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གྲོང་གསེབ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་ཆོག་ཐམ་གྱི་དབང་འཛིན་ ལོག་རྒེད་འོག་ལུ་ སྤྲོད་དགོ་པའི་ཞུ་བ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༢ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་སྒྲིག་གཞི་༢༠༢༣ གྱི་འོག་ལུ་ བསྒྱུར་བཅོས་འབད་བའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ གཡུས་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ དཀའ་ངལ་བྱུང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ གྲོང་གསེབ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་ཆོག་ཐམ་ ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ནིའི་ཐད་ཁར་ ལོག་རྒེད་འོག་ལུ་ དབང་འཛིན་གནང་དགོཔ་སྦེ་ ཞུ་བ་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Jun 04, 2025 6 mins read 1,574 views
Crime solved, but questions remain

The recent arrest of five young men linked to a series of burglaries across Thimphu comes as a welcome relief. The police acted swiftly, followed up on community reports, analysed CCTV footag...

Jun 04, 2025 2 mins read 6,276 views
Vehicle tax cut to make small and medium cars cheaper by 10%

Consumers of small and medium-sized vehicles could see a 9 to 10 percent tax reduction, with efforts ongoing to a...

Jun 04, 2025 2 mins read 7,715 views
Economic Stimulus Programme fund underutilised

The National Assembly’s Economic and Finance Committee (EFC) has identified a low utilisation of Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) funds, with only 22.6 pe...

Jun 04, 2025 3 mins read 2,854 views
Nganglam economic hub project to create over 7,500 jobs

The Nganglam economic hub development plan is projected to generate around 1,503 direct jobs and 6,000 indirect jobs by 2035.

Jun 04, 2025 2 mins read 3,756 views
Fifth international Vajrayana Conference opens in Thimphu

The Fifth International Vajrayana Conference commenced yesterday in Thimphu under the theme “Science, Meditation, and Mind...

Jun 04, 2025 2 mins read 6,796 views
MP’s petition prompts NA to review alcohol epidemic

In a petition submitted to the National Assembly, Shompangkha MP Dr Tek Bahadur Rai called for urgent reforms of the bar licensing sys...

Jun 04, 2025 3 mins read 2,872 views
MPs push to restore gewog authority over rural construction permits

The members of National Assembly on June 2 called for the restoration of gewog authority to...

Jun 04, 2025 3 mins read 2,804 views
Contract civil servants to receive equal benefits: PM

Contract employees and consolidated contract civil servants will now receive 15 percent of their Provident Fund and benefits upon service completion, subject to approval by the Pay Commission.

Jun 04, 2025 2 mins read 6,802 views
Tribute to The Great Fourth

While recognizing the potential of economic gains from tourism, His Majesty was cognizant of its possible impact on our society, culture and the environment.

Jun 04, 2025 5 mins read 3,738 views
MoH plans to bridge dialysis care gap nationwide

Amid the rising burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the country, the inadequacy of dialysis centres across the country has emerged as a pressin...

Jun 04, 2025 3 mins read 2,511 views
NA urges swift approval of new RNR subsidy model

With the existing cost-sharing mechanism for  Renewal Natural Resources (RNR) sector set to expire this month, the Economic and Finance Committee (EF...

Jun 04, 2025 2 mins read 2,194 views
Bhutan falls to Malaysia in final match of Women’s Tri-Nation Cup

Bhutan’s senior women’s national football team concluded their Women’s Tri-Nation Cup campaign with a 3–1 loss to Malaysia yesterday at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu.

Jun 04, 2025 1 mins read 2,624 views
གཞུང་ལུ་ ངང་ལམ་དེ་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ལྟེ་བ་ཅིག་ བཟོ་དགོ་པའི་ཞུ་བ།

ཤར་ཕྱོགས་པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ ངང་ལམ་དེ་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་་་བ་ག་...

Jun 03, 2025 10 mins read 1,177 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་ལུ་ ས་ཁྲལ་གྱི་ཁྱད་པར་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་དགོ་པའི་བཀའ་རྒྱ།

ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་ལུ་...

Jun 03, 2025 9 mins read 2,203 views
ས་གཏེར་དང་གཏེར་ཁའི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་ ལོག་ངོ་སྤྲོད་འབད་ནི།

༉ ལོ་༤ བར་མཚམས་ལུས་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ རྩོད་བསྡུར་ཅན་གྱི་...

Jun 03, 2025 6 mins read 1,207 views
རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གསང་སྔགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པའི་ གྲོས་འཛོམས་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་༥ པ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ད་རིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་དང་ དཔལ་འབྲུག་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ལྟེ་བ་༢ ཀྱིས་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ འཚོགས་སྲོལ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གསང་སྔགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པའི་ གྲོས་འཛོམས་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་༥ པ་དེ་ བརྗོད་གཞི་ ཚན་རིག་དང་ སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ དྲན་པ་ཉེར་བཞག་གསུམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཐོག་ལུ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Jun 03, 2025 2 mins read 2,353 views
གཞུང་གིས་ གྲོང་གསེབ་མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་ལས་རིམ་ གོ་རིམ་༧ པ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དང...

