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Although the government earlier announced that there were about 300 electric taxis, with the majority procured through the electric vehicle (EV) project, records from the Bhutan Construction and Transport Authority show 297 registered electric taxis as of March 3, while 27 ordered under the project have not been delivered for more than two years after the project ended.
The Prison-based Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment and Care Programme, launched in 2023 through a joint initiative of The PEMA Secretar...
Paro Football Club (FC) has announced new strategic partnerships ahead of...
The government has allocated Nu 1.5 billion from the Economic Stimulus Plan to kickstart affordable housing initiative to enable Bhutanese c...
The Ministry of Education and Skill Development (MoESD) is implementing a comprehensive strategy to reduce admission pressure on urban schools while strengthening rural schools.
Much to the delight of those who paid their income tax, especially the salaried group, there is a discussion on the personal income tax exemption threshold. The finance ministry is reviewing the threshold...
Limited access to maternal and child healthcare, especially in rural areas, has long been a pressi...
Faced with high costs of feed production and heavy reliance on imports, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) is piloting the...
With Losar celebrations past and the Year of the Wood Snake upon us, we take our annual last look at the IndoPacific region’s lunar year that was.
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ སོ་ནམ་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ལས་སྡེ་ཚུ་ན...
༉ འབྲུག་ལས་ ཤིང་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་མི་ཚུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ཚོང...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ གཞུང་གི་སློབ་གྲྭ་༤ བ...
༉ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༡༢ པའི་ཚུན་...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་རྩོད་ཀྱི་ རྩོད་གཞི་ལྷག་ལུས་ཡོད་པ...
Gelephu—Timber exports from Bhutan are struggling to gain a foothold in the Indian market amid fierce competition from larger timber-exporting...
The economy is projected to grow by 8.93 percent in 2025, nearly doubling from the estimated 4.97 percent growth for 2024, according to the Finance Ministry’s December 2024...
Phuentsholing- Phuentsholing Thromde has completed the refurbishment of four government schools as part of its effort to improve infrastructure and create a better learning environment.
Bhutan’s judiciary recorded its lowest number of pending court cases in recent years, with 1,183 cases remaining unresolved as of 2024. This figure repr...
A good learning environment is not just about textbooks and teachers—it is also about the spaces where students spend their formative years....
In line with the government’s target of encouraging youth involvement in the agricultural production sectors, the Department of Agricultural Ma...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་ཨོ་ལིམ་པིག་ཚོགས་པའི་གཙོ་འཛིན་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ དྲགོས་འཇིགས་རྒྱལ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ རྩེད་རིགས་གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་འབད་ནི་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ མོ་བཏབ་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ གོམས་འདྲིས་དང་ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་གོང་འཕེལ་ལས་རིམ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ དབུ་བཞུགས་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང་ཁག་ སྐོར་ཕུག་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ར...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ འི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་སྲས་མདའ་རྩེད་འགྲན་བ...
༉ ནུས་ཤུགས་དང་རང་བཞིན་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟ...
༉ ཆུ་ཁ་ དར་ལ་རྒེད་འོག་ ཀེ་ཟ་རི་ལུ་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་ལས་བཅད་དེ་ འཐུང་ཆུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ཐོན་མི་དེ་ འཕྲལ་མགྱོགས་ར་ སེལ་ཐབས་འབད་ཚུགས་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR) on February 28 announced a positive list of project proposals eligibl...
Chukha—The decades-long drinking water crisis in Kezari village in Darla gewog, Chukha will soon be a thing of the past. A new water pump promises to...
Flying has long been associated with convenience....
Contesting against three male candidates, Kuenzang Choden, 32, won 244 out of 806 votes in the bye-election held last month, to become the first female gup of Korphu gewog in Trongsa.
Besal Subba, 22, from Phuentsholing, Chukha, has ventured into a field often overlooked or dismissed by his peers—electronics repair services.
༉ གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་མཐའ་དབུས་མེད་པའི་ འབྲུག་མི་དད་ཅན་ཚུ་གིས་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྗེ་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ བླ་སྤྲུལ་རྩ་ཅན་ཚུ་ལས་ བཀའ་ཆོས་ཞུ་ནིའི་ གོ་སྐབས་བཟང་པོ་ཐོབ་ཅི།
༉ འདས་པའི་ལོའི་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༣ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ...
༉ གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་དེ་ འབྲུག་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ཁྱད་...
