Monthly Archives: December, 0

Beginning November this year, the residents of the old Doksum town in Trashi Yangtse will have to pay rent to the dzongkhag administration.

The farmers of Darla Gewog in Chhukha are not happy with the current cardamom price in Phuentshogling. They said within a few years time, the price of cardamom has decreased significantly.

Having failed to secure a minimum of 10 per cent of the total votes, Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP)  will not be entitled to the State Funding in the 2023 elections.

The people of Haa are looking forward to the completion of the ongoing blacktopping works of the 155-kilometre Haa-Samtse secondary national highway. The blacktopping works are expected to be complete by end of this year.

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) saw an increase in drug-related cases last year.  From more than 300 cases in 2016, the OAG received 500 cases last year.

Except for a few glitches, the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) says, the poll day of the National Assembly (NA) Primary Round election was...

An elephant calf that got trapped in an ongoing construction of a duct in Gelegphu town was rescued yesterday. The calf had fallen into the duct while feeding on a nearby banana tree with a herd of elephants at around four in the morning.

The Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) and the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) are through to the general round of the third parliamentary national assembly election scheduled on October 18.

The primary round of the Third Parliamentary National Assembly elections held yesterday saw a voter turnout of 66.36 per cent. This is an increase of 12 per cent from the 2013 NA primary round, which recorded a voter turnout of 55 per cent.

The nation went to polls today to elect two parties which will contest the National Assembly’s General Round of Elections. A total of 182,216 voters out of 304,868 voted through the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) across the country.