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Soe, Thimphu—As snowflakes drifted gently over Dangochang, the Soe Gewog Centre, yesterday afternoon, bringing an early close to the two-day celebration, the people of Soe took it as a blessing — a sign that the mountain deities were pleased.
The Department of Environment and Climate Change u...
Bhutan lost more than Nu 26.8 million to online scams between 2024 and 2025, according to statistics from the Royal Bhutan Po...
The construction of the Royal Centre for Infectious Diseases (RCID) in Gidakom, Thimphu, is progressing rapidly in prepara...
A delegation from Bhutan, led by the Finance Minister Lekey Dorji and the Governor of the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan, Dasho Penjore is in Washington, D.C, this week for the 2025 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG).
Wangdue—Deep within the quiet Medpaisa-Tabchekha chiwog of Wangdue, the Basochhu Waterfall has swiftly become a favourite getaway for nature lover...
The men’s senior national football team has been eliminated from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup 2027 qualifiers, des...
༉ ཆེ་མཐོའི་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ ས་རྐོ་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ ཇེ་སི་...
༉ སྤུ་ན་གཙང་ཆུ་ གློག་མེ་འཕྲུལ་ཁང་༢ པ་གིས་ དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༩ པའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ རྒྱ་གར་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ གློག་མེ་བཙོང་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ གློག་མེ་ནུས་ཤུགས་ཡུ་ནེཊ་ས་ཡ་༣༩༤.༢༣ བཙོང་མི་གིས་ ཚོད་དཔག་ཐོག་ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༢.༠༡ བཟོ་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡེན་ཊེ་ནིས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༤ མན་ཆད...
As dawn broke over Dangochang and the Jomolhari Mountain Festival came alive, the thin air of Soe carried more than the scent of wood smoke and damp soil. It car...
As dawn broke over Dangochang, the Soe Gewog Centre, yesterday, the thin mountain air was crisp and cool, carrying the earthy scent of damp soil and wood smoke from the kitchen. Above, Jichu Drakey glistened in the early light—its...
The 1,020 MW Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project-II (P-II) has earned approximately Nu 2.01 billion, having exported 394.23 million units of electricity to India since power sales began on September 19 this year.
The high court has sentenced three individuals to prison fo...
The countries of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) South-East Asia Region...
The College of Natural Resources (CNR) under the Royal University of Bhutan will ho...
This year’s World Food Day marks 80 years since the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), whose mandate from the outset has been to ensure humanity’s freedom from want.
The Department of Culture and Dzongkha Development (DCDD), in collaboration with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SA...
The Marriott India Business Council has celebrated...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཌི་ཇི་...
There was a time when we, as a nation, took comfort in believing that the warmth of family and community would be enough to care for the elderly and the sick. We argued that as a nation guided by Gross National Happiness (GNH), homes for the aged or institutional care were unnecessary.
Bhutan became the first country in the world to onboard its National Digital Identity (NDI) platform onto the Ethereum blockchai...
Local leaders across the country are raising concerns over the deteriorating condit...
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has launched the Leaders in Civil Service Programme (LCSP)...
Bhutan is exploring the possibility of establishing its first geopark, a designation that could combine conservation, education, and community-based development.
The Asian Tennis Federation’s (ATF) Under-14 Tennis Championship is being held in Bhutan for the first time in Bhutan at the National Tennis Centre in Thimphu, hosting 30 young playe...
༉ དབང་འདུས་ སྲས་ཕུག་རྒེད་འོག་ ཡོངས་ཀྲུ་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་...
Agriculture has always been our backbone, the quiet force that sustains our people and embodies our national aspiration of food self-sufficiency. Every plan,...
Over 160 patients are currently receiving palliative care at Bhutan’s national referral hospital, part of a programme that has brought comfort to more than 900 people since its inception in 2018.
The second phase of Bhutan’s first utility-scale solar power plant in Yongtru, Sephu Gewog, Wangdue, will be dela...
The vegetable production in the country saw a strong performance last year, producing 27, 873 metric tonnes (MT) across key dzon...
The overtopping at the 1,020 MW Tala Hydropower Plant dam has been contained after maintenance crews successfully accessed...
