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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.
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development plans to reinstate ICT exams for Class XII from 2026 to strengthen digital skills for higher education and employment.
Foreign exchange reserves reached USD 1.15 billion in February 2026, up 33.64 percent year-on-year, and are sufficient t...
Starting with a simple sewing machine and a curiosity for the craft, Wesel gradually developed her skills, combining Bhutanese tradition with global design trends.
Southern Bhutan faces heavy rain and storms, while northern highlands get light snow, driven by pre-monsoon weather syst...
The Beyond Graduation Production and Empowerment-supported unit might be an answer to how persons with disabilities can...
By 2030, BRECSA aims to boost resilient commercial agriculture by 30 percent across the four districts, improve food and nutrition security, and connect scattered producer groups into a coordinated agri-food system.
Electricity and improved roads have enabled residents of Merak to upgrade homes, switch from traditional fire stoves to...
With Bhutan aiming for His Majesty’s Gelephu Mindfulness City and a tenfold GDP boost, the BOC says sports must evolve t...
The government has made a slew of pledges to reform the media sector, yet, little of it has been realised so far. The...
Punakha—The 74-kilometre Punakha–Gasa National Highway, the only motorable road linking Gasa Dzongkhag, is undergoing ma...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.
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...
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly advocate for free medical treatment and am deeply proud that Bhutan has achieved this despite its limited resources. Nothing can flourish in isolation. A flower needs warmth, moisture, and nourishment to bloom.
Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not spending enough time with our loved ones, and not investing enough time...
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 government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely intervention. The initiative calls for shared responsibility amid rising fuel costs and a supply line...
The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society members under the vision of building a resilient media ecosystem. The Bhutan Media Forum Award...
As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must be measured against the promises it made. Such a review is essential to a...
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...
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...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
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...
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