Monthly Archives: December, 0

The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) will purchase 1,000 new electronic voting machines this year, said the Chief Election Commissioner Chogyal Dago Rinzin at the official declaration of the National Council results this morning.

With a total vote of 2,333, Lhaki Dolma, one of Bhutan’s leading female actors, has been elected as the new National Council member of Punakha.

As Bhutan held its Third National Council election yesterday, only five of the 12 incumbent members who re-contested managed to win.

The lone woman candidate of Monggar, Sonam Pelzom, has done the impossible, or this is what it seemed like with 12 male contenders in the race with her.

The people of Samdrup Jongkhar have yet again chosen incumbent Jigme Wangchuk to represent them in the National Council. This is his third consecutive win and makes him the longest serving member in the House of Review.

Sangbeykha Dungkhag Court has sentenced a former land record assistant to three-and-a-half-month imprisonment for embezzlement.

Bhutan is all set to go to polls for the third National Council (NC) election tomorrow. Some 5600 officials are deployed at 866 polling stations across the country.

Three people-two men and a woman-are in Phuentshogling police custody after they were arrested on suspicion of having thrown a newborn baby to its death out of a third-floor hotel window.

Thimphu Thromde will remove parking spaces along  Norzin Lam by the end of this year but only if the two mega car parks that are under construction meets its September deadline.  

The mysterious deaths of more than a dozen pigeons have sparked fear of bird flu outbreak in Samtse.