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The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living in high-crime nations like India and Senegal, as well as low-crime countries like Bhutan, and very low crime countries like Switzerland and Finland, have shaped my understanding. Having personally transitioned from a violent life to a non-violent one, I offer my thoughts and solut
The central bank, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), revised the minimum lending rate (MLR) to 6.38 percent in D...
When faced with the devastating reality of childhood cancer, Bhutanese families are often left to navigate...
A nation’s progress is not just about big infrastructure or economic growth; it is also about how efficiently systems function for its people. Today, in our country, despite efforts to modernise governance, some basic services remain frustratingly difficult. Tax payment is one of them.
More than 200 runners, including over 50 international participants, have signed up for the 11th Bhutan Intern...
Chukha-For many years, farmers in Darla gewog, Chukha, relied on cash crops like cardamom and citrus—crops that once brought prosperity but hav...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ དང་༢༦ ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མངའ་སྡ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༣ ལུ་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་གི་རྒྱལ་ས་ ཌ་ཀ་ལུ་སྦེ་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་ནང་པའི་རིག་གཞུང་དར་སྤེལ་ཚོགས་པ་གིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་ལུ་ པཎྲིཏ་ཝ་ན་རཏྣ་ཞི་བའི་ གསེར་གྱི་རྟགས་མ་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ གཙུག་ལག...
Last year, a French film, ”La Tresse” (The Braid),...
༉ ད་རིས་ འབྲུག་དང་ སིངྒ་པོར་གྱིས་ ནག་རྫས་ཀར་བཱོན་ཚོང་ལས་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ལག་ལེན་གུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། ཆིངས་ཡིག་...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རང་ཟླ་༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༩ ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ རང་ཟླ་དང་པའི་ཚེས་༤ ཚུན་ ཉིན་གྲངས་ལྔའི་རིང་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ དཀར་སྦིས་མཆོད་རྟེན་རྙིང་པོ་ འབྲུག་མི་འགྱུར་ལྷུན་པོའི་ དགོན་འཛིན་གྲྭ་ཚང་ནང་ དགེ་འདུན་པ་ཞལ་གྲངས་༡༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་གནང་སྲོལ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་རིམ་ རྒྱལ་བ་བྱམས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་འབུམ་ཐེར་ཐེངས་༦ པ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
ས་གནས་ཀྱི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་གིས་ གནད་དོན་སེལ་ཐབས་དོན་ལུ་ འ...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༡༢ པ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་བའི་སྐབས་ འབྲུག་...
༉ ནང་འཁོད་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཡོངས་འབོར་ལུ་ ས་གཏེར་དང་ རྡོ་ག...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ སྤ་རོ་དང་ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ལུ་སྦེ་ རང་བཞིན་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་སྡེ་ཚན་དང་ འཛམ་གླིང་རི་དྭགས་མ་དངུལ་གྱིས་ གངས་གཟིག་དང་ ཨ་ཅོ་གདོང་དཀར་ཚུ་ སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ལས་འགུལ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སྤ་རོ་ལུ་ གངས་གཟིག་༡༡ ཡོད་མི་དེ་ གྱངས་ཁ་མཐོ་ཤོས་ཨིནམ་བཞིན་དུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཨ་ཅོ་གདོང་དཀར་༣༠༨ ཡོད་པའི་གྲས་ལས་ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ལུ་༢༦ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
Chukha-Residents of Bongo, Darla, and Getana gewogs in Chukha continue to face fuel crisis as the lone fuel depot in Gedu frequently runs dry, sometimes up to a...
Bhutan’s national debt climbed to Nu 292.74 billion by the end of December 2024, which is equivalent to 97.1 percent of the country’s estimated gross domestic product (GDP), according t...
Our glaciers are melting at an alarming rate—threatening not just the 700,000 and more people who depend on them, but also the 1.6 billion people downstream who rely on Himalayan water sources.
Bhutan, a country with one of the world’s richest freshwater resources, is paradoxically grappling with severe water shortages in many regions. Despite an estimated 80 billion cubic meters of available water, some communities face chronic scarcity.
The government aims to increase the mining and quarrying sector’s GDP contribution...
༉ གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༡ ལུ་ ཨ་ལུ་...
