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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 National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) has urged government agencies, businesses and the public to remain vigilant as El Nino conditions are forecast to strengthen and peak towards the second half of the year, raising the likelihood of disruptions to agriculture, hydropower, tourism and water resources.
Ninety-four workers have been placed in jobs across the hotel, retail, and e-commerce sectors, a month after launching a...
Although only about one in eight elderly citizens are classified as poor based on income and consumption, nearly four in...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has barred 18 sawmills in Haa and Paro from conducting business or entering into co...
The Chief Editor of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) has resigned after alleging a prolonged pattern of workplace m...
Police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old unemployed man whose body was found in a hotel bathroom in Paro on J...
The critically endangered white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis) was sighted for the first time along the Amochhu river b...
With less than a week remaining ahead of the Thromde Tshogde elections, there is little sign of election fever in Phuent...
Paro FC’s Two-Star rating places the academy among a select group of institutions across Asia recognised for meeting hig...
A 31-year-old former monk travels to France and then vanishes without a trace. After six months of silence, his mother h...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was never going to be an easy transition. Major tax reforms rarely are. Introduced in January this year, GST was envisioned as a modern tax system, replacing an outdated framework with one that is simpler, more transparent, efficient, and digitally driven.
Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.
The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the confl...
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,...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...
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...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, pat...
When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried...
The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...
Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-ne...
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a new rule that will end the long-standing “duration of status” system for foreign students, exchange visitors, and foreign media representatives.
Read MoreBhutan and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to deepening bilateral development co-operation during the 21st Bhutan-Japan Annual Consultations on Economic Co-operation held in Thimphu yesterday. Both sides reviewed the progress of ongoing assistance, discussed future development priorities and reaffirmed their shared commitment to sustainable development.
Read MoreAs voters head to the polls today to elect the Thrompons and thromde thuemis of Thimphu and Phuentsholing, the most striking feature of this election has not been fierce competition or spirited public debate. It has been the silence.
Read MoreThe violence that erupted during the Bhutan Premier League match between Thimphu FC and Drukpa FC at Changlimithang Stadium on July 7, 2026, has exposed a gap in the country’s football security arrangements and raised the question of who, ultimately, is responsible for the safety of players, officials, and spectators.
Read MoreThe Phuentsholing General Hospital has apologised for the recent incident and pledged to address systemic gaps in its patient registration process following an incident this week in which a father and his two young sons left the facility without receiving medical attention.
Read MoreThe State of the Nation Report (SoTNR) presented by the Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay during the summer session of Parliament states that the government has closed the initial gap of Nu 56 billion in the 13th Plan and now projects a surplus of Nu 20 billion by the end of the Plan period.
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