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འབྲུག་པའི་ཨམ་སྲུ་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་སྡེ་ཚན་དང་ མཐའ་བཅད་འོག་མའི་ནང་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབད་ནི།

༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་རྩེད་མི་ བུམོ་གི་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་༢༧ ལུ་ ནེ་པཱལ་ལུ་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ མཐའ་བཅད་འོག་མའི་ནང་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་གི་ སྡེ་ཚན་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

Oct 25, 2024 5 mins read
ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་རྩེད་འགྲན།

ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱ་ནག་ལུ་སྦེ་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༧ མན་ཆད་འབད་མི་ ཨེ་ཨེཕི་སི་ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡན་ཀཔ་༢༠༢༥ འི་མཐར་འཁྱོར་དོན་ལུ་ འབྲུག་དང་ ལྷོ་ཀོ་རི་ཡའི་བར...

Oct 22, 2024 1 mins read
མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སའུ་དི་ཨ་ར་བི་ཡ་ལུ་ གཟིགས་སྐོར།

༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སའུ་དི་ཨ་ར་བི...

Oct 30, 2024 1 mins read
Construction moratorium strangles wood-based industries in Sarpang

Sarpang—Since the construction moratorium was imposed in Sarpang in April 2023, business of wood industries and sawmills in the district has come to a grinding halt, with a severe downturn in timber supply and production.

Oct 28, 2024 3 mins read
One third of working-age population economically inactive

More than one third or around 35 percent of the country’s working-age population is economically inactive, according to th...

Oct 28, 2024 2 mins read
Royal Highland Festival, more than a festival for Layaps

The Royal Highland Festival (RHF) is a highly anticipated event. This year, I chose to attend the festival not as a journalis...

Oct 28, 2024 4 mins read
The oldest 2024 Laya runner

The president of Royal Thimphu College (RTC), Tshewang Tandin, 65, was the oldest runner in the 2024 Laya Run, held during the Royal Highland Festival in Gasa recently.

Oct 28, 2024 1 mins read
Caught between survival and education: A mother’s dilemma

Punakha—“My daughter is 14 years old and has never set foot in a classroom,” says Kinley Sithup, 55, her voice heavy with emotion. “There isn’t a school nearby that can accommodate a child like her.”

Oct 28, 2024 5 mins read
Lead poisoning: A silent crisis

Recent findings from the Ministry of Health reveal a deeply troubling public health risk—lead exposure is silently threatening the health and futures of our most vulnerable: young children and pregnan...

Oct 28, 2024 2 mins read
Khorlochhu hydropower to start construction in November

The construction of the much-anticipated 600 MW Khorlochhu Hydropower Project will commence from November 2024 following the fin...

Oct 29, 2024 2 mins read
Police recover stolen statues in Paro

The recovery of the stolen statues from Lhading Goenpa in Paro has brought a sense of relief to the owner, though the investigation is ongoing and is expected to take time.

Oct 29, 2024 1 mins read
Laya plans to boost tourism with better horse trails

Laya-The Laya Gewog administration is launching an ambitious project to boost connectivity and attract more tourists by refurbishing its network of traditional horse trails.

Oct 29, 2024 2 mins read
Bhutan targets doubling GDP by 2029 through entrepreneurship

In a move to double the nation’s gross domestic product from USD 2.5 billion to USD 5 billion by 2029, the govern...

Oct 29, 2024 3 mins read
Drukair spreads its wings to Dubai

Bhutanese travelling to Dubai can now take a direct flight. Drukair officially launched its new twice-weekly flights to Dubai yesterday, a significant expansion of the airline’s international network.

Oct 29, 2024 1 mins read
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Suicide cases rise among country’s economically -active population

The number of suicide cases among the country’s economically active population has reached alarming levels, with nearly 68 percent of those who took their own lives last year falling within the 20 to 59 age group, according to Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) statistics.

Jan 21, 2025 1 mins read
Empowering PWDs about their rights remain a key challenge

Last year, for the first time, Respect, Educate Nurture and Empower Women (RENEW) recorded 10 cases from Persons with Di...

Jan 21, 2025 2 mins read
Eco-tourism plan in Samrang to open doors for employment

Samdrupjongkhar–Samrang aims to become an eco-tourism hotspot but much depends on government support.

Jan 21, 2025 2 mins read
Ngawang Jampel joins Minerva as head of youth development

The assistant coach of Bhutan’s senior national football team, Ngawang Jampel, recently joined Minerva Academy Football...

Jan 21, 2025 1 mins read
Law enforcement and oversight agencies adopt SOP to tackle missing persons cases

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Office of the Attorney General (OAG), and Royal Audit Authority (RAA) have endorsed a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to streamline the handling of missing persons linked to administrative and criminal cases.

Mar 17, 2025 1 mins read
OTT platforms to merge to battle market challenges

In what is a major restructuring of the country’s digital entertainment sector, three leading Over-the-Top (OTT) streami...

