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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.
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New Delhi, India—The VAST Bhutan exhibition in India, which brought the question of happiness to life through the eyes of Bhutanese artists, invited audiences to explore how happiness is expressed, shared, and celebrated across different cultures.
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–...
Thimphu Cricket Club (CC) concluded their league stage with a commanding 211-run victory over Samtse Stallions in the on...
The new National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025 marks a strategic shift in how the country will manage its energy future. Whil...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has finalised the draft of a new Competition Bill, according to th...
A life-changing win has transformed the fortunes of Tandin Tshering, a 25-year-old resident of Phuntsholing, who secured...
Bhutan and Switzerland yesterday marked a significant milestone, celebrating the 40th anniversary of formal diplomatic r...
Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) has launched a suite of advanced security features aimed at enhancing digital tra...
Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in late 2024 marked a significant policy shift—one grounded in science and global best practice.
“Sound check, sound check!” If you’ve attended a meeting, seminar, or workshop lately, you have likely heard this familiar phrase, usually followed by screeching micro...
It was no mere coincidence that as Bhutan launched its National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025, flash floods from glacial lake outbursts and excessive rainfall were wreaking hav...
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hes...
While much of the country debates taxes on fixed deposit interests, GST, and the legality of certain parliamentary decisions, something more quietly transformational is happening in Tading, Samtse. There, residents are reapin...
Bhutan’s ambition to make its agriculture sector more inclusive by involving persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a welco...
The recent sentencing of an Indian national caught smuggling over 4.6 kilograms of heroin into Bhutan is not an isolated...
The brief yet heavy downpours have exposed more than just blocked drains. They revealed the lack of civic sense among re...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay yesterday urged Bhutanese overstaying their visas in the United States to return home voluntarily. While presenting the State of the Nation Report, Lyonchhen remind...
The recent outbreak of leptospirosis among de-suung trainees in Dewathang has left the nation in grief and shock. Three young lives have been lost, and many continue to recover from a preventable illne...
The ongoing United States–China trade war is redrawing global supply chains, prompting companies to shift operations fro...
Bhutan’s imports from Thailand surged to Nu 2.67 billion in 2024, making the Southeast Asian country the third-largest s...
Samtse—For many years, farmers in Samtse have sold vegetables from under makeshift tents, battling monsoon rains and bla...
Tashichoeling, Samtse — For 78-year-old Kamala Tamang of Kochin in Tendruk, saving money in a bank had been unimaginable...
Sweeping reforms in the financial sector are essential for the country to achieve the ambitious goals of its 13th Plan,...
In a world that first instills fear in us, only to sell us a product or service to eliminate that fear, we find ourselve...
As a collective, humanity has never been richer, more connected, more informed, and more protected from all cause diseas...
A significant portion of our youth’s challenges stems from our shortcomings as responsible, patient, and mindful elders....
The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living i...
After immense pressure and numerous tutorials, Sonam cleared her Royal Civil Service Commission entry exam last year. Sh...
Remittances are pouring into the country. Our people, especially in places like Australia, are sending money home. This...
As the early rains of the monsoon settle into Bhutan’s valleys and mountains, the land is already showing signs of strai...
The National Assembly has passed the 2025-26 budget, approving a Nu 94 million Priority Development Fund (PDF) meant sol...
Public spaces are mirrors of a society’s soul. When they begin to show cracks—when disorder, crime, and neglect creep in...
Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in late 2024 marked a significant policy shift—one grounded in science and global best practice.
Read MoreThe much-awaited 69.04-kilometre cross-border railway project connecting Gelephu to Kokrajhar station in Assam, India, is currently awaiting Indian government approval.
Read MoreAs temperatures soar this summer, rivers in Punakha have become a popular retreat for residents seeking relief from the heat. However, what begins as a refreshing escape is increasingly ending in tragedy.
Read MoreRising costs in food and non-food categories fuelled a jump in the country’s inflation rate, which reached 3.84 percent in May this year compared to May of the previous year.
Read MoreBhutan’s growing response to the HIV epidemic is taking shape against a shifting regional landscape, where progress and persistent vulnerabilities go hand in hand.
Read MoreFewer crimes are happening in Bhutan, but those that do are more severe, according to the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)’s Statistical Yearbook 2024 report.
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