Applicants unhappy with ESP loan rejections
Dissatisfaction is growing among loan applicants of the economic stimulus programme (ESP) over the high rate of rejections within ESP loans, raising concerns about the programme’s implementation.
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༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ མར་ཉམས་འགྱོ་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་མི་ སྒེར་གྱི་གསར་ཤོག་ལས་སྡེ་ཚུ་ ཡུན་བརྟན་གནས་ཐབས་དོན་ལས་ སྒེར་གྱི་གསར་ཤོག་༦ ལུ་ དངུལ་རྐྱང་ཐོག་ལས་ སེམས་ཤུགས་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་བྱིན་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞུང་གིས་ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༤-༢༥ ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༤.༣ བགོ་བཀྲམ་འབད་ནུག།
༉ དབང་འདུས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་ཟུར་ ཨ་ཐང་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ དུས་རབས་...
༉ ད་རིས་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྗེ་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ལྷུ...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འགན་ལེན་བདོག་གཏད་བརྗེ་སོར་ཁང་གིས...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་སྡོད་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༦༥ ལང་མི་ ཧོམ་རཱཇ་ག་ལེ་དེ་ ཧེ་མ་ ཡི་གུ་ལྷག་ཚུགས་པའི་ཁར་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ཡང་ བཏང་ཚུགས་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན་རུང་ ལིང་ཏོག་མེདཔ་ཐལཝ་ལས་ཚུར་ མིག་ཏོ་མཐོང་མ་ཚུགས་པར་ དཀའ་སྡུག་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Gelephu—For 65-year-old Hom Raj Ghalley, a resident of Gelephu, the world had become a blur. Once able to read and drive with ease, he struggled with vision loss due to cataract, which made even everyday tasks difficult and dangerous.
The Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan Limited (RSEBL) has reported that Nu 60.5 million in dividends remains unclaimed by shareholders from 15 of the 18 listed companie...
Students at Olathang Primary School in Paro will no longer have to e...
Potato trade has seen a major transformation since the launch of the online auction system under the Bhutan Commodities Exchange Initiative (BCEI) in 2016.
The Bank of Bhutan (BoB) unveiled two financial products—Credit Line Limit (CLL) and BOB Premium Card—at a networking event for its bu...
We are at a crossroads in our fight against waste. The country, known for its pristine environment and Gross National Happiness philosophy, is now grappling with an escalating waste crisis...
Wangdue—Deep in the remote gewog of Athang in Wangdue, a centuries-old tradition is struggling to survive. While the craft of preparing Nya-Dosem, or smoked fish, has long been a signature craft of the Rukha community, dwindling fish stocks and environmental challenges threaten this age-old practice.
Mountain Hazelnuts, one of Bhutan’s first fully foreign direct in...
A female bank teller of Bank of Bhutan branch office in Paro was arrested for allegedly embezzling USD 83,300 (around Nu 7.2 million) from the bank’s vault...
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༣༥ འི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར...
To sustain the country’s dwindling private newspaper industry, the government allocated Nu 4.3 million in cash incentives to six privately owned newspapers for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Each publication received Nu 700,000 under the Media Enterprise Development Budget (MEDB), an annual fund aimed at keeping struggling print media outlets afloat.
The call for privatising or establishing a public-private partnership (PPP) to develop and maintain electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is valid, given the crucial role of infras...
Gelephu—Fifty-five-year-old Tulasi Kumari Jogini from Samtenthang is preparing to say goodbye to her home, making way for the Gelephu International Airport proje...
Chukha—The local leaders of Chukha have raised concerns over the finance mini...
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport’s (MoIT) recruitment for key positions under the Enhancing Climate Resilience of Urban Landscapes and Communities in the Thimphu-Paro region (ECRUL) project has been marred by allegations of administrative lapses, lack of communication, and accusations of pre-selection.
Bhutan’s constitutional mandate to secure the “right to life, liberty, and security of person” under Article 7(1), coupled with its pursuit of Gross National Happiness (GNH) under Artic...
The Reldri Bench of the High Court on March 27 overturned a lower court’s verdict, sente...
Exactly a year ago, I was wrapping up my spring semester at the Harvard Kennedy School—a tim...
Bhutan’s cinematic footprint on the global stage continues to grow as two Bhutanese filmmakers, Dechen Roder and Arun Bhattarai, garner widespread recognition at major international film festivals.
Thimphu’s only electric city bus is back on the road after months of downtime caused by technical issues, a shortage of spare parts, and the lack of local expertise to carry out repairs.
The Nehru Wangchuck Cultural Center, India House,...
Sherubling Higher Secondary School from Trongsa and Martshala Middle Secondary School from Samdrupjongkhar emerged as winners in the senior and...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་ གློག་ཤུགས་བསྐྱར་གསོ་ཁང་ མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ར་ ལོ་ལས་བཅད་དེ་ ལཱ་འབད་མ་བཏུབ་པའི་ཁར་ ལ་ལུ་ཅིག་ དུས་ཡུན་ཆུ་ཚོད་༢༤ གི་རིང་ ལག་ལེན་མ་འཐབ་པར་ བཞག་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ འགྲུལ་འཁོར་གྱི་ཇོ་བདག་དང་ བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་བ་ཚུ་གིས་ གཞུང་ལུ་གཞི་རྟེན་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་དེ་ཚུ་ ལཱ་བཀོལ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འགན་ཁུར་འབག་དགོ་ནི་དང་ ཡང་ཅིན་ རྒྱུན་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ལྡན་དང་ རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་ སྒེར་སྡེ་ལུ་ སྤྲོད་དགོ་པའི་ ཨུ་ཚུགས་རྐྱབ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་ བསམ་གྲུབ་ཆོས་གླིང་དྲུང་ཁག་ཁྲ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢ དང་༣ ལུ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ འབྲ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ སུ་ཌ་ཀར་ ཌ་ལི...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༢༧ ལུ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ནང་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གིས་ བཞེངས་པའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་མི་ རྟ་བབས་མཆོད་རྟེན་གུ་ གསེར་ཏོག་བཀལ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ རྟེན་འབྲེལ་མཛད་སྒོའི་ནང་ དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་གྱི་སྤྱི་འཛིན་ ཌོག་ཊར་ བློ་གྲོས་ཚེ་རིང་དང་ གྲྭ་ཚང་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ དྲགོས་དྲུང་ཆེན་ བླམ་གནས་བརྟན་ རྫོང་བདག་ དེ་ལས་ འགོ་དཔོན་ཚུ་གིས་ གྲལ་གཏོགས་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ འཇིགས་རྒྱལ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུ...
