A moment of reckoning, a future in the making
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hesitation, but by bold conviction.
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༉ ལྷུན་རྩེ་མཁོ་མང་ལུ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་སྐད་ཚུ་ག་ནི་ཡང་མེད་པར་ སྐྱིད་ཏོང་ཏོ་སྦེ་སྡོད་པའི་ ས་ཆ་ཅིག་ཨིན་རུང་ ད་རེས་འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ འུར་བྱེལ་ལང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ཁྲོམ་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་ ཡོངས་གྲགས་ཅན་གྱི་ མ...
If the concept of civic cleanliness is lacking in our culture, it becomes glaringly evident when the mass gathers for any event – festivals, sports and religi...
The Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH), Bhutan’s primary healthcare institu...
Financial institutions (FIs) have approved Nu 2.28 billion in loans under the economic stimulus programme’s (ESP) concessional credit lines (Window-I) and reinvigoration fund (Window-II).
In a thrilling display of wit, awareness, and cross-border camaraderie, Babesa Higher Secondary School (HSS) was victorious at the Inter School Invitational Indo-Bh...
Khoma in Lhuentse, usually calm and quiet, has become a busy stopover in recent days. Located on the route to Singye Dzong, the village is seei...
Phuentsholing—When a group of customers stepped into a popular momo restaurant in Phuentsholing’s town centre and asked for tea, the restaurant owner had to turn them dow...
The Bhutan Food and Drug Authority (BFDA) and the International Trade Center, World Trade Organisation (WTO), yesterday launched a new project initiative focused on facilitating safer and smoother cross-border trade in agricultural and food products for Bhutan.
Bhutan’s only—and the world’s first—captive breeding centre for the critically e...
After a 14-year break, Bhutan is once again stepping onto the international body...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཚུ་གིས་ ཡུན་རིང་ག...
ད་རེས་ནངས་པ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མའི་སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་ དད་ཅན་གྱི་མི་༣,༠༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ གནས་སྐབས་ཀྱི་སྦ་སྒོར་ཚུ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཐོག་ལས་ ཟླཝ་༡ གི་རིང་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ སྙིང་ཐིག་ཡ་བཞིའི་ དབང་ལུང་ཞུ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༠ ལུ་ ལྷོ་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་ ཨ་རུ་ན་ཅཱལ་པར་དེཤ་གི་ ཡུ་པི་ཡ་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ གཱོལ་ཌེན་ཇུ་བི་ལི་རྩེད་ཐང་ནང་སྦེ་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་མི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ ལྷོ་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡན་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་ཚོགས་པའི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༩ འོག་རྒྱུ་འབད་མིའི་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་ འགྲན་བསྡུར་ནང་ ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་གི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༩ འོག་རྒྱུ་འབད་མི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྐང་རྩེད་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ མཱལ་དིབསི་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབདཝ་ད་ གཱོལ་༢-༢ འདྲན་འདྲ་སྦེ་ རྒྱལ་ཕམ་ཕྱེ་མ་ཚུགསཔ་ཨིན་པས།
For many decades, Bhutan has taken great pride in providing free healthcare to all its citizens. This noble mandate has ensured that no Bhutanese is...
More than 3,000 devotees are currently living in m...
Bhutan’s economy expanded to Nu 273.3 billion in 2024, marking a 6.06 percent growth for the year, driven largely by a strong fourth-quarter (October to...
The government has confirmed its review of a comprehensive proposal submitted by the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) outlining a strategic framework for private sectors’ involvement in the 13th Plan.
A new anthology chronicling the lives and contributions of Indian teachers in Bhuta...
Bhutan emerged as the top medal-winning nation at the first South Asia Youth Judo Development Tournament and Camp, held in...
Bhutan’s under (U)-19 men’s national football team played out a spirited 2...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་དྲོ་པར་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ དགེ་བསྙེན་ཁའི་གཞུང་ལམ་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༩ དེ་ཅིག་གི་ས་ཁར་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ཐུག་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མིའི་ནང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༧༡ ལང་མི་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཐུག་རྐྱེན་དེ་ཡང་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་བོ་ལི་རེ་ཊག་དེ་ དྲོ་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ཕྱེད་དང་༨ དེ་ཅིག་ཁར་ ལམ་འགྲུལ་འབདཝ་ད་ བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འཕྲལ་གྱི་ འབྲུག་པའི་བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་གནས་སྟངས་བརྟག་ཞིབ...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ནང་ མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ སྒེར་གྱི་ས...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ བསམ་རྩེ་འོད་གསལ་རྩེ་ རིན་ཆེན་སྡིངས་ལུ་...
༉ བཟའ་འཐུང་ཉེན་སྲུང་ ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ད་རེས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༨༤.༩ གནས་པའི་ སྔོ་ཚལ་གྱི་ ཆུ་ཤོག་ཁྱིམ་ཆེ་བ་༡༥ གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་ལཱ་ཚུ་ འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
As the nation takes stock of its economic health, a troubling figure demands urgent attention. As of now, loans worth Nu 33 billion remain under deferment. Ne...
