A moment of reckoning, a future in the making
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hesitation, but by bold conviction.
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Gelephu—A 6-kilometre road connecting Gelephu to Phulahari is currently being upgraded to improve access to two major spiritual projects in the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC): the Gelephu Dzong (Vajrayana Centre) and the Gyenyen Nyekhang.
In 2021, Thinley Jamtsho took his first steps into baseball as a catcher for his school’s under-15 league team. At the time, he had little idea wh...
ད་རེས་ནངས་པ་ དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ལུ་ དུས་རབས་ལས་བཅད་དེ...
རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྐྱེ་ནུས་མར་བབས་དང་ ཕྱི་ཁ་འགྱོ་མི་ ཡར་...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་འབྲུག་ས་མཚམས་ཁར་ཡོད་པའི་ འགེགས་སྲུང་སྒོ་ར་གསརཔ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་དེ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ མཐའ་དོན་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ ཡུན་རིང་གི་དོན་ལུ་ སྤུས་ཚད་ཅན་གྱི་འཕྲུལ་རིག་ཚུ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཐོག་ལས་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
གཞུང་གིས་ ཨ་སམ་དང་ ནུབ་བེང་གཱལ་གྱི་གཞུང་ལམ་བདའ་སྟེ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༡༤ ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་དངུལ་ཁང་གིས་ ར...
We are on the verge of becoming a malaria-free nation. This is no small feat. From tens of thousands of cases in the 1990s to zero local transmissions since November 2021, the turnaround is rema...
Wangdue—The centuries-old village of Drinchengang (formerly Rinchengang) in Wangdue is poised for a major transformation.
Gelephu—The new integrated check post (ICP) on the Bhutan-India border in Gelephu is a state-of-the-art facility featuring high-tech terminals, built in li...
The crypto payment system for international tourists is now open to new vendors, allowing more tourism businesses to offer cryptocurrency payment option.
Paro—Bhutan joined the global celebration of this year’s International Day of Play...
The World Bank has approved USD 34.5 million in financing for Bhutan, aimed at boosting employment and value addition within the agriculture, livestock, and forestry sectors under the new ‘Accelerating Bhutan’s Job Transformation through Renewable Natural Resource Value Chains’ Project on June 14.
There is a special energy and stimulation when you sit with hundreds of smartly dressed graduates at their convocation. On June 12, graduates of the 11 colleges of the Royal University of Bhutan recei...
Trashigang—Established as Bhutan’s first foreign direct investment (FDI) dairy venture, Koufuku In...
In the verdant hills of Paro, just six kilometres from Chudzom, The Happiness Farm blends sustainable agriculture, wellness, and authentic Bhut...
There are places where time slows because the soul is finally allowed to breathe. Yangthang, nestled in Haa, amidst pines and plains, was one such place. The Yangthang Plain, usually quiet except for the rustle of prayer flags and a distant glamping site, rarely attracts attention.
What does it mean to you to be elected as the first-ever female member of the SAFF...
The detention of the opposition MP facing child molestation charges during an ongoing par...
The government’s decision to reinstate the Class X cut-off point, citing declining education quali...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously passed the Budget Appropriation Bill for the Financial Year 2025-26, amounting to Nu 138.55 billion, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for the Financial Year 2024-25, totaling Nu 1.59 billion.
The government has allocated Nu 31.5 million for third child policy, Finance Minister Lekey Dorji said during yesterday’s National Ass...
The government has pledged to resolve the long-standing issue of...
In a stride toward revitalising rural livelihoods and strengthening the agri-food sector, the government...
Public service delivery in Bhutan is expected to improve significantly with the launch of the Integrated Service Centre and the enhancement of the Contact Centre. These initiatives are designed to provide a one-stop solution for citizens, guided by a “no wrong door” policy, ensuring that individuals are assisted at every step. By consolidating multiple government services under a single roof, the
The proposed Alternative Dispute Resolution Amendment Bill of 2024 seems to have confused the legislature on whether to allow...
The National Council (NC) yesterday unanimously adopted the review report on the forestry se...
Gelephu—With no indigenous malaria cases reported since November 2021, Bhutan is making the final pus...
The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) vision—of a mindful prosperity, a value-driven economy—inspires many Bhutanese. Yet scepticism lingers. As some say, spirituality and weal...
April 11, 2025 will forever remain etched in my heart as one of the most inspiring and transformative days of my life. It came at a time when I needed it the most, a moment of clarity amidst the noise of wo...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an emerging nov...
The National Council on Thursday adopted seven recommendations from the Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) on the review report...
Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT) has opened admissions for its first-ever part-time Bachelor of Information and Communications Technology (BICT) degree, targeting working professionals eager to upskill in the country’s growing tech sector.
Bhutanese bodybuilders had a great first day at the 15th South As...
Sonam Penjor (PhD), the newly elected vice president of the South Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation (SA...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་གནམ་གཤིས་ལྟ་རྟོག་དང་ ཆུ་དཔྱད་རིག་པའི་ལྟེ་བ་གིས་ དགའ་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་ ལུང་ནག་ནང་རྒེད་འོག་ བསྟན་ཅེ་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་ ཆུ་རུད་ཀྱི་ཉེན་བརྡ་དང་ གནས་སྟངས་ཞིབ་འཚོལ་ཡིག་ཚང་གསརཔ་ཅིག་ སྒོ་ཕྱེས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ད་རིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་ལྡན་མ...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཉེན་བཅོལ...
གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཉེན་བཅོལ་མ་དངུལ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ཟུར་འ...
༉ ང་བཅས་ཀྱིས་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་ལས་བཅད་དེ་ ཆུ་ཤོག་གི་ཕ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒ...
There is another record, one we would rather not be associated with. In just the first five months of 2025, nearly 29 kilograms of brown sugar (heroin), a highly addictive and dangerous drug, ha...
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen yesterday graced the 16th Convocation of the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), where 1,931 students from 11 RUB colleges rece...
The National Council (NC) yesterday adopted the review report on Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), calling for an increase in the sum assured but stopped short of endorsing the Nu 150,000 sum pledged by the government.
The allocation of funds for the rural life insuran...
Chukha—Thirty-three-year old Kumar remembers the first fish he ever caught. He was a schoolboy in Gongtsakha, a remote village in J...
Amid growing recognition of the critical role of reliable soil data in sustainable land management, 40 participants fro...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) is implementing a series of measures to address a sharp decline in ginger prices, aiming to expand market access and establish stable pricing mechanisms for farmers facing financial distress.
The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) opened a new Flood Warning and Cryosphere Research Office in Toenchey in Lunana gewog, Gasa Dzongkhag.
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Aiming to restore fairness and consistency, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) will discontinue the regular contract teacher system, transitioning all new and existing teacher appointments to consolidated contract model.
Despite facing ongoing shortages of medical professionals in urban centers, the health ministry has reaffirmed its firm...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday adopted the Income Tax Bill of Bhutan 2025, incorporating a key recommendation from...
Samtse—With just two months remaining until its scheduled September completion, the Norbugang Industrial Park in Samtse...
Bhutan’s hard-won gains in poverty reduction are under perilous threat from climate shocks and persistent service gaps,...
Bhutanese consumers have received over Nu 339, 567 in refunds from the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA...
Phobjikha—As the valleys of Gangtey and Phobjikha in Wangdue continue to draw more visitors each year, a pressing challe...
The former Dorji Lopen, Yonten Gyeltshen, was stabbed to death at his residence in Nalanda, Punakha, in the early hours...
In the forest of Namchella chiwog in Dagapela, nature has reclaimed what time and tragedy left behind. Once a thriving v...
Internet stability in the country is hampered by a combination of infrastructure challenges, right-of-way hurdles, netwo...
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.
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 fixed deposit (F...
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...
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...
Alcohol, tobacco, carbonated drinks, and other non-essential or harmful products will become more expensive starting Jan...
Bhutan’s fertility rate has dropped from over six children per woman in the 1980s to just 1.7 in 2017, far below the rep...
We are on the verge of becoming a malaria-free nation. This is no small feat. From tens of thousands of cases in the 1990s to zero local transmissions since November 2021, the turnaround is remarkable. But to paint this...
Public service delivery in Bhutan is expected to improve significantly with the launch of the Integrated Service Centre and the enhancement of the Contact Centre. These initiatives are designed to provide a one-st...
There is another record, one we would rather not be associated with. In just the first five months of 2025, nearly 29 kilograms of brown sugar (heroin), a highly addictive and dangerous drug, have been seized by customs...
Consider this: of the 172 metric tonnes of waste generated daily in Bhutan, plastics constitute roughly 36 percent, with over 13 percent of plastic waste contaminating riparian soils along the Wangchhu. The conseq...
In an age dominated by fast fashion and synthetic dyes, a Bhutanese entrepreneur is turning to the past to craft a more...
The Bank of Bhutan (BoB) unveiled two financial products—Credit Line Limit (CLL) and BOB Premium Card—at a networking ev...
Potato trade has seen a major transformation since the launch of the online auction system under the Bhutan Commodities...
Mountain Hazelnuts, one of Bhutan’s first fully foreign direct investment (FDI) companies, has secured USD 7.9 million e...
For the first time, Bhutanese vintage wine will go under the hammer on the global stage, marking a historic moment for t...
A fierce public debate has erupted over the proposed introduction of a 10 percent withholding tax on fixed deposit (FD)...
Waste has always been Bhutan’s quiet embarrassment—a problem we have seen, smelled, and stepped around, yet never truly...
When the Changjiji low-income housing project began over two decades ago, there was a hopeful rumour: tenants might even...
More than 3,600 young people were arrested for drug-related offences between 2023 and 2024, accounting for over 50 perce...
Even as we decry traffic jams, vehicular pollution, parking shortages and the fossil fuel import bill, elected leaders a...
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hesitation, but by bold conviction.
Read MoreThe new National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025 marks a strategic shift in how the country will manage its energy future. While continuing to honour hydropower, the policy moves decisively toward renewable diversification, energy security, climate resilience, and economic transformation to meet Bhutan’s energy goals for 2040.
Read MoreThe Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has finalised the draft of a new Competition Bill, according to the CCAA’s Annual Report 2024-25.
Read MoreA life-changing win has transformed the fortunes of Tandin Tshering, a 25-year-old resident of Phuntsholing, who secured the Nu 20 million grand prize in the Monsoon Lucky Bumper Draw on July 1, 2025.
Read MoreBhutan and Switzerland yesterday marked a significant milestone, celebrating the 40th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations alongside the 50th anniversary of Helvetas Bhutan.
Read MoreBhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) has launched a suite of advanced security features aimed at enhancing digital transaction safety and combating fraud.
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