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In what has almost become a time honoured tradition, a civil service pay hike is usually followed by a pay hike by Druk Holdings and Investment (DHI) companies and Ministry of Finance owned (MoF) corporations. The DHI Chairman Dasho Sangay Khandu said that DHI would be conducting a study to …

The government’s 2014-2015 budget will see the government spending Nu 37.09 bn of which the current expenditure (salary, fuel, stationery etc) will be Nu 21.89 bn and the capital expenditure (construction of roads, schools, hospitals etc) will be Nu 15.20 bn. This would mean 51 percent for capital expenditure and …

And not 40% plus hike as most people had calculated Understanding the pay hike rates in the government’s complicated final Pay Revision report, approved by the Cabinet, did not come easy to many of us. The confusion was made worse by various sources interpreting different hike rates. A separate Pay …

The government’s final pay revision report recommended hiking the salary of the Prime Minister from the existing Nu 78,000 to around Nu 180,000 while for the ministers the hike recommended was from the existing Nu 78,000 to around Nu 130,000. After much discussion and deliberation in the National Assembly going …

The National Council (NC) decided that it cannot deliberate on the RTI Bill in the 13th session and voted unanimously asking the NA to withdraw the Bill from this session of NC. The NC while saying that they supported the RTI Bill stated there since the Bill was not presented …

His Majesty The King graced the opening ceremony of the 3rd session of the Second Parliament on 16th May 2014 Addressing the Hall, His Majesty said that among the many goals that are being pursued by our country, one of the most important goals is to nurture and strengthen democracy …

Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay sent a congratulatory message to India’s new Prime Minister elect Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday evening. The BJP led National Democratic Alliance lead by Narendra Modi won a massive landslide majority in the 2014 general elections winning around 340 seats in total well above …

In what was being a messy procedural wrangle between the National Council and a Committee of Secretaries procedural rule over the RTI Bill, the Prime Minister stepped in to resolve the issue. The PM on Wednesday instructed the Cabinet Secretary to ask the MoIC to make the presentation to the …

One of the biggest complaints against the Tenancy Act 2004 was the lack of an effective redressal system and penalties when provisions of the Act were violated either by the landlord or the tenant. The complaint also was that no single agency from the MoWHS to the local governments implemented …

The contention of the nC over a new procedural rule established by the Com­mittee of secreatries could lead to the ‘death’ of the rti Bill With the third session of the second Parliament scheduled less than a week away, the Right to Information (RTI) Bill has been caught up in …