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༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆུ་ཤོག་བཀག་དམ་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་འབྱུང...
ཆུ་ཁ་ དགེ་འདུ་སྨན་ཁང་གིས་ རྒེད་འོག་དང་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ མ...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཞབས་ཏོག་གི་ འགན་འཁྲི་འབག་ནི་དང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་...
དེ་ཡང་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་༥ འི་ བསྡོམས་རྩིས་ལས་ མངམ་སྦེ་ འ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་དང་འབྲེལ་ ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མའི་ སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་སྦེ་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པ་ལུ་ ལྷག་བསམ་འགྲན་ཟླ་དང་བྲལ་བ་ བསྟན་པའི་སྲོག་ཤིང་གཙོ་བོ་འགྱུར་པ་ བླམ་ཚེ་རིང་དབང་འདུས་ལུ་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ངོ་སྦྱོར་ཡི་གུ་ཅིག་ གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Gelephu—To undertake National Service and prepare for the evolving job market, 493 Gyalsups will participate in a comprehensive skilling programme in Sarpang.
Decades of plastic ban in the country has failed to curb plastic use, not for lack of effort but due to regulatory gaps and insufficient data-driven strategies, stakeholders...
A record-breaking wave of heroin seizures has jolted the country’s law-enforcement agencies, which confiscated nearly 29 kilogrammes (Kg)...
One- stop Hub, avoiding visiting multiple offices for one service, assistance at every step of service delivery, one- stop contact centre and other services are the latest initiatives the government has taken to enhance public service delivery.
The critical absence of a dedicated gynecologist at Gedu Ho...
Consider this: of the 172 metric tonnes of waste generated daily in Bhutan, plastics constitute roughly 36 percent, with over 13 percent of plastic waste contaminating riparian soils along the Wangchh...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) ensures that budget allocation for all schools, whether central or non-central, is based on the...
The United States-based Karuna Foundation has awarded a USD 1 million grant to the Tarayana Foundation to support the construction of disaster-resilient homes for Bhutan’s most vulnerable communities.
Debate continues in the National Assembly (NA) over a critical clause in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) (Amen...
The Income Tax Revision Bill proposed by the Ministry of Finance has attracted much criticism especially due to the reintroduction of tax on fixed deposits and t...
The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Property (DoMCIIP), under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment, has awarded Nu 5 million each to two film production teams a...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༩ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་༤ པའི་ ཚོགས་ཐེངས་༣ པའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ བེང་གལ་མཚོ་ཁུག་སྣ་མང་ལས་སྡེ་ འཕྲུལ་རིག་དཔལ་འབྱོར་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐབས་རིག་(བིམསི་ཊེག་)གི་ མཚོ་འགྲམ་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་གན་ཡིག་གུ་ རྒྱབ་སྣོན་ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ མི་སྡེ་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ་ཚོགས་...
༉ པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ ངང་ལམ་ ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་རྒེད་འོག་ལས་ སྐ...
A fierce public debate has erupted over the proposed introduction of a 10 percent withholding tax on fixed deposit (FD) interest. While the furore is understandable, given that taxation is never popular, it demands a deeper reflection on what it means to be a self-reliant, middle-income country.
The National Council’s Social and Cultural Affairs Committee (SCAC) yesterday presented a comprehensive...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday reviewed and cleared 47 out of the 182 sections of the Alternative Dispute Resolution...
Pemagatshel—Sangay Norzom, a 65-year-old farmer from Chokorling gewog in Nganglam, Pemagatshel, is a proud owner of a user-friendly mini-tiller, a machine that promise...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously adopted the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Agreement on Maritime Transport Cooperation yesterday at the ongoing third session of the fourth Parliament.
The final year students of Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT), Kabesa, showcased 16 innovative real-life proje...
འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་སྦོམ་ཤོས་ཅིག་དང་...
