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མི་དབང་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་ཚུ་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཞན་དང་མ་འདྲཝ་ བཟོ་དགོ་པའི་བཀའ་སློབ།

༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཞབས་ཏོག་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ལས་རིམ་ ཤོ་ཐེངས་དང་པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༢༨ ལུ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Jun 30, 2025 10 mins read 1,727 views
དངུལ་གཏོང་ལེན་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༨༠ དེ་ཅིག་ཡར་འཕར།

དེ་ཡང་ ཡུ་ཨེསི་ཌི་ས་ཡ་༤༡.༦ ལས་༧༧ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨ...

Jun 30, 2025 4 mins read 1,244 views
Heed the warnings of the rain

As the early rains of the monsoon settle into Bhutan’s valleys and mountains, the land is already showing signs of strain. Roads have begun to buckle, hillsides to slide, and social media is awash with foot...

Jun 30, 2025 2 mins read 3,933 views
His Majesty urges Gyalsups to build a nation that stands apart

The first cohort of the 2025 Gyalsung batch concluded their three-month National Service training on June 2...

Jun 30, 2025 3 mins read 2,639 views
Remittance inflow soars over 80 percent

The inflow of remittance has risen by 85 percent, nearly doubling in the first four months of this year compared to the same period of the previous year.

Jun 30, 2025 1 mins read 4,139 views
World Bank report finds decline in rural poverty from 2017 to 2022

Despite enduring one of the most severe economic contractions in its recent history due to the...

Jun 30, 2025 3 mins read 3,085 views
CCAA advocacy highly effective for students

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has found that its consumer advocacy programmes are highly effective in empowering students with marketplace k...

Jun 30, 2025 3 mins read 3,721 views
Integrated farming transforms farmer’s livelihoods in Lhuentse

Lhuentse – Thinley Jamtsho, a 52-year-old farmer from Phagidung village in Maenbi Gewog, Lhuentse, ha...

Jun 30, 2025 2 mins read 8,338 views
LEENA’s WORLD: Weaving tradition into sustainable fashion

Phuentsholing—In a global fashion industry driven by fast changing trends and mass production, Leena Devi Ghalley from Pekarzhing in Phuentsholing is carving a different path, one rooted in Bhutanese culture and sustainable practices.

Jun 30, 2025 2 mins read 3,123 views
ཚུལ་མིན་བྱ་རིམ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཤེས་རིག་གྲོས་སྟོན་པའི་ཆོག་ཐམ་ མཚམས་འཇོག་དང་ བཀག་ཆ་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་ཤེས་ཚད་དང་ ཁྱད་རིག་ལག་ཁྱེར་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་...

Jun 29, 2025 6 mins read 1,380 views
གཟའ་སྐར།

གཟའ་སྐར།

Jun 29, 2025 0 mins read 967 views
སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

Jun 29, 2025 0 mins read 854 views
ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ འབྲུག་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལས་འཛིན་གྱི་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་ ཕྱིར་བཏོན་བཏང་མི་དེ་ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་ཨིན་པའི་ ངོས་འཛིན།

༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལས་འཛིན་གྱི བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་དང་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་༢ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྫོང་ཁག་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལུ་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་ ཕྱིར་བཏོན་བཏང་མིའི་ རྩོད་གཞི་མཐོ་གཏུགས་འབད་མིའི་་ཐད་ལུ་ ཁ་ཙ་ ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལས་ འགོ་དཔོན་ཕྱིར་བཏོན་བཏང་མི་དེ་ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་ཨིནམ་ལས་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ཞུ་བ་འབད་མི་ལུ་ ཆ་གནས་མ་འབདཝ་ཨིན་པས།

Jun 29, 2025 7 mins read 1,507 views
Constituency Development Grant returns as Priority Development Fund

The National Assembly has endorsed the reintroduction of the Constituency Development Grant...

Jun 28, 2025 5 mins read 3,131 views
Joint sitting sets marriage age at 18 for both genders

While deliberating the Marriage (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan 2024 on June 25, the Joint Sitting of Parliament passed the amendment to...

Jun 28, 2025 2 mins read 4,441 views
GMC Authority lifts construction moratorium

Sarpang—The Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority (GMCA) has lifted the construction and renovation moratorium in much of its jurisdiction, a move expected to bring re...

Jun 28, 2025 2 mins read 24,121 views
Finance ministry extends vehicle import quota deadline

The finance ministry has announced that the vehicle imports quota rules, extending the deadline for eligible public servants until June 30 this year.

