authority have started working on setting up a Stabilization Fund where a percentage of hydropower revenue and free royalty energy will be saved. The aim is to have the fund in place before the end of the current government’s term. The fund …