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༉ ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁའི་ས་ཁོངས་དེ་ ཆུ་ཞིང་རམ་སཱར་ཟེར་ ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་ཡོད་རུང་ ལུང་གཤོང་དེ་ཁར་ མཐའ་འཁོར་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ཚུ་ ཐོན་དོ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱང་འཁྱམས་སྡོད་མི་ སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་རིགས་དང་ ཚུལ་མཐུན་མེད་པའི་ སྒོ་ནོར་སེམས་ཅན་འཚོ་སྐྱོང་འཐབ་ནི་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ཤོམ་མ་འཐབ་མི་ དེ་ལས་ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ གནད་དོན་ཚུ་ ཡར་འཕར་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་གྱི་ ལོ་བསྟར་སྙན་ཞུ་༢...
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hesitation, but by bold conviction.
The new National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025 marks a strategic shift in how the country will manage its energy future. While continuing to hono...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has finalised the draft of a new Competition Bill, according to the CCAA’s Annual Report 2024-25.
A life-changing win has transformed the fortunes of Tandin Tshering, a 25-year-old resident of Phuntsholing, who secured the Nu 20 million grand prize in t...
Bhutan and Switzerland yesterday marked a significant milestone, celebrating the 40th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations alongside the...
Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) has launched a suite of advanced security fe...
Today, as we gather to start the construction works for the Gelephu International Airport, we are laying the foundations of a legacy that will shape the lives of generations to come.
Phobjikha-Although Phobjikha is a Ramsar-designated wetland, the valley is experiencing incr...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་ལས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ནང་འདྲེན་འཐབ་པའི་སྐབས་ ཁྲལ་...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒ...
While much of the country debates taxes on fixed deposit interests, GST, and the legality of certain parliamentary decisions, something more quietly transformational is happening in Tading, Samtse. There, residents are reaping the benefits, modest it may be,of smart infrastructure planning and decisive execution.
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel and Gyalsey Ugyen Wangchu...
Despite trade agreements ensuring zero-rated status for exports from India to Bh...
Phobjikha Gewog, famed for its sweeping valley, sacred heritage sites, and the grac...
Once an unfamiliar grain in Bhutanese farming circles, quinoa is fast emerging as a promising staple in the country’s evolving agricultural landscape, according to the 2024–2025 annual report of the National Centre for Organic Agriculture (NCOA), Yusipang.
Tashicholing—Farmers in Thangchhenang village (Biru Tar) under Pemaling Gewog, Samt...
Imagine you are drafting an important email to be...
Bhutan’s national women’s football team are full of confidence as they prepare to face Lebanon tomorrow in the ongoing AFC Women...
རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༤-༢༥ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ སོ་ནམ་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་དེ...
༉ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ གི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞུང་གི་ གལ་གནད་ཅན་གྱ...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༤ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མ...
Bhutan’s ambition to make its agriculture sector more inclusive by involving persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a welcome and c...
The government has outlined a crucial and ambitious legislative plan for fiscal year 2025–2026, prominently featuring the renewal of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Bhutan and India, originally signed in 1972 and set to expire this November.
The country’s agricultural exports reached a record Nu 3.51 billion last fiscal year 2024-25, demonstrating robust growth and strong global demand for its divers...
Heavy monsoon rains have once again laid bare the vulnerabilities in Thimphu Thromde’s drainage system, tri...
The nation’s readiness for radiation emergencies has come under scrutiny following a recent Joint External Evaluation (JEE), which flagged the absence of a dedicated national policy on radiation, leading to the country receiving the lowest score in this critical category.
Samtse—What began as a period of widespread hardship during the Covid-19 pandemic has, surprisi...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༥ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མ...
The recent sentencing of an Indian national caught smuggling over 4.6 kilograms of heroin into Bhutan is not an isolated incident—it is a sympt...
His Majesty the King graced the launch of the Bhutan Baccalaureate at the Druk Gyalpo’s Institute in Dungkar Dzong, Paro on July 4.
While the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) continues to prioritise food and nutrition security as its core mandate, it is increasingly adopting a more inclusi...
The prime suspect in the alleged murder of the former Dorji Lopen, Y...
To address the rising digital and financial fraud cases...
With the growing concerns over mental health challenges, Health Minister Tandin Wangchuk acknowledged the scale of the issue during a Meet-the-Press session on July 4, highlighting an encouraging shift in public attitude as more Bhutanese now seek help rather than suffer in silence.
We humans take selfies for various reasons: to mark milestones, capture fleeting moments, or simply to say, “I was here.” But perhaps the most extraordinar...
The creative industry is set to receive a boost with an allocation of Nu 530 million from the government’s Nu 15 billion Economic Stimulu...
His Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of the third session of the fourth Parliament on July 5. Speaker of th...
རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་ཅན་གྱི་མི་ཚུ་ ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་ ལཱ་འབད་བར་འགྱོ་མི་གི་ གདོང་ལེན་དེ་ ཡར་འཕར་སོང་མི་དང་བསྟུན་ ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་ཅན་ཚུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ར་ བཞག་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ གཞུང་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་སྒྲིང་སྒྲི་དང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་གི་ གོ་སྐབས་བཟོ་ནི་ དེ་ལས་ དོ་འགྲན་ཅན་གྱི་ གླ་ཡོན་བྱིན་ནི་ལུ་ ཁས་ལེན་འབད་དེ་ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
འབྲུག་གིས་ གློག་མེའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་...
The brief yet heavy downpours have exposed more than just blocked drains. They revealed the lack of civic sense among residents of the ca...
Bhutan has drawn unexpected global attention following the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) latest global working hours report,...
Amid increasing immigration enforcement in the United States (US), Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MoFAET), Lyonpo DN Dhungyel, has urged undocumented Bhutanese nationals to voluntarily return home.
An Indian national, Thanil Wanhengbam, 50, has been sentenced to 15 years...
Aiming to restore fairness and consistency, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) will discontinue the regular contract teacher system,...
Despite facing ongoing shortages of medical professionals in urban centers, the health ministry has reaffir...
This week, Bhutan mourned the loss of three De-suup trainees to leptospirosis, with over 140 others affected. Such a tragedy...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday adopted the Income Tax Bill of Bhutan 2025, incorporating a key recommendation from the National Council (NC) regarding exemptions on fixed deposit interest, while rejecting a proposal on dividend income.
The agriculture sector is showing early signs of transition from subsistence-based farming towards more commercial production, supported by improved market access, better inputs and modern farming practices, according to the latest quarterly data.
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 Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of Bhutan will be held from May 14 to June 17, 2026, during which lawmakers w...
At just 32, Tseltrim Zangmo thought she was just tired; she ended up fighting Stage 3 breast cancer. Her message to the...
The bond between the two Kingdoms of Bhutan and Thailand has always been rooted in shared reverence and wisdom. This gai...
One life is lost every 84 hours. Bhutan’s rising suicide rate is no longer just a public health crisis. It is also a di...
With a price tag of Nu 14.4 billion annually, can Bhutan really afford to keep subsidizing your fuel?
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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