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དགོན་ཤར་རི་རྒཔོ་གི་ དུས་མིན་བཙག་འཐུའི་དོན་ལུ་ གདམ་ངོ་༢ ཐོན་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་གི་བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་ དགོན་ཤར་རི་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ རྒཔོ་དེ་ དུས་ཅི་ ཚེ་འདས་སོང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རྒཔོ་གི་གོ་གནས་དོན་ལུ་ དུས་མིན་བཙག་འཐུ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 04, 2025 6 mins read 2,366 views
བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ ནེ་པཱལ་གྱི་ བློན་ཆེན་ཀེ་པི་ཤར་མ་ ཨོ་ལི་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཕྱད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ བེང་ཀོག་ལུ...

Apr 04, 2025 1 mins read 1,551 views
འབྲུག་གི་བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་ ཤྲི་ལངྐའི་ བློན་ཆེན་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཕྱད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ བེང་ཀོག་ལུ...

Apr 04, 2025 1 mins read 1,277 views
Economic Stimulus Programme: Where the money is going

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Secretariat has disbursed Nu 4.1 billion of the Nu 15 billion allocated to revitalise key sector...

Apr 04, 2025 4 mins read 4,437 views
MoAL to boost domestic production to ensure food security

The inflation rate for agrifood in Bhutan has been increasing, affecting consumers preferences and choices. In the 13th Plan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock’s (MoAL) plans to create enabling environment for investment, infrastructure development, and policy interventions to increase production and access to food.

Apr 04, 2025 3 mins read 7,203 views
Amendment of tobacco laws essential to control non-nicotine e-cigarettes

The alarming rise in the import of e-cigarettes into the country and its grow...

Apr 04, 2025 2 mins read 3,402 views
Bhutanese voice in Brazil’s literary tapestry

In the historic town of Mariana, Brazil, where art and literature breathe through centuries-old walls, a Bhutanese educator has left his mark. On March...

Apr 04, 2025 2 mins read 5,849 views
Scamming at next level

A banker in Turkey died after the Covid-19 pandemic. His “head of finance" is reaching out to people so that she can share the fortune, as the banker had no children or  kith or kin to claim the heritage. She claims it is total...

Apr 04, 2025 2 mins read 9,372 views
Avis Bhutan launches chauffeur -driven car rental services

On March 25, Avis Bhutan, a globally recognised car rental brand, introduced its chauffeur-driven car rental services, aiming to provide world-class mobility solutions in Bhutan.

Apr 04, 2025 1 mins read 4,312 views
Chukha proposes new 20-bedded hospital in Tshimalakha

Chukha—The Chukha Dzongkhag Tshogdu (DT) has proposed the construction of a new 20-bedded hospital in Tshimalakha to replace the exist...

Apr 04, 2025 2 mins read 2,674 views
Bhutan Olympic Committee ramps up efforts for 2026 Asian Games

The Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) is intensifying its efforts to ensure that Bhutanese athletes are not ju...

Apr 04, 2025 3 mins read 6,677 views
ChatGPT hits 1.2m daily users in Korea amid Ghibli-style AI-generated image trend

SEOUL – If you have been on social media recently,...

Apr 04, 2025 1 mins read 7,778 views
འབྲུག་གི་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་ བློན་ཆེན་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ཕྱད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ད་རིས་ བེང་ཀོག་ལུ་སྦེ་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་ བློན་ཆེན་པེ་ཏོང་ཏཱན་ ཤི་ན་ཝ་ཊ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཕྱད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 03, 2025 1 mins read 1,694 views
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པ་ལས་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི།

༉ གསར་སྤང་ལུ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་དེ...

Apr 03, 2025 7 mins read 2,643 views
ཉུང་སུ་ཅིག་ལས་མེད་པའི་ སོ་ནམ་ཞིང་ཚུ་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི།

༉ སོ་ནམ་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དང་ བཟའ་སྤྱོད་ཉེན་སྲུང་ཡར་དྲག་གཏ...

Apr 03, 2025 7 mins read 1,919 views
སྤྱིར་བཏང་གཡོག་སྤྲོད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༩༦.༥ ལུ་ལྷོད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ལུ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་གཡོག་སྤྲོད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༩༦....

