Parties pledge to solve drinking water issue in Kengkhar
All four political party candidates of Kengkhar-Weringla constituency in Mongar have pledged and prioritised to solve the drinking water shortage in Khengkhar gewog. The candidates, during the last...
View ArticleCandidates wrap up campaign
As the campaign for the primary round nears completion, People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) Panbang candidate Lungten Dorji, 54, concluded his campaign yesterday. He still has a day to campaign but the...
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KNOW the PARTY PRESIDENTs
Neten Zangmo Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party’s president Neten Zangmo is a tough woman. That is how people know her. She served the nation for more than 30 years in various capacities. She was cabinet...
View ArticleYour vote matters
The 2018 national Assembly election has already started. Thousands of Bhutanese have already exercised their franchise last week, as they cast their ballot through the facilitation and mobile booths....
View ArticleBumdeling-Jamkhar residents prepared for poll day
Residents of Bumdeling-Jamkhar constituency in Trashiyangtse are eager to cast their votes on Saturday. One of the residents, Goenpo Dorji who attended a common forum said that the representatives of...
View ArticleBKP President wraps up campaign in Orong today
It is getting dark in Belam Sharang village, Samdrupcholing drungkhag of Samdrupjongkhar. About 10 villagers are listening to Bhutan Kuen-Nyam President Neten Zangmo at one of her supporter’s house. It...
View ArticleRainstorm affects 40 households in Mongar
A rainstorm on September 10 affected 40 households in five gewogs in Mongar. It damaged over 10 acres of maize field. Jurmey gewog reported 13 affected households. Farmer Pema Wangchuk said this is not...
View ArticleThoughts from the party presidents
With the election campaign period ending tomorrow, party presidents are rushing to meet the last voters before wrapping up their campaigns. Except for the president of Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP) who...
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Social media monitors report 13 cases to media arbitrator
Facebook has removed an anonymous defamatory post and the account by the name, Solo Pentang, the first case from Bhutan this election period. Department of Information Technology and Telecom (DITT),...
View ArticleUdzorong bridge to complete this month
The construction of a bailey suspension bridge over Drangmechu at Shing Phurtomo in Udzorong gewog will be completed by September 23, according to officials from the Department of Roads (DoR) in...
View ArticleWoman electrocuted in Mongar
A 40-year-old woman died on spot in Udari village, Kengkhar, Mongar after touching a live electric wire at the cow shed on September 8. The incident occurred around 6:30pm. Her husband Tashi Dorji said...
View ArticlePotato farmers and truckers concerned over missing poll day
With only two days left for the poll day, truckers and potato farmers from various parts of country who are at the Phuentsholing auction yard for more than about four days are concerned that they may...
View ArticleMay the nation win!
The two-day no-campaign period begins today. This means 48 hours from now the nation will go to the poll for the first round of the third National Assembly election. For the party candidates and...
View ArticleBumthang prepared for the poll
Chhoekhor-Tang debate for the people of Bumthang was serious. Reporting from the grassroots, it is this: a few elderlies gathered at a restaurant were listening to every point and argument the...
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Returning Officers brief party representatives on the handling and transportation of postal ballots
View ArticleAs Lhuentse prepares to go to the poll
In preparation to the poll day of the primary round of third parliamentary election, which is approaching nearer, election officials of 17 polling stations in Lhuentse district left for their...
View ArticleNo major damage reported from earthquake
Except for a minor crack in the wall of Lhasang Primary School in Dagana and some minor cracks, no major damages were reported in the country from the tremor that struck Bhutan yesterday morning....
View ArticleECB’s decisions on election dispute cases
The Election Commission of Bhutan yesterday issued its decision on eight election dispute cases related to the primary rounds of the National Assembly elections, 2018. The People’s Democratic Party’s...
View Article24 babies infected in NICU – 15 survive, 9 die: JDWNRH
While Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) clarified that it has reported nine deaths related to HAI (hospital-acquired infection) between July 23 and August 9, it confirmed that...
View ArticleThe case of NICU
In explaining the deaths of the 11 infants at the neonatal intensive care unit, the national referral hospital has blamed the thromde, the health ministry, and the media. Its clarification, which has...
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