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གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ འབྲུག་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་དང་ མཐུད་འབྲེལ་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ གཙོ་ཅན་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་བཞིན་དུ་ གསར་སྤང་དང་ ལྷ་མོའི་རྫིང་ཁ་བར་ན་ གཞུང་ལམ་བསལ་ནིའི་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༧ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིནམ་ལས་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་གི་ལཱ་ཚུ་འབད་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཚན་རིག་དང་འཕྲུལ་རིག་གི་གྲོས་འཛོམས...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ལས་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཨམ་སྲུ་ ཀི་རི་ཀེཊ་རྩེད་མི་ རྒན་རིམ་སྡེ...
༉ འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ བློན་ཆེན་ཡིག་ཚང་དང་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ལུ་ ལོ་ལྔའི་འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ནང་ སྒེར་སྡེའི་འབྲེལ་གཏོགས་དོན་ལུ་ ཐབས་བྱུས་གཞི་བཀོད་ཅིག་ གྲོས་འཆར་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Bhutan’s economic outlook for the next fiscal year appears positive. According to the World Bank’s latest South Asia Development Update, the economy is projected to grow by 6.6 percent in fiscal year 2024-25, a sign...
The lasting impact of Their Majesties King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida of Thailand’s state visit to Bhutan resonated deeply within both nations, marking a pinnacle in diplomatic relati...
Sarpang—A major highway that could reshape southern Bhutan’s economic and connectivity landscape has entered its preparatory stage, with construction...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that killed 26 people, including tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India on April 22.
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted a formal proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office and the cabinet, outlining a strategic...
When a Bhutanese woman returned to her home this March after two years in Australia, she was hoping to breathe in the crisp, clear mountain air she had missed...
An international conference on Science Engineering and Technology (ICSciEnTec) convened yesterday with the aim of bridging distances, inspiring minds...
The Senior Bhutan National Women’s Cricket Team is currently in Assam, India, for a 10-day training session in preparation for the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier, which will be held in Thailand next month.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལཔོ་མཆོག་དང་ རྒྱལ་བཙ...
༉ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༤-༢༥ ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་དཔལ་འབྱོར་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༦....
༉ དར་དཀར་ནང་ ལྷ་མོའི་རྫིང་ཁ་གི་ རྒེད་འོག་༢ ནང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༡༣ ལུ་ ཨར་ཊི་པི་སི་ཨར་གྱི་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཕག་ནད་ཨཕ་རི་ཀེན་ས་ཝའེན་ཕི་བར་ དར་ཁྱབ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The business landscape in the country is rapidly evolving with foreign investments seen as critical to national development and economic diversification. In wake...
After a four-day State Visit filled with various engagements a...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) will introduce land tokenisation as a new ownership model to allow affected landowner...
Bhutan’s economy is projected to grow to 6.6 percent in fiscal year 2024-25, up from 4.9 percent growth the previous year, driven by hydropower, mining, construction, and a resurgent tourism sector.
A lightning strike yesterday morning killed 15 cattle in Bamengang village (Mithun), located along the border between Norb...
Gelephu— In a show of national pride and unity, Bhutanese from across the country are stepping forward with contributions for the upcoming Gelephu International Air...
Phuentsholing—African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak confirmed through RT-PCR testing on April 13 continues...
Countries across the Asia-Pacific region have agreed to intensify co-operation to drive sustainable and resilient urban development, adopting a new resolution at the close of the 81st session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), held from April 21 to 25 in Bangkok.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) is partnering with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ལུ་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༨༧...
འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ ཆོག་ཐམ་འཆང་མ...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༦ ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱུ་རྩལ་ཉིནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་ འབྲུག་གསར་བཟོ་དང་བློ་རིག་རྒྱུ་དངོས་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ འགོ་དང་པ་ སྒྱུ་རྩལ་མཁནམ་ཚུ་ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་ནིའི་ལམ་ལུགས་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ནུག།
༉ ད་རེས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ རྒྱ་གར་སི་ཀིམ་ལུ་སྦེ་ ཕྱ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ནགས་ཚལ་མེ་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ སྤ...
Our forests, long a symbol of our environmental leadership, are going up in smoke. In just five months, fires have caused timber losses worth an estimated Nu 520 million. Behind this figure lies a more troubling reality: the...
The Department of Tourism’s (DoT) recent announcement requiring all licensed tours guides to undergo mandatory competency assessment has not gone down well with the guides, many of who argue that the move was introduced without sufficient research or consideration of existing national certification standards.
