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Chhukha—Two remote chiwogs in Getana gewog, Chukha—Daga and Tashigang—are witnessing a rising number of goongtong (empty households), as families abandon their homes due to the lack of basic services, especially a school.
Bhutan is expected to experience a normal monsoon season from June through September, accompanied by slightly above-normal tempe...
ORO Bank, in collaboration with Finastra, has been...
The bedrock of our democratic constitutional monarchy rests upon the fundamental principle enshrined in Article 1(13) of our Constitution, which unequivoca...
If the claims of the National Resources and Environmental Committee of the Na...
We often point to our cultural pride and our status as a clean, s...
Being a Buddhist in a Buddhist country, I joined hundreds of devotees at Kuenselphodrang to receive the wang-lung (empowerment and transmiss...
Druk Green Power Corporation Limited (DGPC) and PTC India Limited (PTC) yesterday signed a Memorandum of...
At 30, Pema Wangmo is not just an artisan, she is a quiet force of change. At the Bhutan TSHAR Institute in Kalapang, Mongar, she has emerged as a master craftswoman whose work is as much a story of resilience as it is of refined artistry.
The government has spent Nu 7.936 million to develop 39 gov...
ལས་རིམ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་ལཱ་འབད་མི་དང་ ཤེས་ཡ...
ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་ ...
Bhutan’s media landscape is facing a serious problem that strikes at the core of its democratic ideals. Once seen as a promising pillar of democratic transition, the Bhutanese press is now navigating a slow, painful decline—one marked by financial hardship, diminishing independence, and shrinking space for public discourse.
Germany has rapidly emerged as a popular education...
More than 160 overseas returnees who had registered with the National Reintegration Programme (NRP) are...
Phuentsholing—Communities along the southern border, particularly in Samtse and Phuentsholing, are urging the government t...
Punakha-An 89-year-old woman died from injuries sustained when the Bolero she was traveling in veered off the road on the afternoon of May 21. The accident occurred in Saycochen, Khatoed Gewog, approximately 22 kilometers from Gasa.
The Pema Secretariat is ramping up efforts to address pressing issues related to mental health and ch...
Heli Bhutan Private Limited, the country’s first private helicopter service, has completed f...
Bhutanese archer Kinley Tshering advanced to the third round of the Incheo...
༉ མངོན་མཐོ་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ ཆེ་མཐོའི་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལས་བཏོན་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༣༨ ལང་མི་ ཕ་ཇོ་དངོས་གྲུབ ཀྱི་ རྩོད་གཞིའི་འཁྲུན་ཆོད་དེ་ དུམ་གྲ་ཅིག་ བསྒྱུར་བཅོས་འབད་དེ་ ཉེས་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ གནད་དོན་ཚུ་ལུ་ བཙོན་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ཚབ་སྦེ་ ཁྲིམས་འཐུན་བཏབ་ཆོགཔ་ བཟོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
འབྲུག་པའི་ གསར་ཐོན་གྱོན་ཆས་བཟོ་བཀོདཔ་དང་ རིས་མོ་མཁ...
༉ ངན་ལྷད་བཀག་སྡོམ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་མགུ་འབྱིད་རྐྱབ་མིའི་གྱངས་...
His Majesty the King, accompanied by Her Royal Highness Ashi Dechhen Wangmo Wangchuck,...
Bhutan’s rising youth unemployment is no longer a “ticking time bomb”—it is a full-blown crisis. Beneath the surface of growi...
Alarmed by an increasing number of financial scams in the country, authorities are engaging in discussions to...
A two-day regional conference on labour mobility in South Asia concluded yesterday in Thimphu, spotlighting a major shift in how policymakers, expert...
In light of the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Germany on November 25, 2020, and the history of German assistance dating back to the early 1970s, what are your perspectives on the growth and current state of this bilateral partnership?
Punakha—The Supreme Court yesterday partially overturned the High Co...
Bhutanese fashion designer, artist, and photographer, Karma Tshering Wangchuk, widely known as Lhari,...
Recently, a close friend insisted we go to Kuenselphodrang to receive blessings from His Eminence Namkhai Nyingpo Rinpoche. At the break of dawn, we took a taxi to help ease traffic...
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) latest report on “Assessment of Corruption Vulnerabilities and Integrity in the Media Sector” highlights the media’s increasing vulnerability to corruption, undermining its role as a pillar of democracy.
༉ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ཚོང་ལམ་ནང་ སྤུས་ཚད་ཅན་དང་ རང་བཞིན་ཐོན་ས...
སྒེར་སྡེ་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་དང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་གི་གོ་སྐབས་ཡར་...
༉ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ སྤུ་ན་ཁའི་གཡུས་ཚན་དེ་ ལུང་གཤོང་སྐྱིད་ཉམས་ཅན་ཅིག་དང་ ཆོས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ཅིག་སྦེ་ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ད་རེས་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ལས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ས་ཁོངས་ལྟེ་བ་ཅིག་ལུ་ འགྱུར་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཁང་གླ་མཐོ་དྲགས་སྦེ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ...
The government’s approval of the National Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme—a long-awaited initiative to shield farmers from losses caused by climate change and wildlife depredation—marks a critical step...
Gelephu—With rents in Gelephu now at a record high, rising faster than overall inflation, low-income ten...
The upcoming 35th session of the National Council (NC), scheduled from May 23 to July 2, will feature the presentation of a review report on youth and substance abuse—an issue the House regards as a national concern. Gasa MP Tshering, chairperson of the Social and Cultural Affairs Committee, said youth are the backbone of the country and must not fall prey to alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse.
