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The High court in its verdict on the Chang Ugyen case yesterday stipulated a three years non-compoundable jail term to the former Royal Advisory Councilor and Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) Vice President, Chang Ugyen in connection to an illegal land transfer case during his term as a Chang Gup in …
Read More »His Majesty the King celebrates Dashain
It was a special Dashain for the people of Lokchina Gewog, who were privileged to welcome His Majesty The King to their gewog and receive Tika personally from their King on 22nd October. Hundreds of people from the gewog, as well as from neighbouring areas, were gathered at the school …
Read More »Govt creates a new SOE for Duty Free Shops
Thimphu’s duty free shop, located along the Norzin Lam, is an iconic landmark where senior bureaucrats and politicians go to get their annual quota of duty or tax free shopping in the form of mainly fine wine and the occasional perfume. The shop also does brisk business with many tourists, …
Read More »RCSC proposes 6 months maternity leave plus 6 months flexi time
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has finalized its proposal on maternity leave, and is expected to put it up for approval by November 2015. This is after the government put up a proposal for maternity leave to the RCSC in January 2015, in line with its own election promise. …
Read More »Govt’s Law Review Taskforce finds many laws are ‘missing’, in conflict and not implemented
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 …
Read More »131,347 acres granted as Kidu to 109,499 beneficiaries
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 …
Read More »Larger questions hang over private practice
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 …
Read More »Economics, English I, Dzongkha I & II papers also leaked but only English II went beyond one student: RBP Report
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, …
Read More »How Bhutan-Maldives match broadcast got delayed by 40 minutes
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 …
Read More »National team gets an interim coach in Pema
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 …
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