October of 2021

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Observing and documenting climate change

Environment

Oct 19, 2021 3 mins read 398 views
DHI BizAP digital skill-up freelancing for de-suups

Technology

Oct 19, 2021 2 mins read 435 views
Elephants rampaging paddy fields in Pelrithang every night

Wild Life

Oct 19, 2021 2 mins read 440 views
Incessant rain damages paddy crops across the country

Disaster

Oct 19, 2021 4 mins read 400 views
A retired soldier is Bhutan's only gold medalist in boxing

Sports

Oct 18, 2021 2 mins read 423 views
Memorial choeten should be reopened

Letter to the Editor

Oct 18, 2021 1 mins read 371 views
Looking for alternatives

Editorial

Oct 18, 2021 2 mins read 404 views
Increase in vehicle theft cases in Punakha

Crime

Oct 18, 2021 2 mins read 411 views
Dzongkhag administration requests LG to increase internet speed in schools

Local Government

Oct 18, 2021 1 mins read 392 views
Fuel prices increase again

Fuel

Oct 18, 2021 1 mins read 417 views
Selection of contract teachers based on merit: MoE

Education

Oct 18, 2021 3 mins read 425 views
Alone and depressed in the busy urban centres

Health

Oct 18, 2021 2 mins read 390 views
Around 60 participate in the 2021 Gyalsey Tennis Championship

Sports

Oct 17, 2021 2 mins read 381 views
The ruined Dzong called Dzongsa

Culture

Oct 17, 2021 2 mins read 408 views
Costlier goods, lesser incomes

Letter to the Editor

Oct 17, 2021 1 mins read 391 views
For focused planning

Editorial

Oct 17, 2021 2 mins read 413 views
Efforts to improve milk quality in Gelephu underway

Agriculture

Oct 17, 2021 2 mins read 421 views
Gasa Tshachhu flood caused damage Nu 4M

Disaster

Oct 17, 2021 1 mins read 453 views
Rain and windstorm damages paddies in Trongsa

Disaster

Oct 17, 2021 1 mins read 411 views
Roadblock at Namling to remain longer

Road

Oct 17, 2021 1 mins read 396 views
GNHC revisiting planning system

GNH

Oct 17, 2021 3 mins read 412 views
Students and residents in Bjemina complain of bitumen pollution

Environment

Oct 15, 2021 4 mins read 461 views
Why does 5G really matter?

Perspective

Oct 15, 2021 4 mins read 469 views
Excessive import poses challenge to local entrepreneurs

Economy

Oct 15, 2021 2 mins read 433 views
Underpass near swimming pool complex needs maintenance

City

Oct 15, 2021 1 mins read 403 views
What makes little boys become monks?

Feature Story

Oct 15, 2021 4 mins read 413 views
People expect the government to do everything

Perspective

Oct 15, 2021 4 mins read 395 views
Thimphu has become overly expensive, say residents

Thromde

Oct 15, 2021 3 mins read 410 views
Exports not earning expected INR value in Gelephu

Trade

Oct 15, 2021 2 mins read 392 views
Too many contractual documents, too few experts

Letter to the Editor

Oct 15, 2021 2 mins read 398 views
Watching out habits

Editorial

Oct 15, 2021 2 mins read 415 views
Fire engulfs 500 acres of forest in Lhuentse

Disaster

Oct 15, 2021 1 mins read 602 views
Building leadership capacity of women LG aspirants

Local Government

Oct 15, 2021 1 mins read 355 views
ACC investigates possible collusion in waste management project

ACC-RAA-OAG

Oct 15, 2021 2 mins read 479 views
Polakha farmers struggling to sell dolley pickles

Agriculture

Oct 15, 2021 2 mins read 425 views
Radiation treatment at JDWNRH not benefited patients

Health

Oct 15, 2021 3 mins read 369 views
His Majesty grants Dasain Tika to Hindu community of Gelephu

Royal

Oct 15, 2021 1 mins read 438 views
Three arrested for circulating inappropriate video online

Crime

Oct 14, 2021 1 mins read 496 views
Nikachu extends completion deadline to 2023

Hydro power

Oct 14, 2021 2 mins read 411 views
Bhutan observes Global Handwashing Day

Health

Oct 14, 2021 3 mins read 446 views
It is time for change!

Letter to the Editor

Oct 14, 2021 1 mins read 430 views
LDCs and climate change

Editorial

Oct 14, 2021 2 mins read 423 views
Tsirang dzongkhag leads the way towards energy efficiency

Energy

Oct 14, 2021 1 mins read 395 views
Contractor at large after failing to complete water supply work

Construction

Oct 14, 2021 2 mins read 450 views
Aja Ney to get first solar PV system

Energy

Oct 14, 2021 2 mins read 414 views
RUB looking into Sherubtse harassment case

Crime

Oct 14, 2021 3 mins read 413 views
Bhutan-China sign MoU to expedite boundary negotiations

Foreign Affairs

Oct 14, 2021 1 mins read 498 views
Gasa run celebrates 10th Royal Wedding anniversary

Highlander

Oct 13, 2021 2 mins read 403 views
Browse Archives
Amendment to CRPD reservation fails to secure support in NC

The amendment to the reservation on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was not adopted at the ongoing National Council (NC) session today as it failed to secure the required simple majority.

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,985 views
Study to improve road construction in high-altitude passes

Recurrent failures of pavements along Dochula, Pelela, Yotongla and Thrumshingla passes are partly attributed to design...

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 3,324 views
Bhutan installs first high-altitude black carbon monitoring station

The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mo...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,587 views
NC forwards Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill 2025 to National Assembly

The Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 has been reviewed by the National Council and forwarded to the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,926 views
NC backs designated zones for meat shops, adopts Livestock Bill

Meat shops and meat sales outlets will be allowed to operate only from designated locations under the Livestock Bill of...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 4,844 views
Finance Minister to present revised block grant guidelines in winter Parliament session

Finance Minister Lekey Dorji will present revised guidelines for the annual block grant for local governments during the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 2,232 views
New income tax regime reduces TDS deductions, increases take-home pay

Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, a...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 3,878 views
Renovated immigration building to ease congestion at Phuentsholing terminal

Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 2,035 views
ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...

Jun 06, 2026 5 mins read 2,633 views
The gift of children

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...

Jun 06, 2026 3 mins read 1,893 views
NC endorses annual budget as per NA

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.

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,405 views
Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...

May 30, 2026 3 mins read 3,893 views
Stop recording, start living

Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.

Jun 06, 2026 4 mins read 608 views
Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,257 views
Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...

May 30, 2026 4 mins read 1,089 views
The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...

May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,421 views
Whose face are you wearing?

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.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 1,851 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,435 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,186 views
Café by the waterfall

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...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,851 views
Where tradition meets treatment

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...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,595 views
Between Homes

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...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 6,802 views
Overseas employment isn’t the solution

The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 1,096 views
United for Project 108

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...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 549 views
Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,849 views
A missed opportunity

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...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,592 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...

May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,762 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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...

May 23, 2026 2 mins read 2,186 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

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.

May 20, 2026 3 mins read 2,107 views
GMC was a masterstroke

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...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,700 views
Fighting online scams

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,...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 2,193 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ 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...

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 2,765 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 6,550 views
National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 7,849 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 8,040 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,451 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,705 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,514 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 5,045 views
You’re not what you think you are

You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 4,062 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,763 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,298 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,648 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,661 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,787 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 4,056 views

Recents

Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

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 Bhutan (ECB).

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