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རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ ནང་འཁོད་འོང་འབབ་ཡ...
The government’s new concessional education loan scheme, introduced as part of the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP), has been well received. In fact, it stands out as one of the few initiatives under th...
The Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB) has announced it has received Nu 87.4 million in unclaimed fund...
The first weekend of August will once again transform the capital into a vibrant celebration of literature, art,...
In an effort to combat escalating deforestation, foster environmental stewardship, and support Bhutan’s commitment to carbon neutrality, Desi High School in Thimphu since last month has embarked on a five-year project to restore two hectares of degraded forest land near its campus.
The Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS), a cornerstone of Bhutan’s public health strategy, has en...
The country’s domestic revenue is projected to see a growth, reaching an estimated Nu 70.46 bil...
Six Bhutanese boxers, comprising five men and one woman from the Bhutan Boxing Federation (BBF), will compete...
གཞུང་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པ་ལས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ཀྱི་ སློ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ གཞུང་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་འཆར་གཞི་ལམ་ལུགས...
We take pride in our environmental credentials. We are the only carbon-negative country in the world, and rightly so. But pride alone cannot sustain a green future. Today, we are faced with a hard truth: We have over 230,000 fossil-fuel-powered veh...
His Majesty the King granted Dakyen to appoint the new chief justice of Bhutan yesterday.
The government yesterday launched a new concessional education loan scheme under the economic stimulus p...
Trongsa’s upcoming bye-election is shaping up as a battle of contrasts, with an old guard of politics, Tashi Samdrup, s...
Bhutan’s third Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs 3.0), in its l...
Phuentsholing—Vegetable vendors and farmers in Suntalakha, Geling Gewog, along the bustling Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway, are just weeks away from occupying a long-awaited permanent shed.
A nationwide increase in school feeding stipends, effective from July, is expected to improve meal quality in Lun...
Farmers from the three chiwogs of Sephu—Longmaed, Longtoed, and Busa-Zeria—in Wangdue are raising alarms over increasing livestock losses caused by wild predator...
༉ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་ འོང་འབབ་དང་ཅ་དམ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་འོག་གི་ མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་བཞི་གིས་ ད་ལྟོ་ཇར་མ་ནི་ལུ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་འཛམ་གླིང་གཙུག་ལག་རྩེད་མོའི་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གཙུག་ལག་རྩེད་འགྲན་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་ འགྲུལ་སྐྱོད་བྲེལ་ཟིང་ལུ་བརྟེན་པའི་ འ...
The Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) under the finance ministry has...
A looming transportation crisis threatens Thimphu, with new warni...
The Annual Health Bulletin 2025 of the Ministry of Health (MoH) reveals clear patterns in the country’s ongoing battle against infectious diseases, with tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and malaria continuing to pose significant public health challenges.
The viral images and videos of His Majesty the King, Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, and the Royal Children contributing physical labour at the Gelephu International Airport site have ignited a powerful...
Energy has shaped humanity’s path – from mastering fire, to harnessing steam, to splitting the ato...
Four college students under the Royal University of Bhutan are currently in Germany to participate in th...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༢༠ ལུ་ སིངྒ་པུར་ལུ་སྦེ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཀི་རི་ཀེཊ་གི་ ལོ་བསྟར་ཞལ་འཛོམས་འཚོགས་པའི་སྐབས་ འབྲུག་གི་ཀི་རི་ཀེཊ་ཚོགས་པའི་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ལོའི་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཨམ་སྲུའི་ཀི་རི་ཀེཊ་རྩོལ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་ རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་པའི་ཁར་ ངོས་འཛིན་ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྔར་སྲོལ་གྱི་ལམ་ལུགས་ཐོག་ སོ་ནམ་ལཱ་འབད་ནི་དེ་ གན...
Our political landscape has often been characterised by a unique approach to opposition, one where silence is frequently equated with wisdom and m...
With unpredictable monsoon patterns challenging traditional farming, a new report suggests Bhutan must fundamentally rethink its irrigation methods, advocating for solar-pow...
Gelephu—For 28-year-old Kezang Dorji, his passion for cooking continues to grow through self-learning, mostly by exploring YouTube tutorials to enhance his skills. Three years ago, he and his wife ventured into the hotel business in Gelephu.
A five-day “iSprint Social Entrepreneurship Workshop” kicked off yesterday in Thimphu,...
The national laboratories across the country have demonstrated an improved accuracy in testing for...
