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The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Property (DoMCIIP), under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE), has announced the second phase of its comprehensive support programme for digital content creators.
Bhutan aims to become a global education hub by 2035, and this is the right step for the government to take because the country has political stabili...
The Covid-19 pandemic struck at the heart of Bhuta...
Bhutan’s pavilion at World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Jap...
In Bhutan’s remote highland gewogs, the annual cordyceps harvest is both an economic lifeline and a flashpoint for conflict.
The Indian community in Bhutan celebrated the 79th Independence Day of India at the Indian Embassy in Th...
A gentle breeze carried the earthy aroma of mushrooms through Geney Zampa yesterday as locals and visitors gathered as early as 7am...
Costly planning errors and fragmented data systems, a long-standing challenge for the countr...
Bhutan’s roads are still relatively peaceful compared to chaotic highways elsewhere in the region. But spend ten minutes in a Thimphu traffic jam and the true colours of our driving culture appear - blaring horns, lane-cutting, impatient overtakes, drivers trying to squeeze through impossible gaps.
Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) and its group launched their ambitious strategic plan, the 10X Roadmap in T...
A 26-year-old Bhutanese man, Tashi Dewa, has been missing from his home on Frankel Street in Ca...
The lack of a formal institution has led to a decline in trained artists, posing a risk to the continuity of the country’s traditional performing arts, which are integral to the nation’s identity and the philosophy of Gross National Happiness.
During a live public debate for the Nubi-Tangsibji constituency bye-ele...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ས་ལྟེ་བ་ལུ་ ཕྱགས་སྙིག...
ལྟ་བཤལ་པའི་འཛུལ་སྒོ་ སྒོ་ཕྱེ་ཞིནམ་ལས་ད་ལྟོ་ཚུན་ལུ་...
༉ ནད་ཡམས་ལུ་བརྟེན་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གི་ ཚོང་ལམ་དེ་ ཤུག...
Gelephu—After years of business downturn caused by the pandemic, the hotels and restaurants in Gelephu are now seeing an upturn in operat...
Around 10 months after Bhutan opened Samdrupjongkhar border gate to international visitors, few...
With the aim of introducing civil servants to the transformative potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in gove...
For thousands of young Bhutanese finishing school or university, the latest youth unemployment projections are deeply unsettling. For those awaiting the civil service entry examinations, they are not just bad news. It is alarming.
Bhutanese youth are driving grassroots solutions in climate action, agriculture, and innovation while calling for greater...
Thimphu Thromde has taken a long-awaited step in tackling one of the capital’s biggest waste challeng...
༉ ཏམ་ཁུ་འཐུང་པའི་སྐབས་ དུ་པ་གཞན་ལུ་ཕོག་མི་དང་ མི་མ...
བཟོ་གྲྭ་གོང་འཕེལ་ལམ་སྟོན་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་...
རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ དངུལ་གཏོང་ལེན་འབད་མི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་སེང་སོ...
༉ སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མི་ཁུང...
༉ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ལཱ་གཡོ...
The country’s third Voluntary National Review (VNR) is a story of progress shadowed by warning signs. It proudly reports achievements—poverty reduced from 28 percent in 2017 to 11.6 percent in 2022, maternal and child mortality down, safe drinking water for nearly all, and forest cover holding at over 69 percent.
The country’s unemployment rate is estimated to slightly increase to 3.6 percent in 2025, up from the 2024 average o...
Bhutan is making concerted efforts to position itself as a premium destination for holistic and high-quality education by 2035, according...
Money supply grew at its slowest pace in years during fiscal year 2023–24, as a sharp drop in current account deposi...
The Paro District Court yesterday sentenced an Indian national to six years in prison for smuggling more than 7.3 kilograms of cannabis into Bhutan from Thailand, in one of the country’s largest cannabis seizures in recent years.
Phuentsholing—In a first for the border town, Phuentsholing Thromde has established six designated smoking zones in the...
