His Majesty The King reviews progress of key GMC projects
His Majesty also visited the Gelephu International Airport site and the construction site for the 108 Chortens to be built on November 1 this year.
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Phuentsholing—A farmer from Mongar recently sold 2,082 kilograms (kg) of cardamom for Nu 1,585 per kg, netting over Nu 3.29 million. But had market conditions been fair, he could have earned nearly Nu 864,000 more.
The Royal Bhutan Police arrested three individuals, including two former monks, for stealing a gold butter lamp worth Nu 12 mill...
The 10-year Gelephu Mindfulness City’s Nation Building Bond (GNBB) drew strong interest from Bhutanese residents, surpassing Nu 2 billion bond value in subscriptions by yesterday afternoon.
Although forests cover nearly 70 percent of the country’s land area, the forestry sector’s share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is disp...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development has no authority to revise the pay structure or entitlements of national contract teachers, according to Minister Yeezang De Thapa.
In response to concerns raised by Lingmukha-Toedwang MP Namgay Wangchuk regarding the scarcity of reliable...
Beginning this June, a team of urban planners will travel across all 20 dzongkhags to...
There is a growing consensus among elected leaders to undo the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) initiative—planned, discussed, and implemented for the greater good of the bureaucracy. Both ruling and opposition members are demand...
Many people assume that every official foreign trip by public servants boosts their personal finances. However, these trips often drain their savings, as the allowances for foreign travel have not been substantially revised in over two decades and fail to cover even basic expenses.
In 2003, as part of the U.S. government’s economic sanctions against Myanmar (Burma) funds belonging to Bhutan’s...
The 2025 Rapid Assessment of Bhutan’s media landscape, conducted by the Journalists’ Association of Bhutan (JAB), presents a sobering yet nuanced portra...
In another key step toward full commissioning, Unit 4 (170 MW) of the 1,020MW Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project (HEP) was successfully synchronised with the national po...
Punakha—A complex investigation into the paternity of a newborn in Punakha has taken a significant turn after DNA analysis exonerated the initially accused stepfather of a 17-year-old girl.
Following a recent intervention by the Competition and Consumer Affairs...
Health Minister Tandin Wangchuk highlighted the comprehensive roadmap for supporting pers...
Namchella, Dagana, May 25—In the wild, green heart of Namchella, a footpath winds through...
The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Yeezang Dee Thapa, yesterday defended the ministry’s recent notification addressing the continued use of corporal punishment by teaching staff, which specifically mentioned Dzongkha teachers during the National Assembly’s question and answer session.
Bhutan’s senior women’s national football team is determined to beat Malaysia on June 3 in their final match o...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ལྟ་བཤལ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་གུ་...
༉ ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་-༡༩ ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ...
གཞུང་གིས་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་གི་ གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོ་དེ་...
The sharp rise in Bhutanese outmigration since the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer just a trend; it has become a full-blown national crisis. Prime Minister Tsheri...
Bhutan’s national poverty fell from 28 percent in 2017 to 11.6 percent in 2022. The World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Assessmen...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday instructed its Good Governance Committee (GGC) to present a detailed action-taken report on the resolutions concerning the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) Annual Report for the Financial Year 2023–2024.
Bhutanese farmers may begin benefiting from the long-anticipated Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme (CLIS) as early...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) handed over advanced drone equipment to the D...
The Opposition Party today issued a strong statement, expressing its firm support f...
Global progress on the Human Development Index (HDI) has stalled, with the 2025 report showing the slowest growth since its inception excluding the pandemic year.
The National Council (NC) yesterday supported five key tourism reform recommendations from its Economic Affairs C...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་་སློབ་གྲྭ་དང་ ཨ་ནེམ་ཚུ་གི་ གཙ...
༉ ་ར་་ ས་ང་ནང་ད་དེ་ཡོད་པ་ ག་་ཀཝ་དང་ ག་ཐག...
ཨིན་རུང་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་ གནད་དོན་དེའི་སྐོར་ལས་ གྲོས་ཐག་གཅད་ནི་དེ་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཞི་གཡོག་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ལུ་ བཞག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ལྡན་ཚོགས་ཆུང...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཁག་འབགཔ་དང་ བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཡུན་རིང...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལས་དོན་ཚོགས...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༧ ལུ་ ཇ་པཱན་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཅི་བ་འཕྲུལ་རིག་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་གིས་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལུ་ མཁས་དབང་སྐུ་ཡོན་གྱི་ གཟེངས་བསྟོད་ལག་ཁྱེར་ ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan conferred an Honorary Doctorate on His Ma...
