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The High Court yesterday upheld its decision to sustain its interim stay order issued against the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) suspension order for the Home Minister and the Speaker. ACC’s suspension order for the minister and speaker for the alleged offence committed prior to the current posts has been found to …
Read More »RCSC results out, Gaeddu student tops among General category
With a high score of 68.33%, a student from Gaeddu College of Business Studies (GCBS) is this year’s civil service exam topper. The country’s oldest and prime college, Sherubtse had to settle for the second and third ranks consecutively. The overall topper in General category and the 2012 Royal Civil …
Read More »Criminal charges applicable to three ministers say legal experts
There is a growing debate on the criminal charges framed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) with varying views from legal experts, the ACC and also the Mongar Dzongkhag court. Though proven as a land scam the ACC has so far filed criminal charges only against the Speaker, the Home …
Read More »BCCI elections -40 members elected but small business feels left out
Elections for chamber President and executive committee to be held on the 19th of next month. The elections was marked by a poor voter turnout The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) in collaboration with Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) elected 40 representatives, two from each Dzongkhag meticulously aimed …
Read More »DMNT to take to the streets to march, clean and sing against unemployment
The organization will propose to the business community for a total amount of Nu 1.8mn as support for the campaign The youth political group Druk Me-ser Nazhoen Tshogpa (DMNT) are in discussions to organize a ‘youth march’ in the capital and conduct a ‘cleaning campaign’ to create awareness on climate …
Read More »Syringe wielding teacher earns compulsory retirement for his misconduct
The Bhutanese impact The Dzongkha language teacher Tshokey, of Budhashi Community Primary School under Goshing gewog, Zhemgang, has been sent on compulsory retirement effective from November 20, 2012 after an internal investigation by the Ministry of Education confirmed that he had used a syringe to poke students. The decision was …
Read More »ACC and OAG battle it out in the High Court
ACC questioned the very legal basis of OAG to appeal against the suspension and said the suspension was legal while the OAG said it was illegal Traditionally, on the same team with the ACC investigating cases and the OAG prosecuting them, the two government organizations went head to head in …
Read More »Political parties get their head around the growing politicization of the youth for 2013
Forming around 60% of the population and 30% of the voting population (18 yrs to 25 yrs) political parties across the board including the Prime Minister himself acknowledged the strong role, youth would play in the 2013 elections. Of late the dissolution of Druk Mitser Tshogpa party and its reformation …
Read More »Punakha locals suffer in absence of proper health facilities
A withering 45 year old diabetic man dragged himself to the Punakha Hospital on three occasions to be turned away each time in absence of a dialysis machine. About medicine and lack of staffs, a 37-year old woman said “We come from Samdingkha and it is very far away- we …
Read More »Druk Mitser Tshogpa dissolves in favor of a ‘youth organization’
One of the first parties to declare an interest in the 2013 elections the Druk Mitser Tshogpa (DMT) represented by its party symbol of a farmer plowing the field has officially been dissolved as a political party. DMT President, Dasho Penjor Dorji who ironically was one of the founders of …
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