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In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating a mindset of gratitude is not only challenging but absolutely necessary for our well-being.
Not long ago, villagers-turned-landlords from Chang and Barp in South Thimphu returned to their ancestral lands in Punakha after urban expansion devoured their paddy fields. Some reclai...
Automobile dealers in the country have stopped accepting ne...
Gelephu—Rigsar-Vajra Joint Venture (RVJV) Private Limited, undertaking earth-filling works at Gelephu International Airport, rec...
Samtse—Local leaders in Samtse say the illegal import of meat from across the border is threatening consumer health, possibly contributing to livestock disease outbreaks, and destabilising the local market.
Bhutan and India are in advanced talks over the air traffic servi...
Amid a growing health crisis fueled by a rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the government is implementing a new taxation...
The government has set out a strengthened strategy to curb youth unemployment rate and reduce outmigration by enhancing job c...
Bhutan faces an escalating digital security crisis. The Royal Bhutan Police documented 56 cybercrime cases and 960 cyberbullying incidents in 2023 alone, with numbers continuing to climb.
Urbanisation increases impervious surfaces by tran...
This year’s graduating cohort comprised 24 students from the five-year LL.B/PGDNL programme and 11 from the one-year Post Graduate Diploma in National Law programme
The Ministry of Health is finalising new rules for medical referrals abroad, which is expected to strengthen p...
A nationwide digital health platform is being developed by the government in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), with the aim of improving healthcare services, promoting preventive care, and equipping policymakers with better data for decision-making.
When a mother in Punakha was denied a seat for her daughter at an Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) cen...
As your tenure as Ambassador of India to Bhutan comes to an end, how...
The finance ministry will soft launch the goods and services tax (GST) system on November 11...
The opening of the 9th International Conference on Medical and Health Sciences in Thimphu this week could not have come at a more crucial time.
A new report has warned that Bhutan’s social protection system is fragmented and underfunded, leaving...
The three-day 9th International Conference on Medical and Health Sciences (ICMH 2025) opened yesterday in Thimphu with...
The Paro District Court yesterday sentenced Indian national Aamir Rasul Shikalgar, 35,...
Bhutanese farmers are set to benefit from a new five-year agreement with India that promises support in improving productivity, expanding market access, and strengthening rural livelihoods.
The country’s rich forests are home to the musk deer, locally called Lachum, but its survival is under threat. Male Lachum ca...
The country’s first private cricket academy, founded by national cricket icon Ranjung Mikyo Dorji in the capital in 2023,...
༉ གསར་སྤང་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ཕ...
༉ གསོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ལེགས་ཤོམ་མེད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རྒྱལ་...
ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ཡང་ ཟད་འགྲོ་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༨༨.༥ བཏང་...
༉ སྒེར་གྱི་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཐོག་ལས་ རྒྱལ་...
༉ མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་ དགུང་ལོ་༧༠ བཞེས་པའ...
ལོ་ངོ་དག་པ་ཅིག་གི་ཧེ་མར་ ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་-༡༩ ལུ་བརྟེ...
The hotel industry is in deep trouble. Nearly three years since the pandemic, occupancy rates are at rock-bottom, while debts have piled up. The overall occupancy currently hovers around 20 p...
After nearly 14 years in the making, the Punatsangchhu–II Hydroelectric Project has been fully commissioned, with its final Unit-6 (170MW) successfully syn...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) is working under a comprehensive s...
Gelephu—Criminal activities, traffic violations, and other unlawful acts, including illegal waste dumping in Gelephu and Sarpang, are now being raided under real-time monitoring to encourage law-abiding residents in the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
Royal Thimphu College (RTC) celebrated its international partnerships yesterday, honouring its long-term...
Bhutan is preparing to host its first-ever Bhutan Fas...
In a joint effort to combat the growing impacts of...
Bhutan will be represented for the first time at the world’s most prestigious trail running event, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) World Series Finals, as Rigzin Chodra, 44, from Thimphu, and Jigme Tenzin, 38, from Samtse, take to the starting line today in Chamonix, France.
