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Catherine Bell (1953–2008), a religious studies professor, once wrote that humans have been performing rituals since the earliest days of hunting bands and tribal gatherings. From the flicker of firelight to the hum of modern cities, we’ve never stopped creating meaning through ritual—only reshaping it to fit the rhythm of our times.
In a country where most youth programmes are built around lectures and for...
Trongsa—The future of the Viewpoint Resort in Trongsa remains uncertain, with no redevelopment plans in sight...
Laya, Gasa: High in the northern reaches of Bhutan, where the wind hums across snow-laden peaks and yaks graze beneath the gaze of towering glaciers,...
With new tax rates on alcohol, tobacco, and pan masala taking effect beginning next year, the finance ministry has implemented a stringent anti-hoarding strategy to prevent businesses from stockpiling goods before the new regime begins.
Taxpayers will enjoy a range of new benefits under...
To make up for slow business, a shopkeeper in Changzamtog, Thimphu, sacrificed her puja holidays to stay open. If business is not buzzing, she is suddenly noticing some relucta...
In an era shaped by digitalisation and social media, the judiciary’s legitimacy depends not only on the soundness of its judgments, but also on its capacity to communicate with citizens transparently. Article 1(13) of the Constitu...
Chukha—Gedu College of Business Studies (GCBS) will launch two new academic programmes in 2026, part of a broader plan to strengthen the curriculum and pursue international accreditation.
The Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) will formally take over the new Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS) from the vendor on November 11.
Bhutan is advancing its vision of an Intelligent Bhutan by strengthening the technical capabilities of local profession...
The Department of Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives (DAMC) has stepped up efforts to consolidat...
A recent World Bank report on Migration Dynamics in Bhutan has found that the country’s young and educated citizens are increasingly seeking opportunities abroad, driven by limited prospects and wide wage disparities at home.
Until a few years ago, Taktsimakhang in Gasa was l...
The officials from the Bhutan Food and Drug Authority and the Royal Bhutan Police i...
In a corner of the Ngatshang Gewog Centre, the air is filled with the scent of ginger and Amala. Inside a meeting ha...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་༢༣ ལུ་ དགའ་ས་ ལ་ཡ་ལུ་ ཉིནམ་གཉིས་འབད་མི་ རྒྱལ་འཛིན་ལ་མཐོ་སའི་དུས་སྟོན་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མའི་ནང་ དབུ་བཞུགས་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཁར་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་དང་ རྒྱལ་སྲས་འཇིགས་མེད་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུག་ དེ་ལས་ རྒྱལ་སྲསམོ་བསོད་ནམས་གཡང་སྒྲོན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ གྲལ་བཞུགས་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་ སྲས་ཕུག་རྒེད་འོག་གི་འོག...
༉ ལ་ཡ་ལུ་སྡོད་མི་ བསྟན་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ལོ་༡༠ གྱི་ཧེ་མར་...
༉ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ནད་གཞི་ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་མི་ད...
༉ ངང་ལམ་དང་ བདེ་བའི་ཐང་བར་ནའི་ གཞུང་ལམ་སེལ་ནི་ལཱ་ཚ...
Dasho Karma Ura, President of Centre for Bhutan and GNH Studies shares an update on the preparations for the Global Peace Prayer Festival...
ISLAMABAD – Millions of Pakistanis affected by floods are turning to social media for help. Instead, they’re f...
China and the United States will engage in a fresh round of trade talks later this week in Malaysia, in a bid to de-escalate tensions...
Crime and drug abuse are no longer problems that exist in the shadows. They are creeping into our homes, schools, and neighbourhoods.
His Majesty the King graced the opening of the two-day Royal Highland Festival 2025 in Laya, Gasa, yesterday, joined by Her M...
Highlanders of Soe are taking steps to register and certify their incence and cordyceps prod...
Gelephu—Naku is playful and enjoys offering his paws to visitors. With his tail wagging and nose sniffing around, he seems to be enjoying his new home, Relangthang Dog Sanctuary in Gakiling.
A high-level parliamentary delegation led by the speaker of the National Assembly of Bhutan, concluded an official visit to Brussels, Belgium, from October 16 to 18.
For the first time, an entire fashion week is being imagined, built, and brought to...
