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You may have heard of people and things going missing, but Bhutan is facing a unique situation of enacted laws going ‘missing,’ among many other major legal anomalies found by the Law Review Task Force, set up by the Cabinet on 20th April 2015. The government set up the task …

As part of His Majesty’s land reform exercise, 8,143.34 acres of land kidu was granted to 7011 thram holders of Chhukha Dzongkhag on 15th October 2015. During an Audience granted to the people of Chhukha dzongkhag at the Dzong, His Majesty described land as a scarce and precious resource. With …

MoH proposes to RCSC to hire retiring doctors on a special contract   This paper in its last issue published an open letter by an eminent  former Dungtsho Sherab Jorden, who announced that he would no longer see patients after he was served a letter by the Bhutan Medical and …

Govt completes BCSEA paper leak investigation The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) investigation into the English paper II leak during the class 12 Bhutan Higher Secondary Examination Certificate (BHSEC) board examinations has found that more papers were leaked then initially assumed. In addition to English II the other papers leaked were Economics, …

If the national football team was having a bad first half conceding three goals, things were not going any better for the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) which had its live broadcast delayed by 40 minutes. Many people across the nation were left perplexed in front of their television screens as …

The Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) has replaced the national football team coach Norio Tsukitate, with a new head coach Pema. Tshering Chophel will be the assistant coach. This was after the Norio walked out in the second half of the Bhutan-Maldives game after an argument with the team manager. The …

Tashi Tshering (43), the patient at the heart of the Druk Air deplaning controversy passed away on Thursday 1st October at 8 pm in Bangkok Hospital after fighting for his life for the past few days. Yesterday, this paper talked to the daughter Dolka Tenzin (17) and the wife Tenzin …

Bhutan Civil Aviation Authority to ask Druk Air for report on deplaning of patient The recent deplaning of a medical patient Tashi Tshering over smell concerns by Druk Air will not end at a few press releases. The Minister for Information and Communication (MoIC) Lyonpo D.N Dhungyel said that the …

Respect Educate Nurture Empower Women (RENEW) receives as many as 17 cases on an average in a week. One would expect them all to be the familiar tales of husbands abusing their wives or young women getting abused but there are an increasing number of abused men also coming forward. …

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) president Ugen Tsechup Dorji has announced that he would be resigning by the end of November 2015, a good four months before his three year term ends in March 2016. Ugen Tsechup said that he is stepping down because in spite of …