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༉ སྐྱེ་ལྡན་རིགས་སྣ་གིས་ ཕྱུག་སྟེ་ཡོད་པའི་ འབྲུག་གི་ས་ཁོངས་དྲུག་དེ་ རང་བཞིན་ལྟ་བཤལ་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་སྦེ་ ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ ཡུན་རིང་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ས་གནས་མི་སྡེ་ཚུ་ལུ་ མི་ཚེའི་གོ་སྐབས་གསརཔ་བཟོཝ་དང་འབྲེལ་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་ཉམས་སྲུང་འབད་ནི་ཚུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ གནམ་གཤིས་འགྱུར་བགྲོད་དང་བསྟུན་ ཆར་ཆུའི་གནས་སྟངས་...
༉ རྟ་སྡིངས་དང་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་དཔལ་རི་གྱི་འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ ལོ་...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྟེ་བ་བཟུམ་ཅིག་ནང་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རེས་...
What happened on the 19th August was not supposed to happen and should not have happened. But it did and shocked the mind out of logical thinking.
With the appointment of a new Speaker, the ruling party has faced criticism over the loyalty of its memb...
Natural resources can provide an important opportunity to diversify an econom...
Even as search and rescue efforts continue to locate hundreds of people missing after the devastating floods in Nepal, the images emerging from the disaster are as disturbing as the warnings from climate scientists about what may have caused it.
Nepal’s recent flood has demonstrated that rain need not fall where people live for floodwaters to reach their homes, a risk Bhutan must also prepare for.
Our work covers the full continuum of prevention, early identification, crisi...
Rental housing in Samtse is becoming more expensive as industrial development brings more workers into the area, pushing up demand for homes alongside the...
For years, every broken water source meant an eight-kilometre walk through the forest for Dema, 34, of Wang...
Australian coach Gary Phillips has been appointed Head Coach of Bhutan national U-20 football team. He has been tasked with preparing the team for the AFC group stage, which will form an important part of the team’s development.
The Bank of Bhutan’s (BOB) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), IT Director, and Project Manager overseeing its c...
Public servants travelling on official duty are feeling the financial strain as government travel allowances no longer adequately cover actual expenses,...
With the government now halfway through its five-year term, questions are being raised over who shoul...
His Majesty The King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Majesty The Queen, Their Majesties the Queen Mothers, and Members of the Royal Family lit a thousand butter lamps at the Grand Kuenrey of Tashichhodzong yesterday for the victims of the catastrophic flash floods in Nepal and China.
Parliamentarians from the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region have called for stronger cross-border c...
The sun beat down on Gelephu Public Ground yesterday morning, where volunteers from across the country had gathered before heading out to work. By the time they dispersed to their designated...
Bhutan is facing a growing shortage of engineers as construction, hydropower, and other infrastructure projects expand, leaving...
The High Court overturned a judgment by the Trashigang Dzongkhag Court yesterday, sentencing Dr Tshering Norbu to 10 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old patient.
More than 70 participants across the country, incl...
Bhutanese pilgrims travelling to and from Lhasa are safe despite massive flooding in northern Nepal that ha...
Every day, roughly 38 Bhutanese walk into a car showroom or apply for an import letter, ready to spend on the second-largest purchase of their lives. That should be a buyer’s market. Instead, the rules governing it are written for sellers.
The Question Hour in Parliament provides elected representatives the opportunity to keep check...
Almost every craft retailer in Thimphu and Paro pays undisclosed commissions to tour guid...
Rich in biodiversity, six areas across Bhutan are being positioned as flagship nature-based tourism destinations, with the potential to generat...
The government is turning increasingly to solar power to bolster the country’s energy security as climate change alters rainfall patterns, exposing the vulnerabilities of the hydropower sector.
Mental health is emerging as an increasingly important public health an...
The 65-bed Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Mother and Child Hospital (GJPMCH) in Mongar is...
Heavy vehicles are taking more than two hours to navigate a short two-kilometre stretch at the main Integrated Check Post in Samtse...
After months without a confirmed timeline, Miss Bhutan 2026 will not represent the country at this year’s Miss World pageant. Organisers have now turned their attention to Miss World 2027.
Hopes for an airport at Pongchula in Mongar, fuelled by political pledges during the electio...
At two o’clock on the afternoon of August 20, the power failed inside Sarpang Dzong. Outside, the temperature had climbed to 32 degrees Celsius. Inside, without the...
