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MoICE proposes new tax breaks, cheap loans to boost key industries

To accelerate economic growth, reduce dependence on imports, and create jobs, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE) has proposed a new set of new tax holidays and incentives for 10 high-potential industries in the country.

Aug 11, 2025 2 mins read 4,323 views
NA clarifies PDF issue constitutionally settled

The National Assembly (NA) issued a clarification responding to a recent press release by the National Council concerning the removal of the Priority De...

Aug 11, 2025 2 mins read 2,613 views
Healthcare system achieves milestones, but faces new challenges

The country’s healthcare system has made impressive progress, with major gains in maternal and child hea...

Aug 11, 2025 3 mins read 2,094 views
Late-season price hike drives farmers to offload unsold ginger

As the ginger season nears its end, prices have increased, reaching Nu 50 to Nu 55 per kilogram depending o...

Aug 11, 2025 2 mins read 2,026 views
Bhutan partners with Conservation International to scale up forest restoration and protection efforts

The government, in partnership with Conservation International (CI), the Bhutan Ecological Society (BES), and the Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTF), has launched a landmark initiative to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded land.

Aug 11, 2025 3 mins read 4,178 views
PM exhorts values of integrity and wisdom

A historic milestone was marked yesterday as 182 graduates of the Royal Institute of Management (RIM) received their awards during the 27th Convocation Ceremony, graced b...

Aug 11, 2025 1 mins read 6,559 views
Skilled hands, willing hearts eager to build GMC

Sarpang—The midday heat in Sarpang is scorching. Temperatures climb well above 30°C, forcing people to retreat indoors to the comfort of a fan. But t...

Aug 11, 2025 3 mins read 2,162 views
Bhutan U-20 Women’s Team falls to Saudi Arabia, shows progress in qualifiers

Bhutan’s Under-20 (U-20) Women’s national teamlost 2-1 to S...

Aug 11, 2025 2 mins read 8,539 views
མི་རབས་བཞི་པའི་ མི་ཁུངས་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ལག་ཁྱེར་(ཕོར་ཇི་) འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ནང་སྲིད་ལྷན་ཁག་འོག་ལུ་ ཞི་བའི་ཐོ་བཀོད་དང་ མི་རྩིས་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༧ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ས་ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ མི་རབས་བཞི་པའི་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ལག་ཁྱེར་(ཕོར་ཇི་) འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Aug 10, 2025 9 mins read 1,244 views
དམ་དུམ་བཟོ་གྲ་གླིང་ག་ ཡོངས་རྫོགས་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་གདོང་ལེན།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ དམ་དུམ་བཟོ་གྲྭ་གླིང་ག་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དེ...

Aug 10, 2025 9 mins read 1,282 views
ཆང་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ནི་དེ་ དམ་འཛིན་གྱི་ གནད་དོན་ཅིག་སྦེ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆང་གི་རིགས་དེ་ སྤྱོད་ནི་རྐྱངམ་...

Aug 10, 2025 6 mins read 3,435 views
སོ་ནམ་སྒྲིང་སྒྲི་བཞག་ཐབས་ལུ་ ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ཀེ་བའི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ལྟེ་བ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༥ ལུ་ བུམ་ཐང་ ཆུ་སྨད་རྒེད་འོག་...

Aug 10, 2025 7 mins read 1,168 views
Ten-year Industrial Roadmap to boost jobs and GDP

The government’s ambitious 10-year Industrial Development Roadmap, launched yesterday, aims to create 65,000 jobs, attract Nu 300 billion in investments, and significantly diversify the economy by 2035.

Aug 09, 2025 4 mins read 3,851 views
Cabinet approves health sector reforms to strengthen governance and service delivery

The Cabinet has approved a series of structural re...

Aug 09, 2025 2 mins read 5,558 views
Cheap fuel spurs black market in border towns

Gelephu—In the border towns, an unusual scene plays out daily: a growing number of Indian vehicles lining up at fuel stations, paying in Bhutanese Ngultrum (B...

