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༉ ད་རིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་ལྡན་མའི་ སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་སྦེ་ འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ ཚོགས་གནང་སར་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ མ་ཧཱ་ཅུ་ལ་ལོང་ཀོརན་(MCU)གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་གིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ལས་ཚོགས་སློབ་དཔོན་ སངས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཆོག་ལུ་ Dhammadutaཟེར་མི་ གཟེངས་བསྟོད་རྟགས་མ་ ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒ...
There is another record, one we would rather not be associated with. In just the first five months of 2025, nearly 29 kilograms of brown sugar (heroin), a highly addictive and dangerous drug, ha...
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen yesterday graced the 16th Convocation of the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), where 1,931 students from 11 RUB colleges rece...
The National Council (NC) yesterday adopted the review report on Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), calling for an increase in the sum assured but stopped short of endorsing the Nu 150,000 sum pledged by the government.
The allocation of funds for the rural life insuran...
Chukha—Thirty-three-year old Kumar remembers the first fish he ever caught. He was a schoolboy in Gongtsakha, a remote village in J...
Amid growing recognition of the critical role of reliable soil data in sustainable land management, 40 participants fro...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) is implementing a series of measures to address a sharp decline in ginger prices, aiming to expand market access and establish stable pricing mechanisms for farmers facing financial distress.
The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) opened a new Flood Warning and Cryosphere Research Office in Toenchey in Lunana gewog, Gasa Dzongkhag...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆུ་ཤོག་བཀག་དམ་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་འབྱུང...
ཆུ་ཁ་ དགེ་འདུ་སྨན་ཁང་གིས་ རྒེད་འོག་དང་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ མ...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཞབས་ཏོག་གི་ འགན་འཁྲི་འབག་ནི་དང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་གི་ཚོང་ལམ་ནང་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་དོན་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་༤༩༣ གྱིས་ གསར་སྤང་ལུ་ ཆ་ཚང་རིག་རྩལ་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
དེ་ཡང་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་༥ འི་ བསྡོམས་རྩིས་ལས་ མངམ་སྦེ་ འ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་དང་འབྲེལ་ ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ས...
Gelephu—To undertake National Service and prepare for the evolving job market, 493 Gyalsups will participate in a comprehensive skilling programme in Sarpang.
Decades of plastic ban in the country has failed to curb plastic use, not for lack of effort but due to regulatory gaps and insufficient data-driven strategies, stakeholders warned at a policy consultation yesterday.
A record-breaking wave of heroin seizures has jolted the country’s law-enforcement agencies, which confiscated nearly 29 kilogrammes (Kg)...
One- stop Hub, avoiding visiting multiple offices for one service, assistance...
The critical absence of a dedicated gynecologist at Gedu Ho...
Consider this: of the 172 metric tonnes of waste generated daily in Bhutan, plastics constitute roughly 36 percent, with over 13 percent of plastic waste contaminating riparian soils along the Wangchhu. The consequences are visible and severe—overflowing landfills, polluted waterways, and rising greenhouse gases. Yet, despite these alarming facts, policies have not adapted to target the full lifec
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) ensures that budget allocation for all schools, whether central or non-central, is based on the...
The United States-based Karuna Foundation has awar...
Debate continues in the National Assembly (NA) over a critical clause in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) (Amen...
The Income Tax Revision Bill proposed by the Ministry of Finance has attracted much criticism especially due to the reintroduction of tax on fixed deposits and t...
The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Property (DoMCIIP), under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment, has awarded Nu 5 million each to two film production teams a...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༩ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འ...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ མི་སྡེ་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་གིས་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་པའི་ གནད་དོན་ཡར་སེང་སོང་མི་དེ་ སེལ་ཐབས་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གྲོས་འདེབས་དང་ རྒྱབ་སྣོན་ཆ་ཚང་ཅིག་ གསལ་ཞུ་འབད་ནུག།
༉ པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ ངང་ལམ་ ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་རྒེད་འོག་ལས་ སྐ...
A fierce public debate has erupted over the proposed introduction of a 10 percent withholding tax on fixed deposit (FD) interest. While the furore is understa...
The National Council’s Social and Cultural Affairs Committee (SCAC) yesterday presented a comprehensive...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday reviewed and cleared 47 out of the 182 sections of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (Amendment) Bill 2024, during its third reading.
Pemagatshel—Sangay Norzom, a 65-year-old farmer from Chokorling gewog in Nganglam, Pemagatshel, is a proud owner of a user-friendly mini-tiller, a machine that promise...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously adopted the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation...
The final year students of Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT), Kabesa, showcased 16 innovative real-life proje...
འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་སྦོམ་ཤོས་ཅིག་དང་ མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༡,༢༠༠ འབད་མི་ སྤུ་ན་གཙང་ཆུ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་དང་པའི་ མ་འོངས་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་དེ་ ཆུ་བཀག་ར་ཌེམ་ རྒྱུན་བརྟན་དབྱེ་ཞིབ་འབད་མི་ འཕྲུལ་རིག་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་ཀྱི་ གྲུབ་འབྲས་ལུ་ རག་ལས་ནི་ཨིན་པས
གཞུང་གིས་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མའི་ནང་...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དང་ དགའ་ས་བར་ནའི་འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པ...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ཀུན་གསལ་གྱིས་ དབྱེ་ཞིབ་འབད་མིའ...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ལས་ ལོག་འོང་མི་ འབྲུག་གི་མ...
Waste has always been Bhutan’s quiet embarrassment—a problem we have seen, smelled, and stepped around, yet never truly confronted. In towns like Phuentsholin...