༉ རང་ལུགས་གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་དེ་ ཤེས་རིག་ལས་སྡ...
༉ རང་ལུགས་གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཁ...
༉ ན་ཧིང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༡༠ ལུ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་བདེ་ཆེན་...
༉ ན་ཧིང་ གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོ...
༉ གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་དོན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའ...
༉ གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ལམ་སྲོལ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ གནད་དོན་ཚུ་གི་ བཅུད་དོན་དེ་ཡང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ལས་ ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དང་ སྔར་སྲོལ་ལམ་ལུགས་བདག་འཛིན་ མ་འོངས་ཡུན་བརྟན་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ སྲོལ་ཁྱུན་བདག་འཛིན་གྱི་སྐོར་ལས་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ནང་ གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།
༉ གནམ་ལོ་ཤོང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ལུ་ སོ་ནམ་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དང་འབ...
༉ བང་ལ་དེཤི་གི་ སྲིད་འཛིན་མོ་ཧ་མེཌ་ ཤ་ཧ་བུ་ཌིན་གྱི...
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ དེ་ རྒྱལ་རབས་ཅན་གྱི་ ལོ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ དྲན་སྣང་འབྱུང་ནི།
༉ རང་ལུགས་གནམ་ལོ་ ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་འདི་ མཇུག་བསྡུཝ་དང་འབྲེལ་ ལོ་ནག་གི་དུས་ཡུན་ ཟླཝ་༡༠ ལུས་མི་དེ་ ཁ་ཙ་ལས་ དེ་གི་ཤུལ་འཛིན་པ་ ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལུ་བཞག་ནུག།
The Year of the Wood Male Dragon comes to an end, leaving behind 10 months of the inauspicious “lonag” or literally translated as (black year) for its successor, the Wood Female Snake.
The past year was marked by political continuity, economic recalibration, and shifting social dynamics, offering a reveali...
As the Dragon’s roar fades,the economic impact remains, though overshadowed by the country’s broader, more ambitious economic goals. The 2024 economic outlook brings a sense of cautious optimism, tempered by pragmatic reali...
The year ahead could be marked by numerous rimdos and kurims, as the Datho predicts the year of the Snake to be not so favourable for many of our plans and aspirations. If the cold and gloomy first day was any indication, there is much in store as the Snake slithers in.
The launch of the Wisdom Centre at JSW Law, coinciding with the 45th birthday anniversary of His Majesty, represents a significant milestone in Bhutan's journey towards building a robust and efficient justice sector. As the nation continues to navigate the complexities of modern governance, this initiative underscores the importance of fostering collaboration, addressing resource constraints and e
More than 200 children and adolescents, including nuns, monks, and children with disabilities, celebrated the International Day of Play at Changlimithang Stadium today.
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 Bhu...
Bhutan has taken a step closer to joining international forest carbon markets with the launch of an independent assessme...
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 significa...
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.
After 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.
An educated youth has shattered traditional age boundaries to get elected as Tshogpa, completely rewriting what leadersh...
Banks in the country maintain high lending rates and low returns on deposits, which continue to strain businesses, parti...
Private livestock dealers claim a state-owned corporation lured them into investing, only to turn around and aggressivel...
The Department of Tourism spent over 85 per cent of its budget, yet critical tourism infrastructure is still lagging. Wh...
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.
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...
The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.
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,...
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...
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,...
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...
༉ 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...
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...
More than 300 farmers in Samtse are cultivating and experimenting with moringa, blending traditional knowledge with modern science to produce what entrepreneur describe as one of Bhutan’s emerging premium wellness products.
Read MoreThe Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) inaugurated the first-ever Civil Service Innovation Day today, providing a platform for government agencies to showcase innovative solutions, systems, products, and best practices that are improving public service delivery.
Read MoreThe High Court has upheld the Thimphu Dzongkhag Court’s judgment that the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) unlawfully terminated the employment of Tashi Phuntsho on June 9, 2026.
Read MoreThe two principal border towns, Phuentsholing and Samtse, are facing a range of regulatory barriers that are hindering business growth and limiting their contribution to the national economy, according to a new report launched in Phuentsholing on June 11.
Read MoreA Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.
Read MoreBhutan has witnessed a sharp rise in Australian student visa refusals over the past six months, with education consultants describing the rejection rate as the highest in recent years.
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