Apr 03, 2025 6 mins read 2,011 views
ངོ་སྦྱོར་གསར་པའི་རིམ་ལུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ ནང་འཁོད་ལག་བཟོ་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཚུ་ ཉམས་སྲུང་འབད་ནི།

༉ ནང་སྲིད་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ཁྱིམ་ཚང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཚུ་ནང་ལས་ ལག་བཟོའི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཚུ་ རྒྱ་ཆེ་དྲགས་སྦེ་ར་ ཐོན་སྐྱེད་འབད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་གི་ ནང་འཁོད་ལག་བཟོ་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དང་ སྒྱུ་རྩལ་མཁནམ་ཚུ་གི་ མི་ཚེའི་གནས་སྟངས་ལུ་ ཐོ་ཕོག་དོ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 03, 2025 6 mins read 2,371 views
འུ་ཕུག་དགུན་ཁྱིམ་ལས་འགུལ་ ཡུན་འགྱངས་ལུས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ གཞི་རྟེན་མཁོ་ཆས་དང་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་བློན་པོ་དང་འཁྲིལ་...

Apr 03, 2025 4 mins read 1,161 views
Gelephu International Airport construction set to begin in July

Gelephu—The preparatory work, including the master plan and detailed project report, for the highly anti...

Apr 03, 2025 2 mins read 10,594 views
Making the best use of limited arable land

To boost agricultural production and food security, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) and the National Land Commission Secretariat (NLCS) have identifie...

Apr 03, 2025 3 mins read 2,825 views
Wophu winter homes project faces setbacks

The royal initiative to provide winter homes for the Layaps at Wophu, Gasa, has encountered significant delays, with construction yet to begin, according to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT).

Apr 03, 2025 1 mins read 2,545 views
New certification system to safeguard local handicraft products

The Ministry of Home Affairs is working to address concerns regarding the huge influx of mass-produced a...

Apr 03, 2025 2 mins read 4,064 views
Address teacher shortage issue urgently

The shortage of over 1,100 teachers in our schools is not just a staffing issue—it is a crisis threatening the country’s education system and, by extension, our future. The Min...

Apr 03, 2025 2 mins read 6,134 views
MoH seeks solution for disposal of seized narcotics amid incinerator breakdown

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is working to address challeng...

Apr 03, 2025 1 mins read 2,301 views
Two candidates vie for gup position in Goenshari bye-election

Punakha— The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has scheduled a bye-election for the position Gup in Goenshari gewog, Punakha, following the passing of the incumbent Gup earlier this year.

Apr 03, 2025 2 mins read 4,240 views
Meera Regmi wins OCA’s Youth Reporter contest

Meera Regmi, a Class X student from Khangkhu Middle Secondary School, was named Bhutan’s youth reporter at the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)-Olympic Sol...

Apr 03, 2025 2 mins read 5,357 views
Overall employment reaches 96.5 percent

The overall employment rate in the country reached 96.5 percent in 2024, jumping from 94.1 percent in 2022, with the total number of employed persons recording a 28.7 percent g...

Apr 03, 2025 2 mins read 2,121 views
གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་ལས་ལྷག་སྟེ་ སོ་ནམ་དང་ལྟ་བཤལ་ དེ་ལས་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ལུ་ གཙོ་རིམ་བཟུང་ནི།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཅིག་ འཚོགས་པའི་སྐབས་ དངུལ་...

Apr 02, 2025 6 mins read 2,056 views
སློབ་དཔོན་མ་ལང་མི་དང་ བགོ་བཀྲམ་གནད་དོན་ཚུ་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྫོང་ཁག་ག་རའི་ནང་ སློབ་དཔོན་བགོ་བཀྲམ་དང་ མ་ལང་མི་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ གནད་དོན་སེལ་ཐབས་དོན་ལུ་ ཤེས་རིག་དང་རིག་རྩལ་གོང་འཕེལ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ བརྟག་ཞིབ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 02, 2025 7 mins read 5,249 views
ཐིམ་ཕུག་མེ་ཇིག་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ ལྷོ་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡའི་ བཱསི་ཀེཊ་བཱོལ་རྩེད་འགྲན་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱ་གར་ ཅེ་ན་ཡེ་ལུ་ ལྷོ་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡའི་ བཱསི་ཀེཊ་བཱོལ...

Apr 02, 2025 6 mins read 1,952 views
གཞུང་གིས་ གློག་ཤུགས་གླ་འཁོར་གྱི་ ཕབ་ཆག་འཆར་དངུལ་འཛིན་གྲོལ་འབད་མི་ ལོག་ལེན་ནི།

༉ བློན་ཆེན་ཡིག་ཚང་གིས་ གོང་ཚད་ཕབ་ཆག་ཐོག་ལུ་ གློག་ཤ...

