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སྒེར་གྱི་གསར་ཤོག་ཚུ་གི་ གནས་སྟངས།

༉ 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།

Mar 31, 2025 22 mins read 2,131 views
ཉ་རྡོ་སྲེགམ་ ཉམས་སྲུང་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ དབང་འདུས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་ཟུར་ ཨ་ཐང་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ དུས་རབས་...

Mar 31, 2025 6 mins read 2,934 views
མགར་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོའི་དུས་དེབ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ད་རིས་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྗེ་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ལྷུ...

Mar 31, 2025 1 mins read 1,988 views
བགོ་བཤའི་ཁེ་འཐུས་ མ་ལེན་པར་བཞག་མི་དེ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༦༠ ལྷག་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འགན་ལེན་བདོག་གཏད་བརྗེ་སོར་ཁང་གིས...

Mar 31, 2025 4 mins read 1,453 views
ལིང་ཏོག་གཤག་བཅོས་ཐོག་ ནདཔ་༣༠༣ མིག་ཏོ་མཐོང་ཚུགསཔ་ བཟོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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།

Mar 31, 2025 5 mins read 2,752 views
The gift of sight

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.

Mar 31, 2025 2 mins read 3,070 views
Over Nu 60 million in unclaimed dividends

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...

Mar 31, 2025 2 mins read 4,949 views
Japanese tourists fund construction of multipurpose hall for school in Paro

Students at Olathang Primary School in Paro will no longer have to e...

Mar 31, 2025 1 mins read 6,694 views
Online potato auction boosts trade and revenue

Potato trade has seen a major transformation since the launch of the online auction system under the Bhutan Commodities Exchange Initiative (BCEI) in 2016.

Mar 31, 2025 2 mins read 19,140 views
BOB introduces flexible credit line and premium cards

The Bank of Bhutan (BoB) unveiled two financial products—Credit Line Limit (CLL) and BOB Premium Card—at a networking event for its bu...

Mar 31, 2025 2 mins read 20,223 views
Waste problem demands urgent action

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...

Mar 31, 2025 2 mins read 4,695 views
Super gain with a simple gesture

Mar 31, 2025 5 mins read 4,878 views
Preserving the tradition of preparing Nya-Dosem

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.

Mar 31, 2025 2 mins read 6,455 views
Mountain Hazelnuts secures USD 7.9M investment for climate-resilient farming

Mountain Hazelnuts, one of Bhutan’s first fully foreign direct in...

Mar 31, 2025 1 mins read 22,019 views
Bank teller arrested for embezzling USD 83,300

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...

Mar 31, 2025 1 mins read 61,571 views
གློག་ཤུགས་བསྐྱར་གསོ་ཁང་ མངམ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དགོཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༣༥ འི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར...

Mar 31, 2025 5 mins read 2,292 views
State of private newspapers: Cash strapped, dependent on government support

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.

Mar 29, 2025 7 mins read 4,073 views
Clearing speedbumps along the EV road

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...

Mar 29, 2025 2 mins read 4,319 views
Making way for Gelephu international airport

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...

Mar 29, 2025 4 mins read 12,748 views
Local leaders in Chukha call for review of RAF in block grant allocation

Chukha—The local leaders of Chukha have raised concerns over the finance mini...

Mar 29, 2025 2 mins read 2,953 views
MoIT faces backlash over controversial recruitment process

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.

Mar 29, 2025 5 mins read 5,169 views
Toward a Unified Right to Health Law

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...

Mar 29, 2025 3 mins read 3,010 views
High Court sentences Sonam Norbu to life for murder of Namgay Dolkar

The Reldri Bench of the High Court  on March 27 overturned a lower court’s verdict, sente...

Mar 29, 2025 2 mins read 6,728 views
Beyond the mountains: My Harvard students’ Bhutan trek experience

Exactly a year ago, I was wrapping up my spring semester at the Harvard Kennedy School—a tim...