༉ ད་རེས་ཀྱི་ ཚལ་ལུའི་དུས་ཚོད་སྐབས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱིས་ ཚ...
༉ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གི་རྒྱབ་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༧༤ འབད་མི་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དང་ མགར་སའི་གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཞན་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རྟ་གུ་ཁུར་ཆ་བཀལ་ཏེ་ ཉིན་ལམ་༢ ཀྱི་རིང་ རྐང་འགྲུལ་འབད་དེ་ མགར་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་ནང་ འགྱོ་དགོཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༢ ལས་ གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ དུས་ཡུན་ཆུ་ཚོད་༣ གྱི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ནང་སྦེ་ ལྷོད་ཚུགསཔ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ལུ་ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ག...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ ཁྱེགས་རི་དང་ ཆུ་རྐ་ཚུ་ལུ་ གནམ་གཤིས་འགྱ...
Bhutan’s glaciers and water sources are under threat from climate change, endangering 240 million people in the Himalayas and 1.6 billion downstream, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay warned at...
The Ministry of Finance issued a directive on February 19 urging all government agencies to accelerate capital project implementation, citing serious concerns over slow budget utilisation in the 2024-25 fiscal year.
Mandarin exports recorded a strong recovery this season, with the country exporting 35,674.96 metric tonnes (MT) and earning Nu 1.43 billion in revenue.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) launched the ‘Accelerating Maternal and Child Health Programme’ (AMCHP) on February 21 to improve the health and well-being of mothers and child...
Punakha—For more than a decade, the 74-kilometre Punakha-Gasa highway has been the district’s vital link to the rest of the country. Once an arduous two-day trek by horseback, th...
After years of striving to build a skilled workforce through the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) initiative, the labour ministry this week unveiled the Community for Skilled Workers (C4SW) programme launched with a website, constitution and bylaws.
Two students from Jampeling Central School in Trashigang won the National Space Challenge 2025. The week-long competition, which st...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༢ ལུ་ འཇིགས་མེད་སེངྒེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་སློབ་གྲྭ་དང་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲིམས་དོན་སྤེལ་ཁང་ དེ་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱབ་མི་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ གཙོ་འཛིན་ཨིན་མི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་པོའི་སྲསམོ་ བསོད་ནམས་བདེ་ཆེན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤ་རོའི་གྲོས་འཛོམས་སྐབས་ དྲང་ཁྲིམས་དོན་ལུ་ ལྟེ་བ་གསརཔ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Fostering co-ordination among justice sectors and ensuring an agile, responsive, and effective legal system in the country has become more critical than ever.
Bhutan is set to witness a groundbreaking transformation in its healthcare system with the construction of a Multi-Disciplinary Super-Specialit...
Homeowners and builders can now hire local electricians and plumbers at affordable rates, with assured quality, reliability, and service guarantees under the Community for Skilled Workers (C4SW), according to its newly launched website, constitution, and bylaws released by the Department of Labour (DoL).
The government has set an ambitious target to increase real GDP tenfold by 2050, catapulting the country into the ranks of developed economies. The "21st Century Economic Roadmap–A 10X National Econom...
Phuentsholing—The Department of Immigration (DoI) launched the Automated Immigration Clearance System (AICS) at the Phuent...
Paro FC’s 41-year-old technical director, Puspalal Sharm...
Inspired by His Majesty the King’s vision, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) unveiled its Strategic Roadmap 2025-2035 on February 21 to transform the civil service into an Enlightened Entrepreneurial Bureaucracy (E²B) by 2035.
Trongsa—The Viewpoint Resort in Trongsa, once a star-rated luxury property, has been left in a state of disrepair, with no clear plans for redevelopment, even after the long legal dispute ended three years ago.
When democracy swept through nations as a force of revolution, Bhutan’s own democratic journey unfolded like a quiet and dignified evolution — deliberate, thoughtful, and deeply rooted in the country’s values of unity, peace, and Gross National Happiness (GNH).
Throughout history, the world has seen countless leaders, yet only a few have embodied the rare harmony of wisdom, compa...
Among the many extraordinary acts of greatness that define the reign of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, what moves t...
As Bhutan reflects on its journey as the world’s last Vajrayana kingdom, it becomes ever more evident that the reign of His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Dr...
