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In what could be the most inimical event toward the government’s Rupee-retentive measures, the majority of Gewogs in the southern dzongkhags are in the midst of an imminent famine situation. This, in the face of the live-Rupee crunch could be a huge setback in the government’s recent immediate move to …

The two day awareness seminar for Right to Information (RTI) in capital saw experts from India, Bangladesh, USA and the World Bank advising Bhutan to adopt RTI as an important tool for good governance, transparency, democratization and also to prevent corruption. The experts also said that RTI Law will benefit …

A new media scenario is likely to unfold soon in the country with the implementation of the long overdue ‘government advertising guidelines’ (GAG). Secretary of the ministry of information and communications (MoIC), Dasho Kinley Dorji who held a presentation of GAG to the committee of secretaries earlier this month said, …

The Nobel laureate said that Bhutan’s USD reserves is too high with low yields creating more debt through rupee borrowings and that government deposits in financial institutions fuels credit growth Noble laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz pointed out weaknesses in Bhutan’s monetary (banking and financial regulation) and fiscal (government expenditure and …

The Kabreytar gold rush which lured many visionary investors to own land in the area are now in a quagmire with the law which has classified their land as falling under the Green zone. The UGA (urban green area) is a designated area in which there should not be any …

Getting the political parties to come out of their closets was hard enough, now the candidates are flying below the radar so that there is a ‘safe’ time for them to appear publicly The political scene faces a dearth of potential candidates and reasons are many, but no one would …

Despite repeated reminders and allegations of graft by the community, the former Gup and committee have not yet made the accounts public The people of Debsi under Thimphu Dzongkhag contributed millions to construct a motorable bridge in 2007 but five years down the line the community is faced with a …

The National Land Commission on the request of the National Council (NC) made a presentation on the 2003 High Level Investigation Committee report on illegal transaction of land in Thimphu. This comes in the backdrop of a series of stories on the High Level Investigation Committee report by The Bhutanese. …

The elections are almost a reckoning-day away and up-and-coming parties are on the hunt for potential candidates, in a dearth of candidates’ pool. Those with the right laurels are unavoidably hounded with big promises. This piece of innuendo has been flashed on the political grapevine: The former Health Secretary, Dasho …

This is because while the project cost shot from Nu 7bn to Nu 9bn there isn’t adequate rupee reserve in Bhutan to cover the cost escalation Druk Holdings and Investment has requested the Indian government for Rs 2bn in grant to cover the additional cost overruns of the originally Nu …