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༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆུ་ཤོག་བཀག་དམ་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་འབྱུང...
ཆུ་ཁ་ དགེ་འདུ་སྨན་ཁང་གིས་ རྒེད་འོག་དང་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ མ...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཞབས་ཏོག་གི་ འགན་འཁྲི་འབག་ནི་དང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་...
དེ་ཡང་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་༥ འི་ བསྡོམས་རྩིས་ལས་ མངམ་སྦེ་ འ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ དུས་ཆེན་ལྔ་འཛོམས་དང་འབྲེལ་ ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མའི་ སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་སྦེ་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པ་ལུ་ ལྷག་བསམ་འགྲན་ཟླ་དང་བྲལ་བ་ བསྟན་པའི་སྲོག་ཤིང་གཙོ་བོ་འགྱུར་པ་ བླམ་ཚེ་རིང་དབང་འདུས་ལུ་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ངོ་སྦྱོར་ཡི་གུ་ཅིག་ གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Gelephu—To undertake National Service and prepare for the evolving job market, 493 Gyalsups will participate in a comprehensive skilling programme in Sarpang.
Decades of plastic ban in the country has failed to curb plastic use, not for lack of effort but due to regulatory gaps and insufficient data-driven strategies, stakeholders...
A record-breaking wave of heroin seizures has jolted the country’s law-enforcement agencies, which confiscated nearly 29 kilogrammes (Kg)...
One- stop Hub, avoiding visiting multiple offices for one service, assistance at every step of service delivery, one- stop contact centre and other services are the latest initiatives the government has taken to enhance public service delivery.
The critical absence of a dedicated gynecologist at Gedu Ho...
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 Wangchh...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) ensures that budget allocation for all schools, whether central or non-central, is based on the...
The United States-based Karuna Foundation has awarded a USD 1 million grant to the Tarayana Foundation to support the construction of disaster-resilient homes for Bhutan’s most vulnerable communities.
Debate continues in the National Assembly (NA) over a critical clause in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) (Amen...
The Income Tax Revision Bill proposed by the Ministry of Finance has attracted much criticism especially due to the reintroduction of tax on fixed deposits and t...
The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Property (DoMCIIP), under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment, has awarded Nu 5 million each to two film production teams a...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༩ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་༤ པའི་ ཚོགས་ཐེངས་༣ པའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ བེང་གལ་མཚོ་ཁུག་སྣ་མང་ལས་སྡེ་ འཕྲུལ་རིག་དཔལ་འབྱོར་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐབས་རིག་(བིམསི་ཊེག་)གི་ མཚོ་འགྲམ་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་གན་ཡིག་གུ་ རྒྱབ་སྣོན་ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ མི་སྡེ་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ་ཚོགས་...
༉ པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ ངང་ལམ་ ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་རྒེད་འོག་ལས་ སྐ...
A fierce public debate has erupted over the proposed introduction of a 10 percent withholding tax on fixed deposit (FD) interest. While the furore is understandable, given that taxation is never popular, it demands a deeper reflection on what it means to be a self-reliant, middle-income country.
The National Council’s Social and Cultural Affairs Committee (SCAC) yesterday presented a comprehensive...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday reviewed and cleared 47 out of the 182 sections of the Alternative Dispute Resolution...
Pemagatshel—Sangay Norzom, a 65-year-old farmer from Chokorling gewog in Nganglam, Pemagatshel, is a proud owner of a user-friendly mini-tiller, a machine that promise...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously adopted the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Agreement on Maritime Transport Cooperation yesterday at the ongoing third session of the fourth Parliament.
The final year students of Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT), Kabesa, showcased 16 innovative real-life proje...
འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་སྦོམ་ཤོས་ཅིག་དང་...
གཞུང་གིས་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མའི་ནང་...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དང་ དགའ་ས་བར་ནའི་འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༢ ལུ་ ཆརཔ་ཤུགས་སྦེ་ རྐྱབ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཆུ་རུད་ཀྱིས་ གནོད་སྐྱོན་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཞན་ཚུ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་འབད་མ་ཚུགསཔ་ལས་ འཁོར་ལམ་བསལ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ རྩ་འགེངས་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ཀུན་གསལ་གྱིས་ དབྱེ་ཞིབ་འབད་མིའ...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ལས་ ལོག་འོང་མི་ འབྲུག་གི་མ...
Waste has always been Bhutan’s quiet embarrassment—a problem we have seen, smelled, and stepped around, yet never truly confronted. In towns like Phuentsholin...
