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དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ དགའ་སེང་ལོག་ལས་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༢༥ ལང་མི་ ཉིམ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གིས་ ཧེ་མ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཆུ་གཡུར་བཟོ་མི་འོག་ལུ་ གླ་ཆ་ཉུང་སུ་སྦེ་ ལཱ་འབད་སྡོད་ཡོད་རུང་ ད་རེས་འབདཝ་ད་ ཁོ་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་རིག་རྩལ་ཅན་གྱི་ ལས་མི་ལས་སྡེ་ནང་ གཞི་སྒྱུར་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་ འབག་འོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ གསང་སྔགས་ཆོས་གླིང་རྒེད་འོག་ ཆུ་ཆུང་ས་ལས...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ནུས་ཤུགས་སྲིད་བྱུས་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་དེ་ ཁ་ཙ་...
༉ ཧཱ་གསང་སྦས་ཁ་ལུ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་ མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༡༨ འ...
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) will lead a transformative development in Thimphu and Paro, investing in making these two urban areas more climate-resilient and sustainable against growing impacts of climate change.
The National Energy Policy 2025 (NEP 2025) was officially launched yesterday, setting a bold direction for Bhu...
Once an underpaid assistant to Indian plumbers, 25-year-old Nima Dor...
Wangdue—Once seen as a promising step toward diversifying Bhutan’s energy...
Lungten Dorji, Speaker of the National Assembly of Bhutan, is participating in the 6th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, taking place from July 29 to 31 at the Palais des Nations, United Nations Office in Geneva.
Bhutan’s disease surveillance system, NEWARS, has made impressive strides in 2024. Reporting rates are up, outbreaks are being caught early, and there is growing clarity on the types and patt...
Bhutan’s ambitious digital transformation efforts are facing significant hurdles despite substantial government investment, according to the recently publishe...
Samtse—After years of battling crop loss from wild boars and stray cattle, farmers in...
The 18MW Suchhu Hydropower Plant (HPP) officially transitioned from its construction and commissioning phase to full operation and maintenance yesterday.
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༣༠ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་...
ཁ་ཙ་ འཛམ་གླིང་རི་དྭགས་གཅན་གཟན་སྟག་གི་ ཉིནམ་དང་འབྲེ...
༉ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེའི་ནང་ སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་བཏབ་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་པ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས...
In a society steeped in tradition, change often comes slowly—sometimes painfully so. But once in a while, someone shows us a better way forward not through words, but through the choices they...
Tourism sector is facing major financial headwinds as non-performing loans (NPLs) have surged to Nu 549.21 million as of May 2025.
As Bhutan and other tiger range countries observed Global Tiger Day yesterday, WWF-Australia officially launched the Global Tiger Innovation...
Your book, The Tale of Two Ravens, is clearly rooted in your time in Bhutan. What was it about Bhutan that left such a lasting impression on you and ultimately inspired this story?
Bhutan is positioning itself as a leader in the agroecology transition wit...
In a major push towards inclusive education and accessibili...
རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་གིས་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མི་...
འཁོར་ལམ་དང་ ཟམ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་བརྩིས་ཏེ་ མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༡,༡༢༥ འབད་མི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་ལུང་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ གཞི་འགྱམ་གྱི་ ལཱ་འབད་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཨ་ལེན་ཅི་གི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ཚུ་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་པའི་སྐབས་...
When a school opens its gates not to eager young minds but to those already bruised by addiction, it signals more than just a new institutio...
There is a big irony in the lucrative cardamom export business. Even as the trade continues to be dominated by fronting and other market distortions, Bhuta...
To address the country’s growing crisis of youth substance abuse, the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) officially opened the nation’s first specialised school, Yarabling Higher Secondary School (YHSS) in Yonphula, Trashigang.
The 1,125 Megawatt (MW) Dorjilung Hydropower Project has officially begun with the con...
Punakha—Punakha police have charged a man in his early 20s with the murder of former Dorji Lopen Yonten Gyeltshen at his meditation house...
Samtse—To promote gender equality and social inclusion (...
Bhutan’s passport has improved its standing in the Henley Passport Index 2025, climbing three positions to 84th position in the Henley Passport Index 2025, granting its citizens visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 51 countries, marking a positive shift in the nation’s international travel access.
Phobji, Wangdue—At 7:45 am, the morning calm of Phobji valley is broken only by the sound of footsteps—vill...
It is a warm summer morning. Green maize fields sw...
Four college students from the Royal University of Bhutan partici...
༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འགན་ལེན་བདོག་གཏད་བརྗེ་སོར་ཁང་གིས་ གསལ་...
༉ ང་བཅས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་སྦེ་ དབྱེ་ཞིབ་འབ...
༉ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ ནང་འཁོད་འོང་འབབ...
༉ ནགས་ཚལ་ཚུ་ མར་ཉམས་འགྱོ་མི་དང་ མཐའ་འཁོར་གནས་སྟངས་...
Gelephu—Inspired by the historic launch of the Gelephu International Airport project, Bhutanese from all corners of the country are stepping forward to offer volunteer service (zhabtog) at the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has clarified its decision to not file criminal charges against...
The Youth Engagement and Livelihood Programme (YELP), one of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and E...
Public toilets in Thimphu are falling critically short of standards,...
As Bhutan pushes to attract more tourists, we are failing at something basic—public toilets. A recent report on Thimphu’s public sanitation facilities has exposed not just a few broken taps or dirty floors, but a deep failure in planning, upkeep, and responsibility.
The appointment of an experienced insider as chief justice this week comes at a pivotal moment. With decades of judi...
In a single word, I would describe my initial experience as ‘overwhelmed’. I was overw...
Serving three successive monarchs across six decades, the late Zimpon’s life was a living chronicle of B...
The Ministry of Health’s (MoH) Annual Health Bulletin for 2025 has revealed a steady rise in Bhutan’s health workforce, which shows improvements in key personnel categories and reaffirming the government’s commitment to strengthening the country’s healthcare system.
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༡ ལས་༡༢ ཚུན་ བེང་ཀོག་ལུ་སྦེ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༩ དང་༢༢ མན་ཆད་འབད་མི་ ཁྱད་འཕགས་ཅན་གྱི་ མཛོག་ཁྱད་འགྲན་བསྡུར་ནང་ འབྲུག་མཛོག་ཁྱད་ཚོགས་སྡེ་ལས་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་༥ དང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་༡ བརྩིས་ཏེ་ མཛོག་ཁྱད་བརྗེ་མི་༥ གིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
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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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