The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) will be charge sheeting three rape cases from Punakha to the Punakha Dzongkhag court next week. In the first case a 20-year-old girl alleged that her 42-year-old biological father raped her when she was only 14 years old. In the second case a …
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His Royal Highness Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck graced the Sertog installation ceremony of the Utse of Pangbisa Dzong in Paro on 11th November 2023. The ceremony presided over by the Dorji Lopen and Laytshog Lopen, was held on the birth anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo.To mark the …
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It has been 15 days since the announcement of the election period on 3rd November, and Bhutan is in the thick of election campaigns by five competing parties, but the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has not received a single complaint from any party against another party. This is highly …
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The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in a period of around a week has got two cases where the husbands in marriages are being charged with rape of child above 12 due to their wife being underage. The first case is where a father and mother in Paro had …
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The quality of patient care in hospitals can be compromised if the shortages of healthcare professionals, like nurses, are not addressed. Insights from key healthcare figures, including Deputy Nursing Superintendent Tshering Dema and Nurses, offer a comprehensive view of the situation, as well as potential solutions. Tshering Dema emphasizes that …
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His Majesty The King arrived back in Bhutan on 10 November 2023 after concluding a successful 8-day Official Visit to India. His Majesty visited Assam, Delhi, and Mumbai during the trip, and met with the Prime Minister of India, the Foreign Minister, and senior government leaders, as well as prominent …
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The Bhutanese talked to the five Party Presidents with two simple questions. The first was on their chances of going to the General Round of the National Assembly Elections 2023-24, of which all Presidents are confident, and the second query was on the reasons for their optimism. The sequence below …
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The National Assembly Elections are a national election, but it is also true that there are major geographical electoral regions in the country, like the East, South and West, that can determine who gets through to the General Round and also form the government. While DPT swept the whole country …
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In the final Meet-the-Press of the government on 27 October, the former Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, had said that civil servants on Long-Term Training (LTT) are eligible to get the recent pay hike. He said he does not accept the RCSC and Ministry of Finance (MoF) position that the hike …
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One of the unfulfilled pledges of the DNT government was its pledge to increase the wage rate of the National Work Force (NWF) to Nu 450. The Cabinet in its last meeting on 30 October 2023 proposed for it to be nearly doubled to more than Nu 400 but left …
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