Tag Archives: Democracy

  • Lobsang Wangyal Illusions of Jamyang Norbu 28 February 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 18 comments

    Norbu's presumptuous folly fails to establish anything, but instead raises more questions about his real motive for attacking Samdhong Rinpoche. ...

  • Indian government steps up rural funding in last budget before election 2 February 2019 | Manoj Kumar, Aftab Ahmed and Mayank Bhardwaj This post has no comments yet

    Indian government pledged 750 billion rupees ($10.56 billion) to support poor farmers and reduced the tax burden for the middle class on Friday, as it looked to rally support from voters. ...

  • ‘Humbled’ Modi suffers defeats ahead of 2019 India polls 11 December 2018 | Jalees Andrabi This post has no comments yet

    India's ruling party suffered stinging election defeats in at least two stronghold states, results showed Tuesday, in a big blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi before national polls in 2019 ...

  • US midterm elections: Democrats win House, Republicans hold Senate 7 November 2018 | Shaun Tandon, Nova Safo and Javier Tovar This post has no comments yet

    Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday in a midterm setback for Donald Trump, but the US president managed to avoid a feared "blue wave". ...

  • Tens of thousands rally for Taiwan independence vote 20 October 2018 | Amber Wang This post has 2 comments

    Tens of thousands of Taiwan independence campaigners took to the streets Saturday for a major rally that is a rebuke to Beijing and a challenge to the island's already embattled government. ...

  • Bhutan chooses new party to form government 19 October 2018 | Diptendu Dutta This post has one comment

    Bhutan's voters gave an overwhelming victory to a new party headed by a surgeon, in only the third democratic election held by the Himalayan kingdom, according to provisional results. ...

  • Norbu Tsering Palden Tsok-Tso Chok – My take on our Parliamentary sessions 15 October 2018 | Norbu Tsering This post has one comment

    What distinguishes us from others is the fact that at the risk of falling prey to the dormant disunifying chaos of democracy, we have very bravely adopted democracy come what may. ...

  • Nava Thakuria Waiting for a new regime in Thimphu 3 October 2018 | Nava Thakuria This post has no comments yet

    Bhutan is going for its third national (general) elections on 18 October. Two political parties are in the contest for the new regime in Thimphu. ...

  • Parliament disapproves one-time voting proposed by Cabinet 27 September 2018 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 3 comments

    Members of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile rejected the Cabinet's proposal to conduct exile Tibetan elections in one go in electing the CTA President and members of Parliament. ...

  • Norbu Tsering Changes required in our election rules 22 September 2018 | Norbu Tsering This post has one comment

    Many factors have led to irresponsible use of political freedom in the name of democracy, and regional sentiments are out-weighing our need for national unity. ...