July of 2023

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Reminding ourselves

Editorial

Jul 20, 2023 2 mins read 0 views
Shortage of fertilisers affects paddy growers in Samtse

Agriculture

Jul 20, 2023 2 mins read 436 views
DNT's new Gelephu and Drujeygang candidates

Politics

Jul 20, 2023 1 mins read 416 views
GAB proposes standardization of DSA for guides

Tourism

Jul 20, 2023 3 mins read 496 views
Govt. approves facilitators for ECCD centres to open soon

Education

Jul 20, 2023 2 mins read 515 views
ESWL helps patients with renal problems

Health

Jul 19, 2023 1 mins read 448 views
Bhutanese swimmers set to make waves

Sports

Jul 19, 2023 2 mins read 445 views
Old integrated breeding centre await revival

Farming

Jul 19, 2023 2 mins read 404 views
Efforts to improve service delivery at national referral hospital

Health

Jul 19, 2023 2 mins read 472 views
Need for cybersecurity education for all Bhutanese

Letter to the Editor

Jul 19, 2023 1 mins read 544 views
Combating drug smuggling

Editorial

Jul 19, 2023 2 mins read 460 views
Two sentenced for illicit drug-trafficking

Narcotic

Jul 19, 2023 1 mins read 441 views
Bolstering rabies surveillance in Sarpang

Health

Jul 19, 2023 3 mins read 422 views
DPT declares two candidates

Politics

Jul 19, 2023 1 mins read 441 views
Bhutan tries electric bus as focus shifts to eco-friendly transport

Transport

Jul 19, 2023 2 mins read 509 views
INR reserves plummet by 44 percent in last one year

Finance

Jul 19, 2023 4 mins read 383 views
Namlha FC take on Paro FC in 2023 BPL opening today

Sports

Jul 18, 2023 1 mins read 440 views
Cordyceps boom brings prosperity amid sustainability concerns

Feature Story

Jul 18, 2023 4 mins read 504 views
Addressing drug abuse among Bhutanese youth

Letter to the Editor

Jul 18, 2023 1 mins read 488 views
Empowering Bhutanese youth through sports

Editorial

Jul 18, 2023 2 mins read 417 views
Acute shortage of vet doctors affects service delivery in NVH

Health

Jul 18, 2023 2 mins read 443 views
Finding solutions to road problems in Gelephu

Road

Jul 18, 2023 2 mins read 451 views
Entertainment fraternity in Thimphu raises concerns over mega festivals

Entertainment

Jul 18, 2023 2 mins read 432 views
Cordyceps harvest in Wangdue witnesses substantial decrease

Cordyceps

Jul 18, 2023 2 mins read 405 views
DHI and group's revenue rose by 13.77 percent last year

Finance

Jul 18, 2023 2 mins read 415 views
Taekwondo athletes prepare for Asian Games

Sports

Jul 17, 2023 1 mins read 461 views
`Rice Bowl of the East' expects a better yield this year

Dzongkhag

Jul 17, 2023 2 mins read 454 views
It's okay to work blue-collar jobs in Australia

Letter to the Editor

Jul 17, 2023 1 mins read 457 views
Coming back home?

Editorial

Jul 17, 2023 2 mins read 449 views
Cyber incidents rise highlight need for strengthened cybersecurity

Technology

Jul 17, 2023 2 mins read 439 views
Mystery surrounds disappearance of 25-year-old woman in Punakha

Lost and Found

Jul 17, 2023 2 mins read 445 views
Education policy crucial for Bhutan's modern education journey

Education

Jul 17, 2023 3 mins read 471 views
Govt. will take in returnees on contract

Labour

Jul 17, 2023 2 mins read 421 views
Lemongrass oil business wanes in Bartsham

Farming

Jul 16, 2023 3 mins read 408 views
Youth and drugs

Letter to the Editor

Jul 16, 2023 1 mins read 0 views
Curbing pedestrian accidents in Thimphu

Editorial

Jul 16, 2023 2 mins read 454 views
Skilling legislators in social policy

Judiciary

Jul 16, 2023 2 mins read 417 views
Phuentsholing Thromde proposes new schools in 13th Plan

Education

Jul 16, 2023 2 mins read 469 views
Police crackdown on drug supply

Narcotic

Jul 16, 2023 2 mins read 498 views
Land business, lucrative no more?

