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A growing chorus of Bhutan’s healthcare professionals is calling for private sector participation in healthcare delivery, as the country’s public health system shows increasing signs of strain.
Bhutan suffers an estimated economic loss of Nu 6.5 billion every year due to alcohol-related harm—an amount that...
With the fourth phase of the monetary relief measures set to end...
Phuentsholing—Although Samtse was declared the country’s fifth dzongkhag thromde by the previous Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) government, t...
To raise Bhutan’s standing in the global media landscape, experts suggest drawing lessons from countries that consistently rank at the top of the World Press Freedom Index.
With tensions escalating between India and Pakistan, the world is watching with a growing concern. The conflict is closest to our doors, the SAARC region, yet there seems to be some silence in c...
The advent of land tokenisation in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) marks a transformative moment in property rights and wealth preservation. By leveraging blockchain techn...
The government is planning to reduce Thimphu’s growing dependence...
In December 2023, Bhutan launched one of its most...
Oxford Professor Eric Beinhocker explained the Origin of Wealth as the combinat...
A regional conference aimed at promoting cross-bor...
All vacant Gewog Administrative Officer (GAO) positions across the country will be filled by...
Samtse—At 74, Madan Kumar Rai remembers a time when buffaloes were central to life in his village. Once a prominent buffalo farmer in Namgaychoeling, Rai now owns just seven animals. Across the village, numbers are decreasing. Buffalo rearing — once a way of life — is quietly fading.
The government has approved the import of beef from Brazil starting in February this year, following the co...
January 2025 brought me an extraordinary gift — a journey back to my second home, Tokushima. When my friend Teruh...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་ གནད་དོན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ལག་ལེན་ཚུ་ ཨང་ཅན་ཌི་ཇི་ཊལ་གྱི་ཐོག་ལུ་ སོར་སྒྱུར་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ གྲུབ་དབང་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མའི་ སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་སྦེ་ སྙིང་ཐིག་ཡ་བཞི་དང་...
༉ གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ལོ་བསྟར་ཁྱིམ་གུང་གསོ་བའི་ལྟ་རྟ...
༉ འབྲུག་ཉེན་སྒྲོལ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་(བི་ཨར་སི་ཨེསི) གཞི་བཙ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༨ ལུ་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ གློག་ཤུགས་མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་ཡོངས་བསྡོམས་༥,༠༠༠ རྐྱབ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འབྲུག་སླར་འབྱུང་གློག་མེ་ལས་འཛིན་དང་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཨ་ད་ནི་སྡེ་ཚན་༢ ཀྱི་བར་ན་ གོ་བརྡའི་ཆིངས་ཡིག་གུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་བཀོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The Ministry of Health’s launch of the Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS) programme marks a significant step in Bhutan’s journey toward strengthening primary healthcare. At a time when health systems around the world ar...
The Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) and India’s Adani Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Thimphu yesterday to jointly develop hydropower projects totalling 5,000 megawatts (MW).
The cost of goods and services in the country rose sharply in March this year, with the infl...
A 64-year-old man died after being electrocuted in Nobgang, Punakha, while replacing prayer flags near the Talo Gup’s office.According to police and eyewitness accounts, the incident occurred when the man was attemptin...
Thimphu Thromde is digitally transforming its operations to tackle the persistent issue of waste management. The city’s rapid urban growth has exacerbated sanitatio...
Marking its eighth foundation day, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) launched its Youth Forum and Youth Volunteer Policy yesterday, a strategic initiative aimed at unlocking the potential of Bhutan’s young population.
༉ ཌི་ཇི་ཊཱལ་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༩ འི་ནང་འཁོ...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ མ་འོངས་པའི་དོན་ལུ་ ག...
༉ གཞལམ་སྒང་ ཀྲོང་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ རི་དྭགས་གླངམོ་ཆེ་༡༣...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཞབས་དྲུང་སྐུ་མཆོད་ཀྱི་ ཉིནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ནང་ ཐུགས་སྨོན་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས...
