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The recent incident of a 15 year old shooting his 36-year old father to death has raised the question whether we really need guns in a relatively peaceful country. Guns should be banned – the sooner the better. That’s’ what many people along with some members of parliament feel. Today …
Read More »Expired drugs prescribed to patients by MoH
The effect could be anything from reduced effectiveness to poisoning A case of expired drugs given for a child in Thimphu with a rare heart condition has brought to fore the controversial practice of government hospitals and pharmacies in supplying expired medicines to patients. It has also attracted the ire …
Read More »“The government is being viewed as autocratic, intolerant and vindictive”
Opinion: Evolution of Bhutanese Democracy –Part 2 Later in the paper when structure and vision is discussed, other follies of the incumbent government such as their subtle intrusion into the workings of independent and autonomous institutions, micro-managing and fear tactics will be highlighted. As aforementioned, Bhutan’s democracy was introduced with …
Read More »First to register third in order, the 2013 line-up is now DPT, PDP and BKP
The Bhutan Kuen-Ngyam Party (BKP) submitted its application for party registration with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) yesterday to make it the first new party able to meet its registration deadline. This was a party effort to officially register itself toward the end of November as announced in its …
Read More »Bhutan breached 700,000 population mark in 2011
The latest 2012 Statistical Yearbook of the National Statistics Bureau shows that Bhutan’s population finally crossed the 700,000 mark in 2011. As of 2010 the total population of Bhutan was 695,822 which increased to 708,265 in 2011. By the end of 2012 the population is projected to go up to …
Read More »Cabinet and Pvt Sector to meet over Pedestrian Day and Credit Crunch
In what could come as good news for an increasingly desperate private sector the government, led by the Prime Minister and other relevant cabinet ministers will meet representatives of the private sector to deliberate on a host of crucial issues from the Credit crunch to Pedestrian day. The meeting has …
Read More »Investigation confirms use of syringe by teacher to punish students
The MoE (education ministry) team which looked into the ‘syringe case’ in Budhashi Community Primary School in Zhemgang has completed investigation and submitted the report to the concerned authorities. Accusations against the Dzongkha teacher of the school in Goshing gewog reported by this paper have been authenticated in the course …
Read More »Ongoing Mega projects to be completed mainly ahead of schedule
Officials dismiss reports of a cash crunch and say that money is flowing in smoothly For some time now reports in the Indian and Local media combined with rumors led to speculation that funds have slowed down for the ongoing three projects of Punatsangchu 1, Punatsangchu 2 and Mangdechu leading …
Read More »Bhutan drops six places in business ease index
Bhutan’s ranking dropped to the second last position in South Asia just ahead of war torn Afghanistan Bhutan slid six places down from its last year’s position to stand at 148, much below all other South Asia region countries except for Afghanistan, under the latest ‘Ease of Doing Business’ index …
Read More »Dusshera, celebrating the death of Evil
There could be nothing more glorious than the heights of glory encompassed in the defeat of evil by undying good in the eternal battle of the two most prominent forces which dictate every small consequential actions in the person of every breathing soul on earth. Perhaps that is why victory …
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