Bhutan will host the prestigious Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)-Olympic Solidarity (OS) Regional Forum 2025 in Thimphu on April 2-3. This marks the largest sporting forum...
The Samdrupcholing Drungkhag Court in Samdrupjongkhar has sentenced five open-air prisoners (OAP) for their invol...
Kezang Norbu, 44, never imagined his kidneys were failing. Nine years ago, a severe case of edema landed him in Mongar Regional Referral Hospital, where doctors diagnosed him with chronic kidney disease.
Bhutan’s ambitious target of replacing 70 percent of its vehicles with electric ones by 2035 is a visionary step towards sustainability. However, without a well-planned a...
For the first time, Bhutanese vintage wine will go under the hammer on the global stage, marking a historic moment for the country’s nascent wine industry.
With many electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the country either non-functional f...
༉ ཤོ་ཐེངས་དང་པ་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་མི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་༥༠༠ མ་ལངམ་ཅིག་ རྒྱལ་སྲུང་ཡིག་ཚང་ལྟེ་བ་འོག་གི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལས་སྣ་ཁག་ཚུ་ནང་ བགོ་བཀྲམ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ རིག་རྩལ་དང་ ལམ་སྟོན་གསར་པའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་ཀྱིས་ ཨ་ལུ་ཆ...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཏམ་ཁུ་དང་འབྲེལ...
༉ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁས་བླངས་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་ ཚར་ལ...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ཚུ་གིས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ སྲིད་དོན་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ནི་ལས་ རྒྱབ་བཤུད་རྐྱབ་སྡོད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་འབད་མིའི་ནང་ གསལ་སྟོན་འབདཝ་ཨིན་པས།
Gelephu—After years of broken promises, the long-awaited Maochhu Bridge is finally going to take shape with the construction of the bridge set to begin early next year as part of the Gelephu-Tareythang high...
Phuentsholing—It’s 2:13 in the afternoon. A group of four young men light their cigarettes and stroll along th...
The Prescription to Play (P2P) initiative is reshaping early childhood development, offering young children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, access to play-based learning crucial for cognitive and social growth.
Bhutanese women continue to be severely underrepresented in politics, with a recent study revealing deep-seated barriers preventing them from stepping into leadership roles.
In Bhutan, where strong family values and community ties form the foundation of society, the way we raise our children defines our future. Yet, a recent report on the Prescription to Play (P2P) programme has revealed a worrying reality—many young children, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, lack opportunities for playful interactions that are crucial for their development.
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has finalised the draft of a new Competition Bill, according to the CCAA’s Annual Report 2024-25.
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...
Today, as we gather to start the construction works for the Gelephu International Airport, we are laying the foundations...
Phobjikha-Although Phobjikha is a Ramsar-designated wetland, the valley is experiencing increasing environmental pressur...
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel and Gyal...
Despite trade agreements ensuring zero-rated status for exports from India to Bhutan, local importers are increasingly r...
Phobjikha Gewog, famed for its sweeping valley, sacred heritage sites, and the graceful winter presence of the endangere...
Once an unfamiliar grain in Bhutanese farming circles, quinoa is fast emerging as a promising staple in the country’s ev...
“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 microphones, echoing sound systems, or a projector refusing to cooperate.
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...
After immense pressure and numerous tutorials, Sonam cleared her Royal Civil Service Commission entry exam last year. She was set to become a civil servant, earning around Nu 41,000 a...
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...
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...
It may be a coincidence, but the World Bank’s warning that Bhutan could lose a significant share of its Gross Domestic P...
Dissatisfaction is growing among loan applicants of the economic stimulus programme (ESP) over the high rate of rejections within ESP loans, raising concerns about the programme’s implementation.
Read MoreAs a royal gift from His Majesty The King of Bhutan, a pair of takins (one female and one male) are being gifted to Their Majesties The King and Queen of Thailand. The translocation of the two takins from Bhutan to Thailand is expected around January 2026, pending royal approval, according to the Acting Chairman of the Board of the Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand, Jade Donavanik.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and UNICEF, yesterday launched a new Education Technology Framework (ETF) designed to transform digital learning nationwide.
Read MoreA 48-year-old man from Radhi, Kuenzang Wangdue, has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison by the Trashigang Dzongkhag Court for forging documents.
Read More“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 microphones, echoing sound systems, or a projector refusing to cooperate.
Read MoreHis Majesty's pace on GMC Airport construction must be taken as an example to reform the justice sector's sluggish progress on the 10-year transformation goals outlined in December 2024. Seven months have passed since His Majesty the King delivered his transformative Royal Address on December 17, 2024, during the 117th National Day celebrations. In that pivotal address, His Majesty articulated a c
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