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 »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 »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 »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 …
Read More »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 »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 »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 »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 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 »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 …
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