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During the Druk Chirwang Tshogpa (DCT) campaign in Samtse, the DCT president said the meaning of the noble philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH) has been interpreted in academic manner, and without a practical relevance to the people. “Gross National Happiness is a noble philosophy propagated by the Fourth Druk …

The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) introduced the party’s last five candidates at a press conference in the capital on Thursday. The party now has all its 47 candidates. Among the five names declared, one is Jigme Tshultim, 37-year-old, who replaces his father the former National Assembly (NA) Speaker Jigme Tshultim, …

The prevalence of a loophole in the law which does not prohibit candidates of parties from switching to another after the primary rounds may very well give rise to practices called horse-trading and coalition in political lingo to be very visibly demonstrated by parties and individuals after the primary elections. …

The Steel Community Bins (SCB) which were placed at strategic locations around the city by the Thimphu City Corporation (TCC) have been removed since they failed to serve their purpose. Currently, only places like the hospital area, the IMTRAT compound in Babesa and the vegetable market continue the use of …

About 206 toilets have been built for every household in Goshing gewog since the start of the 10th Five Year Plan. Besides this, electricity poles were also fixed in the gewog. However, despite these developmental works, a major problem being faced by the villagers is that there is no bridge …

  The Bhutanese has in its possession a copy of the High Level Committee report of 2003 which shows 45 cases of excess land being found registered within Thimphu from Chunzom to Pangrizampa. The High Level committee was instituted by the government in 2001 to study cases of excess land …

The Bhutanese finds several errors and holes while fact checking the Prime Ministers defense of DPT Vice President, Chang Ugyen on the 10 acre Thimphu land scam The Prime Minister accused ‘The Bhutanese’ of selective reporting and playing with the truth to show the DPT government in a bad light …

Fnancial crunch at Air India is taking a toll on its subsidiary Air India Express which has now decided to pull out a few international flights and deploy them on domestic routes in the country. The financial crunch at Air India is taking a toll on its subsidiary Air India …

Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC)’s  plans to set up a hydropower construction company by October 2010 did not see the light of day but now there is good news for Bhutanese contractors who felt that they were denied a fair share of the hydropower pie. Around 35 contractors jointly decided …