Jun 28, 2025 1 mins read 6,602 views
If CDG is illegal, so is PDF

The National Assembly has passed the 2025-26 budget, approving a Nu 94 million Priority Development Fund (PDF) meant solely for Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), despite the National Council’s opposi...

Jun 28, 2025 2 mins read 18,715 views
Breaking chains means integration, not segregation

As the world marked the 2025 International Day Against Drug Abuse with the theme "Breaking the Chains: Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery for...

Jun 28, 2025 3 mins read 2,487 views
Team Cyberchain and DeepGov win Bhutan NDI powered international hackathon

Paro—Team Cyberchain, a local Bhutanese group, and Team DeepGov, an int...

Jun 28, 2025 4 mins read 7,045 views
Highest praise for Bhutanese soldiers: History of RBA (1914-1943) Part II

“The fourteen Bhutanese boys who were attached to the 2/10 Gurkha Rifles in Shillong for military training, completed their two years course and returned to Kalimpong on the 1st January 1935. They eventually returned to Bhutan with the Maharaja in February” (Annual Report on the Relations between the British Government and the Bhutan State for the year 1934-35).

Jun 28, 2025 5 mins read 5,387 views
KMSS leads national drive in plastic waste management

In a pioneering effort toward sustainable waste management, Khasadrapchu Middle Secondary School (KMSS) in Thimphu has emerged as one...

Jun 28, 2025 3 mins read 8,134 views
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on AI, attention, and search for truth

In a conversation with Needrup Zangpo, Rinpoche reflects on the future of Buddhism, the illusion o...

Jun 28, 2025 5 mins read 18,077 views
Co-operative transforms farm-to-market access for smallholder farmers

Trashigang—In the rugged hills and scattered farms of eastern Bhutan, an innovative ag...

Jun 28, 2025 3 mins read 4,727 views
Lopen Gelongma Tshering Zangmo: Inspiration for nuns across the country

The recent conferment of the title of Lopen Gelongma (equivalent to Khenpo) by His Holiness the Je Khenpo to anim (nun) Tshering Zangmo is a testament to growing inclusivity and gender equality within the monastic system.

Jun 28, 2025 1 mins read 3,606 views
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་ ལཱ་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་རྐྱབ་ནི་ འགོ...

Jun 27, 2025 8 mins read 1,495 views
ཚ་ཆུའི་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་ ཉེན་སྲུང་མེད་པའི་ཚ་གྱང།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚ་ཆུའི་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་...

Jun 28, 2025 5 mins read 4,693 views
མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་ཚུ་དང་ མཇལ་ཕྲད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ མཁོ་ཐང་ཁ་དང་ རྒྱ་མཚོ་གླིང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུང་སློབ་རིག་ཁང་ཚུ་ནང་ ཆིབས་སྐྱོད་གནང་སྟེ་ ད་རེས་ སྦྱོང་བརྡར་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་མི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་ཚུ་དང་ མཇལ་ཕྲད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Jun 27, 2025 3 mins read 5,242 views
Hot springs are boiling over, and we’re not watching

Public spaces are mirrors of a society’s soul. When they begin to show cracks—when disorder, crime, and neglect creep in—we must no...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 3,933 views
GMC Airport construction takes off with site clearance works

Gelephu—The construction of the long-awaited Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) International Airport has begun, with...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 7,524 views
“Bhutan Believe” film wins Silver Award at US International Awards

Bhutan’s national brand film “Bhutan Believe” has won the silver award at the 2025...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 7,737 views
BQPCA cracks down on rogue education consultancy firms after visa scam

The Bhutan Qualification and Professionals Certification Authority (BQPCA) has suspended and de-registered multiple education consultancy and placement firms (ECPF) following serious violations, including forgery, illegal recruitment for overseas employment, and failure to renew operational licenses.

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 15,667 views
TTI Samthang celebrates 22 years of vocational excellence

Wangdue–The Technical Training Institute (TTI) in Samthang, Wangdue, celebrated its 22nd Foundation Day yesterday, marking...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 5,033 views
Asia-Pacific countries commit to register every birth and death by 2030

Bangkok–Nations across Asia and the Pacific have committed to achieving universa...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 4,752 views
Early chilli farmers of Trashiyangtse reap rewards amid challenges

Trashiyangtse—Sherab Kelchen, a 52-year-old farmer from Wangringmo village under Ramjar Gewog i...

Jun 27, 2025 3 mins read 2,613 views
ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་འགྱོ་ནི་ལས་ བཀག་ཐབས་དོན་ལུ་ གཞུང་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ གོ་སྐབས་བཟོ་ནི།

༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཁྱད་རིག་ཅན་དང་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་...

