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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.
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The National Assembly yesterday called on the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) to prioritise 10 key proposals submitted by South Thimphu Member of Parliament (MP) Tshewang Rinzin, as lawmakers engaged in an open debate on disparities in resource allocation and education quality across the country.
Communities affected by gypsum mining in Pemagatshel will receive land replacement and compensation from January 1, 2026...
The Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) is expected to take over the 770-megawatt (MW) Chamkharchhu-I hydroelectric proj...
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE) will begin the strict enforcement of Occupational Health and S...
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewathang-Gomdar raised concerns in the National Assembly yesterday about acute land s...
The country exported 31, 869.7 metric tonnes (MT) of fresh agricultural produce between January and November this year,...
The National Assembly (NA) adopted amendments to reservations on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons...
The National Assembly yesterday directed the government to submit a detailed follow-up report on the implementation of n...
The country’s effort to transform ecological challenges into sustainable opportunities was a key highlight at the Youth...
As Bhutan looks beyond traditional bank lending and donor-driven grants, new financing avenues, such as blended finance,...
The return of the Buddha’s sacred Piprahwa relics to India yesterday was more than a ceremonial farewell. It was a lesson in how nations should conduct themselves at a time when the world seems determined to spiral into deeper conflict.
Bhutan’s environmental stewardship, which has resulted in the country's rich biodiversity, is finally translating into concrete economic gains. The first-of-its-kind carbon credit agreement with Singapore allows Bhutan to monetise...
The exodus of qualified and seasoned health professionals and its impact on the quality of services is an issue of national importance. In the last five years, 936 trained health professionals left the sector. The current crisis...
The potential is vast, the scope is immense, and the market is as monumental as the Himalayas. As Bhutan and India explore new, sustainable ways to harness hydropower, the opportunity for transformative growth has never been clearer.
While we continue to prioritise sports development in the country, our presence in international competitions so far has been defined more by participation than performance. Our small te...
We are producing what can be called our most educated generation, but are offering them some of the most limited and least secure forms of employment. This mismatch is not an emerging concern; it has become a s...
If the past week was one of festivals and celebrations, Bhutan's farmers received a precious gift with the launch of the National Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme on No...
The sacred ceremony happening at Tshaligoenba in Thimphu this week carries a weight far older than the moment itself. When more than 260 nuns from 14 countries are receiving full ordination, they are not simply enter...
The words shared by His Majesty the King on the 70th birth anniversary of Drukgyal Zhipa were more than a son’s remembrance. They were a national awakening. The advice of the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, giv...
The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bhutan yesterday is a testament to the enduring and profound friendship between the two nations, one that transcends politics and reflects...
The story of His Majesty the Fourth King is an extraordinary one in our history. At 16, His Majesty became King, followi...
none existed, electrified homes, and carried the nation through crises, including the recent Covid-19 pandemic. These ac...
The news of Australia passing a social media ban for children under 16 has sent ripples across the globe, igniting simil...
Bhutan has always taken pride in being a fairly egalitarian society. In many communities, women are heads of households,...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority is on high alert, not only investigating complaints but also penalising b...
The country’s plan to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded forests, farmlands, and urban lands is not simply an environmental initiative. It is a national ultimatum. We are standing at a point where the land that defines our identity is weakening under our watch.
Read MoreSamtse—Industries operating at Dhamdhum Industrial Park in Samtse have been battling frequent power outages, with unstable voltage levels disrupting operations, often causing financial losses and damage to equipment.
Read MoreBumthang—Across Bumthang, homes and shops have been draped in national flags, while streets glow with festive lights. Roads have been swept and public spaces prepared. Bumthang is all poised to host the 118th National Day celebrations at the national level for the first time.
Read MoreA flagship impact investment commitment in support of Pelsung was announced during the closing ceremony of the Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum yesterday.
Read MoreBusiness sectors are appealing to the government for transitional relief to prevent financial disruptions ahead of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Excise Tax rollout on January 1, 2026.
Read MoreThe widow of Biren Kumar Kafley has called for an independent, third-party investigation into her husband’s death, even as the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) continues an internal inquiry into the incident.
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