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Coming to light after reports of fraudulent practices, the Department of Civil Registration and Census, in January this year, alerted the Trashigang Dzongkhag Administration and instructed officials to investigate how local government authorities failed to prevent the forgery of documents that resulted in a non-national getting citizenship.
With the monsoon in full swing, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued an urgent public...
Three years after a government-subsidised project to transition taxis to electric vehicles (EVs) o...
Paro Dzongkhag Court has sentenced an Indian natio...
Household farms form the backbone of the country’s livestock sector, accounting for 99.9 percent of all animal holders, leaving a mere 0.1 percent from non-household entities.
A two-day workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Chukha—After months of public complaints, traffic disruptions, and hygiene concerns, residents...
The Sixth Meeting of the Assembly of the South-East Asia Regulatory Networ...
Landlocked in the Himalayas, Bhutan was a sparsely populated, subsistence farming country for centuries. When it opened up to the world in the mid 20th century, the rugged mountains that sheltered the nation became a m...
དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡ པ་ལས་༦ པའི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ ལྟ་བཤལཔ་༡...
༉ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་ལས་རིམ་གྱི་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་ ཆ་མེད་...
༉ གནམ་བྱཱར་འབད་ནི་དེ་གིས་ གནམ་གཤིས་ཚ་དྲོད་ཡར་འཕར་འ...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་ཨ་སམ་ ཀོ་ཀར་ཛར་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གི་བར་ན་ ས་མཚམས་ཀྱི་ རེ་ལི་ལམ་རིང་ཚད་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༦༩.༠༤ འབད་མི་དེ་ ད་ལྟོ་ གཞུང་གི་ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་དོན་ལུ་ བསྒུགས་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༩ ལུ་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཀྱི་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚ...
༉ ས་འོག་ལས་ ཆུ་འཐེན་ནི་གི་ འཕྲུལ་ཆས་གསརཔ་ བཙུགས་ཚར...
Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrE...
The much-awaited 69.04-kilometre cross-border railway project connecting Gelephu to Kokrajhar station in Assam, India, is currently awaiting Indian government approval.
As temperatures soar this summer, rivers in Punakha have become a popular retreat f...
Rising costs in food and non-food categories fuelled a jump in the country’s inflation rate, which reached 3.84 percent in May this year compar...
Bhutan’s growing response to the HIV epidemic is taking shape against a sh...
Fewer crimes are happening in Bhutan, but those that do are more severe, according to the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)’s Statistical Yearbook 2024 report.
The Sarpang Strikers were crowned champions of the Bhutan Tourism Corporation Limited Women’s T20 Smash 2025 yesterday, defeating Thimphu Cricket Club (CC) by...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ དམིགས་ཡུལ་དེ་ སོ་ནམ་གྱི་ཐོན་ས...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་ནིའུ་ལྡི་ལི་ལུ་སྦེ་ འབྲུག་གི་སྒྱུ་རྩལཔ་ པ...
༉ བློན་ཆེན་ཡིག་ཚང་དང་ འཛམ་གླིང་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་གོང་འཕེལ་ལས་རིམ་གཉིས་ མཉམ་འབྲོལ་ཐོག་ལས་ འབྲུག་གསར་བཏོད་ལས་རིམ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ མི་མང་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱི་གསར་བཏོད་ལས་རིམ་དང་ ཚོང་ལས་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱི་ གོང་འཕེལ་ལས་སྣ་ཚུ་ལུ་ གདོང་ལེན་བྱུང་མིའི་ ཐབས་བྱུས་ཐོག་ལས་ འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
Dissatisfaction is growing among loan applicants of the economic stimulus programme (ESP) over the high rate of rejections within ESP loans, raising concerns about...
As a royal gift from His Majesty The King of Bhutan, a pair of takins (one female and one male) are being gift...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and UNICEF, yes...
A 48-year-old man from Radhi, Kuenzang Wangdue, has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison by the Trashigang Dzongkhag Court for forging documents.
