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The Third Session of the Fourth Parliament, scheduled from May 23 to July 3, will deliberate on 10 Bills—seven Government Bills, one Private Member’s Bill, and two Bills in a Joint Sitting.
The government has approved a new National Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme (...
The Department of Local Governance and Disaster Management (DLGDM) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, in collaboration with the...
Gelephu— When Class 10 student Tshering peered through a solar telescope for the first time, she saw sunspots dancing across the sun’s surface—something she had never imagined. “I never knew the sun had dark spots,” she excl...
Launched in May 2020, the Wobthang Organic Wonders (WOW) farm in Bumthang was supposed to be a model of sustainable agriculture, innovation, and community empowerment. Today, the project is anything but that. The project has been abandoned. The 35-acres farm is overrun with weeds and overgrowth.
Bushes are growing wild, fences are falling apart, and machinery lies unused. Except for two greenhouses still in use by nearby cattle farm workers, the on...
གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་གནང་བ་མེད་པར་ སྒེ...
འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ དྲང་བདེན་དང་ ཐོབ་སྤྱོད་ དེ་ལས་ ལས་...
༉ བསམ་རྩེའི་ས་ཁོངས་དེ་ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ འབྱ་ཞིང་དང་ རྡོག་མ་ཤིང་འཛུགས་སྐྱོང་འབད་དེ་ སྡོད་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན་རུང་ ད་རེས་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཁང་དང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ཅིག་ལུ་འགྱུར་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ སོ་ནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ རྫོང་ཁག་ལྟེ་བ་སྦེ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཁང་དང་ གཞི་རྟེན་མཁོ་ཆས་རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་འགྱོ་མི་གིས་ སའི་ཆགས་ཚུལ་དང་ མི་ཚེའི་གནས་སྟངས་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་ལུ་ འགྱུར་བ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥...
In an age when many countries are content with meeting global benchmarks, Bhutan has chosen to raise the bar—not just for itself, but for how nations think ab...
His Majesty the King granted Royal Kashos (edicts) for the construction of eight major spiri...
Samtse—Once known for its lush paddy fields and sprawling areca nut plantations, Samtse is emerging as a vibrant industrial and economic zone. The shift from an agriculture-dominated district to a centre of manufacturing and infrastructure growth is reshaping both its landscape and livelihood.
Bhutan has launched an ambitious new roadmap to improve the health and survival of mothers and newborns. The Bhutan Eve...
The annual Bhutan Day, a key initiative of the German Bhutan Himalaya Society (DBHG), convened on May 17 at the Dharma Mati C...
For the second time in 16 years, Bhutan is once again racing to lower the waters of the most dangerous glacier lake, Thorthomi, in Lunana using centuries-old...
Trees have been around for a long time, and their rings, like pages of a book, tell stories that go back centuries.Each ring tells a story—of changing seasons, of the sunlight they have soaked in and the storms they have endured. They are living archives, silently chronicling the history of a changing world.
Bhutanese textile designer Chandrika Tamang, founder of CDK Gencha, is set to debut at Melbourne Design Week 2025, becoming the first Bhu...
༉ ལྡོག་ཕྱོགས་ཚོགས་པའི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ གཞུང་གིས་ སློབ་རིམ...
The 18MW Suchhu Hydropower Project in Sombaykha, Haa will be remembered as a monumental milestone not only for the people of Haa but for the entire nation. This ach...
The National Assembly’s Economic and Finance Committee (EFC) yesterday held its first public heari...
A Member of Parliament (MP) from the opposition party convicted of child molestation continues to hold office, igniting the debate over whether elected leaders c...
The state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the country are under pressure to restructure how they allocate profits, with the finance ministry calling for a sharp increase in the share going to labour, from under 50 percent to about 70 percent, mainly to revitalise productivity and drive economic growth.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued a public warning against individuals and entities operating private healthcare centres without official approval, warning...
Bhutan’s spice sector is showing promise, but entrepreneurs...
