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༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༢ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་སྒྲིག་གཞི་༢༠༢༣ གྱི་འོག་ལུ་ བསྒྱུར་བཅོས་འབད་བའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ གཡུས་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ དཀའ་ངལ་བྱུང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ གྲོང་གསེབ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་ཆོག་ཐམ་ ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ནིའི་ཐད་ཁར་ ལོག་རྒེད་འོག་ལུ་ དབང་འཛིན་གནང་དགོཔ་སྦེ་ ཞུ་བ་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The recent arrest of five young men linked to a series of burglaries across Thimphu comes as a welcome relief. The police acted swiftly, followed up on community reports, analysed CCTV footag...
Consumers of small and medium-sized vehicles could see a 9 to 10 percent tax reduction, with efforts ongoing to a...
The National Assembly’s Economic and Finance Committee (EFC) has identified a low utilisation of Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) funds, with only 22.6 pe...
The Nganglam economic hub development plan is projected to generate around 1,503 direct jobs and 6,000 indirect jobs by 2035.
The Fifth International Vajrayana Conference commenced yesterday in Thimphu under the theme “Science, Meditation, and Mind...
In a petition submitted to the National Assembly, Shompangkha MP Dr Tek Bahadur Rai called for urgent reforms of the bar licensing sys...
The members of National Assembly on June 2 called for the restoration of gewog authority to...
Contract employees and consolidated contract civil servants will now receive 15 percent of their Provident Fund and benefits upon service completion, subject to approval by the Pay Commission.
While recognizing the potential of economic gains from tourism, His Majesty was cognizant of its possible impact on our society, culture and the environment.
Amid the rising burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the country, the inadequacy of dialysis centres across the country has emerged as a pressin...
With the existing cost-sharing mechanism for Renewal Natural Resources (RNR) sector set to expire this month, the Economic and Finance Committee (EF...
Bhutan’s senior women’s national football team concluded their Women’s Tri-Nation Cup campaign with a 3–1 loss to Malaysia yesterday at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu.
ཤར་ཕྱོགས་པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ ངང་ལམ་དེ་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་་་བ་ག་...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་ལུ་...
༉ ལོ་༤ བར་མཚམས་ལུས་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ རྩོད་བསྡུར་ཅན་གྱི་...
༉ ད་རིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་དང་ དཔལ་འབྲུག་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ལྟེ་བ་༢ ཀྱིས་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ འཚོགས་སྲོལ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གསང་སྔགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པའི་ གྲོས་འཛོམས་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་༥ པ་དེ་ བརྗོད་གཞི་ ཚན་རིག་དང་ སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ དྲན་པ་ཉེར་བཞག་གསུམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཐོག་ལུ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དང...
༉ ལྷོ་ཐིམ་ཕུག་གི་ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་པ་གིས་ ས་གནས་ཆུ་ས...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ ཁས་བླངས་འབད་མི་ལྟར་དུ་ མི་སེར་སོ་ནམ་པ་...
Fronting in business, where Bhutanese citizens lend their names and licences to foreign nationals to operate businesses illegally, has become a rampant and disturbingly normalised practice in Phuentsholing and other border towns. This is not a new phenomenon. It has persisted for years in different forms. And the consequences are becoming harder to ignore.
The National Assembly yesterday directed the finance ministry to thoroughly review concerns raised regarding t...
After a four-year hiatus, the much-debated Mines and Minerals Management B...
The Minister of Industry Commerce and Employment, Namgyal Dorji, during the National Assembly session yesterda...
The Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) commemorated its 22nd Foundation Day yesterday with the launch of a new vision, mission, core values, and the inaugural Foundation Day Lecture Series.
To promote holistic and sustainable development, His Majesty envisioned and p...
During the deliberation of the review report on the forestry sector’s contribution to gross domestic product (GDP...
Thimphu South Police Station arrested and detained five men in connection with a series of burglaries...
The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTF) launched a four-part comic series titled “Bhutan Climate Chronicles” yesterday.