Apr 02, 2025 7 mins read 1,623 views
རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ཚུ་ ཇི་ཨེམ་སི་ལས་འགུལ་ལུ་ སྤྲོ་བ་སྦོམ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ རྒྱ་གར་མངའ་སྡེ་ གུ་ཝ་ཧ་ཊི་ལུ་ ཁེ་ཕན་ཨ་སཱམ་༢.༠ ཟེར་མི་ ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཅིག་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་(ཇི་ཨེམ་སི) དམིགས་བསལ་བདག་སྐྱོང་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱིས་ ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གོང་འཕེལ་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ནི་ལུ་ དང་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ཚུ་དང་ གྲོས་བསྟུན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 02, 2025 7 mins read 1,448 views
རྡོར་གདན་བཀྲིས་ཐང་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ནང་ བསྟན་འགྱུར་གྱི་ལྗགས་ལུང་།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༡ ལས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ གཙུ...

Apr 02, 2025 1 mins read 733 views
Govt. optimistic to attract Nu 500 billion FDI by 2029

The government is optimistic about attracting Nu 500 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) by 2029, given the increasing inves...

Apr 02, 2025 3 mins read 2,423 views
Indian investors show strong interest in GMC

Gelephu—Following the recent Advantage Assam 2.0 summit in Guwahati, Assam, India, the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) Special Administrative Region (SAR) is in d...

Apr 02, 2025 2 mins read 10,614 views
Government to reclaim subsidies for undelivered EV taxis

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will recover the subsidies for 27 electric vehicle (EV) taxis that were paid for under a sustainability project but were never delivered or sold to the intended recipients.

Apr 02, 2025 3 mins read 3,517 views
Govt. to focus on agriculture, tourism, and FDI for growth beyond hydropower

The government is set to intensify efforts in agriculture, touris...

Apr 02, 2025 2 mins read 2,891 views
Ensuring quality of public infrastructure

Public infrastructure serves as the backbone of national economy, influencing everything from economic productivity to social well-being. Yet, for too long, quality contr...

Apr 02, 2025 2 mins read 4,320 views
Health ministry steps up fight against tuberculosis

Bhutan is intensifying its efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) with a comprehensive strategy aimed at reducing cases and achieving the End T...

Apr 02, 2025 3 mins read 2,273 views
Teacher shortage and deployment issues under review

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) is conducting a detailed assessment of teacher allocation and shortages across all dzongkhags to address inefficiencies in deployment.

Apr 02, 2025 2 mins read 5,041 views
Bhutan to export high-value commodities to boost agrifood sector

Aimed at boosting exports in new markets within the country and abroad, mechanising the farming syste...

Apr 02, 2025 4 mins read 2,350 views
གློག་ཤུགས་འགྲུལ་འཁོར་བཱསི་ གཅིག་ལས་བརྒལ་མེད་མི་དེ་ ལོག་ལཱ་འབད་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ གློག་ཤུགས་འགྲུལ་འཁོར་བཱསི་...

Apr 01, 2025 6 mins read 2,542 views
མི་སྡེ་བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་དང་རྒྱང་མཐོང་ ཚད་ལས་བརྒལ་ལྟ་བའི་ ཉེན་ཁ་སེལ་ཐབས།

༉ དམིགས་བསལ་དུ་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་གིས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་དང་ འཕྲ...

Apr 01, 2025 6 mins read 1,917 views
གེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་གྱིས་ ཌི་ཇི་ཊཱལ་རྒྱུ་དངོས་ཐོག་ལུ་ གྲོས་འཛོམས་འཚོགས་ནི།

༉ ད་རེས་ དམིགས་བསལ་བདག་སྐྱོང་ལུགས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་གྱིས་ འཛམ་གླིང་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལས་ ཐབས་བྱུས་གསོག་འཇོག་ལུ་ གཙོ་རིམ་བཟུང་སྟེ་ ཆེ་རིམ་གནས་ཚད་ཀྱི་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ དམིགས་བསལ་གྱིས་ ཌི་ཇི་ཊཱལ་རྒྱུ་དངོས་ཚུ་ གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 01, 2025 7 mins read 2,372 views
བསམ་རང་གི་ཚོང་ལམ་དེ་ རྒྱ་གར་ལས་ གནང་བ་སྒུག་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་གི་ མཐའ་དཔྱད་གནང་བ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་...

Apr 01, 2025 5 mins read 1,671 views
GMC Conference on digital assets to host global financial leaders

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Samrang trade route awaits green light from India

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Addressing the risks of excessive screen time

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Media must first hold itself accountable

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Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

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The tourism paradox

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High-value tourism, low-value jobs?

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Tying the loose ends of GST reform

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GST transition pains need urgent fixes

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Making GST work past early hiccups

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Recents

Best Class 10 results of the past three years

The Class 10 results declared today are the best of the past five years. This is the first time in five years that the pass percentage of the Bhutan Council for School Examination and Assessment (BCSEA) has increased drastically compared to the previous year.

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