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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།
Bhutan is confronting a mounting demographic crisis that economists warn could undermine the country’s ambitious 10X National Economic Vision, as declining fertility, rising youth outmigration, and a rapidly ageing population begin to reshape the foundations of long-term economic growth.
Bhutan is set to formally adopt the framework agreement establishing the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) on May 18...
The Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) continues to strengthen its role in cancer prevention, treatment, and patient support, g...
Trashigang—The three-day Great Yeti Quest festival drew around 8,000 visitors to Sakteng this month, delivering an unpre...
The government has dropped the proposed airport project at Pongchola in Mongar after technical reassessments concluded t...
Amid growing concerns over misinformation, declining public trust and recent drop in international press freedom ranking...
Punakha—The Royal Bhutan Police has deployed 28 police personnel, including two officers, to Lunana amid mounting securi...
The three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expected to generate 49...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.
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 name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.
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...
Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-quarter of the world’s oil flows to markets, reopens, the discuss...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
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 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...
Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...
The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-ne...
The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...
The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...
Just five months into the new 5 percent GST regime, food inflation has soared to 6.83 percent, leaving consumers asking: where are the promised savings? While lawmakers push to exempt 22 new essential items like cooking oil and rice to protect the poor , tax officials warn that adding more exemptions will only invite massive tax evasion. Who is really winning here? The consumers or the businesses?
Read MoreBhutan’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.
Read MoreAs tourist occupancy drops to just 17 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels, Members of Parliament are calling for immediate visa reforms and a single tourism authority. Is the current tourism policy leaving regional sectors behind?
Read MoreDid you know that only 11.8 percent of Bhutan’s population is covered by a national pension scheme? With over Nu 73 billion in assets operating without a dedicated Act, concerns are growing that current pension calculations could leave civil servants vulnerable in old age. Is your retirement truly secure?
Read MoreAt Nu 1.5 million per kilometre, the government is spending heavily on chain-link fencing to curb human–wildlife conflict. But with standard fences failing and costs rising, is this really a sustainable solution or just a costly way of masking a deeper ecological problem?
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