The Kuensel’s recent report on entertainment centre safety in Thimphu raises questions that deserve far mor...
For decades, India-Bhutan relations have largely b...
༉ ནད་ཡམས་ཐོན་པའི་སྐབས་ གཞུང་གིས་ ཡུ་ཨེསི་ཌོ་ལར་༣༧༤...
༉ ད་རེས་ཀྱི་དུས་སྐལ་དེ་ གཞན་དང་མ་འདྲ་བའི་ དུས་སྐལ་...
༉ གཞུང་གི་ཟད་འགྲོ་དང་ མི་རློབས་འཕེལ་ཚད་ གསོ་བའི་འཕ...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་གི་ཉེ་འདབས་ལུ་ ས་ཡོམ་ཤུགས་ཚད་མེག་ནི་ཅུཌ་༥.༥ འབད་མི་རྐྱབ་མི་གིས་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཉེན་བཅོལ་ལས་འཛིན་གྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཁྱིམ་གུང་༨༦༥ ལུ་ གནོད་པ་རྐྱབ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཉེན་བཅོལ་འཐུས་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༡༡.༨ སྤྲོད་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ ཆུ་བུར་རྒེད་འོག་ གཡུས་ལྷུམ་པ་ཐང་ལས་ སྐྱ...
༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་དངུལ་ལས་དབང་འཛིན་གྱི་ གནས་ཐོ་དང་འཁྲིལ་...
༉ རྩི་རང་རྫོང་ཁག་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་གྱ...
More than five years after it vanished from the legislative agenda without a vote, the long-debated Mines and Minerals Management Bill is expected to return to Parliament during the winter session, trailing behind it an unresolved question about how, and under what constitutional authority, it was shelved in the first place.
On weekends, Thimphu’s entertainment centres fill up quickly, with people packed into bars, clubs and pubs as the night progresses. As crowds grow, movi...
The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has directed the Department of Environm...
The recent election of the National Assembly Speaker, won by a member of the opposition party for the first time, has dominated public discourse, with many drawing their own conclusions and speculating a...
The Royal Civil Service Commission's figures record 1,277 separations in six months, 891 voluntary resignations, up 40.5 percent year on year. They are an unarticulated verdict on the State's discharge of its constitutional obligations, delivered by a workforce that neither unionises nor petitions, but withdraws politely under the rubric of personal reasons and greener pastures.
Oct 03, 2026
Oct 03, 2026
Five private newspapers in the country received Nu 1 million each under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) to strengthen capacity, support digitisation, and meet operational needs.
The weather has been wet in Tashicholing, Samtse, with rain continuing over the past few days. But the rain did not stop...
Farmers in Zhemgang are struggling to benefit from the government’s cost-sharing programmes, with some unable to afford...
His Majesty The King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, Their Majesties the Gyalyums, and M...
A total of 376 university degree holders, including 20 with master’s degrees and 356 with bachelor’s degrees, appeared f...
With two days to go before the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, Bhutan’s athletes have entered the final phase o...
The seven Regional Offices for Infrastructure Development (ROID), established by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Tran...
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is emerging as a growing concern in the country, with women, girls...
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) recorded 28 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in the first 15 days of this month, compared with 18 cases reported in August.
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...
The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to q...
The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online...
༉ 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...
Thimphu Police have recovered several sacred relics and artefacts stolen from 22 chortens and 13 lhakhangs in Thimphu, Paro, Wangdue, Punakha and Bumthang in cases reported between 2023 and 2026.
Read MoreBefore solar-powered irrigation reached Tempakha village in Chubu Gewog, Punakha, 23-year-old Pema Zangmo and her father trekked to distant mountain streams, carrying water on their backs to save the family's agricultural crop.
Read MoreThree years after the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) introduced the revised Managing for Excellence (MaX) performance management system in 2023, civil servants are questioning its tangible benefits, particularly in terms of incentives, career progression, and improvements in public service delivery.
Read MoreHis Majesty The King graced the Passing Out Parade of the Gyalsung Training 2026 Batch (Cohort 2) at the Gyalsung Academy in Khotokha, Wangdue on September 30.
Read MoreNearly two decades after the Road Sector Master Plan (RSMP) 2007-2027 was launched, only a handful of the planned activities have been implemented, even as successive governments campaigned on promises of major road building.
Read MoreLocal government leaders of Zhemgang are urging the government to expedite its decision on their petition seeking the transfer of current dzongda over alleged administrative and governance issues.
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