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The National Council (NC) yesterday adopted both the Excise Tax Bill and the Income Tax Bill, along with final recommendations that will now be sent to the National Assembly (NA) for re-deliberation.
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday rejected all recommendations put forth by the National Council (NC) during the re-deliberation of the Budget...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay acknowledged Bhutan’s rapidly aging population as a sign of progress while warning of potential challenges if current demographic trends continue at the National A...
The Prime Minister defended the creation of a temporary Quality Monitoring...
Phuentsholing—The College of Science and Technology (CST) under the Royal University of Bhutan is witnessing a sharp rise in employer participation in its campus recruitment programme, signaling a shift in how graduates approach the job market, and who is hiring them.
The desecration of sacred heritage sites in the country has seen a steep rise over the years. Between 2012 and 2024, 1,360 sacred sites, including 1,291 choetens (stupas)...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་༢༢ ཀྱི་ ནུབ་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡༡ དེ་ཅིག་...
ནང་སྲིད་བློན་པོ་ཚེ་རིང་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ འདོད་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་རིགས་ བཟོ་བསྲན་མེད་པའི་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཅིག་དགོ་པའི་ གྲོས་དོན་ལུ་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ རང་བཞིན་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དང་མཐའ་འ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་བཀྲིས་ཆོས་རྫོང་གི་ ཀུན་ར་ནང་སྦེ་ དམ...
A delegation from Thailand presented an 80-volume World Tipitaka Sajjhaya Phonetic Edition to His Majesty the King and Her Majes...
The National Assembly (NA) has called for a nationwide zero-tolerance policy against the spread of pornographic, violent, and morally harmful content on digital platforms.
Finance Minister Lekey Dorji yesterday announced major pension reform plans in the National Council, cit...
The National Council (NC) yesterday unanimously adopted the Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, with all 22 members voting in favour of the five percent GST rate as proposed by the National Assembly.
The National Council’s (NC) Natural Resources and Environment Com...
Punakha – A heavy downpour that began around 11pm on June 22 triggered a flash flood in the Toeb Rongchhu, washing away the farm road connecting Damchhi-Rinakha Chiwog in Toebisa Gewog, Punakha.
When the global apparel giant Uniqlo recently objected to Bhutanese retailers using its logo without permission, it set off a chain of events that now serves as a rare, and long overdue, wake...
Lhuentse—In Berpa in Khoma Gewog, Lhuentse, 25-year-old Karma Wangdi is redefining youth-led agric...
Clear regulations, fair enforcement, and efficient...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཁྲོམ་ཁར་སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ བཟའ་འཐུང་མིན་པ...
ཇ་པཱ་ནིསི་གྱོན་ཆས་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ལས་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ ཉོགས...
༉ ཉལ་ཁྲི་༡༥༠ འབད་མི་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ དབུས་ཕྱོགས་ལུང་...
འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་དངུལ་ཁང་གིས་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཀྱ...
Bhutan has been named among 36 countries facing potential US travel sanctions. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade has issued a notification urging undocumented Bhutanese in the United States to voluntarily return home.
Gelephu—The 150-bedded Gelephu Central Regional Referral Hospital (CRRH) is set...
The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Property under the Ministry of Indu...
Urban households in Bhutan are spending more on non-food essentials than ever before, outpacing rural areas across nearly all categ...
The long-awaited Lungo Extended Basic Health Unit (BHU) at Lungo chiwog in Laya gewog, Gasa is expected to open within this year, the health minister said during the National Assembly’s question hour session on June 20.
Punakha—The Punakha-Gasa highway, which was damaged by flash floods on June 2, is now open to traffic after restoration on three affected sections was completed.
Trashigang—In Rizoryerchiilo chiwog, Udzorong gewog in Trashigang Dzongkhag, life for farmers was once an endless struggle between hope and hardship.
To enhance the market for organically certified products grown by Bhutanese farmers, the Department of A...
This year, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) spearheaded the celebration of International Day of Yoga, underlining the increasing importance of yoga for mental and physical well-being.
འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མའི་ནང་ ཁྲལ་གཞི་ས...
དེ་ཡང་ ད་རེས་ནངས་པ་ ཨི་རཱན་དང་ ཨིཛི་རཱལ་བར་ན་ དམག་...
ཤེས་རིག་བློན་པོ་ ཡིད་བཟའ་ཌི་ཐ་པ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ གཞ...
སྒོམ་དར་ གཙང་ཆི་ལོ་ལས་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༦༠ ལང་མི་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ མཚོ་མོ་གིས་ མགྱོགས་དྲགས་སྦེ་ གོང་འཕེལ་སོང་སྟེ་ གྲོང་གསེབ་གདོང་ལེན་དང་ མཉམ་ལས་ཀྱི་ དཔེ་སྟོན་ཅིག་སྦེ་འགྱུར་མི་ སྒོམ་དར་ཨོམ་མཉམ་ལས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་ལུ་ ཨོམ་ལི་ཊར་༦ རེ་ བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་འབད་དོ་ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཧེ་མ་སྤྱི་ལོ་༡༩༨༠ གྱ་གྲངས་ནང་ལ...
Whether the confusion stems from discussions in Parliament or how the media has reported them, many people, including those without a fixed deposit account, are concerned about the proposed tax on fix...
His Majesty the King, Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, and Their Royal Highnesses Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel and Gyalsey Ugyen Wangchuck graced Gyalpozhing College of Information Te...
Choden (name changed), a bright fifth-grader, saw her childhood abruptly halted when she was forced to drop out of school, three months pregnant with a secret no child should ever bear.
In a notification issued yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade...
Urban households in Bhutan spend nearly 46 percent more each month than their rural counterparts, according to the Household Consum...
The majority of the Members of Parliament (MPs) in the National Council (NC) yesterday supported t...
Once a cornerstone of the country’s rural economy, the citrus industry has seen steep decline since the early 2000s. Devastated by disease, pests, and changing climate conditions, the sector’s collapse has left farmers struggling.
The Legislative Committee of the National Council’s recent recommendation to amend Bhutan’s abortion law marks...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously adopted the Alternative Dispute Resolution (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan 2024 during the ongoing Third Session of the Fourth Parliament.
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has informed the National Council (NC) that Bhutan’s national debt remains at a manageable level, despite being...
Bhutan’s development thinkers made a passionate call to redefine progress, not in terms of income or infrastructure, but as a deeply personal and collective journey toward peace, balance, and happiness.
The SAARC Development Fund (SDF), in collaboration with Save the Children’s Nepal and Bhutan Country Offices, officially launched a regional initiative titled “Partnership for Quality Inclusive Early Childhood Development & Basic Education” yesterday at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu, Nepal.
For many families, the numbers behind inflation tell only part of the story. What matters more is what they pay at the m...
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The government aims to bring 15,220 acres of farmland under sustainable land management (SLM) by the end of the 13th Pla...
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...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...
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.
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.
I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything grand, just a humble little place t...
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...
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...
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.
The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.
The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Charmi Chheda’s relationship with the stage began long before she understood what theatre could mean. At eight years old...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are par...
Bhutan received international recognition at the global travel trade show ITB Berlin in Germany, yesterday where the country was named “Destination of the Year – Earthly Experiences” for its commitment to authentic and regenerative tourism.
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