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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.
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Foodborne illnesses continue to pose a serious public health threat in Bhutan, reflecting a global challenge that affects 600 million people and claims 420,000 lives annually, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
A Bhutanese youth in Australia, Lekzin Thinley, 19, who returned from Gyalsung training in Jamtsholing, Samtse, reflects...
Bhutan marked World Population Day this year by joining the global call to reframe the discussion around fertility—from...
Samtse—In the southern hills of Samtse, where paddy fields stretch towards the horizon, a quiet transformation is taking...
The Prime Minister’s Office in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched the Bhutan I...
Samtse—A long-standing water crisis in Samtse town appears to be nearing an end as residents welcome the completion of a...
New Delhi, India—The VAST Bhutan exhibition in India, which brought the question of happiness to life through the eyes o...
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)as signed on July 9 between the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) and Mountain H...
The Gangtey-Phobjikha Valley in Wangdue, often dubbed the Switzerland of Bhutan, continues to attract a growing number o...
Heavy rainfall on the night of July 9 caused significant flooding and multiple roadblocks in Gasa and along the Punakha–...
Agenda Chikha, a collaborative initiative between the government and key stakeholders, has committed USD eight million t...
Our global brand—Gross National Happiness—is envied and admired. Yet our ranking in the Human Development Index (HDI) te...
Even before the Economic and Finance Committee could review the Excise Tax Bill and Income Tax Bill 2025 presented by th...
The recent surge of Covid-19 sub-variants in India—LF.7 and NB.1.8—serves as a warning that the pandemic, while quieter,...
As traditional education destinations like Australia and Canada tighten student visa regulations, Germany and other Euro...
Finally, we are on the right path toward a lasting solution to keep our surroundings clean and green. If the Clean Thimp...
The lone women’s team taking part in the Bhutan National Archery Championship has literally raised some eyebrows. Smartly dressed in kira and competing shoulder to shoulder on compound bows with 83 other teams, team Kurukulle is also attracting a lot of attention.
Read MoreThe Hotel and Restaurant Association of Bhutan (HRAB) is calling on the government to extend the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loans to the hospitality sector, arguing that the industry is still struggling to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreHis Majesty the King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, and members of the Royal Family attended the funeral ceremony (purjang) of the late Dorji Lopen Yonten Gyeltshen Rinpoche yesterday at Nalanda in Talo, Punakha.
Read MoreMore than 90,000 students across Bhutan will receive increased school meal stipends beginning this month, following a Cabinet decision aimed at combating rising concerns over child malnutrition.
Read MoreThe Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has announced a bye-election for the Nubi-Tangsibji constituency in Trongsa, following the removal of Member of Parliament (MP) Tashi Dorji, who is currently in detention and facing trial in the Supreme Court on charges of child molestation.
Read MoreThe Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) introduced a new set of loan restructuring measures this year aimed at helping struggling borrowers, particularly businesses hit hard during pandemic. The move marks a shift from the broad loan deferment approach under Monetary Measures IV (MM4), which officially ended on June 30, this year.
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