Punakha—An 81-year-old woman died while her 87-year-old husband was rescued after t...
The Bhutan Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre (BADRC) has stepped up efforts to enhance its services, training about...
The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Prope...
Bhutan’s reputation abroad is enduringly dominated by Gross National Happiness. When I mention Bhutan to my friends in Europe or the US, even those who know nothing else usu...
In a quiet corner of her home, amidst a vibrant collection of colourful yarn, 32-year-old Tshering Dema from Lhuentse, orchestrates a symphony of stitches. With nimble fingers and a heart full of passion, she is the driving force behind “Daza’s Toy”.
Bhutan is hosting the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Level 3 Coaching Course for the first time in Thimphu. Four master educato...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ བྱང་ཕྱོགས་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ མ...
In a special gesture of welcome, Their Majesties the Druk Gyalpo and Gyaltsuen personally received Their Majesties the King and Queen of Thailand at the Paro International A...
Four years after an ambitious initiative to streng...
Gelephu—With just two months remaining before the development of the Gelephu International Airport begins, 51-year-old Madhab Adhikari from Samtenthang is searching for a temporary home for his five-member family in Sarpang.
Bhutan is celebrating the state visit of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua and Her Majesty Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana, who arrived in the country...
Our judiciary today faces significant challenges, foremost among them being a persistent public perception of bias and inconsistency in the delivery of justice. This perception poten...
Recognising the potential of AI, the civil service has taken a major step into the...
Punakha—Punakha police are investigating a complaint filed by a 17-year-old girl alleging physical assault and sexual harassment by her stepfather at their Kapatapsa, Goenshari in Punakha home on April 17. The investigation also encompasses the circumstances of the girl’s recent pregnancy, which was reported to police as a potential case of child rape last year.
Forest fires in the country have resulted in an estimated Nu 520 million worth loss in timber over a five-month period spanning from November 2024 to March 25, 2025, according to a preliminary assessment by the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS).
Two Bhutanese consumers just lost Nu 78,000 to a 'TikTok Shop' scheme. Here is how the trap was set on Facebook and Instagram.
Over 200 intruders have swarmed the cordyceps sites of Lunana, sparked by a permit loophole that left local residents wa...
The Multidisciplinary Super-Speciality Hospital (MDSSH) will be constructed as a flagship project under the 13th Five-Ye...
Bhutan’s first-ever Airborne Geophysical Survey is on track for completion by June this year, with the most technically...
The Department of Energy announced that restoration work at the flood-damaged Dagachhu hydropower plant is nearing compl...
Trashigang —In the high valleys of Sakteng Gewog, the legend of the Migoi, the mythical yeti, has never truly disappeared.
Family problems and weak support systems at home remain among the main drivers behind the rise in substance abuse among...
As global climate forecasts warn of a possible “Super El Niño” this summer; raising fears of record-breaking temperature...
All foreign workers employed in the country for more than a month are required to open Bhutanese bank accounts.
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of an industry that is still young but steadily maturing.
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 the broader mandate entrusted to the government. In a democracy, mandate review is equally important, if not more.
The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adjust to the unpredictable and fast-changing market and policy decisions. From the cost...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has already made many goods and services more expensive, disproportionately affecting low-income households.
The key barriers identified in the report - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are not new. Combined, these three factors account for 47.1 percent of the overall unemployment...
Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple through fuel markets, transport costs, manufacturing chains, and, ultimately, household budgets around th...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacher...
I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything grand, just a humble little place t...
The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more...
Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic....
The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder th...
As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroec...
Three borrowers have refunded a combined Nu 240.48 million to the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) pool following the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) directive to submit action taken reports on procedural lapses identified in four projects.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has launched a nationwide review and redeployment exercise to address growing disparities in teacher distribution across schools, in wake of teacher shortages in key subjects and rising teacher attrition.
Read MoreBhutan is confronting a mounting demographic crisis that economists warn could undermine the country’s ambitious 10X National Economic Vision, as declining fertility, rising youth outmigration, and a rapidly ageing population begin to reshape the foundations of long-term economic growth.
Read MoreThe National Assembly yesterday tabled the Renewable Energy Tax Exemption Bill of Bhutan 2026, proposing time-bound and conditional tax breaks to attract investment and accelerate the development of hydropower, solar, and other renewable energy projects.
Read MoreThe 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 conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.
Read MoreCharity has always been an inherent value of Bhutanese society. Neighbours lend a hand, communities pull together in sickness and death, and strangers step up in hard times.
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