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སུ་མི་ཏ་ར་ ཨ་ཅར་ཡ་གིས་ ཚོང་ལཱ་འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ལུ་ གྲ་སྒྲིག།

༉ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༩ ལང་མི་དང་ དབང་པོ་ལུ་ཐོག་མི་ སུ་མི་ཏ་ར་ ཨ་ཅར་ཡ་གིས་ ཤུལ་མའི་བདུན་ཕྲག་ལས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Mar 10, 2025 5 mins read 1,572 views
འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་གཙོ་བསྟེན་སྨན་ཁང་ནང་ ནད་པའི་ཉལ་ཁྲི་ ལང་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ག...

Mar 10, 2025 6 mins read 2,801 views
Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck receives UNFPA Award as Goodwill Ambassador for 25 years

On International Women’s Day on March 8, Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck was honoured by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in recognition of her outstanding 25-year tenure as the UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador to Bhutan.

Mar 10, 2025 2 mins read 5,169 views
Bhutan launches national strategy to eliminate gender-based violence by 2028

Every two in five women in Bhutan suffer from intimate partner vi...

Mar 10, 2025 3 mins read 4,526 views
Sumitra’s café: Overcoming barriers to build a business

Phuentsholing—Nineteen-year-old Sumitra Acharya, who has a dual sensory impairment, is set to begin her entrepreneurial...

Mar 10, 2025 2 mins read 8,922 views
Time to tax smartphones

Going by the import numbers, one in four Bhutanese bought a new smartphone in 2024—or did they? Smartphone imports spiked to Nu 2.72 billion in 2024, a sharp increase from Nu 2.2 billion in 2023. This jump pushed smartphones...

Mar 10, 2025 2 mins read 3,469 views
Khotokha Valley: The next eco-tourism jewel?

Khotokha Valley in Wangdue, with its stunning landscapes and rare biodiversity, including the endangered Black-Necked Crane, is emerging as a potential new tourism destination in the country.

Mar 10, 2025 3 mins read 8,768 views
Eastern Bhutan farmers gain from Adzuki bean cultivation

Farmers in eastern Bhutan are finding it lucrative to cultivate Adzuki beans, a nutrient-rich legume with growing local and i...

Mar 10, 2025 2 mins read 6,716 views
Protecting children in the age of artificial intelligence

The age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is very much here.  The term “generative AI” is now commonplace, with the publi...

Mar 10, 2025 4 mins read 1,293 views
Millions in EV subsidies paid, but 27 taxis still missing

Concerns over transparency in the electric vehicle (EV) subsidy programme are mounting, as customers raise questions about...

Mar 08, 2025 3 mins read 11,460 views
Smartphone imports hit record high of Nu 2.7 billion, raising eyebrows

Smartphone imports spiked to Nu 2.72 billion in 2024, a sharp increase from Nu 2.2 billion in 2023. This jump propelled smartphones to the fifth-highest imported commodity, up from eighth place the previous year, according to Bhutan Trade Statistics.

Mar 08, 2025 2 mins read 11,374 views
EV taxi loan defaults reach Nu 8.86 million, BoB seeks urgent action

Dozens of electric vehicle (EV) taxi drivers in the country are struggling to repay their...

Mar 08, 2025 2 mins read 4,293 views
JDWNRH faces critical bed shortage, straining medical services

The Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) in Thimphu is grappling with a critical bed s...

Mar 08, 2025 2 mins read 9,261 views
Women in Bhutan

Bhutan joins the global community in celebrating International Women’s Day—a day dedicated to recognising women’s achievements, advocating for progress, raising awareness about women’s rights, and promoting gender equality.

Mar 08, 2025 2 mins read 2,203 views
Should we sacrifice children’s rights at the altar of the principal’s autonomy?

The statements by our education minister and Prime...

Mar 08, 2025 3 mins read 5,119 views
Over Nu 800 million approved under concessional credit loan

Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) received a total of 3,969 applications, amounting to 11.44 billion in loan va...

Mar 08, 2025 2 mins read 2,688 views
Farmers face barriers in ESP loan access

Large numbers of pending cases, challenges on land ownership, the supply of farm machinery, unprotected farms, the unlooked disparity among the dzongkhags, and lack of a str...

Mar 08, 2025 4 mins read 5,260 views
Relationship of Druk Lochak and Chinese in Lhasa

“When the Chinese ‘advance party’ arrived at Lhasa, the Duk Lochakpa sent his representative to offer him a scarf. Norbhu reproved him for this and p...

Mar 08, 2025 6 mins read 14,086 views
Late-night unlimited data plan: Health vs. access

The former Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, Loknath Sharma, recently appealed to the two telecommunications companies in the country to discontinue their unlimited late-night data plans, citing serious concerns over the health, behavioural, academic, and ethical risks they pose to young users.

Mar 08, 2025 3 mins read 7,013 views
Gelephu hosts empowerment of Longchen Nyingthig Tsapoed

Gelephu—In a significant turning point for both the spiritual and economic landscape of the region, Gelephu is emerging as a key...

