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༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཞབས་ཏོག་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ལས་རིམ་ ཤོ་ཐེངས་དང་པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༢༨ ལུ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
དེ་ཡང་ ཡུ་ཨེསི་ཌི་ས་ཡ་༤༡.༦ ལས་༧༧ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨ...
As the early rains of the monsoon settle into Bhutan’s valleys and mountains, the land is already showing signs of strain. Roads have begun to buckle, hillsides to slide, and social media is awash with foot...
The first cohort of the 2025 Gyalsung batch concluded their three-month National Service training on June 2...
The inflow of remittance has risen by 85 percent, nearly doubling in the first four months of this year compared to the same period of the previous year.
Despite enduring one of the most severe economic contractions in its recent history due to the...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has found that its consumer advocacy programmes are highly effective in empowering students with marketplace k...
Lhuentse – Thinley Jamtsho, a 52-year-old farmer from Phagidung village in Maenbi Gewog, Lhuentse, ha...
Phuentsholing—In a global fashion industry driven by fast changing trends and mass production, Leena Devi Ghalley from Pekarzhing in Phuentsholing is carving a different path, one rooted in Bhutanese culture and sustainable practices.
༉ འབྲུག་ཤེས་ཚད་དང་ ཁྱད་རིག་ལག་ཁྱེར་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལས་འཛིན་གྱི བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་དང་ བཀོད་ཚོགས་༢ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྫོང་ཁག་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལུ་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་ ཕྱིར་བཏོན་བཏང་མིའི་ རྩོད་གཞི་མཐོ་གཏུགས་འབད་མིའི་་ཐད་ལུ་ ཁ་ཙ་ ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལས་ འགོ་དཔོན་ཕྱིར་བཏོན་བཏང་མི་དེ་ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་ཨིནམ་ལས་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ཞུ་བ་འབད་མི་ལུ་ ཆ་གནས་མ་འབདཝ་ཨིན་པས།
The National Assembly has endorsed the reintroduction of the Constituency Development Grant...
While deliberating the Marriage (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan 2024 on June 25, the Joint Sitting of Parliament passed the amendment to...
Sarpang—The Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority (GMCA) has lifted the construction and renovation moratorium in much of its jurisdiction, a move expected to bring re...
The finance ministry has announced that the vehicle imports quota rules, extending the deadline for eligible public servants until June 30 this year.
The National Assembly has passed the 2025-26 budget, approving a Nu 94 million Priority Development Fund (PDF) meant solely for Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), despite the National Council’s opposi...
As the world marked the 2025 International Day Against Drug Abuse with the theme "Breaking the Chains: Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery for...
Paro—Team Cyberchain, a local Bhutanese group, and Team DeepGov, an int...
“The fourteen Bhutanese boys who were attached to the 2/10 Gurkha Rifles in Shillong for military training, completed their two years course and returned to Kalimpong on the 1st January 1935. They eventually returned to Bhutan with the Maharaja in February” (Annual Report on the Relations between the British Government and the Bhutan State for the year 1934-35).
In a pioneering effort toward sustainable waste management, Khasadrapchu Middle Secondary School (KMSS) in Thimphu has emerged as one...
In a conversation with Needrup Zangpo, Rinpoche reflects on the future of Buddhism, the illusion o...
Trashigang—In the rugged hills and scattered farms of eastern Bhutan, an innovative ag...
The recent conferment of the title of Lopen Gelongma (equivalent to Khenpo) by His Holiness the Je Khenpo to anim (nun) Tshering Zangmo is a testament to growing inclusivity and gender equality within the monastic system.
ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་དང་ པེ་སི་ཕིག་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཚུ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༣...
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་རྐྱབ་ནི་ འགོ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚ་ཆུའི་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ མཁོ་ཐང་ཁ་དང་ རྒྱ་མཚོ་གླིང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུང་སློབ་རིག་ཁང་ཚུ་ནང་ ཆིབས་སྐྱོད་གནང་སྟེ་ ད་རེས་ སྦྱོང་བརྡར་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་མི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་ཚུ་དང་ མཇལ་ཕྲད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Public spaces are mirrors of a society’s soul. When they begin to show cracks—when disorder, crime, and neglect creep in—we must no...
Gelephu—The construction of the long-awaited Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) International Airport has begun, with...
Bhutan’s national brand film “Bhutan Believe” has won the silver award at the 2025...
The Bhutan Qualification and Professionals Certification Authority (BQPCA) has suspended and de-registered multiple education consultancy and placement firms (ECPF) following serious violations, including forgery, illegal recruitment for overseas employment, and failure to renew operational licenses.
Wangdue–The Technical Training Institute (TTI) in Samthang, Wangdue, celebrated its 22nd Foundation Day yesterday, marking...
