Ensuring the right to information to fight rumours and fake news

Information is power and the right to information is fundamental to democracy.  Amidst the second national lockdown, fake news, and increasing rumours, the state has a greater responsibility in the disclosure of information. Disclosure on time is equally important to protect citizens from fake news and rumours.

A Delightful Wonder, the 113th National Day Address

A national day celebration was a relatively local and obscure event;...

Civil service reform –long overdue

Article 26 of the Constitution sets the tone of the nation’s...

Human progress at the precipice

Viruses can jump from animal to human, and around the world...

National Solidarity: Bhutan’s unique response to the Covid-19 pandemic

The ongoing pandemic, which originated from a newly emerged coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2,...

Internalising Our National Day

One hundred and thirteen years since the historic installation of the...

Ready immunization systems to deliver safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines

Across the WHO South-East Asia Region, plans to equitably and efficiently...

Crossing the Constitutional boundaries will undermine democratic values

Yesterday’s Kuensel had a headline “first-degree felony and above will not...

Mountains matter for biodiversity

Newly appointed ICIMOD DG, (Dr) Pema Gyamtsho writes about why mountains...

Bangladesh: 50 Golden Years: Some Personal Reflections

My earliest memories of the country that was to evolve as...

The vulnerability of expropriation of national natural resources for political promises

The Mines and Minerals Bill deliberations in the National Council reminds...

Shangri-La sending an SOS

One of the effects of the so-called “modern development” in Bhutan,...

Do more, talk less

Do more, talk less is the advice given by Kevin Rudd,...

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