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Gelephu—A 6-kilometre road connecting Gelephu to Phulahari is currently being upgraded to improve access to two major spiritual projects in the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC): the Gelephu Dzong (Vajrayana Centre) and the Gyenyen Nyekhang.
In 2021, Thinley Jamtsho took his first steps into baseball as a catcher for his school’s under-15 league team. At the time, he had little idea wh...
ད་རེས་ནངས་པ་ དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ལུ་ དུས་རབས་ལས་བཅད་དེ...
རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྐྱེ་ནུས་མར་བབས་དང་ ཕྱི་ཁ་འགྱོ་མི་ ཡར་...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་འབྲུག་ས་མཚམས་ཁར་ཡོད་པའི་ འགེགས་སྲུང་སྒོ་ར་གསརཔ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་དེ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ མཐའ་དོན་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ ཡུན་རིང་གི་དོན་ལུ་ སྤུས་ཚད་ཅན་གྱི་འཕྲུལ་རིག་ཚུ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཐོག་ལས་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
གཞུང་གིས་ ཨ་སམ་དང་ ནུབ་བེང་གཱལ་གྱི་གཞུང་ལམ་བདའ་སྟེ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༡༤ ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་དངུལ་ཁང་གིས་ ར...
We are on the verge of becoming a malaria-free nation. This is no small feat. From tens of thousands of cases in the 1990s to zero local transmissions since November 2021, the turnaround is rema...
Wangdue—The centuries-old village of Drinchengang (formerly Rinchengang) in Wangdue is poised for a major transformation.
Gelephu—The new integrated check post (ICP) on the Bhutan-India border in Gelephu is a state-of-the-art facility featuring high-tech terminals, built in li...
The crypto payment system for international tourists is now open to new vendors, allowing more tourism businesses to offer cryptocurrency payment option.
Paro—Bhutan joined the global celebration of this year’s International Day of Play...
The World Bank has approved USD 34.5 million in financing for Bhutan, aimed at boosting employment and value addition within the agriculture, livestock, and forestry sectors under the new ‘Accelerating Bhutan’s Job Transformation through Renewable Natural Resource Value Chains’ Project on June 14.
There is a special energy and stimulation when you sit with hundreds of smartly dressed graduates at their convocation. On June 12, graduates of the 11 colleges of the Royal University of Bhutan recei...
Trashigang—Established as Bhutan’s first foreign direct investment (FDI) dairy venture, Koufuku In...
In the verdant hills of Paro, just six kilometres from Chudzom, The Happiness Farm blends sustainable agriculture, wellness, and authentic Bhut...
There are places where time slows because the soul is finally allowed to breathe. Yangthang, nestled in Haa, amidst pines and plains, was one such place. The Yangthang Plain, usually quiet except for the rustle of prayer flags and a distant glamping site, rarely attracts attention.
What does it mean to you to be elected as the first-ever female member of the SAFF...
The detention of the opposition MP facing child molestation charges during an ongoing par...
The government’s decision to reinstate the Class X cut-off point, citing declining education quali...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously passed the Budget Appropriation Bill for the Financial Year 2025-26, amounting to Nu 138.55 billion, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for the Financial Year 2024-25, totaling Nu 1.59 billion.
The government has allocated Nu 31.5 million for third child policy, Finance Minister Lekey Dorji said during yesterday’s National Ass...
The government has pledged to resolve the long-standing issue of...
In a stride toward revitalising rural livelihoods and strengthening the agri-food sector, the government...
Public service delivery in Bhutan is expected to improve significantly with the launch of the Integrated Service Centre and the enhancement of the Contact Centre. These initiatives are designed to provide a one-stop solution for citizens, guided by a “no wrong door” policy, ensuring that individuals are assisted at every step. By consolidating multiple government services under a single roof, the
The proposed Alternative Dispute Resolution Amendment Bill of 2024 seems to have confused the legislature on whether to allow...
The National Council (NC) yesterday unanimously adopted the review report on the forestry se...
Gelephu—With no indigenous malaria cases reported since November 2021, Bhutan is making the final pus...
The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) vision—of a mindful prosperity, a value-driven economy—inspires many Bhutanese. Yet scepticism lingers. As some say, spirituality and weal...
April 11, 2025 will forever remain etched in my heart as one of the most inspiring and transformative days of my life. It came at a time when I needed it the most, a moment of clarity amidst the noise of wo...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an emerging nov...
The National Council on Thursday adopted seven recommendations from the Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) on the review report...
Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT) has opened admissions for its first-ever part-time Bachelor of Information and Communications Technology (BICT) degree, targeting working professionals eager to upskill in the country’s growing tech sector.
Bhutanese bodybuilders had a great first day at the 15th South As...
Sonam Penjor (PhD), the newly elected vice president of the South Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation (SA...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་གནམ་གཤིས་ལྟ་རྟོག་དང་ ཆུ་དཔྱད་རིག་པའི་ལྟེ་བ་གིས་ དགའ་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་ ལུང་ནག་ནང་རྒེད་འོག་ བསྟན་ཅེ་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་ ཆུ་རུད་ཀྱི་ཉེན་བརྡ་དང་ གནས་སྟངས་ཞིབ་འཚོལ་ཡིག་ཚང་གསརཔ་ཅིག་ སྒོ་ཕྱེས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ད་རིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་ལྡན་མ...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཉེན་བཅོལ...
གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཉེན་བཅོལ་མ་དངུལ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ཟུར་འ...
༉ ང་བཅས་ཀྱིས་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་ལས་བཅད་དེ་ ཆུ་ཤོག་གི་ཕ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒ...
There is another record, one we would rather not be associated with. In just the first five months of 2025, nearly 29 kilograms of brown sugar (heroin), a highly addictive and dangerous drug, ha...
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen yesterday graced the 16th Convocation of the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), where 1,931 students from 11 RUB colleges rece...
The National Council (NC) yesterday adopted the review report on Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), calling for an increase in the sum assured but stopped short of endorsing the Nu 150,000 sum pledged by the government.
The allocation of funds for the rural life insuran...
Chukha—Thirty-three-year old Kumar remembers the first fish he ever caught. He was a schoolboy in Gongtsakha, a remote village in J...
Amid growing recognition of the critical role of reliable soil data in sustainable land management, 40 participants fro...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) is implementing a series of measures to address a sharp decline in ginger prices, aiming to expand market access and establish stable pricing mechanisms for farmers facing financial distress.
The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) opened a new Flood Warning and Cryosphere Research Office in Toenchey in Lunana gewog, Gasa Dzongkhag.
Looking back on the past 10 years, I feel deeply grateful, humbled, and proud of what we have achieved together
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...
His Majesty The King recognised a team of 21 traditional Tit Tar practitioners from Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Singapore, led by Master Chris Leong and Master Erik Leong, for their compassionate and selfless service to the people of B...
The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked c...
Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...
The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...
Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...
Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...
Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic....
The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder th...
As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroec...
The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.
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.
Read MoreBhutan has witnessed a sharp rise in Australian student visa refusals over the past six months, with education consultants describing the rejection rate as the highest in recent years.
Read MorePhuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with the latest disruption occurring even before the onset of the monsoon.
Read MoreA widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raising concerns about leadership succession, institutional continuity and the long-term resilience of the country’s public sector workforce.
Read MoreShareholders of Sherza Ventures Ltd. have been unable to trade their shares for seven months because the company remains suspended from the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB).
Read MoreThe closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.
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