Aug 09, 2025 3 mins read 3,978 views
New FDI rules and regulations to promote investor confidence

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE) launched the new Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Rules...

Aug 09, 2025 4 mins read 2,426 views
Bhutan participates in the third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries

Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Lyonpo D. N. Dhungyel, headed the country’s delegation at the recently concluded third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) in Awaza, Turkmenistan.

Aug 09, 2025 1 mins read 4,693 views
No clear decision yet on stabilisation measures for PHPA-I right bank

The 1,200 MW Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project Authority (PHPA-I) is expected to m...

Aug 09, 2025 2 mins read 3,059 views
TikTok: When entertainment turns toxic

The recent removal of six TikTok accounts for breaching piracy rules  is what we can call the ‘reel’ of social media problems, especially with video content it provides and how co...

Aug 09, 2025 2 mins read 10,735 views
Behind Bhutan’s digital facade

We have been positioning ourselves as a pioneer in adapting to digital innovation despite our small size and limited resources, with the government tirelessly promoting initiatives like the Nationa...

Aug 09, 2025 3 mins read 16,345 views
Govt. bans herbicide to achieve 100 percent organic goal

Wangdue—The use of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, has been completely banned across the country, including the potato-growing valleys of Gangtey and Phobji in Wangdue.

Aug 09, 2025 4 mins read 7,118 views
Golden Langurs holding ground along highways—Threats looms, however

A new survey by the Nature Conservation Division under the Department of Forests and P...

Aug 09, 2025 2 mins read 1,922 views
What happened to the once bustling businesses in Phuentsholing?

Yes, Phuentsholing has long been the gateway to Bhutan’s economy, a vibrant trade hub where livelihoods...

Aug 09, 2025 7 mins read 5,929 views
P-II races to commission final unit

Wangdue—The 1,020-megawatt (MW) Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project is on the final countdown to completion, with a new deadline of August 27 set for the commissioning of its sixth and...

Aug 09, 2025 2 mins read 5,635 views
Bhutan partners with MIT to pioneer robotic construction for GMC

Druk Holding and Investments Limited (DHI) and the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed an agreement to launch Robotic Construction Programme, a venture that could redefine how buildings are designed and built in the country.

Aug 09, 2025 4 mins read 2,070 views
One man, one brush, 100,000 prayers

In a quiet corner of Motithang, Thimphu, a man sits with a brush in hand, his strokes guided not just by skill, but by deep faith. Fifty-two-year-old Khenpo Tsheltrim Dorji, from Gonpawong...

Aug 09, 2025 2 mins read 4,449 views
Terraces and irrigation land development boosts farming in Minjey

Lhuentse—In the remote villages of Minjey Gewog, Lhuentse, 35 farming households have turned 131 a...

Aug 09, 2025 2 mins read 1,371 views
Dechen Dorji revives Bhutan’s boxing dreams

In a major win for Bhutanese boxing, Dechen Dorji, a 19-year-old from Mongar, secured a bronze medal at the Asian Boxing Under (U)-19 and U-22 Championships i...

Aug 09, 2025 2 mins read 10,999 views
Dhamdhum Startup Centre struggles to reach full potential

Samtse—More than a year after its establishment, the Startup Centre at Dhamdhum Industrial Park in Samtse continues to operate below intended capacity, with only five out of nine incubation units currently occupied.

Aug 08, 2025 3 mins read 5,330 views
Inflation cools to 3.65 percent in June

Consumers in the country saw a 3.65 percent increase in the prices of goods and services in June, a slight cooling from 3.84 percent recorded in May, according to the National...

Aug 08, 2025 2 mins read 2,069 views
4G CID card features biocrypto QR Code

The Department of Civil Registration and Census (DCRC) under the Ministry of Home Affairs launched the Fourth Generation Citizenship Identity Card (4G CID) in Thimphu yesterday.