Mar 08, 2025 3 mins read 2,115 views
Dr Tenzin Dorji becomes first Bhutanese to compete in Tokyo International Marathon

Dr Tenzin Dorji, a 35-year-old dentist working wit...

Mar 08, 2025 2 mins read 9,987 views
རང་སོའི་འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་ ཚད་གཞི་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་དང་རེ་འདོད།

༉ རང་སོའི་འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་ བཏབ་མིའི་གྲས་ལས་ དམིགས་བསལ་...

Mar 07, 2025 5 mins read 2,209 views
ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་རྩ་པོད་ཀྱི་ དབང་ལུང་གནང་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ གྲུབ་དབང་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༦ ལས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་འཁོར་ཐང་ནང་སྦེ་ ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་རྩ་པོད་ཀྱི་ དབང་ལུང་གནང་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ དད་ཅན་སྐྱ་སེར་༢༡,༠༠༠ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ དབང་ལུང་ཞུ་བར་འཛོམས་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཉིན་གྲངས་༢༣ འབད་མི་ དབང་ལུང་གི་ལས་རིམ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༢༩ ལུ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ནི་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

Mar 07, 2025 1 mins read 1,097 views
ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་བརྒྱུད་ལམ་༣ པ་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༩༠ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོད་རུང་ དུས་ཚོད་ཕྱིས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བང་ལ་དེཤ་དང་ རྒྱ་གར་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་༢ དང་ ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཨིན...

Mar 07, 2025 4 mins read 1,599 views
ད་ལྟོ་ཡང་ དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཅན་ཚུ་ ལཱ་གཡོག་ནང་ ཉུང་སུ་ཅིག་ལས་མེདཔ།

༉ གཞུང་གིས་ མི་སེར་ག་ར་ མི་སྡེའི་གྲལ་བཙུགས་ཐོག་ གོ...

Mar 07, 2025 16 mins read 1,929 views
འབྲུག་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཟུང་གིས་ བི་ཛཱཔ་ཟེར་མི་ལས་རིམ་ཐོག་ལས་ ཚོང་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་གྱི་ལས་འཆར།

༉ འབྲུག་མ་རྩ་རྒྱུ་ནོར་གཞི་བཟུང་གིས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ལས་ར...

Mar 07, 2025 8 mins read 1,685 views
Panbang residents demand probe into public property ownership disputes

Panbang, Zhemgang — Residents of Panbang in Zhemgang are calling on the government to investigate the ownership of two public structures in Panbang town, which they claim have been privately acquired under questionable circumstances.

Mar 07, 2025 4 mins read 6,090 views
Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in workforce still minimal

The inclusion of persons with disabilities (PwDs) in the country’s workforce remains strikingly...

Mar 07, 2025 5 mins read 5,445 views
Third internet gateway 90 percent complete but faces delays

After nearly a decade of negotiations with India and Bangladesh, the long-awaited third internet gateway is 90 perce...

Mar 07, 2025 1 mins read 3,602 views
Refurbishing school furniture: A smarter, sustainable choice

Beyond cost savings, the initiative promotes sustainability. The traditional approach of replacing furniture ever...

Mar 07, 2025 2 mins read 2,715 views
DHI BizAP’s collateral-free loans boost small businesses

The Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) Business Accelerator Program (BizAP) has so far funded 92 small and cottage-scale industries (CSIs) in the country, with an impressive 84 of them still operational.

Mar 07, 2025 2 mins read 2,115 views
Locally manufactured smart eye camera device to help tackle blindness

Manufactured by the Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck Super Fab Lab (JNWSFL), a smart eye camera...

Mar 07, 2025 3 mins read 7,848 views
སྒེར་སྡེ་དང་ གསར་བཏོད་དེ་ འོང་འབབ་ཆེ་བའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་འགྲུབ་ནིའི་ ཐབས་ལམ་གཙོ་ཅན།

༉ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོང་ལས་དང་ལཱ་གཡོག་བློན་པོ་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྡོ་...

Mar 06, 2025 6 mins read 2,121 views
ལྕང་ལྕེ་གི་ ནང་བཟོ་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བའི་གླིང་ག་ལུ་ གོ་སྐབས་ལེན་མི་མེདཔ།

༉ རྩི་རང་ ལྕང་ལྕེ་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་གླིང་གའི་ནང་ ནང་བཟོ་ད...

Mar 06, 2025 4 mins read 1,937 views
ནང་འདྲེན་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༡༢༡ ལུ་ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ འོང་འབབ་དང་ཅ་དམ་ལས་ཁུངས་དང་...

Mar 06, 2025 8 mins read 1,605 views
སྤུ་ན་ཁ་སྒྲོམ་མཆོད་ འགོ་བཙུགས་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༤ ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་སྒྲ...

Mar 06, 2025 1 mins read 950 views
གློག་ཤུགས་སྣུམ་འཁོར་ཚུ་གི་ གློག་ཤུགས་བསྐྱར་གསོ་ཁང་ ལ་ལུ་ཅིག་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མ་བཏུབ་པར་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ གློག་ཤུགས་སྣུམ་འཁོར་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞ...

