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མི་དབང་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་ཚུ་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཞན་དང་མ་འདྲཝ་ བཟོ་དགོ་པའི་བཀའ་སློབ།

༉ 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།

Jun 30, 2025 10 mins read 1,354 views
དངུལ་གཏོང་ལེན་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༨༠ དེ་ཅིག་ཡར་འཕར།

དེ་ཡང་ ཡུ་ཨེསི་ཌི་ས་ཡ་༤༡.༦ ལས་༧༧ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨ...

Jun 30, 2025 4 mins read 1,046 views
Heed the warnings of the rain

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...

Jun 30, 2025 2 mins read 3,747 views
His Majesty urges Gyalsups to build a nation that stands apart

The first cohort of the 2025 Gyalsung batch concluded their three-month National Service training on June 2...

Jun 30, 2025 3 mins read 2,176 views
Remittance inflow soars over 80 percent

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.

Jun 30, 2025 1 mins read 3,677 views
World Bank report finds decline in rural poverty from 2017 to 2022

Despite enduring one of the most severe economic contractions in its recent history due to the...

Jun 30, 2025 3 mins read 2,635 views
CCAA advocacy highly effective for students

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has found that its consumer advocacy programmes are highly effective in empowering students with marketplace k...

Jun 30, 2025 3 mins read 3,356 views
Integrated farming transforms farmer’s livelihoods in Lhuentse

Lhuentse – Thinley Jamtsho, a 52-year-old farmer from Phagidung village in Maenbi Gewog, Lhuentse, ha...

Jun 30, 2025 2 mins read 7,552 views
LEENA’s WORLD: Weaving tradition into sustainable fashion

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.

Jun 30, 2025 2 mins read 2,675 views
ཚུལ་མིན་བྱ་རིམ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཤེས་རིག་གྲོས་སྟོན་པའི་ཆོག་ཐམ་ མཚམས་འཇོག་དང་ བཀག་ཆ་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་ཤེས་ཚད་དང་ ཁྱད་རིག་ལག་ཁྱེར་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་...

Jun 29, 2025 6 mins read 1,057 views
གཟའ་སྐར།

གཟའ་སྐར།

Jun 29, 2025 0 mins read 807 views
སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

Jun 29, 2025 0 mins read 721 views
ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ འབྲུག་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལས་འཛིན་གྱི་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་གཙོ་འཛིན་ ཕྱིར་བཏོན་བཏང་མི་དེ་ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་ཨིན་པའི་ ངོས་འཛིན།

༉ 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།

Jun 29, 2025 7 mins read 1,134 views
Constituency Development Grant returns as Priority Development Fund

The National Assembly has endorsed the reintroduction of the Constituency Development Grant...

Jun 28, 2025 5 mins read 2,768 views
Joint sitting sets marriage age at 18 for both genders

While deliberating the Marriage (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan 2024 on June 25, the Joint Sitting of Parliament passed the amendment to...

Jun 28, 2025 2 mins read 3,971 views
GMC Authority lifts construction moratorium

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...

Jun 28, 2025 2 mins read 21,066 views
Finance ministry extends vehicle import quota deadline

The finance ministry has announced that the vehicle imports quota rules, extending the deadline for eligible public servants until June 30 this year.

Jun 28, 2025 1 mins read 6,098 views
If CDG is illegal, so is PDF

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...

Jun 28, 2025 2 mins read 16,560 views
Breaking chains means integration, not segregation

As the world marked the 2025 International Day Against Drug Abuse with the theme "Breaking the Chains: Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery for...

Jun 28, 2025 3 mins read 2,274 views
Team Cyberchain and DeepGov win Bhutan NDI powered international hackathon

Paro—Team Cyberchain, a local Bhutanese group, and Team DeepGov, an int...

Jun 28, 2025 4 mins read 5,836 views
Highest praise for Bhutanese soldiers: History of RBA (1914-1943) Part II

“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).

Jun 28, 2025 5 mins read 4,796 views
KMSS leads national drive in plastic waste management

In a pioneering effort toward sustainable waste management, Khasadrapchu Middle Secondary School (KMSS) in Thimphu has emerged as one...

Jun 28, 2025 3 mins read 7,172 views
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on AI, attention, and search for truth

In a conversation with Needrup Zangpo, Rinpoche reflects on the future of Buddhism, the illusion o...

Jun 28, 2025 5 mins read 16,625 views
Co-operative transforms farm-to-market access for smallholder farmers

Trashigang—In the rugged hills and scattered farms of eastern Bhutan, an innovative ag...

Jun 28, 2025 3 mins read 4,264 views
Lopen Gelongma Tshering Zangmo: Inspiration for nuns across the country

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.

Jun 28, 2025 1 mins read 3,075 views
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་ ལཱ་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་རྐྱབ་ནི་ འགོ...

Jun 27, 2025 8 mins read 1,159 views
ཚ་ཆུའི་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་ ཉེན་སྲུང་མེད་པའི་ཚ་གྱང།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚ་ཆུའི་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་...