In a drive to bolster food security, works on establishing 15 mega greenhouses worth Nu 84.9 million are currently underwa...
Phuentsholing—The government’s plan to construct a domestic airstrip at Rinchenphu in Yoeseltse, Samtse, has entered the next phase with the compl...
A recent rapid assessment of Bhutan’s media landscape has raised concerns about financial instability, limited access to information, and a growing culture of self-censorship that impacts journalistic integrity and press freedom.
The Beskop Tshechu Film Festival returns this year with a renewed sense of purpose. For the first time in its history, all screenings will t...
Since the launch of the Environmental Deoxyribonucleic Acid (eDNA) laboratory at the College of Natural Resources (CNR), the country h...
རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ངོས་ལེན་ཟད་འགྲོ་དཔེ་རིས་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཆང་ལུ་བརྟེན་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་གྱོང་རྒུད་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༦.༥ ཕོག་དོ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚོད་རྩིས་བཏོན་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༩ ལུ་ བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་ཞལ་འཛོམས་འཚོག...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༠ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ཀྱི་ བརྡ་...
༉ སང་ཕོད་ཀྱི་ལོའི་ སྔ་ཆ་ལུ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ ག...
Gelephu—At least three international construction firms are expected to undertake the 13.6-kilometre Gelephu–Tareythang highway project in Sarpang, which is scheduled to begin early next year.
Eco-tourism in Bhutan is emerging as a powerful to...
Bhutan’s critical care services are steadily expanding as the government intensi...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has not yet reached a final decision on adopting the Cambridge curriculum by July this...
Let’s face it. Alcohol has become a national problem. The statistics speak for itself.
India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire across land, air and sea on May 10 starting 5:00 pm—after an intense war—halting the fight betwe...
College of Natural Resources (CNR), Lobesa—As discussions o...
The ongoing United States–China trade war is redrawing global supply chains, prompting companies to shift o...
The country’s journalism fraternity came together Saturday to celebrate the 9th Annual Journalism Awards (AJA) 2025, honouring exceptional work across print, broadcast, and digital media platforms.
In a world that first instills fear in us, only to sell us a product or service to eliminate that fear, we find ourselves trapped in a never ending cycle of anxiety and temporary relief. At a time when humanity is addicted to economic growth at all costs, it is easy to lose sight of the deeper question, the mother of why we do what we do: our pursuit of happiness.
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His Majesty the King graced the launch of the Bhutan Baccalaureate at the Druk Gyalpo’s Institute in Dungkar Dzong, Paro on July 4.
While the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) continues to prioritise food and nutrition security as its core mandate, it is increasingly adopting a more inclusive vision—one that recognises the meaningful participation of persons wit...
The prime suspect in the alleged murder of the former Dorji Lopen, Yonten Gyeltshen, acted alone with theft as the motiv...
To address the rising digital and financial fraud cases in the country, Bhutan Information, Communication and Media Auth...
With the growing concerns over mental health challenges, Health Minister Tandin Wangchuk acknowledged the scale of the i...
The creative industry is set to receive a boost with an allocation of Nu 530 million from the government’s Nu 15 billion...
His Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of the third session of the fourth Parliament on July 5. Speaker of the...
Bhutan has drawn unexpected global attention following the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) latest global worki...
Amid increasing immigration enforcement in the United States (US), Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MoFAE...
An Indian national, Thanil Wanhengbam, 50, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling 4.610 kilograms of her...
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hesitation, but by bold conviction.
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
It may be a coincidence, but the World Bank’s warning that Bhutan could lose a significant share of its Gross Domestic P...
The National Assembly’s recent move to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on harmful digital content is not only timely—it is...
When the global apparel giant Uniqlo recently objected to Bhutanese retailers using its logo without permission, it set...
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hesitation, but by bold conviction.
Read MoreThe new National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025 marks a strategic shift in how the country will manage its energy future. While continuing to honour hydropower, the policy moves decisively toward renewable diversification, energy security, climate resilience, and economic transformation to meet Bhutan’s energy goals for 2040.
Read MoreThe Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has finalised the draft of a new Competition Bill, according to the CCAA’s Annual Report 2024-25.
Read MoreA life-changing win has transformed the fortunes of Tandin Tshering, a 25-year-old resident of Phuntsholing, who secured the Nu 20 million grand prize in the Monsoon Lucky Bumper Draw on July 1, 2025.
Read MoreBhutan and Switzerland yesterday marked a significant milestone, celebrating the 40th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations alongside the 50th anniversary of Helvetas Bhutan.
Read MoreBhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) has launched a suite of advanced security features aimed at enhancing digital transaction safety and combating fraud.
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