Bhutan has partnered with global cryptocurrency giant Binance and local Di...
The hushed reverence of the hall, punctuated by the gentle rustle of serthra silk gho, held a particular weight on the evening of May 10. As the minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE), Namgyal Dorji, stepped to the podium at the National Journalism Awards 2025, a palpable sense of anticipation filled the air.
The recent visit of His Majesty to Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) marks a pivotal moment in international financial cooperation. This partnership creates an unprecedented finan...
“I have been informed by the Government of India that one JCO and 25 soldiers of the Bhutan Army, who were attached to the Assam...
The fourth phase of the Million Fruit Trees Plantation (MFTP) initiative will introduce 1...
In an insightful session of Wisdom for the Future: A JSW Talk Series, Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay sat down to talk about his new book “Enlightened Leadership: Inside Bhutan’s Inspiring Transition from Monarchy to Democracy”.
Dagana Dzongkhag is fast becoming a model for disability inclusion in the country, demonstrating that community leadership, commitment, and innovation can drive...
Bhutan’s national women’s cricket team wrapped up their campaign at...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༥ ལུ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་འགོ་དང་པ་ ཕྱི་...
སྨྱོ་ཆང་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལུ་གྱོང་རྒུད། ༉ ལོ་བས...
༉ ད་རིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ སིངྒ་པོར་གྱི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ སའེ་མཱོན་ འུང་ ཝི་ཀའུན་གྱིས་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཕྱད་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན...
ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ལྷུང་ཚོ་ལུ་ དུར་ཁྲོད་གསརཔ་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་ ཁ་གས...
Our healthcare system stands at a dangerous crossroads. What was once held up as a model of free, accessible care for all has now begun to f...
Her Majesty the Royal Grandmother Gyalyum Kesang Choeden Wangchuck launched the third edition of the Zangdok Palri book, titled “Zangdok Palri of Kurjey: A Sublime Manifestation of the Lotus Light Palace of Guru Rinpoche in Bhutan” and “Path of Pure Devotion: Prayers, Practices, and Aspirations”.
In a milestone for Bhutan’s burgeoning capacity in hydropower development, th...
The Opposition Party has renewed its call for the...
Bhutan plans to register 205 local products under the Geographical Indication (GI) system by...
The preparation of detailed estimates, architectural drawings, and site development works for the new cremation ground in Hongtsho has been outsourced to Namas Design and Build. The construction is scheduled to begin by the end of this year, with the design and drawings expected to be completed by August 2025.
The recent defacing of Uluru’s sacred rock art by two Bhutanese individuals was not just a legal violation—it was a spirit...
In hospital wards across the country, a quiet revolution in neonatal care is unfolding, not with machines, but with human touch.
Torrential rain has upended the ICC Women’s T20 Wo...
འབྲུག་གི་ གསོ་བའི་གཙུག་སྡེ་ལྟེ་བ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་གཙོ་བསྟེན་སྨན་ཁང་དེ་ ད་རེས་ ཚབས་ཆེན་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ ལྷོད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
དངུལ་འབྲེལ་གཙུག་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་འཆར་དངུལ་ལས་རིམ་ཐོག་ལས་ སྐྱེད་ཆུང་(གོ་རིམ་དང་པ་) ཀོ་བིཌ་༡༩ ལུ་བརྟེན་ཐོ་ཕོག་མི་ཚུ་ ལོག་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནིའི་(གོ་རིམ་༢ པ་) དོན་ལུ་ སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༢.༢༨ ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ནུག
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New Delhi, India—The VAST Bhutan exhibition in India, which brought the question of happiness to life through the eyes of Bhutanese artists, invited audiences to explore how happiness is expressed, shared, and celebrated across different cultures.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)as signed on July 9 between the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) and Mountain H...
The Gangtey-Phobjikha Valley in Wangdue, often dubbed the Switzerland of Bhutan, continues to attract a growing number o...