Land

Jul 14, 2023 2 mins read 425 views
Family land inheritance unaffected by moratorium

Land

Jul 14, 2023 1 mins read 388 views
Sarpang Tar embarks on infrastructure development

Dzongkhag

Jul 14, 2023 2 mins read 462 views
Driving through gender roles

Feature Story

Jul 14, 2023 2 mins read 438 views
BTP declares candidate for Dremedtse-Ngatshang

Politics

Jul 14, 2023 1 mins read 412 views
Government permits foreign child caregivers to boost fertility

Labour

Jul 14, 2023 3 mins read 514 views
The Promises and Perils of the Tech war

Worldnews

Jul 14, 2023 4 mins read 449 views
Browse Archives
Bhutan installs first high-altitude black carbon monitoring station

The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), has installed the country’s first high-altitude black carbon monitoring station near the benchmarked Shodug Glacier in the headwaters of  Thim Chu.

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,510 views
NC forwards Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill 2025 to National Assembly

The Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 has been reviewed by the National Council and forwarded to the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,820 views
NC backs designated zones for meat shops, adopts Livestock Bill

Meat shops and meat sales outlets will be allowed to operate only from designated locations under the Livestock Bill of...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 4,700 views
Finance Minister to present revised block grant guidelines in winter Parliament session

Finance Minister Lekey Dorji will present revised guidelines for the annual block grant for local governments during the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 2,149 views
New income tax regime reduces TDS deductions, increases take-home pay

Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, a...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 3,648 views
Renovated immigration building to ease congestion at Phuentsholing terminal

Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 1,892 views
ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...

Jun 06, 2026 5 mins read 2,455 views
The gift of children

Punakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another ch...

Jun 06, 2026 3 mins read 1,787 views
Transforming cancer care: Bhutan Cancer Society’s decade of impact

For more than a decade, Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) has steadily transformed cancer care in the country from a subject c...

Jun 06, 2026 4 mins read 1,233 views
Tasha Int. News and members raise Nu 17 million for 108 Jangchub Choeten Project

A Bhutanese based in New York, who runs Tasha International News, a Telegram- based unofficial news channel, has collect...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 2,247 views
NC endorses annual budget as per NA

The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,306 views
Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...

May 30, 2026 3 mins read 3,813 views
Stop recording, start living

Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.

Jun 06, 2026 4 mins read 549 views
Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,222 views
Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...

May 30, 2026 4 mins read 1,055 views
The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...

May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,383 views
Whose face are you wearing?

The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 1,817 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,394 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,142 views
Café by the waterfall

About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,814 views
Where tradition meets treatment

In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,561 views
Between Homes

When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 6,760 views
Overseas employment isn’t the solution

The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 979 views
United for Project 108

Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erecting 108 Jangchub Choetens along the Mao Chhu in Gelephu Mindfulnes...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 495 views
Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,792 views
A missed opportunity

The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal v...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,531 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...

May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,707 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was never going to be an easy transition. Major tax reforms rarely are. Introduced in January this year, GST was envisioned as a modern tax system, replacing an outdated framework...

May 23, 2026 2 mins read 2,136 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.

May 20, 2026 3 mins read 2,058 views
GMC was a masterstroke

The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the confl...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,658 views
Fighting online scams

The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 2,149 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ 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...

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 2,707 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 6,508 views
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 7,773 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 7,965 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,378 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,633 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,478 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 5,001 views
You’re not what you think you are

You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 4,024 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,721 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,255 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,607 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,617 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,719 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 4,014 views

Recents

Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).

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Drayang closure to remain permanent

More than two years after promising to review the closure of drayangs, the government has ruled out the possibility of reviving the entertainment venues, signalling a definitive end to an industry that once formed a significant part of the country’s nightlife economy.

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