The Druk Thuendrel Tshogpa (DTT) is the newest party on the block and while it has elected a President in the form of former DPT North-Thimphu MP Kinga Tshering and a Vice President in the 2018 DPT candidate from Thrimshing, Chenga Tshering, the party is still a largely unknown entity. …
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The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has completed its investigation into the stabbing and assault of the ACC Director of Investigation Gyeltshen, assault of the ACC Commissioner Jamtsho and general ruckus at the Supreme Court. The investigation report will be sent to the OAG on Monday. The investigation established that it …
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In an interview to The Bhutanese in January 2020 the Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering had first announced the idea of doing away with the traditional 5-year plan system. He said that he is not in favour of leaving a draft 5-year plan for the next government as the people would …
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A WeChat audio clip of the Foreign Minister Dr Tandi Dorji talking to his constituents about fuel prices has gone viral. The audio clip in which the minister seems to be answering a query says that the government is also concerned about rising fuel prices, but cannot do anything about …
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On Zhabdrung Kuchoe, on 11 May 2022 His Majesty The King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Holiness the Je Khenpo and the Royal Family graced the ceremony to commemorate 400 years of the Zhung Dratshang at Punakha Dzong. Ministers and senior government officials were in attendance for the …
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In September 2012, around 20 days after the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted its Gyelpozhing Land Scam investigation report to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) saying 67 of the 99 plots are illegal, the OAG under then AG Phuntsho Wangdi issued a bland press release on its website …
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ACC also has to take over remaining 4 plots of land with Ugyen Tenzin’s family While the Supreme Court verdict on the Trongsa Land Scam is out, there are two ends of the case that now needs to be tied up. The first is what will happen to the Viewpoint …
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An investigation by a RBP committee from the Headquarters into security lapses at the Supreme Court has found lapses on the part of the VVIP Police SP, OC and constables and also the Thimphu Division SP, OC and constables. The lapses concern the stabbing of an ACC Director with a …
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A press release from the Department of Forest and Park Services under Ministry of Forests and Agriculture on friday night said that a group of people illegally collecting cordyceps in Lunana hit a soldier from the Royal Bhutan Army with rocks, causing serious head injuries. According to the press release, …
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Former Dzongda Lhab Dorji’s comment and signature on a letter from DSLR asking him to delete 8 plots in Trongsa which he did not do but instead got 4 plots transfered to his wife Late last year, Upel Dakini Dorji, the daughter of former Trongsa Dzongda Lhab Dorji, put up …
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