Heavy rainfall on the night of July 9 caused significant flooding and multiple roadblocks in Gasa and along the Punakha–...
Thimphu Cricket Club (CC) concluded their league stage with a commanding 211-run victory over Samtse Stallions in the on...
The new National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025 marks a strategic shift in how the country will manage its energy future. Whil...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has finalised the draft of a new Competition Bill, according to th...
A life-changing win has transformed the fortunes of Tandin Tshering, a 25-year-old resident of Phuntsholing, who secured...
Bhutan and Switzerland yesterday marked a significant milestone, celebrating the 40th anniversary of formal diplomatic r...
Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) has launched a suite of advanced security features aimed at enhancing digital tra...
Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in late 2024 marked a significant policy shift—one grounded in science and global best practice.
“Sound check, sound check!” If you’ve attended a meeting, seminar, or workshop lately, you have likely heard this familiar phrase, usually followed by screeching micro...
It was no mere coincidence that as Bhutan launched its National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025, flash floods from glacial lake outbursts and excessive rainfall were wreaking hav...
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hes...
While much of the country debates taxes on fixed deposit interests, GST, and the legality of certain parliamentary decisions, something more quietly transformational is happening in Tading, Samtse. There, residents are reapin...
Bhutan’s ambition to make its agriculture sector more inclusive by involving persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a welco...
The recent sentencing of an Indian national caught smuggling over 4.6 kilograms of heroin into Bhutan is not an isolated...
The brief yet heavy downpours have exposed more than just blocked drains. They revealed the lack of civic sense among re...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay yesterday urged Bhutanese overstaying their visas in the United States to return home voluntarily. While presenting the State of the Nation Report, Lyonchhen remind...
The recent outbreak of leptospirosis among de-suung trainees in Dewathang has left the nation in grief and shock. Three young lives have been lost, and many continue to recover from a preventable illne...
The ongoing United States–China trade war is redrawing global supply chains, prompting companies to shift operations fro...
Bhutan’s imports from Thailand surged to Nu 2.67 billion in 2024, making the Southeast Asian country the third-largest s...
Samtse—For many years, farmers in Samtse have sold vegetables from under makeshift tents, battling monsoon rains and bla...
Tashichoeling, Samtse — For 78-year-old Kamala Tamang of Kochin in Tendruk, saving money in a bank had been unimaginable...
Sweeping reforms in the financial sector are essential for the country to achieve the ambitious goals of its 13th Plan,...
In a world that first instills fear in us, only to sell us a product or service to eliminate that fear, we find ourselve...
As a collective, humanity has never been richer, more connected, more informed, and more protected from all cause diseas...
A significant portion of our youth’s challenges stems from our shortcomings as responsible, patient, and mindful elders....
The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living i...
After immense pressure and numerous tutorials, Sonam cleared her Royal Civil Service Commission entry exam last year. Sh...
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 strai...
The National Assembly has passed the 2025-26 budget, approving a Nu 94 million Priority Development Fund (PDF) meant sol...
Public spaces are mirrors of a society’s soul. When they begin to show cracks—when disorder, crime, and neglect creep in...
Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in late 2024 marked a significant policy shift—one grounded in science and global best practice.
Read MoreThe much-awaited 69.04-kilometre cross-border railway project connecting Gelephu to Kokrajhar station in Assam, India, is currently awaiting Indian government approval.
Read MoreAs temperatures soar this summer, rivers in Punakha have become a popular retreat for residents seeking relief from the heat. However, what begins as a refreshing escape is increasingly ending in tragedy.
Read MoreRising costs in food and non-food categories fuelled a jump in the country’s inflation rate, which reached 3.84 percent in May this year compared to May of the previous year.
Read MoreBhutan’s growing response to the HIV epidemic is taking shape against a shifting regional landscape, where progress and persistent vulnerabilities go hand in hand.
Read MoreFewer crimes are happening in Bhutan, but those that do are more severe, according to the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)’s Statistical Yearbook 2024 report.
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