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As pledged during the election campaign, the ruling government is moving forward with its flagship “Rent-to-Own” housing programme, which will guarantee home ownership for civil servants, salaried private-sector employees, and low-income groups, who are increasingly burdened by rising rents and a limited housing stock.
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) has announced seven l...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously adopted the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic...
The government will not be able to construct the proposed Lauri to Merak gewog road in the 13th Plan, Minister of Infrastr...
Taxation is a cornerstone of societal welfare, particularly vital in a welfare state. It is our fundamental duty und...
The Social and Cultural Affairs Committee (SCAC) of the Nation...
14. Defending the Nation against Internal and External Threats During His Majesty’s reign, two major threats to the country’s security and sovereignty were encountered, namely the southern Bhutan insurrection in...
Chali, Mongar—Once gripped by water scarcity, the village of Wamakhar in Chali g...
To tackle the growing crisis of youth substance abuse, the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) will open the country’s first Recovery School in Yonphula, Trashigang, this July.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) has announced the commencement...
The Gelephu Nation Building Bond (GNBB) raised Nu 3.347 bil...
Phuentsholing—Following Kuensel’s investigative report on fronting and unfair practices in the cardamom business, the government reiterated tha...
Punakha—The Punakha Dzongkhag Court as sentenced Tshering Penjor, a 46-year-old open-air prisoner (OAP) from Trashigang, to an additional five years in prison for the criminal attempt of statutory rape on June 4.
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ བེང་གཱལ་མཚོ་ཁུག་སྣ་མང...
མི་སེར་དམངས་གཙོ་ཚོགས་པའི་གཞུང་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུའི་སྐབས་...
༉ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ ཨར་རྐུན་ནང་...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༥ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཨིསི་ཊོག་ཧོམ་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཕོ་བྲང་ནང་སྦེ་ སུའི་ཌེན་གྱི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལཔོ་ ཀཱརལ་༡༦ པ་ གཱསི་ཊཕ་མཆོག་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཇལ་ཕྲད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
More than 3,600 young people were arrested for drug-related offences between 2023 and 2024, accounting for over 50 percent of total drug arrests in the country. Most of those detaine...
The College of Language and Culture Studies (CLCS) in Trongsa will not be shut down but will instead undergo a major transformation to align...
The National Assembly (NA) will vote today on the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical...
Paro-The Department of Culture and Dzongkha Development (DCDD), in partnership with the GovTech Agency and Druk Holding and Investments (DHI), launched eight cultural non-fungible tokens (NFTs) at the National Museum in Paro on June 4, Wednesday.
To mark World Environment Day, the SAARC Development Fund (SDF) and the Bhutan Ecological Society (BES) launched the country’s first utility-scale...
Chukha—A group of women at the Tashigatshel Special Reserve Police Force (SRPF) camp is quietly stitching a success story—empowering themsel...
12. Environmental Conservation for a Sustainable Future From the very beginning of his reign, His Majesty foresaw the risk of environmental degradation and had the wisdom to recognize the critical need for timely...
The National Assembly (NA) endorsed a motion aimed at integrating courteous communication and respectful interaction into public service training programmes on June 4.
The Legislative Committee of the National Council (NC) yesterday, has proposed major changes to the Penal Code of Bhutan 2004, aiming to modernise the law and address inconsist...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དང་ ཀྲོང་གསར་གྱི་ གཞུང་ལམ་བར་ན་ གནམ...
བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ འབྲུག་གི་དོན་ལུ་...
༉ ཀྲོང་གསར་ ནུབ་སྦིས་སྟང་སི་སྦྱིས་འདེམས་ཁོངས་ཀྱི་...
༉ ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་འོག་གི་ དགེ་འདུ་ཁྲོམ་ཁར་ སྒོ་ནོར་སེ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཉེན་བཅ...
Even as we decry traffic jams, vehicular pollution, parking shortages and the fossil fuel import bill, elected leaders are championing, on behalf of the “common man”, to reduce tax on import of certain vehicles.
