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Bhutan’s electricity supply is projected to fall short of domestic demand for much of the next decade, forcing the country to scale back power exports and rely more on imports during winter, according to the Department of Energy’s latest demand–supply projections up to 2040.
In an effort to promote digital literacy and cybersecurity awareness in...
Bajothang town will soon have a modern farmers market, bringing relief to vendors and shoppers who have...
A two-day Narrative Storytelling Workshop concluding today has equipped 32 media professionals with the skills to move beyond conventiona...
It is early morning in the highland village of Soe, Thimphu. Inside a wooden room, the stove glows red, filling the air with gentle warmth. Tshering Wangmo pulls open the window curtains. Outside, the world is white and still. Jichu Drakey Mountain shines under the rising sun, its golden light spilling across the snow.
A pilot project introducing quinoa into meals at Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH), Wangb...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཞི་གཡོག་གྲོས་འཛོམས་འགོ་འབྱེད་ཀྱི་སྐབས་ལུ་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ ཞི་གཡོགཔ་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ དོ་འགྲན་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་མི་དེ་ཡང་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་སྦེ་ ཞི་གཡོག་པའི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ལས་ཁུངས་དང་ ལས་ཚོགས་ ཡང་ན་ ངོ་རྐྱང་ཚུ་ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་དེ་ མི་མང་ཞབས་ཏོག་མཁོ་སྤྲོད་གསར་བཏོད་དང་ རྩ་བརྟན་གྱི་ཆ་ཤས་སྦེ་ གྲོས་འཆར་བཀོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Beginning today, the Changlimithang ground in Thimphu will be transformed into a sanctuary of peace and hope as the Global Peace Prayer Festival (GPPF) sta...
Speaking at the launch of Zhiyog Droezom yesterday, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay proposed an annual competition withi...
The government has assured that the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) decision to expand medical recruitment will not c...
A joint technical assessment is underway for the 1,200MW Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project (PHEP-I) to finalise the right bank dam stabilisation measures.
Samtse—The death of a class PP student at Tashicholing Hospital on October 20...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CC...
Expanding access to critical protection services for survivors of violence, RENEW and UNICEF inaugura...
The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in collaboration with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), has installed a network of sensors in the headwaters of the Mo Chhu to monitor near-surface ground temperature to detect permafrost.
The Department of Livestock (DoL) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock h...
Public policy is often imagined as a fixed compass, steady and unbending. But in a rapidly changing world, governance must be agile. This is even...
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen were honoured at the World Monuments Fund (WMF) Gala with t...
Thousands of devotees from Bhutan and around the world are set to converge in Thimphu tomorrow as the Global Peace Prayer Festival (GPPF) begins at Changlimithang ground.
Gelephu—With a revised alcohol taxation policy due to take effect in just two months, alcohol that was once readily available is now in short supp...
Samtse—As industrial and development projects expand across Samtse, the rising population has c...
What is common to many writings on conflicts and violence is the issue of culture and identity. This is a theme explored in many books including that of Sen (200...
Residents of Debsid in Thimphu are growing increasingly frustrated with deteriorating road conditions that have made daily travel unsafe and inconvenient.
In a collective tribute to mark the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, a pledge ceremony for the 11 j...
The government is formulating a comprehensive National Housing Strategy (NHS) designed to ta...
༉ སྔོན་དང་ཕུ་ལས་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ ལྷོ་ཁྲིམས་མེད་...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ རྒྱལ་སྲུང་ཤོ་ཐེངས་༢ པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་༣༠ ལུ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ པདྨ་ཐང་དང་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཞིང་ མཁོ་ཐང་ཁ་ དེ་ལས་ རྒྱ་མཚོ་གླིང་ རྒྱལ་སྲུང་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་སྤེལ་ཁང་ཚུ་ནང་ བརྩི་སྲུང་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
སོ་ནམ་དང་ སྒོ་ནོར་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རང་བཞིན་སླ...
Our greatest strength has always been our capacity to look beyond the moment and plan for balanced progress. The recent national workshop on integrating livestock production with environmental conservation and human health once...
Phuentsholing—Hoteliers in Phuentsholing say the government’s plan to offer Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loans at three percent i...
E-cigarette imports have surged 290-fold in just two years, with numbers soaring from just 994 units in 2022 to 288,939 in 2024, according to the Bhutan Trade Statistics.
The government will establish a time-bound Tourism Mission Board, chaired by the Prime Minister, to a...
The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) will conduct a special audit of the Bhutan...
The Thimphu Dzongkhag Court has ordered the Bhutan...
MoIT has requested Nu 533.5 million from the finance ministry through the Disaster Restoration Fund to restore bridges and roads damaged by flash floods on October 4 and 5 this year.
In response to rising digital fraud cases, the aut...
Gelephu—The first cohort of Pelsups, currently undergoing the Innovation and Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) immersion programme, discussed how mindfulne...
As we celebrate the 17th Coronation of His Majesty today, our hearts swell with gratitude for a leader whose steadfast commitment t...
Residents of Laya are gaining their first exposure to waste management awareness and learning to create products from plastic waste with support from SHE-Cycle Solutions.
Zamling (the World) is grappling with myriad pressing problems created by its inhabitants, Homo Sapiens’. A cycle of Ned-mu-ge-mag-thrug—disease, epidemics, internal strife,...
Farmers across the country will begin receiving insurance for crop and livestock losses starting November 11, as the Minis...
The sun hangs over Jampeling village in Gelephu, where daily life moves at its usual pace. Shops wait for customers, taxis hunt for passengers, and a narrow r...
As one enters the quiet campus of Laya Middle Secondary School (MSS), the national flag mounted on a green metal pole is immediately conspicuous. It rises several metres above the green-roofed, single-storey structures and against the sparkling white mountains.
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development is implementing str...
Soe, Thimphu—The air was sharp with mountain chill, the kind that nips the cheeks and makes breath visible like small clouds. Yet, at 4,100 metres above sea level in Soe, the nigh...
Paro— The media’s role in balancing the duty to inform the public with the ethical responsibility to protect identities of individuals accused of crimes is increasingly under scrutiny, particularly when it comes to the practice of naming and shaming in news reporting.
The three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expected to generate 494 million units (MU) of electricity annually.
Thousands of bank accounts across the country’s financial institutions (FIs) have become dormant, holding idle funds for...
The 37th Session of the National Council (NC), to be held from May 14 to June 16, will deliberate on agreements, convent...
As Bhutan gears toward achieving a 10X economy, the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) will remain a crucial factor...
The agriculture sector is showing early signs of transition from subsistence-based farming towards more commercial produ...
The programme focused on strengthening ethical and responsible reporting on issues affecting marginalised groups, partic...
The spike in egg prices is the result of deeper structural disruptions in the poultry sector, compounded by inflationary...
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 desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.
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.
The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.
The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...
༉ 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་ཁ...
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 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...
The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
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...
The Convention on Civil Aviation (Amendment) 2016 was tabled in the National Assembly today for parliamentary review.
Read MoreThe National Assembly today held the first and second readings of the Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) in Criminal Matters Bill 2026 during the ongoing session.
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