Few nations have so deeply intertwined their national identity with environmental consciousness as Bhutan. At the heart...
It was a sunny afternoon in early January 2008, and moments earlier, the future had seemed set. I had finished a productive Skype meeting confirming our plans for the year ahead with my colleagues at the International T...
He presided over the largest classroom in the world - 38,394 square kilometres in size. His pupils numbered in excess of...
It began with a kasho in 1985. His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo expressed his concern thus: ‘Our people copy the culture of other countries despite the existence of our distinct culture and etiquette, which is better than any other cou...
In July 1998, Bhutan witnessed one of the most emotionally charged sessions in the history of its National Assembly. For...
As we celebrate the 70th birth anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, I am deeply honoured to reflect on his extraordinary leadership not only as a citizen...
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.
The words shared by His Majesty the King on the 70th birth anniversary of Drukgyal Zhipa were more than a son’s remembrance. They were a national awakening. The advice of the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, given to his son and shared with his people, reads like a moral charter for the country, a mirror reflecting both what we have achieved and what we risk losing if we become complacent.
The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bhutan yesterday is a testament to the enduring and profound friendship between the two nations, one that transcends politics and reflects...
The story of His Majesty the Fourth King is an extraordinary one in our history. At 16, His Majesty became King, following the untimely passing of his father, the Third Druk Gyalpo. His Majesty inherited a nation in transition, a country ta...
none existed, electrified homes, and carried the nation through crises, including the recent Covid-19 pandemic. These ac...
The news of Australia passing a social media ban for children under 16 has sent ripples across the globe, igniting similiar conversations amongf Bhutanese parents. Some are talking if Bhutan should follow suit.
Bhutan has always taken pride in being a fairly egalitarian society. In many communities, women are heads of households,...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority is on high alert, not only investigating complaints but also penalising businesses that try to make easy money at the expense of consumers.
The opening of three new Safe Spaces for Women and Girls in Mongar, Pemagatshel, and Samdrupjongkhar marks a significant step forward in our effort to protect women and children from violence.
Beginning today, the Changlimithang ground in Thimphu will be transformed into a sanctuary of peace and hope as the Glob...
Public policy is often imagined as a fixed compass, steady and unbending. But in a rapidly changing world, governance mu...
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...
Our greatest strength has always been our capacity to look beyond the moment and plan for balanced progress. The recent...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept. It is rapidly becoming a key component of organisational...
The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is beginning to take shape in tangible ways, creating opportunities and opening new c...
The goal of the Economic Stimulus Programme’s (ESP) education loan is, at its core, both forward-looking and noble. It h...
It is not often that a Bhutanese citizen receives a prestigious award from abroad. Yet, a teacher from Samtse, Chimi Dem...
Thimphu, November 8 — It was a day filled with warmth, compassion, and quiet miracles. Around a thousand were treated at the Royal Institute of Management (RIM) on Saturday for “Healing for Peace,” an extraordinary event led by renowned traditional healers Master Chris Leong and Master Erik Leong, supported by a team of 20 Tit Tar practitioners and 100 DeSuung volunteers.
Read MoreTo commemorate the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan (RMA) has unveiled a new generation of Ngultrum banknotes, a commemorative series that pays homage to Bhutan’s royal legacy and the nation’s enduring spiritual and cultural values.
Read MoreTheir Majesties The King and Gyaltsuen, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, and the Royal Family graced the inauguration of the Kalachakra at Changlimithang yesterday, together with His Excellency Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi, who was in Bhutan on the occasion of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo’s 70th birth anniversary.
Read MorePrime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his two-day visit to Bhutan yesterday by offering prayers for global peace and prosperity alongside Their Majesties The King and The Fourth Druk Gyalpo at the Global Peace Prayer Festival in Thimphu.
Read MoreThe government launched the National Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme (NCLIS), a major initiative designed to safeguard farmers against risks from climate change, wildlife, pests and disease.
Read MoreThe words shared by His Majesty the King on the 70th birth anniversary of Drukgyal Zhipa were more than a son’s remembrance. They were a national awakening. The advice of the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, given to his son and shared with his people, reads like a moral charter for the country, a mirror reflecting both what we have achieved and what we risk losing if we become complacent.
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