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Who shall we trust???

Our country has suffered an economy downfall as waves from India reached Bhutan. Our Ngultrum value fluctuates with the rupee of India as they are at par. As the rate of dollar keeps on changing time to time, Our economy is bound to bend with Indian Economy. But the question here is, What is the actual exchange rate for US dollar? Recently, on 17th Nov. 2013, to be precise, I somehow thought of looking at the exchange rate as I was reading the kuenselonline. The exchange rate was 63.3 but I checked the RMA website and was surprised to see the exchange rate; 62.15(buy) and 64.2(sell). Now whom shall we believe? If we back RMA for his authority and fact, then why is Kuensel not updating accordingly? I think kuensel need to check with RMA and update the rates because Kuenselonline is one of the widely viewed Bhutanese website. And if kuensel is wrong, why is RMA not correcting ? RMA as a governing body should advise anyone dealing with money of the nation. Kuensel, on the other ...

The Paradox of Bhutan Telecom Bonus

The Paradox of Bhutan Telecom Bonus Bhutan has come a long way in her pursuit of developed nation. Bhutan today can boast of two mobile service providers which weren’t there few years ago. Bhutan Telecom, being the senior in the market and the sheer size of users, had many advantages over his junior Tcell. BMobile under the umbrella of Bhutan Telecom, has taken a step ahead in telecommunication with introduction of Bwallet services in the nation. It teamed up with BNB and BoB for the service which was warmly received by the customers and I was one of them. As a tool to attract customers and to celebrate special occasions, Bmobile announces many bonuses for the customers. A good example could be blessed rainy day where BMobile announced a 30% bonus for every recharge on the day. On the day, I recharged my balance but was shocked to know that BWallet wasn’t working. I thought my bank balance may not be enough though I had few thousands, but it was same with othe...

Politics and Job!!!!

Bhutan is a small country and one of the youngest democratic Nation in the world, yet it has shown her beauty and charm in becoming one of the most peaceful country. She became democratic with, our beloved Druk Gyalpos handing over the nation to the people after serving her for 100 years. With democracy came the politics, which was very new to our peaceful people. The country saw her first election in the year 2008 though there were only two political parties. Bhutan saw many civil servants going into politics which created space for younger generation. Now the term for the first elected members are coming to an end. Today we have 5 registered parties. Keeping in account the number of constituencies, three new parties will require at least 141 degree holder competing for the second Assembly. This is great chance for the youths to get jobs as big bosses will be out for politics and the hierarchical seats will be filled up by the lower rank officers. So a huge number of vacancies ...