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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

With the High Court convicting the Member of Parliament (MP) Rinzin Dorji in the DCM case, he now stands to lose his position as a MP if he does not appeal within the next 10 days or if the Supreme Court upholds the High Court verdict. This is because the …

For the last few weeks a social media post posted by an anonymous user has gone viral. The post is about how two wives of two soldiers were beaten, chilli applied on their private parts and then chased from the Gelephu Army camp. However, now the alleged two women themselves …