The government has proposed to levy a 10 percent tax on the interest earned through fixed deposits and dividend in the Income Tax Bill 2025, which would be deliberated on June 18 and adopted on June 20 in the National Assembly.
The government is intensifying efforts to reintegrate Bhutanese citizens returning from o...
The National Assembly will today vote on the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (...
Phuentsholing—A new waste drop-off centre is under construction at Rinchending, about...
A student team from Druk School and Pelkhil School has won international recognition for their business idea, BackPack Basics, taking home the Golden Award in the Innovation Challenge category at the International Creativity and Innovation Awards (ICIA) 2025.
Bhutan’s environmental leadership is a source of national pride. We remain carbo...
Trashigang—In the verdant hills of Darjayling, Yangny...
Punakha—Restoration efforts are underway to reopen the Punakha–Gasa highway, which suffered major damage due to flash floods on June 2, cutting off the district fro...
With monsoon rains lashing the country, roadblocks, landslides, and vehicle accidents are resurfacing as familiar threats to Bhutan’s fragile transport infrastructure and public safety.
Paro’s long-standing sewage crisis, which sees untreated wastewater flowing directly into the Paro Ch...
Chukha—Once a thriving roadside town along the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway, Tshimasham in Chukha has been facing a sl...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༤ ལུ་...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ཐུག་རྐྱེན་གྱི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་ས...
When the Changjiji low-income housing project began over two decades ago, there was a hopeful rumour: tenants might eventually own the flats after years of rent payment. This gave...
Gelephu—Landowners affected by the planned Gelephu International Airport have received a temporary reprieve as banks will suspen...
The economic stimulus programme (ESP), designed to invigorate the economy, is already demonstrating significant early achievements, Minister of Industry, Commerce, and Employment Namgyal Dorji said during meet-the-press yesterday.
The future of Bhutan’s largest hydropower project, the 1,200-megawatt (MW) Punatsangchhu-I, now hinges on the outcome of a critical technical review evaluating the stability of the project’s long-troubled dam site.
JDWNRH currently has 329 oxygen concentrators, but 308 have already been issued to patients for home use, leaving just 21 available for new admissions
On September 19, 2025, Sonam Tashi submitted a formal petition to the Gup of Phuntshothang Gewog, requesting an investig...
Many volunteers spent the week sleeping in guest houses and gewog halls, cooking together in makeshift kitchens, waking...
According to the police report submitted to the court, Sangay Tempa returned home intoxicated after participating in pre...
“The Executive Board chair is a very powerful but also a very sensitive position,” said the Health Secretary. “We must e...
The Bhutan office of the World Food Programme has contributed 13 mobile storage units valued at Nu 4.2 million to the De...
A total of six teams participated, each comprising three students, representing Motithang HSS, Dechencholing HSS, Babesa...
Bhutan’s art scene is evolving as a new generation of artists explores more personal and introspective themes while rema...
The victim has also been charged with assault, while eight others face charges including battery and aiding and abetting...
After over 15 years of delay, Kabesa’s Local Area Plan is nearing endorsement, giving hope to residents long affected by...
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...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...
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...
The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-needed respite that eases global anxieties over spiraling economic and geopolitical crises. However, as we pause to seek solutions, a far greater threat to humanity remains largely unspoken. What would be the environmental cost of the wars?
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 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...
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...
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of...
Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic....
Out of 149 applications received under the medium-scale category, only 37 projects worth Nu 1.91 billion were approved.
Read MoreFarmers contributed more than Nu 2.17 million, while weekly earnings rose steadily after the initial phase, surpassing Nu 300,000 from the third week, indicating growing demand and repeat customers.
Read MoreThe steady outflow of Bhutanese parents seeking opportunities abroad, particularly in Australia, has opened new economic pathways for families. But for the children left behind, it is also creating a quieter, more complex crisis, marked by deep-seated feelings of abandonment, anxiety, and a fractured sense of identity.
Read MoreThe Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) has imposed a monetary penalty of Nu 228.46 million on the Bank of Bhutan (BoB) for multiple regulatory breaches, following a March incident in which a system failure caused the bank to mistakenly credit funds to a businessman’s account.
Read MoreGelephu—Waive Diagnostics plans to establish its South Asia base in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) by building a state-of-the-art genetic testing laboratory, positioning Bhutan as a regional leader in next-generation healthcare.
Read MoreFuel prices across the country have increased, even as the government continues to provide subsidies to cushion consumers.
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