April of 2024

Archives

Giving back

Editorial

Apr 24, 2024 2 mins read 0 views
Tiger conference urges innovative financing for habitat protection

Wild Life

Apr 24, 2024 2 mins read 621 views
Takti bridge is open to traffic

The newly constructed Taktichhu bridge along the Thimphu-Phuenstholing highway is now open to traffic.

Apr 25, 2024 2 mins read 581 views
Thimphu Thromde implements vendor restrictions:

Thromde

Apr 24, 2024 0 mins read 500 views
Businesses request loan deferral and lower interest rates

Banks

Apr 24, 2024 3 mins read 485 views
Telcos invest to improve network in GeSAR region

Thromde

Apr 24, 2024 2 mins read 479 views
2024 Olympic Day focuses on Sports Science

Sports

Apr 23, 2024 2 mins read 530 views
Local handicraft sellers in Pelela feel the threat

Feature Story

Apr 23, 2024 3 mins read 1,189 views
Preventing forest fires requires robust awareness

Letter to the Editor

Apr 23, 2024 1 mins read 478 views
Balancing conservation dilemma

Editorial

Apr 23, 2024 2 mins read 485 views
WHO workshop to enhance routine health information systems

Health

Apr 23, 2024 2 mins read 548 views
Bhutan prepares for WorldSkills Asia

Labour

Apr 23, 2024 2 mins read 443 views
Punakha _Old capital's emerging issues

House

Apr 23, 2024 2 mins read 500 views
Community involvement crucial for tiger habitat conservation

Wild Life

Apr 23, 2024 3 mins read 495 views
Karma Dema, lone female BPL coach

Sports

Apr 22, 2024 2 mins read 556 views
Sarpang DT requests trade route for areca nut exports

Trade

Apr 22, 2024 2 mins read 586 views
Be aware of scam calls

Letter to the Editor

Apr 22, 2024 1 mins read 527 views
For Mother Earth

Editorial

Apr 22, 2024 2 mins read 524 views
Pay boost sparks dedication and relief amidst hardship

Finance

Apr 22, 2024 2 mins read 556 views
CRPs initiative boost nutrition and food security in villages

Food

Apr 22, 2024 2 mins read 451 views
Shortage of labourers behind fallowing land

Punakha-The absence of hands to till the land has left land to follow in the otherwise fertile agricultural land in Punakha.

Apr 22, 2024 2 mins read 598 views
Tiger conservation conference in Paro to raise USD 1 billion

Wild Life

Apr 22, 2024 3 mins read 518 views
Make tax filing easy

Letter to the Editor

Apr 21, 2024 2 mins read 566 views
Jadrung Lhakhang in urgent need of renovation

Religious

Apr 21, 2024 2 mins read 471 views
Hope for the big cats

Editorial

Apr 21, 2024 2 mins read 554 views
Bondey's cold storage to enhance shelf life of perishable goods

Agriculture

Apr 21, 2024 2 mins read 506 views
Bhutan now has nine species of wild cats

Wild Life

Apr 21, 2024 2 mins read 771 views
Battery remains the primary offence

Crime

Apr 21, 2024 1 mins read 510 views
179 trainers certified on SAR and SFF for Gyalsung

Gyalsung

Apr 21, 2024 2 mins read 520 views
Bhutan and EIB sign 150 million Euro loan for energy projects

Finance

Apr 19, 2024 2 mins read 490 views
Druk Ride includes new feature to donate

Transport

Apr 19, 2024 2 mins read 515 views
Vacant land without urban amenities can claim tax refund

Land

Apr 19, 2024 2 mins read 574 views
From mandarin monoculture to crop diversification

Agriculture

Apr 19, 2024 3 mins read 510 views
Revised tax rates are not burdensome, say senior citizens

Land

Apr 19, 2024 4 mins read 545 views
Bhutan's focus on land use zoning for sustainable future

Question and Answer

Apr 19, 2024 4 mins read 523 views
Greener Way to incentivise segregated waste

Environment

Apr 19, 2024 1 mins read 565 views
Second phase peri-urban and urban-farming launched

Thromde

Apr 19, 2024 1 mins read 559 views
Protecting Children or Perpetuating Injustice?

Letter to the Editor

Apr 19, 2024 2 mins read 531 views
Cashing in on waste?

Editorial

Apr 19, 2024 2 mins read 512 views
WWF will fund USD 30 million in conservation for next five year

Wild Life

Apr 19, 2024 2 mins read 551 views
As judiciary looks to open up

Judiciary

Apr 19, 2024 2 mins read 472 views
Skilled Bhutanese workers call for better regulation

Labour

Apr 19, 2024 3 mins read 773 views
Are Bhutanese profiting from TikTok?

Letter to the Editor

Apr 17, 2024 1 mins read 708 views
Regulating advertisements

Editorial

Apr 17, 2024 2 mins read 622 views
Uncertainty looms over Sarpang's development amid GeSAR plans

Technology

Apr 17, 2024 2 mins read 500 views
Japan supports Bhutan's digital topographic map development

Technology

Apr 17, 2024 2 mins read 593 views
Sarpang DT proposes gewog-based police in Chhudzom

Dzongkhag

Apr 17, 2024 2 mins read 467 views
Browse Archives
BTF signs Nu 2.5 million grant for elephant corridor in GMC

The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTF) yesterday signed a Nu 2.5 million grant agreement to support elephant habitat enrichment and ecological corridor restoration in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), marking the first grant signed from its newly established regional office at ChoeGo, GMC.

Jun 06, 2026 3 mins read 686 views
Former Phuentsholing Thrompon reflects on a decade of urban transformation, eyes third term

Looking back on the past 10 years, I feel deeply grateful, humbled, and proud of what we have achieved together

Jun 06, 2026 7 mins read 732 views
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graces inauguration of Her Expression Festival at VAST

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...

Jun 06, 2026 1 mins read 417 views
Lowland cordyceps discovery in India raises questions over Bhutan’s premium fungus economy

The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked c...

Jun 05, 2026 3 mins read 5,643 views
Riwo Exhibition Unites Himalayan artists in exploration of identity and continuity

Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...

Jun 05, 2026 2 mins read 3,535 views
NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Jun 04, 2026 3 mins read 1,660 views
National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,546 views
BRCS opens first Branch Emergency Operations Centre in Tsirang

Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,622 views
BTF opens office in GMC to strengthen support for southern region

Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,799 views
NC endorses annual budget as per NA

The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 404 views
Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...

May 30, 2026 3 mins read 3,610 views
Stop recording, start living

Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.

Jun 06, 2026 4 mins read 397 views
Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,136 views
Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...

May 30, 2026 4 mins read 976 views
The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...

May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,303 views
Whose face are you wearing?

The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 1,729 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,309 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,063 views
Café by the waterfall

About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,740 views
Where tradition meets treatment

In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,482 views
Between Homes

When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 6,686 views
United for Project 108

Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erecting 108 Jangchub Choetens along the Mao Chhu in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 348 views
Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,682 views
A missed opportunity

The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal v...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,420 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...

May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,585 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was never going to be an easy transition. Major tax reforms rarely are. Introduced in January this year, GST was envisioned as a modern tax system, replacing an outdated framework...

May 23, 2026 2 mins read 2,027 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.

May 20, 2026 3 mins read 1,952 views
GMC was a masterstroke

The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the confl...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,566 views
Fighting online scams

The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 2,047 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 2,586 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,513 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 6,416 views
National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 7,616 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 7,809 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,223 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,467 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,404 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 4,905 views
You’re not what you think you are

You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 3,932 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,644 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,157 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,516 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,588 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 3,911 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 3,964 views

Recents