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༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་རྩེད་འགྲན་སྦོམ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིན་མི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ བི་ཨོ་བི་འབྲུག་པིར་མི་ཡར་ལིག་རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ལུ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིནམ་ད་ དེ་ནང་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་དང་ ཨམ་སྲུའི་སྡེ་ཚན་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གནས་ཚད་གྱི་ རྩེད་འགྲན་གྲངས་སུ་ཚུདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཀིའུ་ནེཊ་ལས་རིམ་གྱི་ ཉམས་རྒུདཔ་ཚུ་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ མ་...
At over 4,000 metres above sea level, in one of Bhutan’s most remote and fragile regions, children are attending school in tents, braving the cold, huddled in makeshift classrooms, amid the looming threat of a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF).
Punakha—Despite growing reports of financial ruin and emotional distress among victims of the QNET scheme, many are questioning whe...
Bhutan, along with Cambodia, China and Mongolia, is making solid progress in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B, according to a new regional roadmap launched for Asia and the Pacific.
Bhutanese kidney transplant recipients are experiencing an alarmingly poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL), with un...
The Asian Development Bank forecasts that inflation in Bhutan will cool to 4.2 percent this year. That is welcome news. After years of high...
Bhutan’s journey in modern secular education has been marked by remarkable progress within a relatively brief developmental period, despite the challenges an...
Samtse—For many years, farmers in Samtse have sold vegetables from under makeshift tents, battling monsoon rains and blazing heat. Now, that chapter is finally closing.
The BoB Bhutan Premier League (BPL) 2025, the country’s top football tournament, retur...
གླངམོ་ཆེ་༡༡ འབད་མི་ ཁྱུ་ཅིག་གིས་ གཞལམ་སྒང་ ཏིང་ཏི་...
༉ འཕྲུལ་རིག་དང་ཁྱད་རིག་སློབ་སྦྱོང་སྤེལ་ཁང་གིས་ སྤྱ...
༉ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡཱན་གོང་འཕེལ་དངུལ་ཁང་གི་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་ སྔོ...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ བཀྲིས་ཆོས་གླིང་ བསྟན་འབྲུ་ཀོ་ཅིན་ལས་ སྐ...
༉ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེ་ནང་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ ཕྱག་ཞུ་བའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ལས་སྐྱིད་དབང་མོ་གིས་ མོ་རའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ མཛེས་ཆ་ཚུ་ གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་ནི་ལས་ སྔོན་...
Zhemgang—A herd of 11 elephants has, for the first time, moved from Sarpang to Zhemgang, leaving Tingtibi residents without water for two days after destroying the water pipes.
The cost of goods and services in the country is projected to ease to 4.2 percent this year, according to the latest forecast from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
To address workplace accidents, the Institute of Technology and Professional Learning (ITPL) began a five-day training pro...
Tashichoeling, Samtse — For 78-year-old Kamala Tamang of Kochin in Tendruk, saving money in a bank had been un...
Bhutanese boxers, over the weekend, not only excited spectators at the clock tower square, but also made the country proud by dominating the Four Nations Boxing Championship. In what was an achievement worth noting, all 16 Bhutanese boxers...
After more than a decade in the tourism industry, Leki Wangmo made a dramatic career pivot, from showcasing her country’s beauty to preserving its ancient healing wisdom.
༉ ནསི་ཌ་ནང་ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་མི་ བོ་ལོག་ཅཱེན་དང་ ལས་དོན...
༉ ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་-༡༩ ཐོན་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ འབྲུག་གིས་ ལོག...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མཛོག་ཁྱད་འགྲན་བསྡུར་༢༠༢༥ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༡༡ ལས་༡༣ ཚུན་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མིའི་ནང་ འབྲུག་གི་མཛོག་ཁྱད་བརྗེ་མི་༡༦ ཡོད་པའི་གྲས་ལས་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་༨ དང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་༨ ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་རྟགས་ཚུ་ ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ དགོན་ཤར་རི་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ རེས་གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ལུ...
༉ དགའ་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ ལོ་བསྟར་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་༧...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ མདུན་སྐྱོད་འབད་མ...
Samtse—After years of stalled progress and mounting frustration among residents, local leaders in Samtse have decided to escalate their call for urgent development funding.
Students of Wangbama in Thimphu and Bartsham Central School in Trashigang, will now receive, quinoa supplement in food diet along w...
As Bhutan reimagines its tourism strategy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Depar...
Punakha—Ugyen Dorji, a 34-year-old farmer from Zhelngosa village, has been elected the new gup of Goenshari gewog in Punakha following a closely contested bye-elect...
The decision to integrate the Gelephu-Kokrajhar cross-border railway into the development of the Gelephu Mindfulness City marks more than just an infrastructure milestone. It reflects the growing depth and maturity of Bhutan-India relations which is anchored in trust, shared vision, and long-term co-operation.
All 16 Bhutanese boxers, comprising eight women and eight men, bagged medals at the 2025 Four Nations Boxing Championsh...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་ས་མཚམས་བརྒྱུད་དེ་ ཨ་སམ་མངའ་སྡེ་ ཀོག་ར་ཇཱར...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་དམ་དུམ་དང་ ནོར་བུ་སྒང་བཟོ་གྲྭའི་ས་ཁོངས་ན...
༉ འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་དང་ འབྲུག་ནང་བཟོ་ད...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་ ཨ་སཱམ་མངའ་སྡེ་ བོང་གའི་གའུན་གྱི་ ཁྲིམས་ས...
