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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).
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The Government of India (GoI) has released more than Nu 12 billion to Bhutan for projects under the 13th Plan, according to the Ministry of Finance.
The National Assembly’s (NA) Social and Culture Committee questioned the government yesterday on its responsibility for...
Punakha—A viral video showing cracks and loose bitumen on the newly constructed six-kilometer Jawakha–Sewla Chiwog farm...
The National Council (NC) ratified the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (B...
As Bhutan prepares to host the two-day Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Impact Finance Forum from December 11, critic...
India yesterday released Nu 1.31 billion to the government as part of its financial support for projects under Bhutan’s...
It is a great honour for me to serve as the first Director General of ICIMOD from the region. The centre represents eigh...
A new regional hub aimed at strengthening climate action and transparent reporting across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)...
The Australian Volunteers Programme (AVP) Bhutan office celebrated International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2025 yesterday in T...
The Good Governance Committee of the National Assembly has urged the House to mandate the immediate establishment of a s...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are calling for a flood protection system after recent floods caused extensive damage, with losses estimated in the billions.
Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act. Your family, friends, school, city, country, social media accounts, television and news channels, habits, and heroes are all shaping you into replicas of the admired, the powerful, and the majority around you.
The launch of the Gelephu–Kolkata international air route marks far more than the addition of a new flight on the country’s aviation map. It is a statement of intent – a signal of where we are headed, how prepared we are, and how seriously we are positioning ourselves for a future centered on connectivity – anchored by the vision of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
Bhutan is not short of ideas, intellect or institutions. What it lacks is a strong, working bridge between research, pol...
In passing the Livestock Bill of Bhutan, 2025, National Assembly members engaged in a good debate, a meaty one, even if it missed the core issue. The Bill was not about advocat...
The National Council this week questioned the government on the country’s disaster preparedness. This is a pertinent issue, especially when extreme weather events are frequent and more intense. Preparedness is therefore the most effective stra...
During a recent Question Hour session in the National Assembly, Members of Parliament (MP) called for an open debate on education quality and budget allocation. And rightly so. Education is the foundation upon which every other...
Far from the bustling capital, the community of Genekha observed an important global day. December 1 was World AIDS Day. They chose to mark the occasion at what they called the “fi...
Youth unemployment has become one of Bhutan’s most persistent national challenges. And it endures despite successive gov...
In some schools, especially in urban centres, there are more teachers than timetables demand. In others, often remote schools, the absence of teachers in key subjects has become chronic.
The growing number of corruption reports in the past year forces the nation to confront a hard truth: something in our s...
The government’s commitment to address regulatory barriers that have choked business growth deserves recognition and sup...
Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...
In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...
The price of an egg in the capital has soared to a staggering Nu 20, pushing a standard tray of 30 to Nu 520. While it f...
The return of the Buddha’s sacred Piprahwa relics to India yesterday was more than a ceremonial farewell. It was a lesso...
Bhutan’s environmental stewardship, which has resulted in the country's rich biodiversity, is finally translating into c...
The exodus of qualified and seasoned health professionals and its impact on the quality of services is an issue of natio...
The potential is vast, the scope is immense, and the market is as monumental as the Himalayas. As Bhutan and India explo...
The launch of the Gelephu–Kolkata international air route marks far more than the addition of a new flight on the country’s aviation map. It is a statement of intent – a signal of where we are headed, how prepared we are, and how seriously we are positioning ourselves for a future centered on connectivity – anchored by the vision of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
Read MoreThe National Assembly yesterday directed the government to submit a detailed follow-up report on the implementation of nine key recommendations from the Tourism Policy Review Report during the upcoming summer session.
Read MoreThe country’s effort to transform ecological challenges into sustainable opportunities was a key highlight at the Youth Development Fund’s (YDF) launch of a biodiversity-based collection in Thimphu on December 7.
Read MoreAs Bhutan looks beyond traditional bank lending and donor-driven grants, new financing avenues, such as blended finance, catalytic capital, philanthropy, and patient capital, are emerging as potential lifelines for the private sector.
Read MoreBhutan is a nation built on a sacred promise, that modern progress need not compromise our spiritual integrity, environment and planetary health, and cause cultural, social and moral dissonance.
Read MoreThe National Council (NC) yesterday deliberated on a review report on key economic sectors presented by the Special Committee for Business Plus (SC4+), highlighting Bhutan’s continued reliance on a narrow export base, persistent logistical barriers, and worsening market conditions for farmers.
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