Why is happiness so elusive?
If you seek something in all the places except where it is, you will not find it. The same logic applies to happiness as well.
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The fourth annual National Innovation Challenge, themed “UPSHIFT for a Greener Bhutan,” saw 32 students from eight schools competing to tackle real-world environmental challenges.
༉ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ ལོ་ལྔའི་བསྐྱར་ཞི...
༉ སོ་ནམ་དང་སྒོ་ནོར་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་སྦེ་ ཉིནན...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ ཁུ་རུ་ཀུན་ཕན་ཟམ་གསརཔ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་ད...
At the age of 30, Dasho Lhadarla was appointed Nyerchen of Jakar. In 1965, he was awarded the Red Scarf by the Third King in recognition of his dedicated service
The war‑related closure of this route has sent LNG prices surging to multi‑year highs and left governments scrambling to reduce consumption, fill gaps with co...
When Ugyen Dorji, 32, and four companions performed the sacred Achi Lhamo mask dance in Thimphu recently, the moment felt celebratory. The performance marked the eighth edition of the event, drawing large crowds.
Pre-monsoon maximum temperatures have risen by around 2.8°C per decade, while average maximum temperatures have climbed even faster, by roughly 3.55°C per decade. P...
“Distribution is the hardest part of the filmmaking journey,” said Charmi Chheda, founder of Bezya Pictures. “A film may be beautifull...
“We are only requesting one attendant, not two,” he said, adding that three health...
Despite being a hydropower-rich nation, the country remains heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels,...
“I have already spent over 150 Kuwaiti Dinars (Nu...
Critics also point to past experience under the ce...
With a 10 percent increase in global oil price, economic growth is expected to decrease by 0.7 percent and by up to 1.4 percent with a 20 percent increase.
About 36.98 acres will be sourced and distributed among 33 households.
The event aims to promote eco-tourism while showcasing the community’s rich natural and cultural heritage. The festival also created econ...
Dr Sonam Jamtsho said the case’s handling revealed a misalignment in professional values between himself and the hospital administration.
Many are leaving the system, but limited replacement is putting pressure on those who remain. “...
They lost the semi-final 228–232, but their performance remained an exciting moment for the archery community and fans. Th...
BeNC 2026 aims to celebrate youth culture and competition. The championship promotes cosplay and creative expression, d...
The 100-metre Khuru Kuenphen Bridge in Punakha, built under the India-Bhutan Friendship Project with Nu 250 million support from India, was inaugurated on March 27.
༉ གཞལམ་སྒང་ལུ་ འདྲ་མཉམ་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ ཆ་མཚུངས་མེ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ མི་རློབས་ཕྱེད་ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ཡོད་ར...
Mountain Hazelnuts becomes first company in Bhutan to earn Rainforest Alliance certification. The recognition is expec...
Bhutan is set to host the Global Conscious Food Systems Summit 2026 from August 31 to September 4, aiming to promote sustainable and regenerative food systems.
“If people go against the rules and engage in such illegal activities, the government will impose full penalisation,” the Prime Minist...
As the global energy crisis deepens, driven by disruptions to fuel supplie...
Bhutan now operates under two distinct income tax systems. The Income Tax of Bhutan (Amendment) Act 2025 applies across the country under the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB), while the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) Income Tax 2025 framework introduces separate rules for individuals and businesses within the economic hub.
Thimphu Dzongkhag Administration has reported steady pro...
A 12-year-old boy who allegedly murdered a 68-year-old in Ngatshang, Mongar, on September...
As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must be measured against the promises it made. Such a review is essential to assess delivery on pledges and...
As a political scientist drawn to GNH, my thoughts naturally and predictably gravitate toward the pillar of good governance.
Gelephu—In Pelrithang, the monks at Pema Yoedling Dratsang, popularly known as Phurpa Lhakhang, begin their day much like monks elsewhere in Bhutan, with p...
Mongar—Farmers in Thangrong Gewog are actively transforming sloping, erosion-prone fields into productive farmlan...
Tsirang—Tsirang has recorded strong gains in vegetable production, poultry, dairy, and human development indicators at the midterm review of the 13th Plan on March 24, even as budget absorption and coordination challenges continue to hamper progress.
A bundle of asparagus wilts within a week after harvest, but blast freezing can preserve it...
Young and energetic, Chimmi Wangmo, 23, from Chagsakhar, Mongar, is stepping not just into the boxing ring, but into the ring of her future. With every jab, every dodge, and every drop of sweat, s...
His Majesty the King visited Gelephu Mindfulness City yesterday to inspect the site identified for the...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་ འཁོར་ལམ་དང་ གཙང་ཆུ་ དེ་ལས་ མ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྨན་གཡོགམ་གི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ལས་རིམ་གྱིས་...
༉ མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་ ལྕང་ཤིང་སྤེག་དང་ ན་གླིང་བར་ན་གི...
༉ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ བྲེལ་ཟིང་དང་ འུར་ཟིང་ཅན་གྱི་གནས་སྟ...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ནང་ པར་སི་ཡན་གཱོ...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཞི་བའི་མི་སྡེ་ལས་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ ཤེས་རབ་རྩེ་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་སྦེ་ ཉིནམ་གཅིག་གི་ གོ་བ་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་ཀྱི་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ས་གནས་གཞུང་གི་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་དང་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་གིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
A total of 3,747 rural land conversions were approved in the fiscal year 2025-26, raising concerns over growing pressure on the country’s limited agricultural land.
A year ago, the centuries-old art of Dza-zo (earthen pottery) in Gangzur Gewog was hanging by a thin thread. Just two ag...
Lhuentse—Shaded from the scorching summer sun by a traditional house, Sithar Lhamo rests her glasses on her wrinkled for...
Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh—For six days, more than 1,000 people from Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maalysia, Singapore and Vietnam...
It has been a fascinating first year! Living in Bhutan is such a privilege and I’ve been deeply impressed by both the Royal Government of Bhutan’s and His Majesty’s drive and commitment.
When elephants maraud through fields at night, farmers in southern Bhutan do not simply lose crops – they lose sleep and...
When Pema Namgyel needed capital to expand his scrap business, he did not shop around for the lowest interest rate. The...
Bhutan became the world’s first country to adopt a Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) at the national level, with Prime Minis...
The country’s private sector is projected to create 10,750 jobs between 2026 and 2030, but recent recruitment figures suggest that available vacancies do not automatically translate into opportunities for jobseekers.
Despite policy measures and regulatory reforms aimed at promoting the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) an...
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...
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...
If you seek something in all the places except where it is, you will not find it. The same logic applies to happiness as well.
Read MoreTravelling on a budget may seem daunting, but it’s often the most rewarding and magical way to journey.
Read MoreWith the inauguration of the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) in Thimphu, we have taken a long-overdue step towards specialised justice in financial matters is now in place. Currently, Thimphu District Commercial Bench is the busiest, with 1,036 cases between them, as per the Judiciary's Annual Report 2025.
Read MoreTomoyuki Unno has experienced both the highs and lows of football since joining Paro FC in April 2024.
Read MoreOn July 27, 2019, I met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi. My party had been eliminated in Bhutan’s elections 10 months earlier and was no longer represented in Parliament.
Read MoreNearly three years ago, in November 2023, when His Majesty The King visited Assam for the first time, a senior Bhutanese, moved by the historic visit, took out a full-page newspaper advertisement to express his gratitude to His Majesty.
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