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Recent strides of the Royal Bhutan Police, The PEMA Secretariat, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock sign a Tripartite Agreement to Esta...
To mark the first-ever World Day for Glaciers yesterday, the National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) hoste...
The World Happiness Report, 2025-an annual survey was published yesterday, 20 March on International Day of Happiness. Finland remained the happiest nation for the eighth year in a row, while Mexico and Costa Rica ran...
On a quiet Sunday morning in April 1964, a Bhutanese woman with leprosy...
Although one of the countries with the highest per capita water availability globally, Bhutan is confronted with a bizarre paradox—abundant water and growing scarcity.
In a grassy clearing on a mountainside of towering blue pines, more than 8,000 feet...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) Special Administrative Region (SAR) is an ambitious 20-year development plan that aims to rede...
Bhutanese households are projected to experience a 23.67 percent rise in monthly expenditures by 2028, driven by increasing demand for goods...
༉ ད་རིས་དྲོ་པ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་བཀྲིས་ཆོས་རྫོང་ནང་སྦེ་ འབྲུ...
༉ གྲུབ་དབང་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ དགེ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ལ་མཐོ་སའི་ས་གནས་ཚུ་ནང་ གྱང་ཤུགས་ཆེ་བ...
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ སོ་ནམ་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཚུ་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ལེགས་ཤོམ...
༉ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ལུ་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་ཤེས་ཡོན་བྱིན་ནི་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་ འཛམ་གླིང་ཏི་རུའི་བདུན་ཕྲག་༢༠༢༥ དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༡༧ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཚུ་ཡང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ཀྱི་ ཟ་ཁང་སྦོམ་དང...
BEIJING – Chinese authorities issued guidelines on...
Lhamoizingkha, Dagana— Once a quiet border town, Lhamoizingkha is now at the centre of a real estate boom, with land prices soaring...
The sporting scene in the country is evolving, with six new sports gaining ground in the past five years. Adding to the country’s existing 20 recognised sports, the rise of Teqball, Baseball and Softball, Beach Volleyball, Kho Kho, Alpine Skiing, Enduro Cycling, and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) indicate growing enthusiasm for athletic pursuits.
Global Money Week 2025, a worldwide initiative to promote financial literacy among young...
The country’s mountainous terrain and extreme weather conditions make road construction challenging, with issues such as low-temperatu...
A foreign direct investment (FDI) company has been navigating the bureaucratic corridors for more than a year now trying to get clearance from a number of gover...
The mountains are calling—but this time, their message is a distress signal, as we mark the first-ever World Glacier Day alongside World Water Day under the theme of “Glacier Preservation”. Glaciers are not just beautiful ice masses; they are the lifeblood of our rivers, ecosystems, and communities.
In much of the world, plant-based diets are gaining traction for their health benefits and environmental sustainability. Yet in Bhutan, where traditional cuisine is deeply rooted in meat and...
༉ ད་རིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ལས་ཚོགས་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་གི...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ལས་སྡེའི་ལས་སྣ་ཚུ་ མར་བབས་ས...
༉ དབང་འདུས་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ མཁོ་ཐང་ཁའི་ལུང་གཤོང་ནང་ ལྟ་བཤལཔ་དེ་ཅིག་ར་ འོང་ནི་མེད་པའི་ གནས་སྟངས་ཅིག་སྦེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ མགྱོགས་པ་ར་ ཡུན་བརྟན་ལྟ་བཤལཔ་འོང་སའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ཅིག་ལུ་ འགྱུར་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤུ་ན་གཙང་ཆུ་ གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་༢ པའི་ འཕྲུལ་ཨམ་ཡུ...
༉ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་ལས་རིམ་གྱི་ བསྐྱར་གསོ་མ་དངུལ་ག...
༉ ཤར་ཕྱོགས་རྫོང་ཁག་༦ ནང་ ཟ་ཁང་བཙུགས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ གཞུ...
Seven participating financial institutions (PFIs) have approved Nu 667.32 million in loans under the Economic Stimulus Programme’s (ESP) window-II Reinvigoration Fund.
Hoteliers in six eastern dzongkhags are urging the government to exempt tourists visiting the region from the Sustainable Developme...