Gelephu—When accommodation became scarce for volunteers working on the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) project, 44-year-old Sonam Lhadon from Choekhorling in Dekiling stepped forward with a simple but powerful gesture — she opened her home.
Punakha—After six days of darkness, electricity was restored at Laya Gewog in Gasa on the evening of...
It is with an immense sense of relief and more than a little excitement that we follow the most recent developments of the Gelephu Mindfulness City. As much as the scale and complexity of the Royal foresight w...
Bodybuilder Mahalal Rai, 34, from Tsirang, was crowned Mr Bhutan 2025 after winning the Men’s Open Bodybuilding Category at the 14th National Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship.
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གི་ ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་དེ་ ཧེ་མ་ཚར་ཅིག་ཁུ་སིམ་...
འབྲུག་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་བརྡ་དོན་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ལེགས་ཤོད་མེ...
རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ཀྱི་ ས་གནས་གཞུང་གི་ འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ཚུ་གིས་ བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་སྣུམ་འཁོར་ བོ་ལི་རོ་གི་ གནས་སྟངས་སྐྱོ་དྲག་ཐལ་མི་དང་ ཉམས་བཅོས་ཟད་འགྲོ་ཡར་སེང་དང་ ཉེན་སྲུང་མེདཔ་ལས་ ཚེ་སྲོག་ལུ་ ཉེན་ཁ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The past week has been a difficult time for many Bhutanese, particularly for those living along the southern belt. Torrential rains have carved a trail of destruction, and as communities calculate...
The government will now pay private companies to build and operate free public c...
Gelephu—As the voluntary service for the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) gathers momentum, one thing stands out—many volunteers are coming back for more.
In a renewed push to stimulate post-pandemic growth, seven financial institutions have approved loans worth Nu 596.97 million under the government’s Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) window II—a scheme aimed at reviving struggling and high-potential businesses through the Reinvigoration Fund (RGF).
Samtse—The recently approved 16-kilometre Samtse-Banarhat railway project will pass through parts of Dha...
The Bhutan Food and Drug Authority (BFDA) has issued a public safety warning following reports of fat...
Bhutan has received one of the world’s most prestigious recognitions for environmental legislation. The...
This week, a TikTok user reported a potential scam where promoters lure her participants into a "learn and earn" programme promising foreign currency earnings through min...
My son, barely nine, has a recurring question as I head out the door each morning: “Apa, will you be home before my story time?” Some days, the answer is a confident “Yes.” On others, after a meeting runs late and the evening traffic snarls from Langjophakha to Motithang, it’s a reluctant, “I’ll try.”
May 11, 2026
Experts warn that the structural duopoly poses risks for investors and consumers, as two-player control slows the sector...
The project is expected to generate 4,575 million units annually, earning around Nu 20 billion each year. Since exports...
Concrete pouring for the 1,200MW Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project has resumed after a halt since 2019 caused by geo...
Bhutan’s economy is projected to grow steadily, reaching 6.9 percent in 2026 and 7.2 percent in 2027, driven mainly by h...
Their Majesties The King , The Queen, The Gyalseys and Gyalsem graced the groundbreaking ceremony of Druk Ugyen Samye L...
The five-day programme, running from April 10 to 14, will see volunteers working across several sites within GMC, cleari...
Bhutan’s economy is set for strong growth from hydropower, but youth unemployment, outward migration, rising fuel prices...
Bhutan’s environmental stewardship, which has resulted in the country's rich biodiversity, is finally translating into c...
The exodus of qualified and seasoned health professionals and its impact on the quality of services is an issue of natio...
The potential is vast, the scope is immense, and the market is as monumental as the Himalayas. As Bhutan and India explo...
While we continue to prioritise sports development in the country, our presence in international competitions so far has...
We are producing what can be called our most educated generation, but are offering them some of the most limited and lea...
The programme focused on strengthening ethical and responsible reporting on issues affecting marginalised groups, particularly in relation to gender and child rights in Bhutan.
Read MoreThe spike in egg prices is the result of deeper structural disruptions in the poultry sector, compounded by inflationary pressures and rising demand.
Read MoreThe 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.
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