Jun 26, 2025 7 mins read 1,486 views
ཚ་ཆུའི་ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ བྱ་ངན་འབད་མི་ཡར་སེང་།

མ་གཞི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་འབད་མི་ ཉུང་དྲག...

Jun 26, 2025 7 mins read 1,519 views
Clear and present dangers

It may be a coincidence, but the World Bank’s warning that Bhutan could lose a significant share of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP)  by 2050 due to drying climate comes just as the country rolls out its 21st Century E...

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,238 views
BBS CEO loses legal battle, court declares termination lawful

In the legal battle involving former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bhutan Broadcasting Service Corporation (BBS) and BBS Board regarding the CEO’s termination, the Thimphu Dzongkhag Court yesterday ruled that the termination was lawful and denied the CEO’s plea to be reinstated.

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 9,242 views
Govt. to create economic opportunities at home to curb migration

With increasing number of Bhutanese professionals and youth moving overseas for work, the government...

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,569 views
Jabchor 2.0 connects entrepreneurs with investors

Bhutan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is gaining momentum as Jabchor 2.0, the country’s premier equity financing platform, concluded its second editi...

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 2,862 views
Bhutan feels the heat as Asia’s climate crisis escalates

Asia is heating up at nearly twice the global average, and the consequences are mounting, from record-breaking floods a...

Jun 26, 2025 4 mins read 2,941 views
Rising crime at hot springs prompts calls for police deployment

While Bhutan continues to enjoy a reputation for low crime and strong governance, a concerning rise in petty crime and substance abuse at public spaces, particularly hot springs (tshachus), is drawing public attention and parliamentary debate.

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 13,022 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་ཚོགས་ཁང་གི་ གྲོས་འདེབས་ཆ་མེད།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ འཆར་དངུལ་དཔྱ་བགོའི...

Jun 25, 2025 5 mins read 1,441 views
གཞུང་གིས་ རྒན་ཤོས་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་ འཆར་གཞི་མེདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟ...

Jun 25, 2025 7 mins read 1,376 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ནང་ཁྲལ་དང་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་ ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ནང་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་དང་...

Jun 25, 2025 5 mins read 1,337 views
When screens become snares

The National Assembly’s recent move to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on harmful digital content is not only timely—it is overdue. For too long, we have watched from the sidelines as explicit, violent, and morally corrosive material has crept into our phones, homes, and minds.

Jun 25, 2025 2 mins read 3,528 views
Bhutan’s economy at risk without urgent climate action: World Bank report

Bhutan could face severe economic losses by mid-century if it fails to adapt to a warming, drying climate, according to a new World Bank report launched yesterday.

Jun 25, 2025 4 mins read 5,559 views
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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 Bhutan 2025, which the National Council adopted today after members raised concerns over the scattered location of such businesses.

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 5,220 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 2,446 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 4,730 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 2,725 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 3,287 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 2,519 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 1,895 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 2,611 views
Geney Eco-Tourism Facility turns into costly white elephant

A Nu 43.7 million eco-tourism facility built to transform a local community has become a white elephant in the capital....

Jun 06, 2026 5 mins read 2,974 views
Drungpa, dzongrab posts lose appeal

Once coveted positions, local administrative posts such as drungpa and dzongrab have become less attractive to civil servants, leaving critical leadership roles vacant due to stagnant career progression.

Jun 06, 2026 3 mins read 1,331 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 11,830 views
Bhutanese flavours find a home in Perth

Mar 16, 2026 2 mins read 5,520 views
She Lives in the Mirror

Mar 16, 2026 2 mins read 6,559 views
When our pursuits for happiness become our chains

Mar 16, 2026 4 mins read 4,690 views
Pindarika: Myth, desire, and revenge on big screen

Mar 10, 2026 1 mins read 4,666 views
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...

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 4,508 views
A costly reality

The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has already made many goods and services more expensive, disproport...

Mar 18, 2026 2 mins read 5,223 views
What’s our contingency plan?

Mar 14, 2026 2 mins read 5,508 views
What an entrepreneurial bureaucracy must do

Mar 11, 2026 2 mins read 6,159 views
Urgent call to skill our youth

The key barriers identified in the report  - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are no...

Mar 07, 2026 2 mins read 6,739 views
Bracing for impacts of distant wars

Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple...

Mar 04, 2026 2 mins read 5,720 views

Recents

BCTA suspends permits of over 20 taxi operators

The Bhutan Construction and Transport Authority (BCTA) cancelled the permits of 25 designated taxis providing pick-up and drop-off services for the ongoing Kathrid empowerment at Kuenselphodrang after operators were found violating transport directives.

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RAA uncovers major procurement lapses in the Nu 610M BITS projects

A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.

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