Jun 03, 2025 6 mins read 1,289 views
ཨར་རྐུན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གནད་དོན་ནང་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་༥ འཛིན་བཟུང་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ལྷོ་ཐིམ་ཕུག་གི་ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་པ་གིས་ ས་གནས་ཆུ་ས...

Jun 03, 2025 7 mins read 1,641 views
Authorities must crack down on fronting

Fronting in business, where Bhutanese citizens lend their names and licences to foreign nationals to operate businesses illegally, has become a rampant and disturbingly normalised practice in Phuentsholing and other border towns. This is not a new phenomenon. It has persisted for years in different forms. And the consequences are becoming harder to ignore.

Jun 03, 2025 2 mins read 4,974 views
NA directs finance ministry to review disparities in land tax

The National Assembly yesterday directed the finance ministry to thoroughly review concerns raised regarding t...

Jun 03, 2025 3 mins read 4,568 views
Revised Mines and Minerals Bill 2025 set for reintroduction in Parliament

After a four-year hiatus, the much-debated Mines and Minerals Management B...

Jun 03, 2025 4 mins read 4,484 views
Government begins phase seven of rural connectivity programme

The Minister of Industry Commerce and Employment, Namgyal Dorji, during the National Assembly session yesterda...

Jun 03, 2025 2 mins read 3,054 views
RUB marks 22nd foundation day with renewed vision and global partnership

The Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) commemorated its 22nd Foundation Day yesterday with the launch of a new vision, mission, core values, and the inaugural Foundation Day Lecture Series.

Jun 03, 2025 3 mins read 3,505 views
A humble tribute to His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, The Great fourth

To promote holistic and sustainable development, His Majesty envisioned and p...

Jun 03, 2025 5 mins read 5,379 views
NC recommends four new measures to boost forestry sector GDP

During the deliberation of the review report on the forestry sector’s contribution to gross domestic product (GDP...

Jun 03, 2025 3 mins read 4,390 views
Five arrested in connection with series of burglaries in Thimphu

Thimphu South Police Station arrested and detained five men in connection with a series of burglaries...

Jun 03, 2025 2 mins read 21,766 views
BTF launches climate comic series to inspire future environmentalists

The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTF) launched a four-part comic series titled “Bhutan Climate Chronicles” yesterday.

Jun 03, 2025 2 mins read 3,706 views
High Court upholds Opposition MP’s three-year sentence for child molestation

The High Court yesterday upheld the conviction of the Membe...

Jun 03, 2025 2 mins read 3,927 views
Bhutan to face Brunei in AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers

Bhutan’s senior national men’s football team will face Brunei at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium in Brunei on June 10 as part of the third r...

Jun 03, 2025 2 mins read 11,154 views
གཞུང་གིས་ དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཅན་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ལས་སྡེ་ཁག་ཚུ་ནང་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༥༠༠ བགོ་བཀྲམ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ གསོ་བ་བློན་པོ་ རྟ་མགྲིན...

Jun 02, 2025 7 mins read 1,378 views
གཞུང་གི་ སློབ་གཉེར་གྲོགས་རམ་ ཕྱེད་ཀ་མ་ལངམ་ཅིག་ སྒེར་གྱི་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཚུ་གིས་ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ།

སློབ་གཉེར་གྲོགས་རམ་ཡོངས་བསྡོམས་ལས་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༤༨ དེ་ཅིག་ ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིག་པའི་འབྱུང་གནས་དང་ ཀརྨ་ཤེས་ཡོན་གཙུག་སྡེ་གིས་ ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Jun 02, 2025 8 mins read 2,726 views
བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ལུ་ མཆོད་རྟེན་སློངས་མི་༤ འཛིན་བཟུང་།

༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འབྲུག་གི་འགག་སྡེ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེ...

Jun 02, 2025 4 mins read 5,657 views
སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

Jun 02, 2025 0 mins read 724 views
སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཉེན་བཅོལ་ལས་རིམ་ཐོག་ལས་ ཁེ་ཕན་འབྱུང་ཚུགས་ནི།

༉ འབྲུག་གི་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཡུན་རིངམོ་སྦེ་ར་ རེ་བ་...

Jun 02, 2025 9 mins read 1,192 views
Private schools sweep nearly half of government scholarships

Private higher secondary schools dominated government scholarships this year, with students from just two private schools securing nearly half of all scholarships to study abroad. Of the 122 scholarships awarded this year by the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC), Ugyen Academy and Karma Academy alone accounted for 59 recipients or 48.3 percent of the total.

Jun 02, 2025 2 mins read 15,785 views
RBP arrest four for choeten vandalism in Trashiyangtse

The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) arrested two men, aged 44 and 56, on May 8 in connection with the vandalism of choetens in Toedtsho g...

Jun 02, 2025 2 mins read 7,943 views
Bunakha hydropower project construction to kickstart in 2026

Chukha—After more than a decade of promises, delays, and uncertainty, the Bunakha Hydropower Project in Chapcha,...

Jun 02, 2025 2 mins read 8,443 views
GMC domestic bond extended till June 3

The subscription period for the 10-year Gelephu Mindfulness City’s (GMC) Nation Building Bond (GNBB), which was oversubscribed before its initial deadline of May 31, has now been...

