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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།
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With the monsoon in full swing, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued an urgent public advisory following an outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) across several districts in Assam, India.
Three years after a government-subsidised project to transition taxis to electric vehicles (EVs) officially ended, 34 of...
Paro Dzongkhag Court has sentenced an Indian national, Meghan Vijay Gujuran, to 17 years in prison for trafficking 9.73...
A two-day workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Development begins today in Thimphu, aiming to explore how AI can...
Household farms form the backbone of the country’s livestock sector, accounting for 99.9 percent of all animal holders, leaving a mere 0.1 percent from non-household entities.
Chukha—After months of public complaints, traffic disruptions, and hygiene concerns, residents of Gedu town in Chukha ar...
The Sixth Meeting of the Assembly of the South-East Asia Regulatory Network (SEARN) officially began today in Thimphu.
The much-awaited 69.04-kilometre cross-border railway project connecting Gelephu to Kokrajhar station in Assam, India, i...
As temperatures soar this summer, rivers in Punakha have become a popular retreat for residents seeking relief from the...
Rising costs in food and non-food categories fuelled a jump in the country’s inflation rate, which reached 3.84 percent...
After immense pressure and numerous tutorials, Sonam cleared her Royal Civil Service Commission entry exam last year. She was set to become a civil servant, earning around Nu 41,000 a month. Yet, she turned down the job and chose to fly to Australia.
Remittances are pouring into the country. Our people, especially in places like Australia, are sending money home. This...
As the early rains of the monsoon settle into Bhutan’s valleys and mountains, the land is already showing signs of strain. Roads have begun to buckle, hillsides to slide, and social media is awash with foota...
The National Assembly has passed the 2025-26 budget, approving a Nu 94 million Priority Development Fund (PDF) meant solely for Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), despite the National Council’s opposin...
Public spaces are mirrors of a society’s soul. When they begin to show cracks—when disorder, crime, and neglect creep in...
It may be a coincidence, but the World Bank’s warning that Bhutan could lose a significant share of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2050 due to drying climate comes just as the country rolls...
The National Assembly’s recent move to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on harmful digital content is not only timely—it is overdue. For too long, we have watched from the sidelines as explicit, violen...
When the global apparel giant Uniqlo recently objected to Bhutanese retailers using its logo without permission, it set off a chain of events that now serves as a rare, and long overdue, wake-up call.
Bhutan has been named among 36 countries facing potential US travel sanctions. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade has issued a notification urging undocumented Bhutanese in the United States to voluntarily return home.
Whether the confusion stems from discussions in Parliament or how the media has reported them, many people, including those without a fixed deposit account, are concerned about the proposed tax on fixed deposit (F...
In an age dominated by fast fashion and synthetic dyes, a Bhutanese entrepreneur is turning to the past to craft a more...
The Bank of Bhutan (BoB) unveiled two financial products—Credit Line Limit (CLL) and BOB Premium Card—at a networking ev...
Potato trade has seen a major transformation since the launch of the online auction system under the Bhutan Commodities...
Mountain Hazelnuts, one of Bhutan’s first fully foreign direct investment (FDI) companies, has secured USD 7.9 million e...
For the first time, Bhutanese vintage wine will go under the hammer on the global stage, marking a historic moment for t...
Two spiritual events. Two vastly different outcomes. What separates the squalor left behind at the recent oral transmiss...
In recent days, the National Assembly has passed some major tax reforms. From introducing a flat 5 percent Goods and Ser...
Alcohol, tobacco, carbonated drinks, and other non-essential or harmful products will become more expensive starting Jan...
Bhutan’s fertility rate has dropped from over six children per woman in the 1980s to just 1.7 in 2017, far below the rep...
We are on the verge of becoming a malaria-free nation. This is no small feat. From tens of thousands of cases in the 199...
The lone women’s team taking part in the Bhutan National Archery Championship has literally raised some eyebrows. Smartly dressed in kira and competing shoulder to shoulder on compound bows with 83 other teams, team Kurukulle is also attracting a lot of attention.
Read MoreThe Hotel and Restaurant Association of Bhutan (HRAB) is calling on the government to extend the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loans to the hospitality sector, arguing that the industry is still struggling to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreHis Majesty the King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, and members of the Royal Family attended the funeral ceremony (purjang) of the late Dorji Lopen Yonten Gyeltshen Rinpoche yesterday at Nalanda in Talo, Punakha.
Read MoreMore than 90,000 students across Bhutan will receive increased school meal stipends beginning this month, following a Cabinet decision aimed at combating rising concerns over child malnutrition.
Read MoreThe Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has announced a bye-election for the Nubi-Tangsibji constituency in Trongsa, following the removal of Member of Parliament (MP) Tashi Dorji, who is currently in detention and facing trial in the Supreme Court on charges of child molestation.
Read MoreThe Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) introduced a new set of loan restructuring measures this year aimed at helping struggling borrowers, particularly businesses hit hard during pandemic. The move marks a shift from the broad loan deferment approach under Monetary Measures IV (MM4), which officially ended on June 30, this year.
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