In a rare public rebuke, National Assembly Speaker Lungten Dorji expressed dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR) for its continu...
The National Council’s Good Governance Committee (GGC) has proposed key changes to the Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), recommending a...
The National Council’s Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) yesterday presented a comprehensive set of eight recommendations to the government aimed at revitalising Bhutan’s tourism sector and ensuring its equitable and sustainable growth.
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay’s assertion that the government has no authority to amend the Royal Civil Service Commis...
Our global brand—Gross National Happiness—is envied and admired. Yet our ranking in the Human Development Index (HDI) tells a different story. At...
The National Assembly introduced the Co-operatives and Farmer Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 yester...
Gelephu—All schools and nunneries across the country will have sanitary pad disposal bins, bringing the government closer to its commitment to making all schools and nunneries period-friendly by 2029.
Bhutan achieved a significant milestone in 2023 by climbing to the 125th position out of 193 countries in the Global Human Development Index (HDI), accordi...
The finance ministry is undertaking a significant overhaul of its Procurement Rules and Regulations (PRR) 2023 and Standard Bidding Documents (SBDs) 2023 to address long-standing issues faced...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༦ ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་སྒོ་ནོར་དཔྱད་ཡ...
༉ ཟ་ཁང་དང་ བཟོ་གྲྭའི་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་གྱི་ སྐྱིན་ཚབ་བཏབ...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ བེང་གཱལ་མཚོ་ཁུག་སྣ་མང་ལས་སྡེའི་ འཕྲུལ་རིག་དཔལ་འབྱོར་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐབས་རིག་(བིམསི་ཊེག)གི་ ཕན་ཚུན་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་གྲོགས་རམ་དང་ མཚོ་འགྲུལ་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་གན་ཡིག་གུ་ གསུང་གྲོས་དང་ ཆ་འཇོག་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ངོ་སྤྲོད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
A 29-year-old man checked into PEMA Rehab in mid-2025 carrying anger, confusion, and habits that were quietly destroying his future. Today, after completing treatment, he has rebuilt his life and now works as a barista at a café in Thimphu, earning Nu 15,000 a month.
Samtse—The government has prioritised the upgrade of Samtse Hospital into a Regional Referral Hospital (RRH) under the f...
Gelephu—As the country’s health system grapples with a shortage of specialist doctors, an old idea is finding new releva...
Trongsa—Every day, hundreds of vehicles pass through Trongsa as they travel to eastern, southern, and western Bhutan. Mo...
Building owners and automobile workshop operators, and other occupants in Thimphu’s Olakha workshop area have until Augu...
The country’s economy grew by 8.52 percent in 2025, one of the strongest growth rates in recent years, driven mainly by...
The ongoing construction of the 600MW Khorlochhu Hydroelectric Project (KHP) in Trashiyangtse is improving the lives of...
First photographic evidence of the endangered Himalayan musk deer (Moschus leucogaster) from southern central Tsirang ha...
Tucked away in the easternmost corner of the country, Trashiyangtse is a dzongkhag blessed with natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, and significant tourism potential.
Gasa—The centuries-old Obtsho Dzong ruins in Gasa will undergo structural consolidation and conservation to protect the...
Central banks from across the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region have called for stronger regulatory cooperation, unified technical standards, and enhanced trust among financial institutions.
Four key economic sectors have breached the Royal Monetary Authority’s (RMA) 5 percent non-performing loan (NPL) thresho...
Bhutanese households spend an average of Nu 27,689 annually on routine religious and ceremonial activities, according to...
Ten companies listed on the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan Limited (RSEBL) have declared dividends for the financia...
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...
Empathy helps us understand the needs and perspectives of the people we serve, keeping us grounded in their realities. Without it, we risk becoming bureaucrats who create rules and regulations that are not only impractical but also cause unnecessary hardship. As the proverb reminds us, to truly understand another person’s circumstances, “we must walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.”