Paro FC has earned a place in the AFC Challenge League group stage for the second straight year after a dramatic 1–0 victory over A...
རྒྱ་འབྲུག་གི་ ས་མཚམས་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ཚུ་ནང་ ཉིན་བསྟར་བཞིན...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ རྐང་ལམ་འགེགས་སྲུང་སྒོ་ར་ནང་ མི་མང་གསང་སྤྱོད་དེ་ ཁྱད་རིག་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལག་ལེན་ཐོག་ བསྟར་སྤྱོད་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁས་བླངས་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་གསུམ་པའི་ ས...
འགན་འཁྲི་ཅན་སྦེ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་གཏང་ནི་དང་ རྐང་འགྲུལཔ་ཚ...
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment unveiled its Industrial Development Roadmap last week, which offers a gamut of incentives, including tax holidays and cheap...
Gelephu—Motorists exceeding the speed limit or failing to fasten seatbelts in Gelephu and Sarpang are being pulled over by traffic police, fined, and reminded to comply with traffic regulations — not only to enforce driving discipline but also to ensure safety.
The country’s rising inward remittance flows are facing a quiet counterweight - a steady climb in outward remittances, driven la...
The Nature Conservation Division (NCD) under Department of Forests and Park Services (DoF...
Bhutan’s third Voluntary National Review (VNR) reports significant progres...
Phuentsholing—The Pedestrian Terminal in Phuentsholing will implement professional management practices for its public toilets.
A three-day consultation workshop is underway in Lamaigoemba, Bumthang, to provi...
གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ གཞི་རྟེན་གཞི་སྒྱུར་གྱི་ ལས་སྣ་མང...
༉ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་དང་ ནང་འདྲེན་མར་ཕབ་ དེ་ལས་ ལཱ...
འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ རྩིས་ལོ་༢...
Our health story is one of remarkable victories. Maternal and child mortality rates have fallen to levels once thought unattainable. Malaria has been eradicated, and cervical cancer prevention efforts stand as a model for the world. These achievements are the result of decades of political commitment, community trust in the health system, and a culture of solidarity that places collective wellbein
Jan 15, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
Prices in most shops have jumped five percent overnight. In Changzamtog, a couple sits at their tiny wooden table, counting what little money they have left. The husband, the sole breadwinner, earns Nu 17,000 at a convenience store. Rent takes Nu 5,500. Electricity bill, another about Nu 1,500. That leaves about Nu 10,000 for groceries, school fees, internet charges, and survival.
The new excise tax (ET) framework, effective from January 1, has led to price increases for alcohol, tobacco, carbonated...
The government has introduced a range of tax relief measures for individuals under a new income tax framework rolled out...
The government is yet to announce when the Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund mechanism for tourists and short-term vis...
Consumers are facing short-term price increases as the country transitions to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system, w...
Bumpa Wangmo, former regional manager of Bhutan Industrial Gas (BIG), has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment aft...
The 118th National Day of Bhutan, celebrated in the sacred Bumthang Valley at the historic Wangduechoeling Palace grounds, was more than a commemoration of nationhood. It was a moment of collective reflection and renewed purpose, set against a landscape that embodies Bhutan’s spiritual origins and continuity.
Some historic events are planned, others unfold as if by destiny, arriving at the opportune time for a profound reason. Today, as His Majesty the King addresses the nation from the Wangduec...
The civil service is the backbone of our nation’s development. From remote gewogs to the capital, civil servants have played a key role in keeping the government running and serving citizens every day. The Royal Civil Serv...
The recently concluded SDG Impact Finance Forum showed the potential for global investments in the country.
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...
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...
The National Council this week questioned the government on the country’s disaster preparedness. This is a pertinent iss...
During a recent Question Hour session in the National Assembly, Members of Parliament (MP) called for an open debate on...
Far from the bustling capital, the community of Genekha observed an important global day. December 1 was World AIDS Day....
Youth unemployment has become one of Bhutan’s most persistent national challenges. And it endures despite successive gov...
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