Jun 02, 2025 2 mins read 4,460 views
Agriculture ministry bets on farm mechanisation and fertiliser supply to boost agricultural productivity

The government has reaffirmed its commitment to boosting agricultural productivity through enhanced farm mechanisation and a consistent supply of quality fertilisers.

Jun 02, 2025 2 mins read 2,536 views
Let the forests grow our economy

Our forests have long stood as icons of our environmental philosophy and guardians of our national identity. With nearly 70 percent of the country under forest cover, we have earned international p...

Jun 02, 2025 2 mins read 4,481 views
A humble tribute to His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, The Great fourth

As we approach the auspicious 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty Jigme Sin...

Jun 02, 2025 5 mins read 5,644 views
From pride to prosperity: Rethinking Bhutan’s forest economy

In 2024, Bhutan imported Nu 3.7 billion worth of wood and related products, while exporting only Nu 745 mil...

Jun 02, 2025 5 mins read 7,087 views
Govt. explores IVF services to tackle fertility decline

Bhutan’s declining fertility rate has raised serious concern within the government, with the total fertility rate (TFR) now at 1.866—significantly below the replacement level of 2.1.

Jun 02, 2025 3 mins read 5,153 views
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Homestays boom in Merak as Rhododendron Festival draws more visitors

Homestay owners across the Merak gewog have reported rising earnings and visitor numbers.

Apr 15, 2026 3 mins read 2,188 views
Going electric

Apr 15, 2026 2 mins read 4,329 views
Govt. rolls out special project to revive and transform Phuentsholing

The Phuentsholing Thromde Enhancement Programme (PTEP) has been launched to revive Phuentsholing’s economy and urban act...

Apr 15, 2026 4 mins read 4,248 views
Oxygen concentrators run low at JDWNRH as respiratory illnesses rise

JDWNRH currently has 329 oxygen concentrators, but 308 have already been issued to patients for home use, leaving just 2...

Apr 15, 2026 2 mins read 5,243 views
Farmer alleges SMCL mine damaged paddy fields; company promises restoration

On September 19, 2025, Sonam Tashi submitted a formal petition to the Gup of Phuntshothang Gewog, requesting an investig...

Apr 15, 2026 2 mins read 4,168 views
GMC zhabtog volunteers conclude five-day effort with unity and resolve

Many volunteers spent the week sleeping in guest houses and gewog halls, cooking together in makeshift kitchens, waking...

Apr 15, 2026 2 mins read 3,129 views
Wangdue Dzongkhag Court orders community service in place of prison term

According to the police report submitted to the court, Sangay Tempa returned home intoxicated after participating in pre...

Apr 15, 2026 2 mins read 5,801 views
Bhutan seeks stronger global health influence as WHO leadership looms

“The Executive Board chair is a very powerful but also a very sensitive position,” said the Health Secretary. “We must e...

Apr 15, 2026 2 mins read 1,698 views
WFP donates Nu 4.2M in mobile storage units to boost Bhutan’s disaster readiness

The Bhutan office of the World Food Programme has contributed 13 mobile storage units valued at Nu 4.2 million to the De...

Apr 15, 2026 2 mins read 1,509 views
At 71, Bhutan’s pioneer filmmaker continues to shine

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,939 views
Chotrul Duchen: Miracles that break the walls of illusion

Mar 02, 2026 4 mins read 3,050 views
Damcha– A Promise Beyond the Blackboard

The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacherous rivers, dense forests, and wildlife to reach school – an enduring testament to the value placed on learning.

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,937 views
Between Homes: Voices of Bhutanese living between home and elsewhere

I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything grand, just a humble little place t...

Feb 21, 2026 1 mins read 3,880 views
Dining in the Sun: Inside Solé

Feb 21, 2026 1 mins read 3,518 views
The spiritual and theatrical world of Charmi Chheda

Charmi Chheda’s relationship with the stage began long before she understood what theatre could mean. At eight years old...

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,243 views
Driving a new generation of golfers: The 19th Hole

Feb 16, 2026 2 mins read 3,034 views
An auspicious beginning

Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic. As the nation celebrated the 46th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, two deeply auspicious milestones were marked in Gelephu — one signifying fruition, the other heralding a grand beginning.

Feb 25, 2026 3 mins read 3,482 views
Are we prepared for a major earthquake?

The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder that Bhutan's capital sits on shaky grounds. Their warning that earthquakes do not kill people, unsafe buildings do, sh...

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 4,721 views
A year of reckoning

As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroeconomic signals and renewed optimism on paper.

Feb 18, 2026 3 mins read 3,681 views
Projecting growth

Feb 14, 2026 2 mins read 3,884 views
Builders or buyers?

The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 4,709 views
The burden of cancer

Feb 07, 2026 2 mins read 4,777 views

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Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...

Dec 20, 2025 3 mins read 7,494 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 7,807 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 10,469 views
Giku-Na: A corner for a community

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Koo Me Zha: A film review

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A Café that kept it Simple

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Inconvenience caused is highly not appreciated

The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 5,188 views
The tourism paradox

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