༉ འབྲུག་མཁའ་འགྲུལ་གྱིས་ ནངས་པ་ ལུང་ནག་ན་གི་ མཐའ་ཐུ...
Gelephu—The much anticipated 69.04-kilometre cross-border railway project connecting Gelephu to Kokrajhar station in Assam, India,...
A Drukair helicopter will airlift dozens of trays of eggs to Lunana’s isolated schools tomorrow, ensuring that no child, regardless of geography, is left behind.
༉ འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་གཙ...
Sweeping reforms in the financial sector are essential for the country to achieve the ambiti...
Despite the United States (US) imposing a 10 percent export tariff on Bhutanese goods and commo...
Mental health is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Globally, it accounts for one in six years lived with disability, with people suffering from severe conditions dying 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population. Bhutan is no exception. There is a growing burden of emotional distress, anxiety, depression, and substance use—issues that are quietly taking root and t
In an era defined by unprecedented environmental challenges, from...
Samtse — The growing number of industries in Dhamdhum and Norbugang Industrial Parks in Samtse, along with the estab...
Gelephu—The Bongaigaon Police in Assam, India, arrested two Bhutanese for the murder of a pickup truck driver...
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The Government of India (GoI) has released more than Nu 12 billion to Bhutan for projects under the 13th Plan, according to the Ministry of Finance.
The National Assembly’s (NA) Social and Culture Committee questioned the government yesterday on its responsibility for...
Punakha—A viral video showing cracks and loose bitumen on the newly constructed six-kilometer Jawakha–Sewla Chiwog farm...
The National Council (NC) ratified the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (B...
As Bhutan prepares to host the two-day Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Impact Finance Forum from December 11, critic...
India yesterday released Nu 1.31 billion to the government as part of its financial support for projects under Bhutan’s...
It is a great honour for me to serve as the first Director General of ICIMOD from the region. The centre represents eigh...
A new regional hub aimed at strengthening climate action and transparent reporting across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)...
The Australian Volunteers Programme (AVP) Bhutan office celebrated International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2025 yesterday in T...
The Good Governance Committee of the National Assembly has urged the House to mandate the immediate establishment of a s...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are calling for a flood protection system after recent floods caused extensive damage, with losses estimated in the billions.
Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act. Your family, friends, school, city, country, social media accounts, television and news channels, habits, and heroes are all shaping you into replicas of the admired, the powerful, and the majority around you.
The launch of the Gelephu–Kolkata international air route marks far more than the addition of a new flight on the country’s aviation map. It is a statement of intent – a signal of where we are headed, how prepared we are, and how seriously we are positioning ourselves for a future centered on connectivity – anchored by the vision of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
Bhutan is not short of ideas, intellect or institutions. What it lacks is a strong, working bridge between research, pol...
In passing the Livestock Bill of Bhutan, 2025, National Assembly members engaged in a good debate, a meaty one, even if it missed the core issue. The Bill was not about advocat...
The National Council this week questioned the government on the country’s disaster preparedness. This is a pertinent issue, especially when extreme weather events are frequent and more intense. Preparedness is therefore the most effective stra...
During a recent Question Hour session in the National Assembly, Members of Parliament (MP) called for an open debate on education quality and budget allocation. And rightly so. Education is the foundation upon which every other...
Far from the bustling capital, the community of Genekha observed an important global day. December 1 was World AIDS Day. They chose to mark the occasion at what they called the “fi...
Youth unemployment has become one of Bhutan’s most persistent national challenges. And it endures despite successive gov...
In some schools, especially in urban centres, there are more teachers than timetables demand. In others, often remote schools, the absence of teachers in key subjects has become chronic.
The growing number of corruption reports in the past year forces the nation to confront a hard truth: something in our s...
The government’s commitment to address regulatory barriers that have choked business growth deserves recognition and sup...
Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...
In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...
The price of an egg in the capital has soared to a staggering Nu 20, pushing a standard tray of 30 to Nu 520. While it f...
The return of the Buddha’s sacred Piprahwa relics to India yesterday was more than a ceremonial farewell. It was a lesso...
Bhutan’s environmental stewardship, which has resulted in the country's rich biodiversity, is finally translating into c...
The exodus of qualified and seasoned health professionals and its impact on the quality of services is an issue of natio...
The potential is vast, the scope is immense, and the market is as monumental as the Himalayas. As Bhutan and India explo...
The launch of the Gelephu–Kolkata international air route marks far more than the addition of a new flight on the country’s aviation map. It is a statement of intent – a signal of where we are headed, how prepared we are, and how seriously we are positioning ourselves for a future centered on connectivity – anchored by the vision of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
Read MoreThe National Assembly yesterday directed the government to submit a detailed follow-up report on the implementation of nine key recommendations from the Tourism Policy Review Report during the upcoming summer session.
Read MoreThe country’s effort to transform ecological challenges into sustainable opportunities was a key highlight at the Youth Development Fund’s (YDF) launch of a biodiversity-based collection in Thimphu on December 7.
Read MoreAs Bhutan looks beyond traditional bank lending and donor-driven grants, new financing avenues, such as blended finance, catalytic capital, philanthropy, and patient capital, are emerging as potential lifelines for the private sector.
Read MoreBhutan is a nation built on a sacred promise, that modern progress need not compromise our spiritual integrity, environment and planetary health, and cause cultural, social and moral dissonance.
Read MoreThe National Council (NC) yesterday deliberated on a review report on key economic sectors presented by the Special Committee for Business Plus (SC4+), highlighting Bhutan’s continued reliance on a narrow export base, persistent logistical barriers, and worsening market conditions for farmers.
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