Aug 08, 2025 3 mins read 6,324 views
Let’s start by fixing our drains

Every monsoon, the capital city, the nerve centre of Bhutan, turns into a case study of how not to build a city. Roads flood, drains overflow, footpaths vanish under filthy run-off, and cars...

Aug 08, 2025 2 mins read 5,321 views
DoFPS launches zero poaching strategy to end wildlife crime

To address one of the world’s most lucrative and destructive criminal industries, the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS) has launched the National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025–2029 to eliminate wildlife poaching and illegal trade within its borders.

Aug 08, 2025 4 mins read 3,269 views
Six TikTok accounts removed for pirating local films

OTT platform Samuh Mediatech, in collaboration with the Bhutan Information and Media Authority (BICMA) and the TikTok head office, has su...

Aug 08, 2025 2 mins read 8,743 views
གཙོ་རིམ་གོང་འཕེལ་མ་དངུལ་ ཕྱིར་བཏོན་འབད་མི་དེ་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་ལས་འགལ་བ།

དེ་ཡང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Aug 07, 2025 7 mins read 1,356 views
གནས་གོང་བགོ་བཤའ་ཐབས་ལམ་གསརཔ་དང་བསྟུན་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཅིག་ཡང་ རྒྱབ་ཁར་ལུས་མི་བཅུག་ནི།

༉ སོ་ནམ་དང་ སྒོ་ནོར་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་འོག་ལུ་ གནས་གོང་བགོ་...

Aug 07, 2025 5 mins read 1,218 views
འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་མཁོསྒྲུབ་ཐོབ་སྐལ་ཁ་སྐོང་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༡.༥ ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ།

ཨིན་རུང་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁེ་ཕན་ཐོབ་...

Aug 07, 2025 6 mins read 3,497 views
A bold beginning for our city of the future

We are not just dreaming of the future—we are building it. The Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority’s (GMCA) renovation of the Bhutan Post building in Gelephu may see...

Aug 07, 2025 2 mins read 5,599 views
MPs receive additional Nu 1.5 million in vehicle quota, bypassing Pay Reform Act

The government has monetised vehicle import quotas fo...

Aug 07, 2025 2 mins read 10,053 views
Tighter budgets lead to 2.14 percent consumer spending decline

With businesses reporting fewer customers, consumer spending in the country experienced a 2.14 percent drop...

Aug 07, 2025 2 mins read 1,962 views
NC raises constitutional alarm over Priority Development Fund

The National Council (NC) has raised grave constitutional concerns over the Priority Development Fund (PDF), a Nu 94 million annual allocation embedded in the Budget Appropriation Bill for the Fiscal Year 2025-26, warning that it risks eroding parliamentary oversight, decentralisation, and the foundation of Bhutan’s constitutional democracy.

Aug 07, 2025 2 mins read 1,948 views
As Bhutan ages, RSSC leads reforms to ensure elderly care

As Bhutan’s elderly population steadily rises, the Royal Society for Senior Citizens (RSSC) is leading efforts to ensure t...

Aug 07, 2025 2 mins read 3,118 views
No farmer will be left behind under new cost-sharing mechanism: MoAL

The government’s revised Cost Sharing Mechanism (CSM 2025) under the Ministry of Agricult...

Aug 07, 2025 3 mins read 6,578 views
Bhutanese short film “Zampa” to premiere at Osaka Asian Film Festival

Bhutanese filmmaker Chand RC’s latest short film, “Zampa (The Bridge)”, wi...

Aug 07, 2025 2 mins read 2,938 views
Agriculture ministry launches potato trade centres to strengthen agriculture value chain

In a move to strengthen the agricultural exports, the agriculture ministry inaugurated a Potato Trade Facilitation Centre (PTFC) in Gaytsa, Chhumig gewog, Bumthang, on August 5.

Aug 07, 2025 3 mins read 2,614 views
Cricket for all rolls out in monasteries

On a crisp morning at Dechen Phodrang Monastic School in Taba,  Thimphu, a new sound echoed through the premise: the crack of cricket bats meeting balls. For the first time...