Mar 29, 2025 4 mins read 3,599 views
Bhutanese films make waves on global stage

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.

Mar 29, 2025 4 mins read 3,882 views
Lone electric city bus back on road

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.

Mar 29, 2025 2 mins read 6,369 views
“The Whispering Mountains: Marvellous Folktales from the Himalayas” launched in Bhutan

The Nehru Wangchuck Cultural Center, India House,...

Mar 29, 2025 1 mins read 4,658 views
Students showcase innovation at national challenge

Sherubling Higher Secondary School from Trongsa and Martshala Middle Secondary School from Samdrupjongkhar emerged as winners in the senior and...

Mar 29, 2025 2 mins read 3,104 views
གློག་ཤུགས་བསྐྱར་གསོ་ཁང་ བདག་འཛིན་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་ གཞུང་གིས་ ངོས་ལེན་འབད་དགོཔ།

༉ 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།

Mar 29, 2025 8 mins read 1,565 views
ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ ཡངས་བཙོན་པ་༥ ལུ་ བཙོན་ཁྲིམས་བཀལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་ བསམ་གྲུབ་ཆོས་གླིང་དྲུང་ཁག་ཁྲ...

Mar 29, 2025 6 mins read 1,596 views
འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཨོ་ལོམ་པིག་གཅིག་མཐུན་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་གྲོས་འཛོམས་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནི།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢ དང་༣ ལུ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ འབྲ...

Mar 29, 2025 5 mins read 1,496 views
རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་གིས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༢.༥༠༣ གྱི་ དངུལ་འཛིན་ཅེག་ རྩིས་སྤྲོད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ སུ་ཌ་ཀར་ ཌ་ལི...

Mar 28, 2025 1 mins read 2,141 views
རྟ་བབས་མཆོད་རྟེན་གུ་ གསེར་ཏོག་བཀལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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།

Mar 28, 2025 1 mins read 3,149 views
འབྲུག་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ གཙོ་ཁང་དང་ ཐབས་རིག་ལྟེ་བ་གསརཔ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ འཇིགས་རྒྱལ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུ...

Mar 28, 2025 2 mins read 3,709 views
Bhutan to host OCA-OS regional forum 2025

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...

Mar 28, 2025 1 mins read 6,690 views
Court sentences five open-air prisoners for inmate’s death

The Samdrupcholing Drungkhag Court in Samdrupjongkhar has sentenced five open-air prisoners (OAP) for their invol...

Mar 28, 2025 2 mins read 8,952 views
Saving lives or upholding law: Where to draw the line?

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.

Mar 28, 2025 2 mins read 3,226 views
Urgent need for more EV charging stations

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...

Mar 28, 2025 2 mins read 4,210 views
Bhutan auctions wine on global stage

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.

Mar 28, 2025 2 mins read 23,270 views
EV charging stations in disrepair: Calls for government action grow

With many electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the country either non-functional f...

Mar 28, 2025 2 mins read 5,113 views
ཤོ་ཐེངས་དང་པའི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུངཔ་༤༩༥ གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཞབས་ཏོག་དོན་ལུ་ འཛུལ་ཞུགས།

༉ 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།

Mar 27, 2025 9 mins read 3,106 views
ཨ་ལུ་གཅེས་སྐྱོང་ལྷབ་སྦྱང་ཡར་དྲག་དོན་ལུ་ ཆུང་ཀུ་བསྒང་ལས་ གོང་འཕེལ་གཏང་དགོཔ།

༉ རིག་རྩལ་དང་ ལམ་སྟོན་གསར་པའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་ཀྱིས་ ཨ་ལུ་ཆ...

Mar 27, 2025 5 mins read 2,015 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ མི་མང་གི་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་ འཚེར་སྣང་མེད་པར་ ཏམ་ཁུ་འཐུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཏམ་ཁུ་དང་འབྲེལ...

