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Rationalisation of schools is not about denying students access to education, but about improving quality and ensuring the efficient use of financial, human, and physical resources, according to the Minister for Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Yeezang De Thapa.
Dagana— With water sources rapidly drying up and threatening the livelihoods of ove...
Wangdue— For generations, the families of Drinchengang (formerly Rinchengang) in Thedtsho gewog, Wangdue, have lived in tightly clustered adobe ho...
Members of Parliament (MP) yesterday called on the health ministry to prioritise the d...
As climate change continues to reshape Bhutan’s mountainous terrain, entire communities are being displaced.
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་གསུམ་གྱི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ རྡོག་མ་གི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དེ་ རྒྱ་ཆེཝ་སྦེ་ར་ མར་བབས་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ རྡོག་མ་ཤིང་འཛུགས་སྐྱོང་འབད་མིའི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Her Majesty Gyalyum Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Patron of the Tarayana Foundation, graced the opening of a two-day...
As the armed confrontation between Iran and Israel enters its second week, the Ministry of Foreign Af...
The tax reform proposed in the Income Tax Bill 2025 is expected to cost the government up to Nu 5.57...
Samtse—The areca nut production in Bhutan has sharply declined over the past three years despite an increase in the number of trees planted.
Two spiritual events. Two vastly different outcomes. What separates the squalor left behind at the recent oral transmission from the orderly conclusion of the menlam chenmo gathering is not money, not manpower, but pla...
Jomotsangkha — In the quiet corners of Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary (JWS), a touching story of companionship and car...
The incident involving two Bhutanese individuals defacing a 30,000-year-old sacred Uluru rock in Australia in August last year has...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་ཆ་འཇོག་གནང་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ གཞི་སྒྱུར་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་འབད་མི་ དཔྱད་ཡིག་དེ་ ད་ལྟོ་ཡོད་པའི་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༠༡ ཅན་མ་དེ་ ཆ་མེད་འགྱོཝ་ཨིན་པས།
རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ གི་ འཆར་དངུལ་སྙན་ཞུ་ནང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གི་ གཙང་ཆུའི་མཐའམ་བདའ་སྟེ་ གཙང་ཆུ་ས...
In recent days, the National Assembly has passed some major tax reforms. From introducing a flat 5 percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) and increasing excise duties on harmful products to taxing high-value fixed deposi...
The National Assembly yesterday unanimously adopted the Income Tax Bill of Bhutan 2025, a comprehensive tax reform to replace the existing 2001 Income Tax Act, which now moves to the National Council for further deliberation.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Kingdom of Thailand is expected to be implemented by January 2026.
Gelephu—With the implementation of extensive flood control measures along major riverbanks in Gelephu, residents...
A majority of the Members of Parliament (MP) in National Council...
In a quiet yet powerful culmination, 35 young Bhutanese creatives came together to screen their short films at the closing event of “Art for People” programme, a two-week filmmaking course.
Samdrupjongkhar—Tshomo, a 60-year-old farmer from Tsangchil...
The Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) and the Bhutan Cricket Council Board (BCCB) have recently received recognition from international sports bodies for...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་ཁང་ནང་ དྲི་བ་དྲིས་ལན་གྱི་ ཚོགས་རི...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ཅ་ཆས་དང་ཞབས་ཏོག་(ཇི་ཨེསི་ཊི)ཁྲལ་གྱི་ འཕྲི་སྣོན་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་ ཆ་འཇོག་དང་ དཔྱད་ཡིག་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཚེས་གྲངས་ གྲོས་འདེབས་ཕུལ་མི་གི་ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་བཤད་ནུག།
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ན་གཞོན་ལཱ་གཡོག་མ་ཐོབ་པའི་...
Alcohol, tobacco, carbonated drinks, and other non-essential or harmful products will become more expensive starting January 2026, with the National Assembly...
The Members of Parliament (MPs) in National Council (NC) yesterday raised concerns on...
The government is accelerating efforts to address the pressing issue of rising youth unemployment in the country through a range of initiatives aimed at creating jobs and equipping young people with the skills needed for long-term careers.
During the National Assembly’s Question Hour yesterday, Menbi-...
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Lamgong-Wangchang called for a revision of the country’s building regulations after raising concerns about the inconsistent enf...
Concerned over the large-scale felling of trees for p...
At daybreak in Berti village, 65-year-old Wangpo walks the perimeter of his maize field, searching for signs of fresh damage. The evidence is unmistakable—flattened stalks and circular impressions pressed into the damp soil.
Chukha—After years of delays and repeated appeals from local comm...
What lingers in Kuenselphodrang these days isn’t j...
༉ དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ མཐའ་ཟུ...
༉ སྦོང་སྒོར་-སྐྱབས་ཆའི་འཐུས་མི་ སྤེན་པ་གིས་ གཞུང་ལ...
ཆུམ་དང་ བཟའ་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་མར་ཁུ་ ཚྭ་ གཙང་རས་ དེ་ལས་ གླ...
༉ སྤ་རོ་ཆུ་འཛོམས་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༦ དེ་ཅིག་ ལམ་འགྲུ...
༉ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དང་ ཕུ་ལ་ཧ་རི་གི་བར་ན་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༦ འབད་མི་ འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ ལེགས་བཅོས་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཆོས་འབྲེལ་ལས་འགུལ་སྦོམ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་རྫོང་(བཱཇ་ར་ཡ་ན་ལྟེ་བ་)དང་ དགེ་བསྙེན་གནས་ཁང་གཉིས་ནང་ འགྲོ་འགྲུལ་འབད་ཚུགསཔ་བཟོ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ཨིན་པས།
Bhutan’s fertility rate has dropped from over six children per woman in the 1980s t...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday adopted the Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, reducing the applicable GST rate to...
The National Assembly yesterday deliberated on the 207 sections of the Excise Tax Bill of Bh...
Limited pharmacy services in several remote districts, including Zhemgang, Gasa, and Samdrupjongkhar, are restricting access to essential medicines and pushing residents to obtain drugs from across the border, raising concerns about safety and regulatory compliance, according to the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA).
Bhutan has officially embarked on its second Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of core capacities under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), reaffirming its commitment to national and global health security.
As global climate forecasts warn of a possible “Super El Niño” this summer; raising fears of record-breaking temperatures and weakened monsoon rainfall, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) say Bhutan is taking proactive measures to secure irrigation water, protect agricultural production, and strengthen climate resilience ahead of the 2026 cropping season.
All foreign workers employed in the country for more than a month are required to open Bhutanese bank accounts.
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 conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adjust to the unpredictable and fast-changing market and policy decisions. From the cost of essentials to luxury items such as beer and whisky, everybody is scrambling to keep pace with the changes.
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has already made many goods and services more expensive, disproportionately affecting low-income households.
The key barriers identified in the report - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are not new. Combined, these three factors account for 47.1 percent of the overall unemployment...
Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple through fuel markets, transport costs, manufacturing chains, and, ultimately, household budgets around th...
The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more challenging.
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...
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...
The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacher...
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....
The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder th...
As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroec...
The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.
Amid growing concerns over misinformation, declining public trust and recent drop in international press freedom rankings, journalists, regulators and government representatives gathered yesterday to discuss how media and institutions can work together more openly and effectively in the digital age.
Read MoreThe 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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.
Read MoreThe three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expected to generate 494 million units (MU) of electricity annually.
Read MorePunakha—The Royal Bhutan Police has deployed 28 police personnel, including two officers, to Lunana amid mounting security concerns triggered by a surge in illegal cordyceps collection in the remote highlands.
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