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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).
There is a special energy and stimulation when you sit with hundreds of smartly dressed graduates at their convocation. On June 12, graduates of the 11 colleges of the Royal University of Bhutan received their certificates from His Majesty the King.
Trashigang—Established as Bhutan’s first foreign direct investment (FDI) dairy venture, Koufuku International Limited (K...
In the verdant hills of Paro, just six kilometres from Chudzom, The Happiness Farm blends sustainable agriculture, welln...
There are places where time slows because the soul is finally allowed to breathe. Yangthang, nestled in Haa, amidst pine...
What does it mean to you to be elected as the first-ever female member of the SAFF Executive Committee? I feel deeply ho...
The detention of the opposition MP facing child molestation charges during an ongoing parliamentary session has sparked...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously passed the Budget Appropriation Bill for the Financial Year 2025-26, am...
The government’s decision to reinstate the Class X cut-off point, citing declining education quality, has sparked critic...
The government has allocated Nu 31.5 million for third child policy, Finance Minister Lekey Dorji said during yesterday’...
The government has pledged to resolve the long-standing issue of double toll fee imposed on Bhutanese vehicles traveling...
If the concept of civic cleanliness is lacking in our culture, it becomes glaringly evident when the mass gathers for any event – festivals, sports and religious occasions.
For many decades, Bhutan has taken great pride in providing free healthcare to all its citizens. This noble mandate has...
As the nation takes stock of its economic health, a troubling figure demands urgent attention. As of now, loans worth Nu...
The need in Bhutan today for an efficient system for the collection and dissemination of information cannot be over emphasized. Kuensel, as the onl...
In much of the world, plant-based diets are gaining traction for their health benefits and environmental sustainability....
Wangdue—The third unit of Punatsangchhu-II hydropower project was commissioned yesterday, boosting the plant’s total gen...
The country’s economy, facing nearly three decades of premature de-industrialisation, requires a targeted industrial pol...
Forty-year-old entrepreneur Sonam Zangmo from Wangdue is pioneering organic glass noodles (Finn) made from buckwheat and...
Bhutan’s agricultural exports saw a strong performance last year, generating Nu 3.51 billion from both primary and proce...
Let’s face it. Alcohol has become a national problem. The statistics speak for itself.
With tensions escalating between India and Pakistan, the world is watching with a growing concern. The conflict is close...
The Ministry of Health’s launch of the Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS) programme marks a significant step in...
The GovTech Agency’s initiative to equip half of Bhutan’s population with essential digital skills—or at least enable th...
In an era where institutions are stretched thin and community bonds often feel like relics of the past, the story of Daw...
Her Majesty Gyalyum Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Patron of the Tarayana Foundation, graced the opening of a two-day international conference on “Operationalising Gross National Happiness (GNH) in Bhutan and Beyond: Catalysing Mindsets and Technologies for Well-Being-Centred, Village-Led Development” at Dungkar Dzong in Paro yesterday.
Read MoreAs the armed confrontation between Iran and Israel enters its second week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade has confirmed that all Bhutanese nationals residing in the Middle East are safe and unaffected by the escalating violence.
Read MoreThe tax reform proposed in the Income Tax Bill 2025 is expected to cost the government up to Nu 5.57 billion in lost revenue. Finance Minister Lekey Dorji acknowledged the significant revenue impact while introducing the Bill to the National Council (NC) yesterday, attributing roughly 95 percent of the projected loss to state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
Read MoreSamtse—The areca nut production in Bhutan has sharply declined over the past three years despite an increase in the number of trees planted.
Read MoreTwo spiritual events. Two vastly different outcomes. What separates the squalor left behind at the recent oral transmission from the orderly conclusion of the menlam chenmo gathering is not money, not manpower, but planning.
Read MoreJomotsangkha — In the quiet corners of Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary (JWS), a touching story of companionship and care unfolds every night. Four and half month-old Karma Raygye, a young elephant calf, has captured the hearts of many with his endearing habits and unwavering trust in his caretaker, Namgay Dorji.
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