The High Court yesterday upheld the conviction of the Membe...
Bhutan’s senior national men’s football team will face Brunei at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium in Brunei on June 10 as part of the third r...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ གསོ་བ་བློན་པོ་ རྟ་མགྲིན...
སློབ་གཉེར་གྲོགས་རམ་ཡོངས་བསྡོམས་ལས་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༤༨ དེ་ཅིག་ ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིག་པའི་འབྱུང་གནས་དང་ ཀརྨ་ཤེས་ཡོན་གཙུག་སྡེ་གིས་ ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འབྲུག་གི་འགག་སྡེ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེ...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཡུན་རིངམོ་སྦེ་ར་ རེ་བ་...
Private higher secondary schools dominated government scholarships this year, with students from just two private schools securing nearly half of all scholarships to study abroad. Of the 122 scholarships awarded this year by the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC), Ugyen Academy and Karma Academy alone accounted for 59 recipients or 48.3 percent of the total.
The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) arrested two men, aged 44 and 56, on May 8 in connection with the vandalism of choetens in Toedtsho g...
Chukha—After more than a decade of promises, delays, and uncertainty, the Bunakha Hydropower Project in Chapcha,...
The subscription period for the 10-year Gelephu Mindfulness City’s (GMC) Nation Building Bond (GNBB), which was oversubscribed before its initial deadline of May 31, has now been...
The government has reaffirmed its commitment to boosting agricultural productivity through enhanced farm mechanisation and a consistent supply of quality fertilisers.
Our forests have long stood as icons of our environmental philosophy and guardians of our national identity. With nearly 70 percent of the country under forest cover, we have earned international p...
As we approach the auspicious 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty Jigme Sin...
In 2024, Bhutan imported Nu 3.7 billion worth of wood and related products, while exporting only Nu 745 mil...
Bhutan’s declining fertility rate has raised serious concern within the government, with the total fertility rate (TFR) now at 1.866—significantly below the replacement level of 2.1.
Having served as Medical Director for the past four months, my focus has been on strengthening systems and processes that influence multiple departments and improve overall patient care. As Bhutan’s national referral hospital, JDWNRH is a highly complex institution requiring coordinated management across clinical, nursing, and support services.
As participants of the third Pelsung cohort prepare to pitch their ideas in Thimphu on June 20, the event will showcase...
Empty or abandoned houses, known locally as goongtong, have emerged as one of the country’s most pressing development ch...
International debate tournament
The Co-operatives and Farmer Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 will be taken up during a Joint Sitting of Parliament in the nex...
The Parliament passed the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 yesterday after the National Assembly adopted the amendments proposed by the National Council during its re-deliberation session.
The inaugural Bhutan International Travel Mart (BITM) 2026 has attracted more than 200 international buyers from 15 coun...
More than 200 children and adolescents, including nuns, monks, and children with disabilities, celebrated the Internatio...
The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhu...
Bhutan has taken a step closer to joining international forest carbon markets with the launch of an independent assessme...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-needed respite that eases global anxieties over spiraling economic and geopolitical crises....
The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...
Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...
The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...
The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...
As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...
The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...
A total of 2,937 graduates from 11 colleges under the Royal University of Bhutan received their degrees at the convocation.
Read MoreHis Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of the fifth session of the Fourth Parliament at Gyelyong Tshokhang in Thimphu today.
Read MoreFive students from Lungtenzampa Middle Secondary School have been suspended after videos of student fights circulated widely on social media, triggering investigations by police and education authorities.
Read MoreThe country’s economy is on a growth trajectory, buoyed by rising revenues, strong remittance inflows and improved public finances. Yet the country faces two major threats that could undermine long-term growth: outmigration of young Bhutanese and vulnerability to global fuel price shocks.
Read MoreGelephu—With prayers offered at the beginning, middle, and end of a future sacred corridor stretching along the Mao River, the Zhung Dratshang yesterday performed the groundbreaking ceremony (Salang Tendrel) for the 108 Jangchub Chorten project.
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