Mar 17, 2025 3 mins read
Silent epidemic: Deadly toll of alcohol

Nine-year-old Jigme Palden walks into a retail shop in Changbangdu, Thimphu, and buys a can of beer without any qualms. The shopkeeper neither asks his age nor hesitates to sell him alcohol, despite strict regulations that prohibit liquo...

Mar 15, 2025 5 mins read
GMC International Airport draws strong investment interest from Bhutanese diaspora

Hundreds of Bhutanese living abroad have already invested in the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) International Airport’s...

Mar 15, 2025 3 mins read
RAA pushes for stricter oversight in construction sector

The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has raised concerns over the increasing number of substandard, incomplete, and delayed i...

Mar 15, 2025 3 mins read
Building startups for Gelephu Mindfulness City

After a four-year hiatus, the National Startup Weekend is back, aiming to equip aspiring entrepreneurs with essential skills, mentorship, and resources to strengthen Bhutan’s startup ecosystem.

Mar 13, 2025 3 mins read
Smartphone imports hit record high of Nu 2.7 billion, raising eyebrows

Smartphone imports spiked to Nu 2.72 billion in 2024, a sharp increase from Nu 2.2 billion in 2023. This jump propelled...

Mar 08, 2025 2 mins read
BDBL receives almost 4,000 loan applications under ESP Window-I

Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) has received 3,969 loan applications across its 35 branches nationwide, totaling...

Feb 20, 2025 2 mins read
Card payment and SWIFT transfers drive international transactions

Bhutan’s international payment systems showed mixed trends in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2024, recording a sharp increas...

Feb 20, 2025 2 mins read
Hydropower generation spikes by 11 percent in 2024

The country’s total hydropower generation increased by 11 percent, reaching 11, 699.68 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electrici...

Feb 20, 2025 2 mins read
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Mar 15, 2025 4 mins read
Ask Mr Bhutan

The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living in high-crime nations like India and Sen...

Feb 08, 2025 1 mins read
Ask Mr Bhutan

The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living in high-crime nations like India and Sen...

Feb 08, 2025 1 mins read
Ask Mr Bhutan

The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living in high-crime nations like India and Sen...

Feb 08, 2025 1 mins read
What it will take to create Bhutan's first unicorn

Bhutan is yet to see a single homegrown startup break into the regional or international market. This is not for lack of ambition or ideas but rather a result of systemic barriers that continue to stifle entrepreneurial growth.

Mar 18, 2025 2 mins read
Need to ensure accountability in agricultural investments

The Royal Audit Authority’s recent findings on the inefficiencies in our agricultural investments raise serious concerns...

Mar 17, 2025 2 mins read
Private participation in healthcare: A step forward

The government's recent announcement to allow private and foreign investments in the healthcare sector has sparked debat...

Mar 15, 2025 2 mins read
Alcohol: Weighing it between culture and cost

We are facing a crisis—one that is quietly devastating families, straining the healthcare system, and costing lives. Alc...

Mar 14, 2025 2 mins read
Forced to live across the border

Phuentsholing, the commercial capital of the country, is grappling with a housing crisis. People living in the border town are struggling with soaring rents and an acute shortage of affordable housing. Consequently,...

Mar 13, 2025 2 mins read

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Forex reserves reach USD 700 million, up by 15 percent

The country’s foreign exchange reserves grew by 15.39 percent year-over-year, reaching USD 700.51 million as of December...

Feb 18, 2025 2 mins read
Will Starlink disrupt local internet market?

Starlink’s recent entry into the country promises high-speed connectivity, potentially disrupting the market long domina...

Feb 15, 2025 2 mins read
Businesses in Phuentsholing struggle to rebound

Phuentsholing—Despite an uptick in the number of Indian tourists visiting Phuentsholing, local businesses in the country...

Feb 15, 2025 3 mins read
Finance ministry revises hospitality and entertainment budget

Following recommendations by Royal Audit Authority (RAA), the finance ministry has revised the guidelines for the hospit...

Feb 15, 2025 3 mins read
Two textile startup ideas awarded

Two Bhutanese textile startup ideas were awarded Nu 50,000 each for their business ideas during a recent 15-day Basic En...

Feb 15, 2025 2 mins read
Resorting to retired teachers

The education ministry’s decision to rehire retired teachers is a sound move, though it may be disheartening for teacher...

Mar 12, 2025 2 mins read
Situation calls for urgent actions

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH), the country’s premier hospital, is facing a serious problem....

Mar 11, 2025 2 mins read
Time to tax smartphones

Going by the import numbers, one in four Bhutanese bought a new smartphone in 2024—or did they? Smartphone imports spike...

Mar 10, 2025 2 mins read
Women in Bhutan

Bhutan joins the global community in celebrating International Women’s Day—a day dedicated to recognising women’s achiev...

Mar 08, 2025 2 mins read
Refurbishing school furniture: A smarter, sustainable choice

Beyond cost savings, the initiative promotes sustainability. The traditional approach of replacing furniture every few y...

Mar 07, 2025 2 mins read

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