གཞུང་གིས་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མའི་ནང་...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དང་ དགའ་ས་བར་ནའི་འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༢ ལུ་ ཆརཔ་ཤུགས་སྦེ་ རྐྱབ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཆུ་རུད་ཀྱིས་ གནོད་སྐྱོན་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཞན་ཚུ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་འབད་མ་ཚུགསཔ་ལས་ འཁོར་ལམ་བསལ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ རྩ་འགེངས་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ཀུན་གསལ་གྱིས་ དབྱེ་ཞིབ་འབད་མིའ...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ལས་ ལོག་འོང་མི་ འབྲུག་གི་མ...
Waste has always been Bhutan’s quiet embarrassment—a problem we have seen, smelled, and stepped around, yet never truly confronted. In towns like Phuentsholin...
The government has proposed to levy a 10 percent tax on the interest earned through fixed deposits and dividend in the Income Tax Bill 2025, which would be deliberated on June 18 and adopted on June 20 in the National Assembly.
The government is intensifying efforts to reintegrate Bhutanese citizens returning from o...
The National Assembly will today vote on the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (...
Phuentsholing—A new waste drop-off centre is under construction at Rinchending, about...
A student team from Druk School and Pelkhil School has won international recognition for their business idea, BackPack Basics, taking home the Golden Award in the Innovation Challenge category at the International Creativity and Innovation Awards (ICIA) 2025.
Bhutan’s environmental leadership is a source of national pride. We remain carbo...
Trashigang—In the verdant hills of Darjayling, Yangny...
Punakha—Restoration efforts are underway to reopen the Punakha–Gasa highway, which suffered major damage due to flash floods on June 2, cutting off the district fro...
With monsoon rains lashing the country, roadblocks, landslides, and vehicle accidents are resurfacing as familiar threats to Bhutan’s fragile transport infrastructure and public safety.
Paro’s long-standing sewage crisis, which sees untreated wastewater flowing directly into the Paro Ch...
Chukha—Once a thriving roadside town along the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway, Tshimasham in Chukha has been facing a sl...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༤ ལུ་...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ཐུག་རྐྱེན་གྱི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་ས...
When the Changjiji low-income housing project began over two decades ago, there was a hopeful rumour: tenants might eventually own the flats after years of rent payment. This gave...
Gelephu—Landowners affected by the planned Gelephu International Airport have received a temporary reprieve as banks will suspen...
The economic stimulus programme (ESP), designed to invigorate the economy, is already demonstrating significant early achievements, Minister of Industry, Commerce, and Employment Namgyal Dorji said during meet-the-press yesterday.
The future of Bhutan’s largest hydropower project, the 1,200-megawatt (MW) Punatsangchhu-I, now hinges on the outcome of a critical technical review evaluating the stability of the project’s long-troubled dam site.
Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, according to the Ministry of Finance’s latest Quarterly Macroeconomic Situation and Outlook.
Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...
Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...
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...
For more than a decade, Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) has steadily transformed cancer care in the country from a subject c...
A Bhutanese based in New York, who runs Tasha International News, a Telegram- based unofficial news channel, has collect...
A Nu 43.7 million eco-tourism facility built to transform a local community has become a white elephant in the capital....
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.
The private leasing of 200 acres of state land at Darla Top has sparked massive local controversy, forcing the Prime Min...
As geopolitical hostilities rapidly escalate in the Middle East, more than 7,700 Bhutanese workers remain in the Gulf re...
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.
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...
Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.
Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...
Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...
Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...
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.
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...
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...
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...
The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
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...
Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...
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...
Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
༉ 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...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...
The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...
The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...
Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
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.
Read MoreAfter receiving training from Women’s Self-Support Group on Waste Management in 2023 on crafting new products from plastic waste, Jamyang Choden, 44, from Lhuentse, decided to give it a try.
Read MoreZhemgang—It has been less than a month since Rinchen Yangzom moved into the Bjarpa community house beside Ngangla Lhakhang in Ngangla Trong. For the next three years, this is her home. She cannot leave it for a single day.
Read MoreAn educated youth has shattered traditional age boundaries to get elected as Tshogpa, completely rewriting what leadership looks like for the next generation of highlanders. Is it finally time for youths to take full control of local governance?
Read MoreThe conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
Read MorePrivate livestock dealers claim a state-owned corporation lured them into investing, only to turn around and aggressively take over their market share. Is the private sector being undermined in the name of regulation? Who is in the right?
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