Trashigang—For Thinley Rinzin, a 25-year-old farmer from Tshowongpoktor in Darjayling Chiwog, Yangnyer Gewog,...
Bhutan Cricket Council Board (BCCB) won its third major International Cricket Council (ICC) recognition, receiving the award as the Global Winner of the ICC’s Female Cricket Initiative of the Year 2024, alongside Vanuatu, during the ICC Annual Conference in Singapore on July 20.
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ལུ་ དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྲས་ཕུ...
༉ བཀྲིས་རྡོ་རྗེ་དེ་ འཐུས་མི་ལས་ བཏོན་བཏང་པའི་ཤུལ་...
༉ ལྡོག་ཕྱོགས་ཚོགས་པ་གིས་ གཞུང་ལུ་སྐྱོན་བརྗོད་འབད་མ...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་གཙོ་བསྟེན་སྨན་ཁང་ལྟེ་བ་ནང་ འཛམ་གླིང་འགོ་ཁྲིད་ཞིབ་འཚོལ་སྤེལ་ཁང་ཅིག་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ནང་ འོང་ནིའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་དང་བསྟུན་ གསོ་བ་དང་ སྨན་རིགས་ཞིབ་འཚོལ་ལྟེ་བ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཨ་ལུ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཟས་བཅུད་མ་ལང་པའི་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡར་སེང་ སོང་...
We are ageing. And we are unprepared. This is the hard truth staring us in the face. The Bhutan Health Journal warns that by 2047, one in five Bhutanese...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Central Regional Referral Hospital (CRRH) established a Health and Medical...
Wangdue—The first utility-scale solar photo-voltaic power plant in Yongtru, Sephu Gewog, was inaugurated on July 19, marking a significant milestone in the country’s renewable energy journey.
The country’s foreign exchange reserves surged to USD 816.8 million in May, marking a 36.8 percent improvement compared to the same month of last year, according to...
The Opposition Party (OP) criticise the government over the repeated delays in implementing the Goods and Services Tax...
A pilot non-fungible token (NFT) project, launched on June 4, 2025, at the National Museum, has achieved success, selling seven out of its eight cultural digital artwo...
The private sector is making a concerted push for formal inclusion in the 13th Plan, reflecting a potential shift in the country’s development strategy.
The lone women’s team taking part in the Bhutan National Archery Championship has literally raised some eyebrows. Smartly dressed in kira and competing shoulder to shoulder on compound bows with 83 other teams, team Kurukulle is also attracting a lot of attention.
Bhutan is set to formally adopt the framework agreement establishing the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) on May 18 amid growing concerns over rising human-wildlife conflict, future policy implications, and the need to balance conservation with development needs.
The Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) continues to strengthen its role in cancer prevention, treatment, and patient support, g...
Trashigang—The three-day Great Yeti Quest festival drew around 8,000 visitors to Sakteng this month, delivering an unpre...
The government has dropped the proposed airport project at Pongchola in Mongar after technical reassessments concluded t...
Amid growing concerns over misinformation, declining public trust and recent drop in international press freedom ranking...
Punakha—The Royal Bhutan Police has deployed 28 police personnel, including two officers, to Lunana amid mounting securi...
The three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expected to generate 49...
Thousands of bank accounts across the country’s financial institutions (FIs) have become dormant, holding idle funds for...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.
The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.
About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...
In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...
When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...
The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.
The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.
The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...
Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-quarter of the world’s oil flows to markets, reopens, the discuss...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-needed respite that eases global anxieties over spiraling economic and geopolitical crises....
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...
The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...
The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...
Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...
The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...
The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...
Three borrowers have refunded a combined Nu 240.48 million to the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) pool following the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) directive to submit action taken reports on procedural lapses identified in four projects.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has launched a nationwide review and redeployment exercise to address growing disparities in teacher distribution across schools, in wake of teacher shortages in key subjects and rising teacher attrition.
Read MoreBhutan is confronting a mounting demographic crisis that economists warn could undermine the country’s ambitious 10X National Economic Vision, as declining fertility, rising youth outmigration, and a rapidly ageing population begin to reshape the foundations of long-term economic growth.
Read MoreThe National Assembly yesterday tabled the Renewable Energy Tax Exemption Bill of Bhutan 2026, proposing time-bound and conditional tax breaks to attract investment and accelerate the development of hydropower, solar, and other renewable energy projects.
Read MoreThe conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.
Read MoreCharity has always been an inherent value of Bhutanese society. Neighbours lend a hand, communities pull together in sickness and death, and strangers step up in hard times.
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