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His Majesty the King visited flash flood affected areas of Kabjesa yesterday and granted kidu soelra to the families gathered at the Thudrup lhakhang. The flash floods on June 4 affected 45 households.
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 - 3:57 AM
DPT’s shares concerns of possible coalition
The letter the party submitted to ECB on June 10 listed reasons for the party to believe so
Druk Phuensum Tshogpa on June 10 formally expressed their concerns to the election commission of a possible coalition party being formed for the general election.
They were referring to the many meetings People’s Democratic Party that made it to the general round of National Assembly election had with Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa, which fell through at the primaries over the [... Read More]
Complaint lodged against Mongar ‘meeting’
Druk Phunsum Tshogpa’s (DPT) dzongkhag party coordinator in Mongar filed a written complaint to the dzongkhag election dispute settlement body yesterday against the People’s Democratic party (PDP) for organising a party meeting at Wangchuk hotel in Mongar.
DPT party coordinator Dorji Leki’s complaint letter stated that PDP had organised its party meeting at Wangchuk hotel, even though such meetings are not allowed for the time being.
He said around 160 people attended the public meeting at Wangchuk [... Read More]
Winning candidate sits out contest
Despite so-called “offers” from both PDP and DPT, DNT’s JB Rai figures on neither list
Having secured a win for the party from his constituency, Phuentsholing, many viewed Jai Bir Rai of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa as a potential candidate winning parties would want to field for the general elections.
Subsequently, he was also one of the candidates, who reportedly received offers from both Druk Phuensum Tshogpa and People’s Democratic party. However, the former denied having made such [... Read More]
All set to campaign again
Bumthang’s four candidates of Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) filed their nominations with their returning officers yesterday to contest the general round of elections.
They submitted a notice of endorsement of nomination, an affidavit, asset declaration, tax clearance certificate, University attestation letter, security clearance certificate, relieving order and marital status (MC) among others.
The scrutiny and verification of their documents will be done today to confirm their candidature.
If confirmed, it will be Dr [... Read More]
Business Standard article ‘shocks’ DGPC
Officials of Druk Green Power corporation (DGPC) have expressed shock over an article in an Indian newspaper, which said cooperation between India and Bhutan in hydropower development is in limbo.
The Business Standard, an English language financial newspaper in India, said Bhutan had refused to accept the joint venture model for the four new hydropower projects, which are Bunakha, Chamkharchu, Wangchu and Kholongchu, which have a combined capacity of 2,050 megawatt (MW).
The paper also mentions that [... Read More]
Top four scripts win awards
The department of information and media awarded certificates and cash prizes on June 7 to the authors of the top four scripts it received for the National Level Open Script writing contest.
Of the 14 entries it received in the English category, Kuenga Tenzin’s Curse of the Drapa Caste from Loselling MSS won the first prize of Nu 100,000 while Namgye Phuntshok’s Once upon a time in Drukyul won the second prize of Nu 50,000. Namgye [... Read More]
BAFRA dumps 273kg of rotten chicken in two days
Officials of the Bhutan agriculture food regulatory authority of Bhutan (BAFRA) in Tsirang seized and dumped 273kg of chicken meat from three meat shops in Damphu town.
Of the total, around 165kg came from one shop, around 100kg belonged to another, and six kilos from yet another.
Bafra officials said they had to dispose off the meat, because they were not fit for human consumption.
“They were rotten, bearing a foul smell, and some had turned green,” an [... Read More]
Druknet doubles international bandwidth
In another move that will increase internet connectivity speeds for its customers, internet service provider (ISP) Druknet has doubled its international bandwidth.
The ISP upgraded its international bandwidth or connection to the internet to 3.1Gbps (gigabits per second) from 1.2Gbps, last week.
The international bandwidth is the total amount of data that can be transferred on the link that connects Bhutan to the internet at any given time.
However, despite the upgrade, Druknet customers, not based in Phuentsholing, [... Read More]
Hardware goods seized
Phuentsholing’s regional revenue and customs office confiscated hardware items last Friday, when Kashi Hardwares and Electrical had tried to deflect their stocks to India illegally.
Kashi Hardwares and Electrical shop’s license to run in Phuentsholing was cancelled last year, after it was found that the owner was running the shop under an illegal license. They still however run a Kashi Shoe store inside Phuentsholing.
Custom officials said an informer tipped them about a bus, which is used [... Read More]