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Bhutanese entrepreneur Yangchen Dolkar Dorji has won the Unlock Her Future Prize 2025 South Asia Edition for LEAD+, a venture dedicated to supporting women-led and marginalised businesses in Bhutan through funding, mentorship, and market access to build community resilience and self-reliance.
Dhaka, Bangladesh—Bhutan and Bangladesh are prepar...
Wangdue—Ten-year-old Sangay Wangchuk had never left his high-altitude village in Lunana, until this week, when he boarded a helicopter and headed to Wangdue Hospital.
Sarpang—The government will upgrade a 22-kilometre section from Darachu to Relangthang along the Tsir...
The exodus of qualified and seasoned health professionals and its impact on the quality of services is an issue of national importance. In the last five years, 936 trained health professionals left the sector. The current crisis is not simply about a shortage in terms of numbers. The rapid depletion of experience is equally, if not more, concerning.
In the ancient, spiritually charged town of Rajgir, where the Buddha once walked and taught, a new sanctuary r...
After 37 days, Ani Pema Deki (Emma Slade) and her two companions complete...
Bhutan, or Druk Yul; the Land of the Thunder Dragon, is often hailed as the last stronghold of Vajrayana...
The ongoing Bhutan–India Friendship Association (BIFA) Open Football Tournament 2025 in Samdrupjongkhar is fostering regional sporting ties with 16 teams, including leading clubs from the Bhutan Premier League and 11 teams from India.
༉ ལྟ་བཤལ་ཟླ་རིམ་གནས་ཚུལ་གསར་བཏོན་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ སྤྱི...
༉ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་ལས་བཅད་དེ་ སྒོམ་ཀྲུ་དང་ སྨྱོན་པ་གླ...
༉ གངས་རི་ལྡན་པའི་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ཚུ་ནང་ གློག་མེའི་མཁོ་འད...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ ཡར་དྲག་འགྱོ་བའི་བསྒང་ལས་ འ...
༉ ཁྲལ་གྱི་ལམ་ལུགས་གསརཔ་ འགོ་མ་བཙུགས་པའི་ཧེ་མར་ ཆང་...
རྗེ་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལས་ དགེ་སློང་མའི་སྡོམ་པ་ཞུ་བའི་ཤ...
The potential is vast, the scope is immense, and the market is as monumental as the Himalayas. As Bhutan and India explore new, sustainable ways to harness hydropower, the opportu...
The country’s health sector is facing a growing crisis as it loses trained professionals at an alarming rate, despite simultaneously expanding health services and establishing specialised centres.
Tsirang—Damphu town in Tsirang, with its strategic location along the primary route to the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), will underg...
Druk Green Power Corporation Limited (DGPC) and Ta...
The Thimphu Dzongkhag Court in a recent judgement determined that employees of the Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL)...
Five workers balanced on bamboo scaffolds while roofing a four-storey building in Bebena. None wore safety harnesses, and their helmets lay untouched on the ground below.
Wearing a black shirt with the upper half of his Mathra gho folded at his waist, barefoot and grippin...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) launched a new proj...
Our financial institutions boast of going digital, yet once one either steps out of Bhutan or uses these digital payment systems outside the country, it is more often a cause of embarrassm...
November, 2025, goes on record as a time when the Buddhist world gathered in Bhutan, symbolising Bhutan’s leadership in spiritual progression under the Royal patronage of a Dharma King. In the process, Bhutan’s own spiritual heritage took a progressive stride in its evolution, with His Holiness the Je Khenpo expanding the boundaries of the Bhutanese sangha.
Statistics on meditation and prayer Questions on the frequency of meditation and prayers are included in the psychological domain of GNH survey and GNH index. The exact questions for both spiritual activities are...
‘The size of your world is the size of your heart’, or so the wise ones would often say to rein in the restless impulse of upstarts obsessed with volume rather than va...
The Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) has...
Punakha—For nearly 400 years, the Central Monastic Body (Zhung Dratshang) has maintained an unbroken tradition, a seasonal migration between Thimphu in summer and Punakha in winter.