“Don’t even think for a moment that you are not going to die” is a quote by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. It expresses a simple truth — one of the fundamental realities of existence. Yet few...
Generally, I believe heavy-handed bans are less effective, as they tend to fuel black markets and push unhealthy activit...
Drukpa Tshezhi, which falls on 18 July this year, commemorates the first teaching the Buddha gave after his enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree.
All of us carry a subtle, nagging insecurity about who we are — a persistent need to confirm that there is a solid, permanent self we call “me.” This ins...
There is a particular kind of courage required to make a film almost entirely without dialogue, trusting landscape, silence, and a single face. At 70, veteran...
When the doors of Little Bhutan closed during the pandemic, Bangkok lost more than just its only Bhutanese restaurant. F...
Lama, as a young guy, I’m concerned about the future. What do you think will be the biggest issue for the planet within the next half century, and how do you think we can face it? Are you optimis...
Set against the quieter surroundings of Lower Taba, Vietnam Corner brings a distinctive slice of Vietnam to Thimphu’s gr...
No, I didn’t watch the video. Unless I were acting in a law enforcement capacity, I would not view this kind of footage. In cases of a fight or an accident, I try to consider how I would feel in the position of...
Recent reports of an airborne geophysical survey identifying significant anomalies of tungsten, copper, and other precious metals could mark a pivotal moment for Bhutan. Although the country has already discovered several mineral resources since mining began including limestone, gypsum, dolomite, coal, quartzite, graphite, and talc, a substantial find of tungsten would be a game-changer.
The drivers who keep Thimphu’s city buses running deserve more than gratitude. They deserve fair pay for the hours they put in. City bus drivers work more than 12 hours a day, clocking in 120 hours of overtime in...
An initiative worth pausing to reflect on this week is the collaboration among three key agencies to review Bhutan’s bus...
More than seventy percent of international visitors to Bhutan now enter the country by land rather than through Paro International Airport. Phuentsholing alone accounts for the overwhelming majority of those arrivals. One of the ob...
Sky-rocketing house rents are a grim reality haunting the capital city’s residents. While this was once a burden shouldered only by those at the lowest economic rung, it now strains civil and public servants wh...
Every single day, Bhutan adds 38 new petrol and diesel vehicles to its roads. In just the first six months of this year, we registered 6,921 fossil fuel cars. Electric vehicles?...
The Film Association of Bhutan (FAB) has lost its legal standing as a Civil Society Organisation following its deregistration by the CSO Authority in January, after prolonged non-c...
As 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 sil...
Bhutan's rich forests are not only a source of clean air, water, and wealth. Hidden within the thickets is also a web of corruption whether in illegal felling, illicit sale, or collusion among official...
Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is under construction. Heavy earthmoving machines and trucks work round the clock at the international airport. Designs for highways a...
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...
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...
Summer holidays have officially begun for students across the country, and with them comes a familiar parental dilemma....
It is a common perception that corruption, in its quieter forms of favouritism and nepotism, is no longer an aberration...
The Election Commission of Bhutan’s (ECB) recent announcement that it will vet election pledges comes at the most approp...
Homeownership in Bhutan, long understood as the most reliable pathway to financial security, is rapidly becoming an illu...
A common development paradox in Bhutan is the squandering of scarce resources on funding our projects, big or small.
His Majesty also visited the Gelephu International Airport site and the construction site for the 108 Chortens to be built on November 1 this year.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR) has completed the nationwide airborne geophysical survey, uncovering promising signs of copper, tungsten, rare earth elements, and geothermal resources.
Read MorePrivate electric vehicle (EV) buyers will have to wait longer for new incentives, as the government has decided not to immediately reinstate tax exemptions or provide subsidies for EV buyers.
Read MoreNearly 2,400 young Bhutanese remain unemployed and are actively seeking work, according to a nationwide verification exercise conducted by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE).
Read MorePhuentsholing—The government has renewed efforts to ease the Suvidha burden on exporters after West Bengal authorities agreed to take Bhutan’s concerns over export charges to higher authorities for consideration.
Read MoreThe country’s foreign exchange reserves are expected to decline in the third quarter of 2026 as surging fuel import costs, a depreciating currency, and updated trade data weighed on national finances, according to the finance ministry.
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