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Do not confuse private individual consumption and private sector consumption, said the central bank Governor Daw Tenzin stressed at a conference with the private sector yesterday, here in the capital. He was referring to the cause of Indian Rupee (INR) crunch exacerbating by the day for which the private sector …

Sunkosh hydropower project which was downsized to 2,560 MW from 4,060 MW is finally on the verge of implementation with the Detailed Project Report (DPR) to be finalized by July this year. The communities, it is said, will  reap many benefits. The economic affairs minister, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk, said the …

 Gross National un-Happiness It has been four years since 2012 and there is now a growing concern about the path that Bhutanese democracy is taking. This is especially so as constitutional bodies and the media is coming under increasing pressure from an increasingly sensitive government. The latest example is statements …

The late Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, was bestowed the Bangladesh Liberation War Honour on March 27, 2012, 40 years after his untimely demise, by the government of Bangladesh for his contribution during Bangladesh’s independence in 1971. The people of Bangladesh struggled a brutal occupation by Pakistan right after the …

  Bhutan’s young media is currently at crossroads, with many signs pointing to different roads that should be taken. Each signboard has compelling reasons to take a certain road, but other signboards have equally compelling reasons to take their paths. Similarly, at one level the Bhutanese media seems to know …

  One of the oldest towns in the country, Golabaazar in Samtse, is slowly degrading while the fate of its survival is being decided. The residents say the town which was booming in the early 40s started to degrade when the government stopped collecting taxes in 1992. Since then, numerous …

  As per the annual judiciary report of 2011, there are 225 cases filed with Bench 1 of the district court alone from which 73 were related to money, 53 matrimony and the rest were crimes and land disputes. Of the total of 45 cases registered in the last two …

 The RTI Bill being introduced by the NC MP, Sangay Khandu, is based mainly on the High Court version of 2007. As per the bill a Bhutanese citizen can go to any government agency and ask for official information, which the agency has to provide within a certain time period …

The National Council MP from Gasa, Sangay Khandu, must be commended for doing what every MP must aspire to do; which is making good laws to improve good governance. The National Council as a house must also be commended for taking up a good law for discussion when the political …

But inventors will need to wait two years for a patent to be registered  The intellectual property division (IPD) of the ministry of economic affairs (MoEA) has finally established a registry for patents as mandated by the Industrial Property Act of the kingdom of Bhutan, 2001. This means inventors are …