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Drop in voter turnout compared to 53% in 2008 NC elections For the second time in history, people across the country voted 20 members to the National Council yesterday. Of the 379,819 registered voters 168,180 exercised their voting rights giving a voter turnout of about 45% at the national level. …
Read More »Party Presidents wish new NC members and want them to play a more focused role
The Presidents of the five political parties wished the elected 20 National Council MPs including the 47 others that did not make it. While they congratulated the winners, they also took the time to thank the other candidates had played an important role during the election. Some of the Party …
Read More »Breaking News on NC elections 2013
As per the latest results from the Election Commission of Bhutan the winners are as follwos. In Trongsa Tharchen (33) won by getting 1862 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes and 221 Postal Ballot (PB) votes leading to a total of 2083 votes. In Bumthang Nima (34) has won by securing …
Read More »End of the political line for the MoIC Minister?
With the political prospects of the Home Minister and Speaker already looking increasingly bleak due to the Gyelpozhing case, the Minister for Information and Communication, Lyonpo Nandalal Rai could join them due to his inability to get Audit Clearances. The MoIC Minister has seven pending Audit Memos and three supervisory …
Read More »Speakers career boost after plot allocation to ministers in Gyelpozhing
In what has been an unexplored aspect of the Gyelpozhing case the current Speaker of the National Assembly Jigme Tshultim enjoyed a meteoric rise in his civil service career after the allocation of plots to influential people in Gyelpozhing. This happened in the presence of ministers in the cabinet that …
Read More »To the polls again
A Council member will be elected from each Dzongkhag next week on 23 April Five years ago the nation made history when it ushered in democracy that was given to the people and not forged through remnants of struggles and revolutionary upheavals. This year on the poll day for the …
Read More »Ministry’s ignorance of machine breakdown threatens lives of HIV patients
To be afflicted by a lifelong disease is curse enough, but due to a malfunction in a check-up machine, the life of one HIV positive patient has been a living hell. What is more is he says he is not the only one suffering and is speaking for many other …
Read More »Flawed Cabinet decision on dam relocation helps push Punatsangchu I cost to a record Nu 94 bn
Concerns now abound on loan repayment in what has become Bhutan’s most expensive hydro project The Bhutanese has found that a cabinet decision made on the basis of inaccurate technical information in 2008 played a major role in the ballooning of the Punatsangchu 1 (P 1) project cost to Nu …
Read More »NA to dissolve by the end of this week
The cabinet members however will await the Druk Gyalpo’s Kasho and until an interim government is formed The National Assembly (NA) of the nation’s first democratically elected parliament will be dissolved on Sunday, 20 April upon completion of its five year term. On the last day, members of the NA …
Read More »Government sits for a year on reform measures to deal with the Rupee crisis
The Bhutanese has found that the cabinet has not implemented most reform measures that were proposed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA) to the cabinet about a year ago on May 4th 2012, to deal with the rupee crisis. The report was titled ‘Report on Enhancing Productive Capacity to …
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