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has set an audacious economic target for Bhutan, declaring a tenfold increase in gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050 as an achievable goal.
The National Council (NC) referred two major recom...
In wake of increasing number of vehicle accidents across the country, the National Council raised serious concerns about road safety and questioned the Ministry of Inf...
As mentioned earlier, at the start of His Majesty’s reign, a major constraint was the very limited human resources available for administering the country and managing the development programs. As a result, there...
Mongar—If there were a grassroots definition of smart, automated farming using the Internet of Things (IoT), the Samsara Integrated Agricultural Farm in Kalapang, Saling gewog, Mongar would be a leading example.
Bhutan faces an escalating youth drug crisis, with 3,678 individuals under the age of 24 arrested for drug-related offences between 2023 and 2024, accou...
Chukha— A rising number of stray cattle roaming the streets of Gedu town, Chukha and its surrounding...
The Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) representing Trongsa’s Nubi-Tangsibji constituency—who was conv...
To commemorate the 35th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, Bhutan National Bank (BNB) launched its newly redesigned VISA cards.
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) yesterda...
To mark the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, Tashi Beverages L...
Sarpang—After decades of recurring blockages and travel disruptions, the infamous Boxcut section along the Gelephu–Trongsa highway will finally be bypas...
དུས་རབས་༢༡ པའི་ནང་ འགྱུར་བ་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ དགོས་མཁོ་གྲུབ་ཐབས་ལུ་ ཀྲོང་གསར་ སྟག་རྩེ་སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ ལས་རིམ་དང་ སྦྱོང་ཚན་ཚུ་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་ཐོག་ལས་ མཐོ་སློབ་གྲྭ་དེ་ གོ་མ་བསྡམ་པར་ ཨ་རྟག་ག་ཨིནམ་སྦེ་ བཞག་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ དྲི་བཀོད་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ དངུ...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་དང་དངུལ་རྩིས་ཚོགས་...
༉ ད་རིས་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་མཆོག་གི་ འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་སྟོན་ བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ བློན་ཆེན་དང་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ཚོགས་ཀྱི་སླ...
༉ ཁག་འབག་ལས་བྱེདཔ་དང་ ཞི་བའི་མཉམ་སྡེབ་ཁག་འབགཔ་ཚུ་ག...
༉ ཤོམ་སྤང་ཁའི་འཐུས་མི་ ཌོག་ཊར་ ཊེག་བྷ་དུར་རའེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ ཆང་ཁང་གི་ཆོག་ཐམ་ལམ་ལུགས་དང་ ཆང་བཙོང་མི་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ལྟ་རྟོག་ཚུ་ དམ་དམ་འབད་དགོ་པའི་ གནད་དོན་སྐོར་ལས་ འཕྲལ་མགྱོགས་ར་ གཞི་སྒྱུར་འབད་དགོཔ་སྦེ་ ཞུ་བ་ཕུལ་མི་དེ་ཡང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆང་ཁང་གི་གྱངས་ཁ་ མགྱོགས་དྲགས་སྦེ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་མི་དེ་གིས་ གནོད་པ་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་ ཞུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...
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...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay accepted responsibility for a communication gap between the Ministry of Finance and the E...
What if waste was no longer viewed as rubbish, but as a resource waiting for a second life? That idea took centre stag...
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before rolling it out nationwide in January 2027.
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...
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 Mindfulness City (GMC).
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...
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.
Read MoreFollowing Bhutan’s hottest year on record, climate experts are warning that this year’s early monsoon could bring both opportunities for agricultural growth and significant risks to crops and harvests amid increasingly erratic rainfall patterns.
Read MoreMeat 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.
Read MoreFinance Minister Lekey Dorji will present revised guidelines for the annual block grant for local governments during the upcoming winter session of Parliament.
Read MorePhuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable services starting next month, as immigration counters move back to the newly renovated ground-floor facility.
Read MoreCivil 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.
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