Bangkok–Nations across Asia and the Pacific have committed to achieving universa...
Trashiyangtse—Sherab Kelchen, a 52-year-old farmer from Wangringmo village under Ramjar Gewog i...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཁྱད་རིག་ཅན་དང་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་...
མ་གཞི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་འབད་མི་ ཉུང་དྲག...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལས་འཛིན་གྱི བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་...
It may be a coincidence, but the World Bank’s warning that Bhutan could lose a significant share of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2050 due to drying climate comes just as the country rolls out its 21st Century E...
In the legal battle involving former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bhutan Broadcasting Service Corporation (BBS) and BBS Board regarding the CEO’s termination, the Thimphu Dzongkhag Court yesterday ruled that the termination was lawful and denied the CEO’s plea to be reinstated.
With increasing number of Bhutanese professionals and youth moving overseas for work, the government...
Bhutan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is gaining momentum as Jabchor 2.0, the country’s premier equity financing platform, concluded its second editi...
Asia is heating up at nearly twice the global average, and the consequences are mounting, from record-breaking floods a...
While Bhutan continues to enjoy a reputation for low crime and strong governance, a concerning rise in petty crime and substance abuse at public spaces, particularly hot springs (tshachus), is drawing public attention and parliamentary debate.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ འཆར་དངུལ་དཔྱ་བགོའི...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ནང་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་དང་...
The National Assembly’s recent move to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on harmful digital content is not only timely—it is overdue. For too long, we have watched from the sidelines as explicit, violent, and morally corrosive material has crept into our phones, homes, and minds.
Bhutan could face severe economic losses by mid-century if it fails to adapt to a warming, drying climate, according to a new World Bank report launched yesterday.
The Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) and the Bhutan National Bank (BNB) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate the Bhutan Integrated Revenue Management System (BIRMS) with BNB’s mobile banking application, mPay.
The Government of India (GoI) has released more than Nu 12 billion to Bhutan for projects under the 13th Plan, according...
The National Assembly’s (NA) Social and Culture Committee questioned the government yesterday on its responsibility for...
Punakha—A viral video showing cracks and loose bitumen on the newly constructed six-kilometer Jawakha–Sewla Chiwog farm...
The National Council (NC) ratified the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (B...
As Bhutan prepares to host the two-day Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Impact Finance Forum from December 11, critic...
India yesterday released Nu 1.31 billion to the government as part of its financial support for projects under Bhutan’s...
It is a great honour for me to serve as the first Director General of ICIMOD from the region. The centre represents eigh...
A new regional hub aimed at strengthening climate action and transparent reporting across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)...
The Australian Volunteers Programme (AVP) Bhutan office celebrated International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2025 yesterday in T...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are calling for a flood protection system after recent floods caused extensive damage, with losses estimated in the billions.
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.
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 advocating slaughter houses in the country to meet the increasing demand, but on improving service delivery, setting standards and ensuring quality.
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...
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 schools, the absence of teachers in key subjects has become chronic.
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 feels like a crisis, there's no pandemic to blame this time and despite common belief, the cold weather is not t...
The return of the Buddha’s sacred Piprahwa relics to India yesterday was more than a ceremonial farewell. It was a lesson in how nations should conduct themselves at a time when the world seems determined to spira...
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...
Bhutan’s environmental stewardship, which has resulted in the country's rich biodiversity, is finally translating into c...
The exodus of qualified and seasoned health professionals and its impact on the quality of services is an issue of natio...
The potential is vast, the scope is immense, and the market is as monumental as the Himalayas. As Bhutan and India explo...
While we continue to prioritise sports development in the country, our presence in international competitions so far has...
We are producing what can be called our most educated generation, but are offering them some of the most limited and lea...
The death of 33-year-old Biren Kumar Kafley after he allegedly fell from a police van while trying to escape during a drug investigation has raised serious questions about police procedures, custodial safety, and whether the incident constitutes negligence or a custodial death.
Read MoreGelephu—After more than two years of surging prices, Sarpang’s land market has begun to cool, with prices falling sharply.
Read MoreSamtse—Gomtu is facing a severe housing shortage as a long-running construction freeze continues to restrict the number of rental units for a population that has grown around nearby industries and mining operations.
Read MoreThe country’s export, manufacturing, and trade sectors continue to face persistent structural and logistical hurdles that undermine the country’s economic competitiveness, according to a review of key economic sectors presented yesterday by the National Council’s Special Committee for Business Plus.
Read MoreThe Government of India (GoI) has released more than Nu 12 billion to Bhutan for projects under the 13th Plan, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Read MoreThe Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) and the Bhutan National Bank (BNB) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate the Bhutan Integrated Revenue Management System (BIRMS) with BNB’s mobile banking application, mPay.
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