“Sound check, sound check!” If you’ve attended a meeting, seminar, or workshop lately, you have likely heard this familiar phrase, usually followed by screeching microphones, echoing sound systems, or a projector refusing to cooperate.
His Majesty's pace on GMC Airport construction mus...
The country welcomed 100, 675 tourist arrivals in the first six months (January to June) this year. This figure represents...
A new poverty mapping report, a collaboration between the National Statistics Bureau and the World Bank, offers an unprecedentedly detailed look at poverty levels across the country, highlighting significant disparities not just between dzongkhags but also within specific gewogs and towns.
Foodborne illnesses continue to pose a serious public health threat in Bhutan, reflecting a global...
In an increasingly interconnected world grappling with challenges of sustainability and tech...
I was introduced to the magic of VAST Bhutan in 2018, when art works from Bhutan were displayed at the ‘Bhutan Week’ organised by the Royal Bhutanese Embassy in New Delhi to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the establishment of for...
A Bhutanese youth in Australia, Lekzin Thinley, 19, who returned from Gyalsung training in Jamtsholing, Samtse, reflects on his training and experiences
Samtse—In the southern hills of Samtse, where paddy fields stretch towards the horizon, a qu...
Bhutan marked World Population Day this year by joining the global call to reframe the discussion around fertility—from a demographic...
Green, clean, business friendly and globally connected- Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is a one-of-a-kind destination for tourists, fr...
Following two consecutive wins, Bhutan’s national women’s football team (the Dragon Girls) is now left with two crucial matches in the ongoing AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2026 Qualifiers in Jordan.
It was no mere coincidence that as Bhutan launched its National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025, flash floods from glacial lake outbursts and excessive rainfall were wreaking havoc across the region—including damage to hydropower stations built or u...
The Prime Minister’s Office in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), la...
Samtse—A long-standing water crisis in Samtse town appears to be nearing an end as reside...
New Delhi, India—The VAST Bhutan exhibition in India, which brought the question of happiness to life through the eyes of Bhutanese artists, invited audiences to explore how happiness is expressed, shared, and celebrated across different cultures.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)as signed on July 9 between the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) and Mou...
Heavy rainfall on the night of July 9 caused significant flooding and multiple roadblocks in Gasa and along the Punakha–Gasa highway, once again c...
The Gangtey-Phobjikha Valley in Wangdue, often dubbed the Switzerland of Bhutan, continues t...
Thimphu Cricket Club (CC) concluded their league stage with a commanding 211-run victory over Samtse Stallions in the ongoing Bhutan Tourism Corporation Limited (BTCL) Women’s T20 Smash 2025, held yesterday at Jigmethang Cricket Ground, Thimphu.
༉ འབྲུག་དང་ སུའི་ཛར་ལེནཌ་གྱི་བར་ན་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ དོན་གཅོདཔ་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དེ་ མི་ལོ་༤༠ འཁོར་བའི་ དུས་སྟོན་དང་འབྲེལ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ཧེལ་བ་ཊསི་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དེ་ ལོ་༥༠ འཁོར་བའི་ཉིནམ་ཡང་ བརྩི་སྲུང་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expected to generate 494 million units (MU) of electricity annually.
Thousands of bank accounts across the country’s financial institutions (FIs) have become dormant, holding idle funds for...
The 37th Session of the National Council (NC), to be held from May 14 to June 16, will deliberate on agreements, convent...
As Bhutan gears toward achieving a 10X economy, the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) will remain a crucial factor...
The agriculture sector is showing early signs of transition from subsistence-based farming towards more commercial produ...
The programme focused on strengthening ethical and responsible reporting on issues affecting marginalised groups, partic...
The spike in egg prices is the result of deeper structural disruptions in the poultry sector, compounded by inflationary...
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...
The Convention on Civil Aviation (Amendment) 2016 was tabled in the National Assembly today for parliamentary review.
Read MoreThe National Assembly today held the first and second readings of the Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) in Criminal Matters Bill 2026 during the ongoing session.
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