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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 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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