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This relationship began with people-to-people contact, and the connections between Bhutan and Israel felt very natural because we are both small countries surrounded by larger ones. We share a lot in common; we are ancient nations but young countries facing many similar challenges. Consequently, people in Israel fell in love with Bhutan.
Nearly 500 Gyalsups from the inaugural cohort have been deployed in various national initiatives under the Gyalsung Headquarters. While their deployment is based on national needs, 495 Gyalsups have been stationed acro...
༉ སོ་ནམ་སྡེ་ཚན་དང་ སོ་ནམ་མཉམ་ལས་བརྩིས་ཏེ་ སོ་ནམ་པ་...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ མཐའ་འཁོར་གནས་སྟངས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི...
༉ ད་ལས་ཕར་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ནང་འགྱོ་སའི་ བ་ཟམ་ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ རང་ལུགས་གྱོན་ཆས་ཐོག་ལུ་ བསྟར་སྤྱོད་འབད་ནི་སྦེ་ བཟོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ འབྲུག་ཨོ་ལོམ་པིག་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ས་ཁོངས...
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ གཞི་རྟེན་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་ མགྱོགས་དྲགས་ས...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལྕང་གླིང་མི་ཐང་ནང་ ཨེ་ཨེཕི་སི་ ཨེ་ཤ...
As Bhutan accelerates its infrastructure expansion, conservationists and engineers are grappling with a pressing challenge: how to develop without endangering the country’s rich biodiversity.
For the first time since meteorological records were maintained in 1996, Bhur Meteorological Station in Sarpang has record...
Bhutan took a historic step in its sports developm...
Over 146 individual farmers, farmer groups, and co-operatives are actively supplying fruits, vegetables, and meat...
The boulder trade emerged as a boon for Bhutanese businessmen and the economy. With Bangladesh experiencing a surge in construction demand and Bhutan being rich in stones, the trade seemed like a perfect fit.
The government’s decision to reinstate the Class 10 cut-off point has sparked a firestorm of debate, but be...
Punakha—Visitors and residents crossing the iconic bazam—the wooden cantilever bridge—leading to the Punakha Dzong must now wear formal dress. The di...
Amid growing concerns over Bhutan’s waste crisis, experts have called for research and policy interventions to address the co...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་དང་ དམིགས་བསལ་བདག་སྐྱོང་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་ ཆ་ཤས་གཙོ་ཅན་ཨིན་མི་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༡༣.༦ འབད་མི་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དང་ རྟ་རས་ཐང་བར་ན་ གཞུང་ལམ་བསལ་ནིའི་ལཱ་དེ་ སང་ཕོད་ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འཆར་དངུལ་མ་ལང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༣ འབད་མི་...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ མཁས་ཚོགས་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཅིག་ འཚོག...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་སྡེ་ཚན་(ཕོ་སྐྱེས་)ག...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་བསྐྱར་གསོའི་ནང་ སོ་ནམ་དང་སྒོ...
༉ གྲུབ་དབང་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ དགེ...
Bhutan’s economic recovery faces headwinds with bad loans in four key sectors—agriculture and livestock, trade and commerce, transport, and...
Gelephu—The five-year project for the 13.6-kilometre (km) Gelephu-Tareythang highway in Sarpang—a key component of the Gelephu Mind...
A symposium held in Thimphu yesterday under the PLEASE project outlined a three-pronged strategy to reduce plastic waste, focusing on immediate, long-term, and youth-driven solutions.
Phuentsholing—The construction of a three-kilometre bypass at Rinchending will extend into the next financial year due to insuff...
From a distance, our glacial-fed rivers appear pristine. But a closer look along the riverbanks , especially in urban areas, reveals quite a different picture. Plastic waste, discarded garments, pet bottles, and human waste, among others, pol...
Bhutanese traditional arts and crafts are more than just artistic expressions; they embody the country’s identity...
Bhutan’s senior men’s national football team will begin its AFC Asian Cup 2027 qualifiers campaign today, playing its first game against Yemen at Changlimithang Stadium today at 6 pm.
༉ གནས་ཚུལ་བཤད་མི་ཚུ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་...
