April of 2022

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170 bidders for 19 old Prados

Trade

Apr 25, 2022 1 mins read 440 views
Govt. struggles to use capital budget

Finance

Apr 25, 2022 2 mins read 424 views
Nu 32B trade deficit in 2021 highest in the last five years

Finance

Apr 25, 2022 3 mins read 422 views
Sports events expected to resume

Sports

Apr 24, 2022 1 mins read 438 views
WWF Bhutan's support to enhance land surveying

Wild Life

Apr 24, 2022 2 mins read 450 views
BCCI submits measures to help tourism sector

Tourism

Apr 24, 2022 2 mins read 405 views
Supreme court acquits BNB official in RICB embezzlement case

Judiciary

Apr 24, 2022 2 mins read 415 views
Managing waste is our responsibility

Letter to the Editor

Apr 24, 2022 1 mins read 392 views
How many trucks will it take?

Editorial

Apr 24, 2022 2 mins read 416 views
Institutionalising water management system to address shortages

Water

Apr 24, 2022 2 mins read 420 views
Entertainment centres to open from May 2

Entertainment

Apr 24, 2022 2 mins read 364 views
18-year-old takes her life in Dagana

Grievance

Apr 24, 2022 0 mins read 400 views
Class X performance worst in 11 years

Education

Apr 24, 2022 2 mins read 386 views
De-suups undertake the largest water project in Gelephu

Desuup

Apr 24, 2022 2 mins read 397 views
Metamorphosis on walls of VAST

Festival

Apr 22, 2022 1 mins read 376 views
Drukyul's literature festival begins

Festival

Apr 22, 2022 2 mins read 425 views
Selling Chugo: Taking over his father's business

Feature Story

Apr 22, 2022 1 mins read 400 views
Of Quantity and Quality: Thoughts on Civil Service

Perspective

Apr 22, 2022 5 mins read 412 views
Hoteliers in Trongsa receive advanced cooking training

Food

Apr 22, 2022 1 mins read 400 views
Labour import process lengthy: Contractors

Labour

Apr 22, 2022 2 mins read 361 views
Dzomi gewog residents' long wait for water connection

Water

Apr 22, 2022 1 mins read 431 views
Fundamental rights are not absolute, but restrictions must not be unreasonable

Letter to the Editor

Apr 22, 2022 2 mins read 396 views
What lessons?

Editorial

Apr 22, 2022 2 mins read 404 views
More resources to tackle the mounting waste problem

Environment

Apr 22, 2022 4 mins read 415 views
BMHC still investigating the fourth Covid patient's death

Bhutan Medical and Health Council (BHMS) is still investigating the death of the 34-year-old woman that occurred in one of...

Apr 22, 2022 2 mins read 438 views
Excess liquidity discourages short term deposits

Banks

Apr 22, 2022 3 mins read 436 views
Sluggish credit growth, a concern

Finance

Apr 22, 2022 2 mins read 394 views
20 archers apply for Bhutan Grand Prix

Sports

Apr 21, 2022 1 mins read 480 views
Bhutan receives medical supplies from China

Grant

Apr 21, 2022 1 mins read 389 views
Opportunities in threats to Black-necked Crane conservation

Wild Life

Apr 21, 2022 2 mins read 390 views
Who is monitoring pet and stray dogs in Thimphu

Letter to the Editor

Apr 21, 2022 1 mins read 364 views
For the Class XII graduates

Editorial

Apr 21, 2022 2 mins read 434 views
The impact of Ngultrum depreciation against the dollar

Economy

Apr 21, 2022 4 mins read 474 views
STEM group to encourage women and girls to take up STEM fields

Education

Apr 21, 2022 2 mins read 410 views
CT scan machine at JDWNRH to be repaired by the end of this month

Health

Apr 21, 2022 1 mins read 432 views
U-19 women cricketers prepare for World Cup Asia qualifiers

Sports

Apr 20, 2022 1 mins read 414 views
Art exhibition from youth in conflict with the law

Youth

Apr 20, 2022 2 mins read 424 views
Phuentsholing water woes worsen

Water

Apr 20, 2022 3 mins read 492 views
Opposition Party asks govt to reconsider gaydrung decision

Politics

Apr 20, 2022 2 mins read 377 views
Fuel pumps in Thimphu run out of fuel

Letter to the Editor

Apr 20, 2022 1 mins read 374 views
Misinformed and misunderstood

Editorial

Apr 20, 2022 2 mins read 369 views
From desks and homes to pockets

Technology

Apr 20, 2022 2 mins read 410 views
Civil servants must provide information to media: RCSC

RCSC

Apr 20, 2022 3 mins read 411 views
20 years imprisonment for statutory rape

Judiciary

Apr 20, 2022 1 mins read 360 views
Trashigang dzongdag car crashes, no serious injury

Accident

Apr 20, 2022 0 mins read 383 views
Illegal cordyceps collectors in Lunana

Forest

Apr 20, 2022 2 mins read 386 views
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May 06, 2026 2 mins read 2,436 views
Nationwide drug prevention campaign “Yes, We Care” begins in Samtse

"Yes, We Care" launches a nationwide outreach to shield its youth from substance abuse.

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 1,306 views
Ancient remedy finds new life as rhododendron wine

Trashigang—In the high-altitude village of Merak in Trashigang, where spring transforms the hillsides into a sweep of bl...

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 1,805 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 beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 4,687 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 5,989 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 114 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 154 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 1,390 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 1,050 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 5,288 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 1,044 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 and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 3,224 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, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 2,359 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 2,309 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 2,679 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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 67 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 736 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 and the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-quarter of the world’s oil flows to markets, reopens, the discuss...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 1,703 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 could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 4,041 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 2,216 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 2,167 views
The environmental toll of wars

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....

Apr 18, 2026 2 mins read 1,947 views
A costly fiasco

Apr 11, 2026 2 mins read 3,311 views
Living hand to mouth

Apr 08, 2026 2 mins read 2,678 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 5,915 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 6,311 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 12,898 views
Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...

Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 9,220 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 8,006 views
Compassion in practice: Building a win-win healthcare system

Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...

Apr 04, 2026 4 mins read 2,229 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...

Apr 01, 2026 4 mins read 3,189 views
When Words Create Worlds

Mar 30, 2026 4 mins read 2,354 views
Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

Mar 16, 2026 1 mins read 4,142 views
A call for shared responsibility

The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...

Apr 04, 2026 2 mins read 3,309 views
When the watchdog has no teeth

The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...

Apr 01, 2026 2 mins read 2,929 views
Culture under threat?

Mar 28, 2026 2 mins read 4,337 views
Promises and performance

As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...

Mar 25, 2026 2 mins read 3,471 views
Policy versus ground reality

The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...

Mar 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,716 views

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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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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