Mar 06, 2025 5 mins read 1,594 views
EV charging stations defunct or vandalised

Many electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the country are either defunct for years or not operational around the clock, leaving EV owners—especially taxi dri...

Mar 06, 2025 2 mins read 3,404 views
Import bill soars to record high of Nu 121 billion

The country’s import bill soared to an all-time high of Nu 121.16 billion in 2024, a 12 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Department of Revenue and Customs under the Ministry of Finance.

Mar 06, 2025 3 mins read 3,925 views
Changchey CSI Park has no takers

Despite several announcements inviting businesses to lease industrial plots at the Cottage and Small Industry (CSI) Park in Changchey, Tsirang, only two of the nine available plots have been provis...

Mar 06, 2025 2 mins read 11,429 views
Private sector and innovation key to high income goal: MoICE minister

To achieve a high-income economy, Bhutan must transition from a hydropower-dependent m...

Mar 06, 2025 2 mins read 2,698 views
A silent epidemic: Our battle against NCDs

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become Bhutan’s biggest health challenge, quietly claiming lives and burdening families. Unlike infectious diseases, which come a...

Mar 06, 2025 2 mins read 2,140 views
BBPL launches cheaper, refurbished furniture for schools

Phuentsholing—The Bhutan Board Products Limited (BBPL) is implementing a school furniture refurbishment initiative to reduce costs and improve sustainability in educational institutions.

Mar 06, 2025 2 mins read 6,339 views
Health Minister raises alarm over surge in NCDs

The rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the country has become a pressing concern for the Ministry of Health (MoH), with the recent...

Mar 06, 2025 2 mins read 2,948 views
གཞུང་གིས་ ལས་འགུལ་དང་བསྟུན་ གློག་ཤུགས་འགྲུལ་འཁོར་ བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་མ་འབད་མི་ལུ་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་འབད་ནི།

༉ འདས་པའི་རིང་ལུ་ གཞུང་གིས་ གློག་ཤུགས་གླ་འཁོར་༣༠༠...

Mar 05, 2025 7 mins read 2,482 views
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ འི་དོན་ལུ་ སྤ་རོ་ཨེཕ་སི་གིས་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་འབད་མི་ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤ་རོ་ཕུཏ་བཱོལ་ཀ་ལབ་ཀྱིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ བི་ཨོ...

Mar 05, 2025 2 mins read 1,221 views
ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཚུ་ནང་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་ཀྱི་ ཨུ་ཚུགས་བསྐྱེད་མི་ མངམ་ཐོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཤེས་ཡོན་དང་རིག་རྩལ་གོང་འཕེལ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ནང་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ཡུན་བརྟན་གནས་ཐབས་དང་ ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཚུ་ནང་ འཛུལ་ཞུགས་ཀྱི་ ཨུ་ཚུགས་སྦོམ་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་ སེལ་ཐབས་དོན་ལུ་ རྒྱ་ཁྱབ་ཐབས་བྱུས་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཨིན་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།

Mar 05, 2025 6 mins read 1,643 views
བཙོན་ཁང་ཚུ་ནང་ སྨན་བཅོས་ལས་རིམ་གྱིས་ ཕན་ཁྱད་བྱུང་སྟེ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ པདྨ་དྲུང་ཆེན་ཡིག་ཚང་དང་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འབྲུག་གི་འགག་སྡེ་གིས་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༣ ལུ་ བཙོན་ཁང་ཚུ་ནང་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ལུ་ལང་ཤོར་ཐལ་མི་ཚུ་གི་ སྨན་བཅོས་དང་བདག་འཛིན་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ ད་ལྟོ་ཚུན་ བཙོན་པ་༢༤༢ གྱིས་ ལས་རིམ་མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

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Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graces inauguration of Her Expression Festival at VAST

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...

Jun 06, 2026 1 mins read 518 views
Lowland cordyceps discovery in India raises questions over Bhutan’s premium fungus economy

The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked c...

Jun 05, 2026 3 mins read 5,829 views
Riwo Exhibition Unites Himalayan artists in exploration of identity and continuity

Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...

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NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

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).

Jun 04, 2026 3 mins read 1,782 views
National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...

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BRCS opens first Branch Emergency Operations Centre in Tsirang

Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...

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BTF opens office in GMC to strengthen support for southern region

Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...

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PM takes responsibility for fiscal deficit coordination failure

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay accepted responsibility for a communication gap between the Ministry of Finance and the E...

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What if waste was no longer viewed as rubbish, but as a resource waiting for a second life? That idea took centre stag...

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The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

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A night for silver screen in Punakha

For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of...

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What’s our contingency plan?

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What an entrepreneurial bureaucracy must do

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Urgent call to skill our youth

The key barriers identified in the report  - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are no...

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Bracing for impacts of distant wars

Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple...

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Beyond the statistics

The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more...

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Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The 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.

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Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

The 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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