༉ ཧཱ་གི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་གིས་ འབྲུག་གསོ་བའི་བློ་གཏད་མ་དངུ...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ལུ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱན་ཤོག་ཡིག་ཚང་གིས་ རྒྱན...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ དབྱངས་ཅན་ཕུག་འབྲིང་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་གོང་མ་ལས་ བསྟན་འཛིན་འོད་ཆེན་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གིས་ ཐེངས་༡༧ པའི་ ན་གཞོན་གསེར་གྱི་རྟགས་མ་ ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ བསམ་རྩེ་...
His Majesty graces the Passing Out Parade ceremony...
During the inaugural World Day for Glaciers on March 21, two men who have spent years working behind the scenes in the country’s high-altitude wilderness found themselves in an unfamiliar spotlight.
Bhutan’s Lottery awarded a staggering Nu 790 million in prize money in 2024, making dreams come true for countless players—a blessing in disguise for many.
The Bhutan Health Trust Fund (BHTF) eceived a donation of Nu 1,511,200 from the people of Haa. The contribution reflects the growin...
Tuberculosis (TB) seems to be quietly spreading across the country, posing a serious public health issue. Despite medical advances, this diseas...
Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom known as the ‘Last Shangri-La’—celebrated for its sustainability, spirituality, and commitment to happiness—has unexpectedly landed on the US draft ‘Red List’ alongside nations like Afghanistan...
Tenzin Yoedchenma Dorjee from Yangchenphug Higher Secondary School won the 17th Golden Youth Award (GYA). The award ceremony, held in Thimphu yesterday, highlighted this year’s theme—Climate Change Innovation.
To raise awareness about Earth Hour and spotlight High Conservation Values (HCV), WWF-Bhutan, in partnership with the Bhutan Football Federation (BFF), hosted the HCV Football Championship in Thimphu on March 22.
A significant portion of our youth’s challenges stems from our shortcomings as responsible, patient, and mindful elders. We should minimize criticism and punishment while providing more practical, loving guidance.
Gelephu—Authorities are in the final stages of the preliminary investigati...
To enhance user experience with faster and more reliable mobile services, Bhutan Telecom (BT) is phasing out its 3G network. As part of...
Tuberculosis (TB) cases have been steadily rising in Bhutan over the past five years, making it a major public health concern. On average, TB cases have increased by 22 annually. In 2...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) has prioritised sustaining the production of cereals and key crops to ensure food and nutrition security.
For years, the Royal University of Bhutan’s conference hall in Thimphu has hosted policymakers, intellectuals, and experts discussing visions, future plans, and innovative ideas.
Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, according to the Ministry of Finance’s latest Quarterly Macroeconomic Situation and Outlook.
Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...
Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...
Punakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another ch...
For more than a decade, Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) has steadily transformed cancer care in the country from a subject c...
A Bhutanese based in New York, who runs Tasha International News, a Telegram- based unofficial news channel, has collect...
A Nu 43.7 million eco-tourism facility built to transform a local community has become a white elephant in the capital....
Once coveted positions, local administrative posts such as drungpa and dzongrab have become less attractive to civil servants, leaving critical leadership roles vacant due to stagnant career progression.
The private leasing of 200 acres of state land at Darla Top has sparked massive local controversy, forcing the Prime Min...
As geopolitical hostilities rapidly escalate in the Middle East, more than 7,700 Bhutanese workers remain in the Gulf re...
The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...
Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.
Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...
Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...
Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...
The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.
About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...
In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...
When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...
The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erecting 108 Jangchub Choetens along the Mao Chhu in Gelephu Mindfulnes...
Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...
The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal v...
Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...
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...
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 country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...
The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...
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,...
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...
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...
More than two years after promising to review the closure of drayangs, the government has ruled out the possibility of reviving the entertainment venues, signalling a definitive end to an industry that once formed a significant part of the country’s nightlife economy.
Read MoreAfter receiving training from Women’s Self-Support Group on Waste Management in 2023 on crafting new products from plastic waste, Jamyang Choden, 44, from Lhuentse, decided to give it a try.
Read MoreZhemgang—It has been less than a month since Rinchen Yangzom moved into the Bjarpa community house beside Ngangla Lhakhang in Ngangla Trong. For the next three years, this is her home. She cannot leave it for a single day.
Read MoreAn educated youth has shattered traditional age boundaries to get elected as Tshogpa, completely rewriting what leadership looks like for the next generation of highlanders. Is it finally time for youths to take full control of local governance?
Read MoreThe conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
Read MorePrivate livestock dealers claim a state-owned corporation lured them into investing, only to turn around and aggressively take over their market share. Is the private sector being undermined in the name of regulation? Who is in the right?
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