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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།
Government offices, public institutions, corporate entities, and private businesses in the country pay substantial monthly fees to private security agencies to guard their premises. Yet the security guards who stand watch at those gates for 12 hours a day, sometimes even longer, take home little more than the bare minimum needed to survive.
Nearly four years after the government procured three incinerators with USD 374,000 in donor funding during the Covid-19...
Phuentsholing—The growing movement of commercial goods into Bhutan through private vehicles and informal distribution ne...
To be honest, I am still not sure about pursuing the matter further. I don’t know if it will bring any outcome because i...
Common leopards are thriving in Bhutan despite a growing tiger population, with the country’s first nationwide study of...
Punakha—Punakha recorded the country’s highest-ever temperature of 39.5°C last July, a record-breaking event that climat...
Ninety-seven hotels were onboarded for the four percent interest subsidy in July, according to the Royal Monetary Author...
Kalu Rinpoche has been served with two legal notices in Australia following allegations he made in a video concerning do...
Phuentsholing— Bhutan’s push to develop 5,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power by 2040 is creating demand for engineers wit...
Young people across the country marked International Youth Day today with celebrations highlighting their aspirations, c...
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.
Sure, here’s a version edited to fit the lower word limit. For two weeks I have woken to the silhouette of a large potted plant, its leaves etched against the pale morning light.
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 bu...
“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...
Phuentsholing and Jaigaon are twin border towns with a shared business ecosystem. They depend on each other for trade, employment, and services. At the same time, they also compete for the same customer base.
As a resource-strapped country, we cannot afford to waste public funds. Yet it keeps happening. Several projects built with scarce public funds and donor money are either sitting idle or falling apart. Wh...
The findings from the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority’s (CCAA) latest study should worry anyone who cares about the future of Phuentsholing.
Recent reports of an airborne geophysical survey identifying significant anomalies of tungsten, copper, and other precio...
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...
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...
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...
No, I didn’t watch the video. Unless I were acting in a law enforcement capacity, I would not view this kind of footage....
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...
As voters head to the polls today to elect the Thrompons and thromde thuemis of Thimphu and Phuentsholing, the most stri...
Bhutan's rich forests are not only a source of clean air, water, and wealth. Hidden within the thickets is also a web of...
Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is under construction. Heavy earthmoving machines and trucks work round the clock at the...
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...
Phuentsholing and Jaigaon are twin border towns with a shared business ecosystem. They depend on each other for trade, employment, and services. At the same time, they also compete for the same customer base.
Read MoreSamtse—Samtse’s economic growth is outpacing its town’s development, with local leaders seeking a clear decision on whether it will finally be upgraded to a dzongkhag thromde.
Read MoreThe Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has arrested 17 individuals in connection with a series of vandalism cases involving lhakhangs and chortens across the country.
Read MoreGovernment expenditure, population size, and access to health and education services vary significantly across dzongkhags, highlighting persistent disparities in how people and public resources are distributed nationwide.
Read MoreFollowing the 5.5 magnitude earthquake that struck near Punakha, the Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL) has paid out over Nu 11.8 million in insurance claims to 865 affected households across the country.
Read MorePunakha—At 45, Tshering Pem of Humpathang village in Chhubu Gewog, Punakha, is the beneficiary of an individually managed solar-powered lift irrigation system, the only individual-ownership pilot project in Bhutan.
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