Category: Politics

Road through democratisation is not smooth as the rulers in Bhutan had predicted. When this best governance model was projected in semi-demon form three years back, royalists took enough opportunities to publicise that democracy was the gift from palace despite public refusal. Characteristically, had that been the circumstances, post...

A mix-up in the cockpit and pilot error was to blame for an air crash in Nepal’s eastern hills late last year that left 22 mostly Buddhist pilgrims dead, an investigator said Monday. The Tara Air plane bound for Kathmandu carrying 19 passengers crashed in dense cloud in December...

Mainstream economists and almost all national bureaucracies around the world use measures such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or Gross National Product (GNP) to measure and track economic activity. These measurements are evidence-based. Hard data is aggregated and analyzed to come up with a picture of a national economy...

One of the silent arguments Bhutan insist on 1990 eviction spree was that this small country cannot sustain multiculturalism and that Dzongkha speaking community might become endangered due to growing population of other ethnic groups. In one instance in Geneva, a Bhutanese politician had mentioned that world community must...

The seventh session of the first parliament ended Friday. This time, leaders have better debates compared to past and worked little more on drafting and adopting laws. Many crucial issues have been looked into and bitter relations between the two houses have been normalised. Both the houses were ready...

दोस्रो चरणको स्थानीय चुनाव सम्पन्न गरेर प्रजातान्त्रिक प्रणालीलाई मूर्तरुप दिएकोमा भुटानका मन्त्रि र राजपरिवार फुरुंग छन् अहिले । गत सोमबार दोस्रो चरण अन्तर्गत देशका २०५ ब्लक र ख बर्गका शहरमा चुनाव सम्पन्न भयो । ३ लाख ४७ हजार १ सय ३३ मतदाता मध्ये करिब ५५ प्रतिशतले मात्र मताधिकार प्रयोग...