Jun 28, 2025 5 mins read 4,381 views
མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་ཚུ་དང་ མཇལ་ཕྲད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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།

Jun 27, 2025 3 mins read 4,843 views
Hot springs are boiling over, and we’re not watching

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...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 3,761 views
GMC Airport construction takes off with site clearance works

Gelephu—The construction of the long-awaited Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) International Airport has begun, with...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 7,016 views
“Bhutan Believe” film wins Silver Award at US International Awards

Bhutan’s national brand film “Bhutan Believe” has won the silver award at the 2025...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 7,292 views
BQPCA cracks down on rogue education consultancy firms after visa scam

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.

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 14,056 views
TTI Samthang celebrates 22 years of vocational excellence

Wangdue–The Technical Training Institute (TTI) in Samthang, Wangdue, celebrated its 22nd Foundation Day yesterday, marking...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 4,657 views
Asia-Pacific countries commit to register every birth and death by 2030

Bangkok–Nations across Asia and the Pacific have committed to achieving universa...

Jun 27, 2025 2 mins read 4,354 views
Early chilli farmers of Trashiyangtse reap rewards amid challenges

Trashiyangtse—Sherab Kelchen, a 52-year-old farmer from Wangringmo village under Ramjar Gewog i...

Jun 27, 2025 3 mins read 2,241 views
ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་འགྱོ་ནི་ལས་ བཀག་ཐབས་དོན་ལུ་ གཞུང་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ གོ་སྐབས་བཟོ་ནི།

༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཁྱད་རིག་ཅན་དང་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་...

Jun 26, 2025 7 mins read 1,181 views
ཚ་ཆུའི་ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ བྱ་ངན་འབད་མི་ཡར་སེང་།

མ་གཞི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་འབད་མི་ ཉུང་དྲག...

Jun 26, 2025 7 mins read 1,214 views
Clear and present dangers

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...

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,058 views
BBS CEO loses legal battle, court declares termination lawful

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.

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 8,626 views
Govt. to create economic opportunities at home to curb migration

With increasing number of Bhutanese professionals and youth moving overseas for work, the government...

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,185 views
Jabchor 2.0 connects entrepreneurs with investors

Bhutan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is gaining momentum as Jabchor 2.0, the country’s premier equity financing platform, concluded its second editi...

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 2,492 views
Bhutan feels the heat as Asia’s climate crisis escalates

Asia is heating up at nearly twice the global average, and the consequences are mounting, from record-breaking floods a...

Jun 26, 2025 4 mins read 2,494 views
Rising crime at hot springs prompts calls for police deployment

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.

Jun 26, 2025 2 mins read 12,629 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་ཚོགས་ཁང་གི་ གྲོས་འདེབས་ཆ་མེད།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ འཆར་དངུལ་དཔྱ་བགོའི...

Jun 25, 2025 5 mins read 1,134 views
གཞུང་གིས་ རྒན་ཤོས་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་ འཆར་གཞི་མེདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟ...

Jun 25, 2025 7 mins read 1,070 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ནང་ཁྲལ་དང་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་ ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ནང་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་དང་...

Jun 25, 2025 5 mins read 1,053 views
When screens become snares

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.

Jun 25, 2025 2 mins read 3,365 views
Bhutan’s economy at risk without urgent climate action: World Bank report

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.

Jun 25, 2025 4 mins read 5,080 views
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National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 2,674 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 2,572 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 2,607 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 9,588 views
Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...

Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 5,485 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 4,892 views
New FDI regime offers wider access to foreign investors in agriculture

The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...

Jan 03, 2026 3 mins read 5,747 views
Pindarika: Myth, desire, and revenge on big screen

Mar 10, 2026 1 mins read 385 views
A night for silver screen in Punakha

For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of an industry that is still young but steadily maturing.

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 734 views
Your Body, Your First Responsibility

Mar 02, 2026 1 mins read 947 views
At 71, Bhutan’s pioneer filmmaker continues to shine

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,287 views
Damcha– A Promise Beyond the Blackboard

The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacherous rivers, dense forests, and wildlife to reach school – an enduring testament to the value placed on learning.

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 2,333 views
What an entrepreneurial bureaucracy must do

Mar 11, 2026 2 mins read 21 views
Urgent call to skill our youth

Mar 07, 2026 2 mins read 1,679 views
Bracing for impacts of distant wars

Mar 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,141 views
Beyond the statistics

Feb 28, 2026 2 mins read 1,177 views
An auspicious beginning

Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic. As the nation celebrated the 46th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty th...

Feb 25, 2026 3 mins read 1,244 views
Are we prepared for a major earthquake?

The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder that Bhutan's capital sits on shaky grounds. Their warning that earthquakes do not kill people, unsafe buildings do, sh...

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 1,975 views
A year of reckoning

As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroeconomic signals and renewed optimism on paper.

Feb 18, 2026 3 mins read 1,675 views
Projecting growth

Feb 14, 2026 2 mins read 1,938 views
Builders or buyers?

The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 2,624 views
The burden of cancer

Feb 07, 2026 2 mins read 2,841 views
BCCI submits 35 business ideas to govt. for private sector engagement

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 6,228 views
Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

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The tourism paradox

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