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In a country where the past and present often exist in delicate tension, Bhutanese audience were given a rare theatrical gift this week in “Sangay Siddhartha”, a visually inventive and thematically resonant play staged in Thimphu.
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) recent investigation into the Paro Dzongkhag engineering cell has once again revealed how entrenched and systemic corrupti...
Phuentsholing—India has approved two major cross-border railway projects connecting Samtse and Gelephu with West Bengal and Assam, committin...
Bhutan has urged world leaders to go beyond institutional reforms and act decisively on the most pressin...
India’s Power Finance Corporation (PFC) signed an INR 48.29 billion loan agreement in Thimphu on September 28 to finance the 600-megawatt (MW) Khorlochhu Hydropower Project Limited (KHPL).
The Royal Textile Academy (RTA) launched four innovative prototypes yesterday under its “Weaving into the Future Programme,” a major step toward modernising the traditional craft.
There is a perception that government support, or discussion on support rather, for hotels—through policy incentives or fa...
India today reaffirmed its “very special relations...
The Royal Centre for Disease Control has started producing rapid test kits to detect Helicobacter Pylori (H. Pylori) infection among the population in the country.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ག་ནི་བ་གལ་ཆེ་བའི་ ཉིནམ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ འབྲུག་གི་རྒ...
༉ ན་གཞོན་མཐོ་རིམ་ཤེས་ཚད་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ གོ་སྐ...
༉ དུས་ཅི་ལོ་མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཁམས་ལས་ བུར་སྒང་ཆུ་གི་ གློག་...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ གླིང་བཞི་རྒེད་འོག་ ཆེ་སྦི་ས་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་...
༉ པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ རིན་ཆེན་ཟུར་སྤྱི་འོག་ནང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༤༣...
༉ བི་ཨོ་བི་འབྲུག་པི་རི་མི་ཡར་ལིག་༢༠༢༥ གི་ ཕུཊ་བཱོལ...
༉ འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་དཔྱེ་གཏམ་ནང་ ཆུ་མ་འོངམ་ལས་གཡུར་བ།...
༉ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ ཁྲིམས་ཤིང་དྲུང་ཁག་ནང་ དྲུང་པ་མེད་པར་...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་རྒྱ་...
When the late Zimpon Dorji Gyeltshen chose modern incineration over traditional cremation, it was seen as a personal choice. But if the late Dasho had made a prayer or a wish to conv...
It might surprise many to learn that the current egg scarcity and the steep rise in prices to as high as Nu 480 per tray was set in motion half a year ago.
Tenzin Wangda, a 67-year-old highlander from Chebisa Village in Lingzhi Gewog, Thimphu relies on helicopter services twice a year to travel between the highlands and lowlands, avoiding a grueling three-day trek on foot. However, each trip comes at a steep price.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has uncovered systemic corruption in the engineering cell of Paro Dzon...
Phuentsholing—A digital lottery scam across the Bhutan–India border has left scores of Bhutanese vulnerable, with the Indian police in Bihar recently arresting s...
A 68-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by a 12-year-old boy in Ngatshang, Mongar, on the evening of Septem...
A new report by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) reveals that the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, which includes Bhutan, remains energy-poor despite its immense renewable energy potential.
Bhutan's urban centres like Thimphu and Paro face a critical tipping point with crumbling roads, unmarked pedestrian hazards, and overflowing drainage creating dail...
The environment that individuals and organisations experience is gradually becoming digital...
It is a crisp morning in Kanglung, Trashigang. The steady whir of a sewing machine fills a small tailoring room at Draktsho East...
Could you tell me how Bhutan first came into your life and what it felt like when you arrived here for the first time?...
“Ap Dorji! Ap Dorji!...” The urgent call of a doctor echoed through the Centre for Simulation-Based Training Lab at the Khesa...
Bhutan Telecom Limited (BTL) has been told to go back t...
At the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Bhutan reaffirmed its climate leadership, inclusive...
The inaugural Indo-Bhutan Inter-Club Golf Tournament, held in the capital from September 25–26, featured 24 teams from both countries. With four golfers each team, the event saw a total of 96 participants, including few women’s teams.
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly may be remembered for many speeches on war, climate, and inequality. But amid the usual noise, Bhutan’s Prime Minister T...
His Majesty the King granted an audience to the new Ambassador of India to Bhutan, Sandeep Arya, who presented his credentials on Wednesday, September 24.
Bhutan will make its debut at Milan Fashion Week 2025 with a capsule collection co-created by B...
The sky over Bumthang was clear as the Wangduechholing Palace hosted its first exhibition “Echoes of a Kingdom: A Tribute to the Bodhisattva King of Bhutan”. The courtyard set the stage for an event that brought together art, memory, and celebration.
A 43-year-old farmer from Rinchenzor Chiwog, Pemagatshel, was killed and another man injured after a gaur attack in the Manas Park area, about seven kilometres from Norbugang Gewog, on September 20. T...
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has increased the number of vacancies for administration an...
As we mark 40 years of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Sweden, this is a significant milestone. Why is celebrating this 40-year jubilee so impor...
Trashigang—Every Saturday afternoon, a group of Sherubtse College students can be found at Draktsho East in Kanglung, engaging children in games, storytelling, and mindfulness exercises. For these young volunteers, service is about practicing the values of Gross National Happiness (GNH) beyond the classroom.