Aug 07, 2025 2 mins read 4,162 views
འབྲུག་པའི་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ ནེ་པཱལ་གྱི་སྡེ་ཚན་དང་ དོ་འགྲན་འབད་ནི།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྐང་རྩེད་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་ལུ་དགའ་མི་...

Aug 06, 2025 6 mins read 1,239 views
མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༤,༠༦༠ འབད་མི་ སཱུན་ཀོཤ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ འོས་འབབ་བརྟག་ཞིབ།

ཧེ་མ་ལས་བསྒུགས་ཏེ་ ཡུན་རིངམོ་སོང་མི་ སཱུན་ཀོཤ་གློག...

Aug 06, 2025 5 mins read 1,166 views
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཁར་ སྒྲིང་ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་ལས་འགུལ་དང་པ་འགོ་འབྱེད།

༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ འབྲུག་འགྲེམ་ལས་འཛིན་གྱི་ སྒྲིང་ཁྱིམ་གསརཔ་དེ་ ཉམས་བཅོས་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་འབད་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Aug 06, 2025 6 mins read 1,119 views
དམ་ཆུ་དང་ ཧཱ་བར་ན་གི་ཟམ་ལོག་རྐྱབ་ནི་དེ་ སང་ཕོད་འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི།

༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༡ ལུ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་ དམ་ཆུ་དང་ ཧཱ་བར་ནའི་གཞུང་ལམ་གྱི་མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་ ཟམ་དེ་ རམ་སོང་པའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ ལོག་ཉམས་བཅོས་ཀྱི་ལཱ་འབད་ནི་དེ་ སང་ཕོད་སྤྱི་ཟླ་༩ པའི་ནང་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཚུགས་པའི་ རེ་བ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Aug 06, 2025 5 mins read 1,126 views
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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 2,758 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

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Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 5,584 views
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The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 4,987 views
New FDI regime offers wider access to foreign investors in agriculture

The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...

Jan 03, 2026 3 mins read 5,840 views
Pindarika: Myth, desire, and revenge on big screen

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A night for silver screen in Punakha

For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of an industry that is still young but steadily maturing.

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 838 views
Your Body, Your First Responsibility

Mar 02, 2026 1 mins read 1,035 views
At 71, Bhutan’s pioneer filmmaker continues to shine

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Damcha– A Promise Beyond the Blackboard

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Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 2,429 views
What an entrepreneurial bureaucracy must do

Mar 11, 2026 2 mins read 568 views
Urgent call to skill our youth

Mar 07, 2026 2 mins read 1,850 views
Bracing for impacts of distant wars

Mar 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,236 views
Beyond the statistics

Feb 28, 2026 2 mins read 1,259 views
An auspicious beginning

Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic. As the nation celebrated the 46th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty th...

Feb 25, 2026 3 mins read 1,343 views
Are we prepared for a major earthquake?

The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder that Bhutan's capital sits on shaky grounds. Their warning that earthquakes do not kill people, unsafe buildings do, sh...

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 2,066 views
A year of reckoning

As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroeconomic signals and renewed optimism on paper.

Feb 18, 2026 3 mins read 1,762 views
Projecting growth

Feb 14, 2026 2 mins read 2,033 views
Builders or buyers?

The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 2,731 views
The burden of cancer

Feb 07, 2026 2 mins read 2,952 views
BCCI submits 35 business ideas to govt. for private sector engagement

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 6,312 views
Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...

Dec 20, 2025 3 mins read 4,801 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 5,118 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 7,302 views
Between Homes: Voices of Bhutanese living between home and elsewhere

I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything grand, just a humble little place t...

Feb 21, 2026 1 mins read 2,322 views
Dining in the Sun: Inside Solé

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The spiritual and theatrical world of Charmi Chheda

Charmi Chheda’s relationship with the stage began long before she understood what theatre could mean. At eight years old...

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 1,494 views
Driving a new generation of golfers: The 19th Hole

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Giku-Na: A corner for a community

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