Bhutan aims to transform its honey sector into an inclusive, sustainable, and globally recognised apiculture industry by 2030, prod...
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the Royal Government have unveiled a new five-year developmen...
Punakha—Once known for its tranquil valleys and spiritual allure, Punakha is now at the heart of a real est...
Beskop Tshechu began in 2011 with the goal of creating an alternative platform—for both filmmakers and audiences. At that time, there were few spaces for the kind of creative, non-commercial films the founding group was interested in. TV stations and cinema halls catered to different content, leaving a gap for short, experimental works. Short films, by nature, have limited budgets and no commercia
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ ཚོགས་ཐེངས་༣༥ པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ གནམ་གཤིས་འགྱུར་བགྲོད་དང་ ར...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༣ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ སྤྱི...
༉ ནང་སྲིད་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་འོག་ལུ་ ས་གནས་གཞུང་སྐྱོང་དང་ རྐྱེན་ངན་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལས་ཁུངས་དང་ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་སྡེ་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༧ ཚུན་ལུ་འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་ གཞི་རྟེན་འཚོལ་ཞིབ་དང་ སྲོག་སྐྱབས་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ལས་རིམ་ཐེངས་༨ པ་དེ་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་ཅན་སྦེ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་ འོབ་ཐང་རང་བཞིན་སོ་ནམ་ལས་འགུལ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་དེ་ནང་ སྔོ་ཚལ་གྱི་ཆུ་ཤོག་ཁྱིམ་༢ མ་གཏོགས་ མཐུན་རྐྱེན་གཞན་ཚུ་ ལག་ལེན་ཐོག་ལུ་མེདཔ་ལས་ ཚལ་མ་གིས་གང་བའི་ཁར་ རཝ་ཚུ་འགྱལ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སོ་ནམ་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ཚུ་ཡང་ ལག་ལེན་མེད་པར་ལུས་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ རེ་འདོད་ཅན་གྱི་ ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་དེ་ སྐྱོ་དྲགས་སྦེ་ ཡོདཔ་་ཨིན་པས།
In a stride toward revitalising rural livelihoods and strengthening the agri-food sector, the government launched the country’s national Geographical Indication (GI) system on June 10.
Gelephu—With no indigenous malaria cases reported since November 2021, Bhutan is making the final push to achieve malari...
The National Council (NC) yesterday unanimously adopted the review report on the forestry sector’s contribution to gross...
Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT) has opened admissions for its first-ever part-time Bachelor of Info...
The National Council on Thursday adopted seven recommendations from the Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) on the review r...
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen yesterday graced the 16th Convocation of the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), where 1,931 students from 11 RUB colleges received their degrees and diplomas.
The National Council (NC) yesterday adopted the review report on Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), calling for an incr...
Chukha—Thirty-three-year old Kumar remembers the first fish he ever caught. He was a schoolboy in Gongtsakha, a remote v...
The allocation of funds for the rural life insurance scheme under the general reserve (GR) saw a lengthy and contentious...
Amid growing recognition of the critical role of reliable soil data in sustainable land management, 40 participants from...
Agenda Chikha, a collaborative initiative between the government and key stakeholders, has committed USD eight million t...
After a four-year hiatus, the National Startup Weekend is back, aiming to equip aspiring entrepreneurs with essential sk...
Smartphone imports spiked to Nu 2.72 billion in 2024, a sharp increase from Nu 2.2 billion in 2023. This jump propelled...
Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) has received 3,969 loan applications across its 35 branches nationwide, totaling...
Bhutan’s international payment systems showed mixed trends in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2024, recording a sharp increas...
The latest figures from the Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) reveal a significant increase in income tax collecti...
It is not often that media institutions introspect on their own standing. Yet, the annual release of global press freedo...
Policymakers have reiterated the mantra that the private sector is the “engine of growth”. This phrase has adorned nati...
The recent confirmation of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Dagana should serve as a serious wake-up call—not just for pig f...
Bhutan’s economic outlook for the next fiscal year appears positive. According to the World Bank’s latest South Asia Dev...
Her Majesty Gyalyum Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Patron of the Tarayana Foundation, graced the opening of a two-day international conference on “Operationalising Gross National Happiness (GNH) in Bhutan and Beyond: Catalysing Mindsets and Technologies for Well-Being-Centred, Village-Led Development” at Dungkar Dzong in Paro yesterday.
Read MoreAs the armed confrontation between Iran and Israel enters its second week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade has confirmed that all Bhutanese nationals residing in the Middle East are safe and unaffected by the escalating violence.
Read MoreThe tax reform proposed in the Income Tax Bill 2025 is expected to cost the government up to Nu 5.57 billion in lost revenue. Finance Minister Lekey Dorji acknowledged the significant revenue impact while introducing the Bill to the National Council (NC) yesterday, attributing roughly 95 percent of the projected loss to state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
Read MoreSamtse—The areca nut production in Bhutan has sharply declined over the past three years despite an increase in the number of trees planted.
Read MoreTwo spiritual events. Two vastly different outcomes. What separates the squalor left behind at the recent oral transmission from the orderly conclusion of the menlam chenmo gathering is not money, not manpower, but planning.
Read MoreJomotsangkha — In the quiet corners of Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary (JWS), a touching story of companionship and care unfolds every night. Four and half month-old Karma Raygye, a young elephant calf, has captured the hearts of many with his endearing habits and unwavering trust in his caretaker, Namgay Dorji.
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