Centuries ago, full ordination of nuns in the Mahayana tradition had faded into silence. But on the morning of November 20, the silence broke in t...
The Fourth Session of the Fourth Parliament is sch...
Bhutanese bodybuilders are making their mark, achieving exceptional success in every international competition they have entered this year,...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡༡ པའི་ཚེས་༢༡ ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གློག་མེ་ལས་སྡེ་ སྦོམ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིན་མི་ ཊ་ཊ་གློག་མེ་གིས་ འབྲུག་སླར་འབྱུང་གློག་མེ་ལས་འཛིན་དང་གཅིག་ཁར རྡོ་རྗེ་ལུང་ལས་འགུལ་ གློག་ཤུགས་མེ་ག་ཝཊ་༡,༡༢༥ འབད་མི་དེ་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་གན་ཡིག་གུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་བཀོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
While we continue to prioritise sports development in the country, our presence in international competitions so far has been defined more by participation than performance. Our small teams have marched proudly into stadiums at...
Their Majesties the King and the Gyaltsuen received the newly ordained gelongmas (Bhikkhuni) yesterday morning and offered the firs...
As the Himalayan region confronts rising energy demand, climate risks and growin...
Bhutan will continue to prioritise holistic well-being over purely economic growth, Finance Minister Lekey Dorji said at the Global Gross National Happiness (GNH) Forum at Dungkar Dzong, Paro on November 9.
The government is facing calls to prioritise climate preparedness as the c...
Punakha—Trapped by a broken wheelchair and a body that betrays her, 15-year-old Jigme Dem’s...
We are producing what can be called our most educated generation, but are offering them some of the most limited and least secure forms of employment. This mismatch is not an emerging concern; it has bec...
Gelephu—Pema Dorji, 49, from Barthang in Chhuzagang, is preparing to bid farewell to his home. His land has been earmarked for the planned Gelephu Choeten, modelled on the Boudhanath Stupa (Jarong Khashor) in Nepal.
Amid rising speculation of shortages in alcohol, tobacco...
Samtse—After decades of complaints about poor conditions, the crucial road connecting Gomtu and Ny...
The country recorded 161,512 tourist arrivals in the first 10 months of 2025, a 39 percent jump compared to...
Last month’s inaugural Bhutan Fashion Week (BFW) did more than introduce a new event to the country’s cultural calendar, it enhanced visibility, sparked interest, and unlocked economic potential for local designers whose work has long been on the margins.
On October 6, 2025, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI...
As civil servants were blessed with an official ho...
Twenty of Bhutan’s top athletes signed high-performance contracts for the 2025-26 cycle of the Bhutan Elite Athlete Suppor...
༉ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ སེམས་ཅན་ཚེ་ཐར་ཚོགས་པ་གིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ དར་དཀར་ལ་ ལྕངམ་སྒང་ལས་ གཡག་༨༦ སྲོག་སྐྱབས་འབད་དེ་ ཚེ་ཐར་བཏང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་རྒེད་འོག་གཉིས་འབད་མི་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་དཔལ་རི་ སྨྱོན་པ་གླིང་སི་དང་ གནས་སྒང་གཉིསཔོ་དེ་ ས་གཏེར་གྱི་ལཱ་འབད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཆུ་དུང་གནོད་སྐྱོན་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་ འཐུང་ཆུ་བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་ མེདཔ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
May 11, 2026
"Yes, We Care" launches a nationwide outreach to shield its youth from substance abuse.
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...
In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...
When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...
The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།
Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-quarter of the world’s oil flows to markets, reopens, the discuss...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-needed respite that eases global anxieties over spiraling economic and geopolitical crises....
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...
The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...
Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...
The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...
The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...
As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...
The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...
The Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of Bhutan will be held from May 14 to June 17, 2026, during which lawmakers will deliberate on key national budgets, major Bills, international agreements, and action taken reports on past resolutions.
Read More༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།
Read MoreAt just 32, Tseltrim Zangmo thought she was just tired; she ended up fighting Stage 3 breast cancer. Her message to the world: "I will not say I am cancer-free, but I have accepted it... it does not define me
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