Bhutan’s greatest national achievement since the introduction of planned development has been the delivery of free healthcare for every citizen. It is a policy rooted in compassion and equity, and even today,...
To commemorate the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth King, Edith Cowan Univer...
The hotel industry in the country, battered by sluggish tourist arrivals and mounting debt, is preparing to...
The Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICB) has launched a special loan rebate scheme to help borrowers recover from the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Children in the country will soon have greater opportunities to learn through technology, programming...
Samtse—Residents of Dorokha in Samtse are struggling with frequent power fluctuations that have...
Punakha—Changyuel Galem’s house in Punakha, recognised as a heritage building for its cul...
གཞུང་གིས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ཁྱད་པར་བསུབ་ནི་དང་ ནང་འདྲ...
༉ ལུང་ནག་ན་ བསྟན་ཆོས་སློབ་གྲྭའི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་དང་ སློབ...
འདས་པའི་རྩིས་ལོ་ནང་ དགོངས་ཞུའི་ཚད་གཞི་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༨.༣...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་སྨན་ཁང་གཉིས་ནང་ ཌོག་ཊར་མེད་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ཐོན་ཡོདཔ་ད་ རྡོ་རོ་ཁ་དང་ སྒོམ་ཀྲུ་གི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་ གསོ་བའི་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་འཐོབ་ནི་ལུ་ ལཱ་ཁག་བཏང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Anaemia is not a distant health statistic. It is one of the most pressing health problems in the country today, and it is silently weakening the foundation of our society.
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The National Council (NC) ratified the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters on December 10.
Bhutan has launched a nationwide drive to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded forests, farmlands, and urban areas over t...
The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR) will begin compensating landowners affected by the right-of-way of...
The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has launched an internal investigation into the alleged custodial death of 33-year-old Bir...
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE) is moving to strengthen regulatory action against pornographic...
The SDG Impact Finance Forum kicks off in Thimphu today, a pivotal step for investment-driven development following the...
The government has installed a total of 896 CCTV cameras across the country as part of its crime prevention strategy, th...
Samtse—Upon entering homes in Shingdreygang, locally known as Jamirkot in Pemaling, guests are welcomed in a manner that...
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) will form a Joint Technical Committee to review Section 8 of the Bhu...
The National Assembly endorsed a set of measures to institutionalise courteous communication and respectful interaction...
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 country’s plan to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded forests, farmlands, and urban lands is not simply an environmental initiative. It is a national ultimatum. We are standing at a point where the land that defines our identity is weakening under our watch.
This week, Australia enforced the ban on social media access for children under 16. This is unprecedented and bold. While some critics have labelled the ban harsh and even draconian, this new law is anchored in the p...
The government’s allocation of Nu 30 billion for education transformation in the 13th Plan, second only to the economic...
The discussion on tourism policy is like Atsara Phentho’s chham. In other words, a lot of motion without progress. On Monday, members of Parliament demanded accountability for the reforms they recommended after re...
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 heade...
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...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
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...
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 sc...
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...
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 country’s plan to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded forests, farmlands, and urban lands is not simply an environmental initiative. It is a national ultimatum. We are standing at a point where the land that defines our identity is weakening under our watch.
Read MoreSamtse—Industries operating at Dhamdhum Industrial Park in Samtse have been battling frequent power outages, with unstable voltage levels disrupting operations, often causing financial losses and damage to equipment.
Read MoreBumthang—Across Bumthang, homes and shops have been draped in national flags, while streets glow with festive lights. Roads have been swept and public spaces prepared. Bumthang is all poised to host the 118th National Day celebrations at the national level for the first time.
Read MoreA flagship impact investment commitment in support of Pelsung was announced during the closing ceremony of the Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum yesterday.
Read MoreBusiness sectors are appealing to the government for transitional relief to prevent financial disruptions ahead of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Excise Tax rollout on January 1, 2026.
Read MoreThe widow of Biren Kumar Kafley has called for an independent, third-party investigation into her husband’s death, even as the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) continues an internal inquiry into the incident.
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