Mar 27, 2025 4 mins read 2,817 views
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ མའོ་གཙང་ཆུའི་གུ་ལས་ ཟམ་རྐྱབ་ནི།

༉ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁས་བླངས་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་ ཚར་ལ...

Mar 27, 2025 8 mins read 2,842 views
ཨམ་སྲུ་ཚུ་གིས་ སྲིད་དོན་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ནི་ལས་ ཟུར་སྡོད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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།

Mar 27, 2025 7 mins read 2,286 views
Maochhu bridge on the horizon

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...

Mar 27, 2025 3 mins read 9,370 views
Lax enforcement fuels rise in public smoking in Phuentsholing

Phuentsholing—It’s 2:13 in the afternoon. A group of four young men light their cigarettes and stroll along th...

Mar 27, 2025 2 mins read 4,949 views
A playful solution

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.

Mar 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,353 views
The silent majority

Bhutanese women continue to be severely underrepresented in politics, with a recent study revealing deep-seated barriers preventing them from stepping into leadership roles.

Mar 27, 2025 2 mins read 4,086 views
Investing in our children’s future through play

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.

Mar 27, 2025 2 mins read 4,429 views
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Existing subjects to continue under revised curriculum: MoESD

The ministry’s clarification comes amid confusion among teachers, particularly in rural schools, over the status of periods such as value education, health and physical education (HPE), library sessions, and counselling.

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 2,529 views
Judiciary fails to make judgments public, despite legal mandate

Dzongkhag courts accounted for the bulk of the caseload, handling 6,350 filings and deciding 5,618 cases. Drungkhag cour...

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 3,242 views
PM calls falling birth rate a national crisis

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shared the figure yesterday during the mid-term review for the Ministry of Health, the Ji...

Apr 22, 2026 4 mins read 4,181 views
Renewable energy targets far behind as MoENR pushes for diversification

The ministry pointed out that while energy continues to be a key driver of economic growth, the sector has achieved 70 p...

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 2,500 views
GovTech achieves 100 percent target as of FY 2025-26

The Government Technology (GovTech) Agency has achieved most of its targets, even as budget shortfalls and workforce att...

Apr 22, 2026 3 mins read 2,496 views
Govt. drops Nganglam hospital expansion from 13th Plan

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 2,853 views
RMA finds compliance gaps in BDBL’s ESP lending, imposes Nu 1.7M penalty

Out of 149 applications received under the medium-scale category, only 37 projects worth Nu 1.91 billion were approved.

Apr 20, 2026 3 mins read 1,572 views
Phuentsholing Sunday Market generates Nu 2.56 million in eight weeks

Farmers contributed more than Nu 2.17 million, while weekly earnings rose steadily after the initial phase, surpassing N...

Apr 20, 2026 2 mins read 4,781 views
Garuda Bar and Café

Jan 22, 2026 1 mins read 3,288 views
How Miss Bhutan 2026 is shifting the meaning of beauty

Jan 22, 2026 2 mins read 3,191 views
Taxes our forefathers paid

Jan 13, 2026 2 mins read 4,558 views
Gym that asks you to grow, not just train

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Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words,...

Dec 18, 2025 4 mins read 3,711 views
Restore or lose it altogether

The country’s plan to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded forests, farmlands, and urban lands is not simply an environme...

Dec 13, 2025 2 mins read 3,463 views
Zero tolerance for online crimes

This week, Australia enforced the ban on social media access for children under 16. This is unprecedented and bold. Whil...

Dec 12, 2025 2 mins read 3,480 views
Will our education transformation be equitable?

The government’s allocation of Nu 30 billion for education transformation in the 13th Plan, second only to the economic...

Dec 11, 2025 2 mins read 2,978 views
The never-ending tourism debate

The discussion on tourism policy is like Atsara Phentho’s chham. In other words, a lot of motion without progress. On Mo...

Dec 10, 2025 2 mins read 3,536 views
Ready to take off from GMC

The launch of the Gelephu–Kolkata international air route marks far more than the addition of a new flight on the countr...

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Fighting online scams

The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.

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