THE NATION

  With a mission to ‘inspire youth to take ownership of their community through youth-based volunteerism and channel their potential into socially meaningful actions’ a youth group called Go Youth Go (GYG) have conducted community services which has socially useful results for the communities and places. For instance the group …

With 22 years of experience under the education department as school principal and teacher, Rinzin Dorji, 48, was voted-in as the National Council (NC) member from Punakha Dzongkhag with 3,449 votes. He was nominated from Toedwang Gewog. “I should be very thankful to the people of Punakha. Now it is …

The former National Council (NC) representative, Jigmi Rinzin was re-elected from Pemagatshel securing 5,184 votes of which he secured 1,467 through postal ballot and 3,717 through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). The other contestants, Pema Wangchuk secured 2,103 votes and Sherab Jamtsho secured 1,685 votes. “I would like to ensure successful …

Nima in Bumthang secured the highest votes to become the National Council (NC) representative from among the three contestants which included the incumbent Tshewang Jurmey. He received 2,264 votes overall including the 1,936 EVM votes and 328 postal ballot votes. Sonam Tenzin received 971 votes in overall (928 votes in …

Zhemgang dzongkhag elected former Program Director with Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) Pema Drakpa from Bardo gewog over Incumbent NC Pema Lhamo scoring total votes of 2,413 votes. Pema Drakpa scored 1,660 yes votes through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and 753 through Postal Ballot. The Incumbent NC member Pema …

A 40 year old, Tashi Phuntsho secured 2,717 votes through Electronic Voting Machine while the other contender Karma Gyeltshen secured 637 votes through postal ballot. The two contenders received high votes in different voting schemes. While Tashi Phuntsho got high votes through EVM, Karma Gyeltshen secured high votes through postal …

The voters of Samdrup Jongkhar elected Jigme Wangchuk, 33 as their choice yet again. He secured 5,213 votes including postal ballot. The two other contestants Kinga Dorji and Sangay Lhendup secured 2,434 and 1,784 votes respectively. As he thanked the voters Jigme Wangchuk said the promises he made during the …

The Zhemgang police detained 33-year old man after he was accused of raping a 19-year old girl in her house on the afternoon of 16 April. The incident took place in Zhemgang and the complaint was filed by the victim’s father who during the time of incident was out for …

The Druk Chirwang Tshogpa has introduced three more candidates and will announce the remaining candidates in the coming days. Kinga Dorji – Bardo-Trong, Zhemgang has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. He has been running his cable network business in Zhemgang for over four years now. “I am going to be …

NC members who resigned said they only followed ECB’s directives Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley said the National Council (NC) members of the incumbent house resigning before the end of its term is a clear violation of the constitution. Lyonchhen said the serving incumbent house has to be replaced upon …