Zhemgang—A herd of 13 wild elephants has been roaming Trong Gewog in Zhemgang for more than three weeks, causing...
The media’s role in voicing public aspirations and holding power to account is under increasing threat in South Asia, according to the Asia Press Freedo...
Phuentsholing—Phuentsholing has taken a bold step into the digital future, ending decades of informal and manual parking practices with the full implementation of Parking.bt—Bhutan’s first mobile parking application.
Bhutan’s digital economy is projected to contribute USD 300 million to its gross domestic product...
The GovTech Agency’s initiative to equip half of Bhutan’s population with essential digital skills—or at least enable them to safely navigate online services—is not just tim...
What should have been a joyous beginning to mother...
རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འགན་ལེན་བདོག་གཏད་བརྗེ་སོར་ཁང་ནང་ ལས་སྡེ་...
༉ ཇ་པཱན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ ཨོ་ས་ཀ་ ཡུ་མེ་ཤི་མ་ལུ་སྦེ་ འགོ...
༉ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ཚུ་ནང་ སྨན་ཁབ་གྱི་ཁྱབ་ཚད་...
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ འབྲུག་མི་༤༠༠,༠༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ལུ་ དགོས་མཁ...
In an era where institutions are stretched thin and community bonds often feel like relics of the past, the story of Dawakha Lower Secondary School is a quiet but ringing affirmation of what can still be possible when people remember that they belong to one another.
Out of 18 listed companies with the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan Limited (RSEBL), 10 have declared dividends and share offerings, while...
༉ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ལས་ཚོགས་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱལ...
Bhutan will roll out an ambitious digital literacy initiative this fiscal year to equip more than 400,000 Bhutane...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has launched the Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS) programme, a nationwide initiative to strengthen primary healthcare by bringing essential services directly to the doorsteps of communities.
The Bhutan Pavilion at the World Expo 2025 in Yumeshima, Osaka, Japan saw over 10, 000 visitors in the first weeks. Bhutan is taking part in the Expo at the invitation of the Government of Japan. The event brings together diverse perspectives, foster collaboration, and generate innovative solutions to address global challenges.
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The agriculture sector has received a timely boost with a notable increase in the production of major crops and cereals, according to the Integrated Agriculture and Livestock Census of Bhutan (IALC) 2025.
A performance audit report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA), tabled in Parliament yesterday, shed light on shortcoming...
Samtse—With increasing volumes of waste generated daily, the PW Waste Recovery Center in Samtse has installed new recycl...
The Parliament has called for legal action over Nu 2.38 billion in unresolved public fund irregularities, invoking a rar...
The preliminary investigation into the leptospirosis outbreak among desuup graduates in Dewathang, Samdrupjongkhar, has...
The National Council (NC) has decided to seek a Royal Command to convene a joint sitting of Parliament after it declined...
A two-year nationwide sanitation project worth Nu 7 million is set to begin this month in Thimphu, following the release...
At the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) conversation on June 30 in Thimphu, the intersection of cryptocurrency, innovation...
Bhutan’s housing landscape shows a near-even split between homeowners and renters, with 53.2 percent of households ownin...
Despite growing efforts to promote inclusive education in Bhutan, students with disabilities continue to face major barr...
At last, the government has managed to persuade Bhutan Telecom to reduce mobile data charges by 50 percent. From July 1...
A remarkable transformation is unfolding in the southern plains of Bhutan. The quiet frontier town of Gelephu is now eme...
More than 70,000 acres of forestland have been lost to fire in the country in just five years. This is not merely a stat...
As Thimphu Thromde undergoes a flurry of repairs and maintenance in preparation for an upcoming VIP visit, the city’s tr...
For a person diagnosed with kidney failure, a transplant gives a new lease of life. However, a study published in the Bh...
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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