Jampel Choda, a 35-year-old from Mongar, who serves with the Royal Bodyguard (RBG), won the Laya Run 2025, completing the 25-kilometre (km) race from Pongchot...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ས་སྣུམ་ནང་འདྲེན་དེ་ རྒྱ་ཆེཝ་སྦེ་ར་ འ...
༉ འཕྲལ་མགྱོགས་ར་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ལྕང་གླིང་མི་ཐང་ནང་ རིས་མེད་འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེ་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ འཚོགས་ནི་ཨིན་མིའི་ནང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ལྟ་བཤལཔ་༢,༠༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ནི་ བཟུམ་ཅིག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འབྲུག་གསོ་བའི་བློ་གཏད་མ་དངུལ་གྱིས་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཉིས་...
In the far north, where the wind hums against snowy cliffs and yaks graze under a blue, unbroken sky, the Royal Highland Festival begins onc...
More than 2,000 international participants are expected to attend the upcoming Global Peace Prayer Festival, scheduled from November 4 to 9 in Thimphu.
The construction of the Nganglam-Dewathang highway is progressing steadily, with work in full s...
Trial finds high production costs, poor potato quality, and low yield make...
The government is positioning data centres as one...
Tenzin, a resident of Laya, is originally from Phongmey in Trashigang. Ten years ago, he married a Layap woman and settled in the highland village.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) has marked a milestone first year...
༉ སྲོས་གདང་སྒོ་ཆང་ལུ་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ལྡུམ་ར་ནང་ མ...
Students of Draktsho East held an art exhibition titled “Colours of Ability” in the courtyard of the Tarayana Centre in Thimphu yesterday. It was a simple event, without a chief guest or even a sound system. The audience consi...
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has merged the Planning Unit and the Economic Development Sector into a unified Planning and Economic Development Sector (PEDS) in all dzongkhags to enhance efficiency, alignment, and purpose in national development efforts.
In Dangochang, Soe, a family bends over their field, lifting red-skinned potatoes from the dark soil. Their daughter, home on leave fr...
Phuentsholing—The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has called for...
Phuentsholing—The College of Science and Technology (CST) inaugurated the Sol...
The Bhutan Health Trust Fund (BHTF) received a combined contribution of Nu 7.3 million yesterday, Nu 3.7 million from the people of Mongar and Nu 3.6 million from Samtse.
The midday sun blazes over Chubogang, Thimphu. Inside a compact CGI-sheet room, the buzz of an electric planer drowns out the summer heat. Wooden boards line the walls, tools rest neatly in place, and Sonam Dorji, 43, is absorbed in his work, shaping wood into furniture.
The agriculture sector is showing early signs of transition from subsistence-based farming towards more commercial production, supported by improved market access, better inputs and modern farming practices, according to the latest quarterly data.
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 Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of Bhutan will be held from May 14 to June 17, 2026, during which lawmakers w...
At just 32, Tseltrim Zangmo thought she was just tired; she ended up fighting Stage 3 breast cancer. Her message to the...
The bond between the two Kingdoms of Bhutan and Thailand has always been rooted in shared reverence and wisdom. This gai...
One life is lost every 84 hours. Bhutan’s rising suicide rate is no longer just a public health crisis. It is also a di...
With a price tag of Nu 14.4 billion annually, can Bhutan really afford to keep subsidizing your fuel?
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...
Three borrowers have refunded a combined Nu 240.48 million to the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) pool following the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) directive to submit action taken reports on procedural lapses identified in four projects.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has launched a nationwide review and redeployment exercise to address growing disparities in teacher distribution across schools, in wake of teacher shortages in key subjects and rising teacher attrition.
Read MoreBhutan is confronting a mounting demographic crisis that economists warn could undermine the country’s ambitious 10X National Economic Vision, as declining fertility, rising youth outmigration, and a rapidly ageing population begin to reshape the foundations of long-term economic growth.
Read MoreThe National Assembly yesterday tabled the Renewable Energy Tax Exemption Bill of Bhutan 2026, proposing time-bound and conditional tax breaks to attract investment and accelerate the development of hydropower, solar, and other renewable energy projects.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreCharity has always been an inherent value of Bhutanese society. Neighbours lend a hand, communities pull together in sickness and death, and strangers step up in hard times.
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