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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 …
Read More »MoIC working on new aviation guidelines to avoid such cases
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 …
Read More »Increasing number of men seek RENEW’s help
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. …
Read More »BCCI President announces resignation over lack of progress in private sector
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 …
Read More »Two missing sisters from Bhutan were duped and trapped in Kashmir
Two Bhutanese women, Chandra Maya Rai, 24 and Bina Rai, 28 went missing from Jaigaon, India on March 14, 2014. The two unmarried cousin sisters hailed from Gomtu, Pagli Gewog in Samtse Dzongkhag. In the more than a year long disappearance of the two sisters they had been duped by …
Read More »Govt takes stock on completing two years
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay said that the government would not rate itself on its performance in the last two years and would rather leave it to the people, but in terms of effort it would give itself 10 out of 10. “We have used the successes of the past governments …
Read More »The two women from Gelephu RBA give their version of events
The two women at the heart of the ‘chilli controversy’ Daw Zangmo (27) and Mindu Wangmo (26) denied the RBA press release allegations of them sleeping with other men or having male ‘customers’. In the interview with the paper they, for the first time, gave their own version of events …
Read More »A Cold War between RCSC and ECB leaves the career of 130 hanging in the balance
Unknown to most, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) and the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) have been engaged in a long standing and escalating tussle since 2010 over who has the final authority on Human Resource decisions like recruitment, promotions, administrative actions etc for ECB. The RCSC, through all …
Read More »Desperate family gets Kidu from His Majesty the King
After this paper did a story on three children begging for food on the streets in Thimphu, there have been some major developments in the lives of the children and the family. There is a reason why the girls, 8-year-old Tshering Uden and 6-year-old Khandom are full of smiles these …
Read More »OAG asks for Nu 244 mn in restitution from 5 fronting cases
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) filed five cases yesterday against five business entities that were found to be running fronting businesses after an Anti Corruption Commission investigation. The OAG charge sheet based on the ACC investigation has asked for a total of Nu 244.697 mn in restitution in …
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