Wangdue—The third unit of Punatsangchhu-II hydropower project was commissioned yesterday, boosting the plan...
The country’s economy, facing nearly three decades of premature de-industrialisation, requires a targeted industrial policy that prioritises specialised sectors to reverse this trend.
Bhutan’s agricultural exports have shown impressive performance, generating Nu 3.51 billion last year. Cardamom, oranges, potatoes, and cordyceps continue to be the backbone of rural livelihoods, bringing much-needed revenue into the economy
Despite efforts to integrate comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) into the school system, deep-rooted cu...
Wangdue—Khotokha valley in Wangdue, which has seen little to no tourists, could...
Young minds from across the country gathered in th...
Forty-two-year old Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, a climate advocate, has embarked on a 4,332-kilometre (km) journey across Australia, as part of his “The Messenger—Ride for Action” campaign, to spotlight the devastating impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers.
༉ དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་པའི་ཆོས་སྡེ་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་འདི་ འབྲུ...
༉ དབང་འདུས་ལས་ཨིན་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༤༠ ལང་མི་ བསོད་ནམས་...
༉ དར་དཀར་ནང་ ལྷ་མོའི་རྫིང་ཁ་དང་ ཀརྨ་གླིང་ དེ་ལས་ ན...
༉ གསར་སྤང་ ཨུམ་གླིང་རྒེད་འོག་ བཀྲིས་ཐང་ལས་ ཚེ་རིང་བཟང་མོ་གིས་ དེང་སང་ལུགས་སྲོལ་སྦེ་ ཆུ་ཤོག་ལྡུམ་ར་གི་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ཐོག་ལས་ ལཱ་འབད་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ད་རེས་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ལས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ པ་ནེ་འཛུགས་སྐྱོང་འབད་དེ་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ རྩི་རང་གི་ དཔ...
༉ གནམ་གཤིས་འགྱུར་བགྲོད་ཀྱིས་ འབྲུག་གི་ གངས་རིའི་ཆག...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་སློབ་སྡེ་ནང་ས...
As climate change affects Bhutan’s mountainous landscape, entire communities are being forced to relocate. Last year, around 72 households from Thangza-Toenchoe chiwogs in Lunana, a remote glacial region, were displaced due to the escalating risks of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). They were resettled in Damthangkha, Bayza-Gangjuk, and Dungbiteng.
An investigation by the Competition and Consumer A...
Bhutan has taken a major step in transforming early childhood development with t...
Lhamoizingkha, Dagana—For decades, the three gewogs of Karmaling, Lhamoizingkha, and Nichula in Dagana have remained on the periphery of economic development, despite their strategic location near...
Much to the relief of Bhutan and its citizens, the United States has upgraded Bhutan to its “yellow” category under revised travel restrictions, lifting the earlier designation that placed us in the “red” category—a classification that would have barred Bhutanese nationals from entering the US.
Sarpang—What began as a modest greenhouse experiment for Tshering Zangmo has now blossomed into a thriving commercial betel leaf (Bangla paan) plantation—one that is inspiring farmers across Tashithang in Umling, Sarpang.
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...
The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked c...
Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...
The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...
Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...
Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay accepted responsibility for a communication gap between the Ministry of Finance and the E...
What if waste was no longer viewed as rubbish, but as a resource waiting for a second life? That idea took centre stag...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of...
The key barriers identified in the report - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are no...
Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple...
The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more...
The Co-operatives and Farmer Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 will be taken up during a Joint Sitting of Parliament in the next session after the National Assembly and National Council failed to reach consensus on a key auditing provision.
Read MoreThe Parliament passed the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 yesterday after the National Assembly adopted the amendments proposed by the National Council during its re-deliberation session.
Read MoreThe Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.
Read MoreThe inaugural Bhutan International Travel Mart (BITM) 2026 has attracted more than 200 international buyers from 15 countries, with the majority from India, offering the tourism industry a major platform to promote its products and expand global partnerships.
Read MoreMore than 200 children and adolescents, including nuns, monks, and children with disabilities, celebrated the International Day of Play at Changlimithang Stadium today.
Read MoreThe dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).
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