The government has proposed to levy a 10 percent tax on the interest earned through fixed deposits and dividend in the Income Tax Bill...
The government is intensifying efforts to reintegrate Bhutanese citizens returning from o...
The National Assembly will today vote on the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Agreement on Maritime Transport Cooperation during the ongoing Third Session of the Fourth Parliament.
Phuentsholing—A new waste drop-off centre is under construction at Rinchending, about...
A student team from Druk School and Pelkhil School has won international reco...
Bhutan’s environmental leadership is a source of national pride. We remain carbo...
Trashigang—In the verdant hills of Darjayling, Yangnyer gewog, Trashigang, a remarkable transformation is unfolding. Once a neglected expanse, the 14.3-acre Tshowongpoktor land is now blossoming into a hub of integrated commercial farming.
Punakha—Restoration efforts are underway to reopen the Punakha–Gasa highway, which suffered major damage due to flash floods on June 2, cutting off the district from the rest of the country.
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The government has proposed to levy a 10 percent tax on the interest earned through fixed deposits and dividend in the Income Tax Bill 2025, which would be deliberated on June 18 and adopted on June 20 in the National Assembly.
The government is intensifying efforts to reintegrate Bhutanese citizens returning from overseas while ensuring that asp...
The National Assembly will today vote on the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperat...
Phuentsholing—A new waste drop-off centre is under construction at Rinchending, about three kilometres from Phuentsholin...
A student team from Druk School and Pelkhil School has won international recognition for their business idea, BackPack B...
Trashigang—In the verdant hills of Darjayling, Yangnyer gewog, Trashigang, a remarkable transformation is unfolding. Onc...
Punakha—Restoration efforts are underway to reopen the Punakha–Gasa highway, which suffered major damage due to flash fl...
With monsoon rains lashing the country, roadblocks, landslides, and vehicle accidents are resurfacing as familiar threat...
Paro’s long-standing sewage crisis, which sees untreated wastewater flowing directly into the Paro Chhu, is set to be ad...
Chukha—Once a thriving roadside town along the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway, Tshimasham in Chukha has been facing a slo...
As traditional education destinations like Australia and Canada tighten student visa regulations, Germany and other European countries have rapidly emerged as an attractive alternative for Bhutanese students seeking higher education abroad. However, the reality may not be as rosy as it is packaged.
Finally, we are on the right path toward a lasting solution to keep our surroundings clean and green. If the Clean Thimp...
Bhutan’s media landscape is facing a serious problem that strikes at the core of its democratic ideals. Once seen as a p...
Bhutan’s rising youth unemployment is no longer a “ticking time bomb”—it is a full-blown crisis. Beneath the surface of...
The government’s approval of the National Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme—a long-awaited initiative to shield farmers from losses caused by climate change and wildlife depredation—marks a critical step f...
Launched in May 2020, the Wobthang Organic Wonders (WOW) farm in Bumthang was supposed to be a model of sustainable agriculture, innovation, and communit...
In an age when many countries are content with meeting global benchmarks, Bhutan has chosen to raise the bar—not just fo...
The 18MW Suchhu Hydropower Project in Sombaykha, Haa will be remembered as a monumental milestone not only for the peopl...
Our healthcare system stands at a dangerous crossroads. What was once held up as a model of free, accessible care for al...
If the concept of civic cleanliness is lacking in our culture, it becomes glaringly evident when the mass gathers for an...
The Bank of Bhutan (BoB) unveiled two financial products—Credit Line Limit (CLL) and BOB Premium Card—at a networking ev...
Potato trade has seen a major transformation since the launch of the online auction system under the Bhutan Commodities...
Mountain Hazelnuts, one of Bhutan’s first fully foreign direct investment (FDI) companies, has secured USD 7.9 million e...
For the first time, Bhutanese vintage wine will go under the hammer on the global stage, marking a historic moment for t...
In much of the world, plant-based diets are gaining traction for their health benefits and environmental sustainability....
For many decades, Bhutan has taken great pride in providing free healthcare to all its citizens. This noble mandate has...
As the nation takes stock of its economic health, a troubling figure demands urgent attention. As of now, loans worth Nu...
Let’s face it. Alcohol has become a national problem. The statistics speak for itself.
With tensions escalating between India and Pakistan, the world is watching with a growing concern. The conflict is close...
The Ministry of Health’s launch of the Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS) programme marks a significant step in...
There is another record, one we would rather not be associated with. In just the first five months of 2025, nearly 29 kilograms of brown sugar (heroin), a highly addictive and dangerous drug, have been seized by customs and police. This is the largest amount ever intercepted.
Read MoreHis Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen yesterday graced the 16th Convocation of the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), where 1,931 students from 11 RUB colleges received their degrees and diplomas.
Read MoreThe National Council (NC) yesterday adopted the review report on Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), calling for an increase in the sum assured but stopped short of endorsing the Nu 150,000 sum pledged by the government.
Read MoreThe allocation of funds for the rural life insurance scheme under the general reserve (GR) saw a lengthy and contentious debate in the National Assembly (NA) yesterday, with the Economic and Finance Committee (EFC) questioning the legality and justification of the move.
Read MoreChukha—Thirty-three-year old Kumar remembers the first fish he ever caught. He was a schoolboy in Gongtsakha, a remote village in Jigmecholing in Sarpang, trailing the riverbanks with his father. Together they dried their haul and sold it in the nearest market, cash that put food on the table and paid his school fees.
Read MoreAmid growing recognition of the critical role of reliable soil data in sustainable land management, 40 participants from 13 member countries of the Asian Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (AFACI) are attending a regional training workshop on National Soil Information Systems (NSIS) in Thimphu.
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