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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 1,594 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 1,185 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 3,887 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 2,463 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 3,982 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 2,935 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 3,587 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 8,092 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 2,969 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 1,259 views
གཟའ་སྐར།

གཟའ་སྐར།

Jun 29, 2025 0 mins read 914 views
སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

Jun 29, 2025 0 mins read 814 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 1,382 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 2,998 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 4,261 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 23,769 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 6,423 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 18,616 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 2,436 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 6,577 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 5,193 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 7,809 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 17,652 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 4,568 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 3,408 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 1,388 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 4,585 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 5,126 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 3,871 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 7,340 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 7,575 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 15,097 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 4,884 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 4,586 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 2,495 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 1,356 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 1,415 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 3,174 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 9,054 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 3,440 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 2,747 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 2,773 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 12,868 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 1,327 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 1,271 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 1,227 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 3,476 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 5,393 views
Browse Archives
Hip-hop’s rise fuels debate over lyrics and cultural influence

Once confined to niche audiences, Bhutanese rap has moved steadily into the mainstream, gaining a foothold on playlists and social media feeds across the country. But its growing popularity and increasingly explicit themes are fuelling a wider debate over cultural values, youth influence, and the limits of artistic freedom.

Apr 29, 2026 4 mins read 7,930 views
Amochu transforms from flood zone to investment hub

From a dangerous flood zone to a booming investment hub, Phuentsholing’s Amochu area is witnessing a construction explos...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,492 views
Govt. shelves 50-bed Thimphu Hospital, proposes super -speciality facility

Is a state-of-the-art “super-speciality” facility worth the wait, or did Thimphu just lose a vital community hospital? T...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 3,492 views
Film industry grapples with rising piracy and weak copyright enforcement

Bhutanese filmmakers are fighting a losing battle against cinema-goers recording full films on their phones, while curre...

Apr 29, 2026 4 mins read 3,306 views
Wangdue Court sentences man to 11 years for raping minor

The Wangdue Dzongkhag Court has sentenced a 51-year-old man to 11 years for raping a minor and ordered the Ministry of E...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 8,318 views
Unseen effort behind Mid-Term Review meetings

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 3,465 views
Pay gaps trigger job-hopping, deepen talent strain

Why stay loyal when your peer in another sector earns more for the same work?. Clean wage system was supposed to fix thi...

Apr 25, 2026 6 mins read 7,874 views
Teachers struggle with distant postings and divided families

Phuentsholing—A teacher posted in Trongsa meets his family only when rare timetable adjustments allow him to travel. For...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 10,407 views
GMC brings hope to Dadgari

Land prices just across the border have skyrocketed from Nu 100,000 to Nu 500,000 per acre almost overnight. The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) has already started benefiting the neighbouring town.

Apr 25, 2026 3 mins read 10,225 views
Fitness is not defined by body size or age

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 3,602 views
Movie Review: Lights, Camera, Action!

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 4,384 views
The Hamptons, born from the love of cooking

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 3,822 views
Yarn roses, tiny dolls, and business of careful hands

Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...

Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 3,370 views
Turning bridal hairstyling into a trend

Jan 26, 2026 2 mins read 4,767 views
Strengthening the third sector

Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referr...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 8,128 views
Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 7,275 views
Agencies must be held accountable for financial irregularities

The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 8,644 views
What about moral and ethical accountability?

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle...

Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 7,154 views
Citizens building a nation’s future

The fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing t...

Dec 26, 2025 2 mins read 6,352 views

Recents

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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.

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