Paro FC has once again retained its position as the country’s top football club by winning the BoB Bhutan Premier League (BPL) 2025 with one game still left to play.
ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ བཙོག་ཆུ་གཡུར་བ་ལམ་ལུགས་ ལོག་...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་དེ་ ཧེ་མ་ཚར་ཅིག་ འུར་བྱེལ་...
Since time immemorial, agriculture has shaped our landscapes and our way of life. Even today, more than 40 percent of our population work in the agriculture sector. It is a critical sector for food security.
Phuentsholing—Hoteliers in Phuentsholing, once thriving on the town’s role as a busy transit point for t...
The 54 megawatt (MW) Burgangchhu and the 32MW Yungichhu hydropowe...
As the world marks 80 years of multilateralism, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has placed a rarely discussed but devastating health crisis at the heart of the United Nations General Assembly: childhood lead poisoning.
The High Court yesterday upheld the lower court’s decision to terminate the former chief executive officer (CEO) of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service Corporation (BBS), Kaka Tshering.
Gedu College of Business Studies will host the Professional Internship Drive 2025 this Friday in Thimphu. The event will bring together 355 third-year undergraduate students from six specialised programmes.
As winter approaches, weather watchers at National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) are monitoring the Pacifi...
His Majesty the King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, and members of the Royal Family gra...
Bhutan’s electricity supply is projected to fall short of domestic demand for much of the next decade, forcing the count...
In an effort to promote digital literacy and cybersecurity awareness in rural and semi-urban areas in eastern Bhutan, Ji...
Bajothang town will soon have a modern farmers market, bringing relief to vendors and shoppers who have endured years of...
A two-day Narrative Storytelling Workshop concluding today has equipped 32 media professionals with the skills to move b...
It is early morning in the highland village of Soe, Thimphu. Inside a wooden room, the stove glows red, filling the air...
A pilot project introducing quinoa into meals at Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH), Wangbama Cen...
The government has assured that the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) decision to expand medical recruitment will...
When the government unveiled the Nu 15 billion Economic Stimulus Plan (ESP), the country was still recovering from the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic. Livelihoods had been lost, small businesses were closed, and families were struggling to recover from the worst economic crisis in living memory. The ESP promised to revive businesses and fast track post-Covid economic recovery. It gave hope.
For Bhutan, the retreating monsoon is no longer a quiet goodbye to summer rains. It has become a season of growing uncertainty and danger. Once, the fading clouds signalled harvest and renewal. Today, they bring flash floo...
The recent World Bank report “Migration Dynamics in Bhutan: Recent Trends, Drivers, and Implications”, has brought to light a phenomenon many Bhutanese have quietly known for years. Our educated youth and professionals are increasingly leaving...
The eight-day visit to Australia by His Majesty The King and the Royal family has redefined the convention of Royal visits, State visits, and international diplomacy.
Our bold decision to ban the sale of tobacco in 2004 was a moment of international acclaim. As the first country to take such a step, the nation set a remarkable precedent in the global fight against tobacco-related health issue...
Venture capital (VC) is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it offers the promise of innovation, job creation, and economic diversification, key drivers in advancing an economy.
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Free healthcare is the cornerstone of Bhutan’s health system.
We have long prided ourselves on our progressive stance against tobacco.
"To our fellow Bhutanese living abroad, know that you are always in my thoughts. Even though you are away from home, I k...
The decision by India to approve two major railway projects linking Bhutan with Assam and West Bengal marks a turning po...
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) recent investigation into the Paro Dzongkhag engineering cell has once again reve...
When the late Zimpon Dorji Gyeltshen chose modern incineration over traditional cremation, it was seen as a personal cho...
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly may be remembered for many speeches on war, climate, and inequal...
Since time immemorial, agriculture has shaped our landscapes and our way of life. Even today, more than 40 percent of ou...
The story of His Majesty the Fourth King is an extraordinary one in our history. At 16, His Majesty became King, following the untimely passing of his father, the Third Druk Gyalpo. His Majesty inherited a nation in transition, a country taking its first steps toward modernisation, while gradually coming out from years of isolation. Geo-politically, it was a time of turmoil and uncertainty.
Read MoreThe winter of 2003 would forever be etched in Bhutan’s history as the time when a King walked into the jungles of the south, especially in Samdrupjongkhar, not as a ruler commanding from afar, but as a warrior leading from the front. The air was cold, heavy with mist, and beneath the thick canopy of trees lay the sound of tension. A nation’s patience was stretched to its limit.
Read MoreWhen democracy swept through nations as a force of revolution, Bhutan’s own democratic journey unfolded like a quiet and dignified evolution — deliberate, thoughtful, and deeply rooted in the country’s values of unity, peace, and Gross National Happiness (GNH).
Read MoreThroughout history, the world has seen countless leaders, yet only a few have embodied the rare harmony of wisdom, compassion, and courage that defines true greatness. Bhutan is fortunate to have been blessed by such a leader in His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, a visionary Monarch whose reign ushered the nation into an era of peace, progress, and profound transforma
Read MoreAmong the many extraordinary acts of greatness that define the reign of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, what moves the heart most profoundly is something far more silent, far less seen: the quiet, invisible sacrifice of his own youth. It is a story etched deeply in the soul of the nation, for in giving up his own, he gifted a future to us.
Read MoreAs Bhutan reflects on its journey as the world’s last Vajrayana kingdom, it becomes ever more evident that the reign of His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, marks one of the most sacred and transformative eras in our history.
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