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Bhutan’s development philosophy, Gross National Happiness (GNH), foregrounds human wellbeing over narrow GD...
For decades, a neurosurgical diagnosis in Bhutan meant one thing: a long, uncertain, and exp...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock recorded a favourable export performance last year...
The Haa Dzongkhag Court on October 6 convicted the executive director of the Bhutan Toilet Organisation (BTO), Passang...
At Sherubtse College, tucked away in the hills of Kanglung, Trashigang, a student-led club has been quietly shaping lives and communities for more than four decades now.
Eight of Bhutan’s top under-19 badminton players, four boys and four girls, are currently represen...
Gelephu, once a quiet border town where the pace of life slowed with dusk, is now alive with the rhythm of renewal. The Gelephu...
More than 1,600 loan applications under the Economic Stimulus Programme (E...
Gelephu—Once a quiet border town, Gelephu is now seeing a business boom, with each voluntary service programme for the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) drawing a bustling crowd.
Anxiety, depression, and substance-related conditions ac...
Bhutan’s trade figures for 2024 reveal a mixed picture: while exports are climbing, imports are growing even faster, widening the country’s trade...
Bhutan has been ranked 4th among the world’s top countries in the Condé...
As autumn turns the alpine meadows of Soe, Lingzhi, and Jangothang turns into soft shades of gold and dusts the mountains with snow, communities in these northern highlands are preparing for the 11th Jomolhari Mountain Festival.
Hydropower projects shut down by the heavy rainfall and flash floods of October 4 and 5 have resumed operations and are now being closely monitored,...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ མཐའ་འཁོར་གནས་སྟངས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱན་པའི་ གཙང་ས...
༉ གདན་ཅི་ཁའི་འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ འཕྲལ་མགྱོགས་ར་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་ག...
We take great pride in our image of unspoiled nature—sparkling rivers, clear mountain streams, and pristine springs. But the latest findings from the Royal Centre for Disease Control reveal an unsettling truth: while our water may be clean at the source, much of it becomes unsafe to drink by the time it reaches the tap.
Bhutan is celebrated for its pristine environment—its crystal rivers, clear mountain air, and abundant springs. Yet, a recent national study has revealed an unsettling contradiction: while wa...
Mental health issues among children and adolescents in the country often start in early childhood and are closely tied to family an...
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is assisting users in diverse ways, from automating tasks and analysing vast amount...
Dagana—Dagapela town in Dagana is steadily transforming, as the emerging township witnesses a wave of new private constructions marking a major milestone in its development journey.
Samtse—Denchukha will soon be connected through the Phuentsholing–Damjee road as an alternative route, after recent floods washed away...
Tsirang—For 30-year-old Kinley Wangdi, the run-down basketball court in Damphu was a place of dreams. That dream has now come true with the opening of a new, modern sport...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ དཔལ་སྲུང་འགོ་...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྒོང་རྡོག་གི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ རྒྱ་ཆེཝ་སྦེ་ར་འབད་མི་ རྩི་རང་དང་ གསར་སྤང་ དེ་ལས་ དར་དཀར་ནང་རྫོང་ཁག་ཚུ་ནང་ གདོང་ལེན་བྱུང་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ ནང་འཁོད་ལས་བཟོ་མི་ སྒོང་རྡོག་གི་ཤོག་སྒམ་གྱིས་ མཁོ་འདོད་དང་འཁྲིལ་ ལང་མི་ཚུགས་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Mental illness is not a problem that hides in the shadows—it hides in plain sight. It lives in classrooms, homes, offices, and even monasteries. Yet, for far too long, it has been treated as something to be whispered about or i...
His Majesty the King announced the launch of Pelsung, meaning Guardians of Prosperity, a new national...
The Third PEMA Symposium opened on Monday in Thimphu, marking three days of dialogue,...
The Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law (JSW Law), in collaboration with Anand and Anand, a leading intellectual property law firm from India, hosted a day-long international conference on “Mindful Artificial Intelligence (AI), Just Laws, Better Lives” at the JSW Law campus in Pangbisa, Paro, yesterday.
Lhuentse—At Menchugang in Tsenkhar Gewog, Lhuentse...
Tsirang—Poultry farms in the country’s primary egg-producing dzongkhags like Tsirang, Sarpang, and Dagana are under strain, as a handf...
Twenty-four bodybuilders, including seven women, will compete in the 14th National Bod...
༉ རྩི་རང་རྫོང་ཁག་ནང་ སའི་གོང་ཚད་ཡར་སེང་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་ འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ གསར་སྤང་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞིས་ཆགས་ཀྱི་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་ཚུ་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་མཆོག་གིས་ ཁ་ཙ་དྲོ་པར་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཞ...
༉ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡ པ་ལས་ ཟླ་...
When the government unveiled the Nu 15 billion Economic Stimulus Plan (ESP), the country was still recovering from the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic. Livelihoods had been lost, small businesses were closed, and families were struggling to reco...
Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen graced the inaugural session of the Third Annual PEMA Symposium at Zhichenkhar, Thimphu, yesterday morning.
Tsirang—Land prices in Tsirang are soaring to record highs as residents of Sarpang rush to invest in preparation for a possib...
The Department of Tourism (DoT) has approved around 1,030 familiarisation (FAM) tri...
With support from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the National Centr...
Phuentsholing—As the waters of the Amochhu swelled, the sand hill beneath them began to crumble. Standing on what was once firm ground, Tashi Dendup and Phurba Tshering exchanged a final wave before making a decision that would test their endurance and faith—they would swim through the raging current to survive. Moments later, both men disappeared into the river.
A year after the relocation of the old Chamkhar town, prompted by recurring fire and floo...
When Yeshey Lhadon returned to Haa after more than...
༉ དོ་འགྲན་དང་ ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉ...
༉ འདས་པའི་རིང་ལུ་ ཆརཔ་ཤུགས་སྦེ་རྐྱབ་ནི་དེ་གིས་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དང་ དགའ་ས་ དེ་ལས་ དབང་འདུས་ཚུ་ནང་ འཁོར་ལམ་དང་ ཟམ་ཚུ་གནོད་སྐྱོན་རྐྱབ་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འབྲུག་དང་ རྒྱ་གར་ས་མཚམས་བདའ་སྟེ་ ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་...
A sudden and intense weather system, initially centred over Nepal as a low-pressure area,...
Phuentsholing — Heavy rainfall over the past two days caused severe flooding across southern Bhutan, displacing families, damaging properties, and...
The incessant rainfall over the last two days caused widespread destruction to public infrastructure and claimed few lives in the country.
Continuous rainfall and flash floods on October 4 and 5 have forced the shutdown of five major hydropower plants across the country. The affected projects are Tala, Suchhu, Dagachhu, Punatsangchhu-II, and Chhukha.
Two Bhutanese consumers just lost Nu 78,000 to a 'TikTok Shop' scheme. Here is how the trap was set on Facebook and Instagram.
Over 200 intruders have swarmed the cordyceps sites of Lunana, sparked by a permit loophole that left local residents wa...
The Multidisciplinary Super-Speciality Hospital (MDSSH) will be constructed as a flagship project under the 13th Five-Ye...
Bhutan’s first-ever Airborne Geophysical Survey is on track for completion by June this year, with the most technically...
The Department of Energy announced that restoration work at the flood-damaged Dagachhu hydropower plant is nearing compl...
Trashigang —In the high valleys of Sakteng Gewog, the legend of the Migoi, the mythical yeti, has never truly disappeared.
Family problems and weak support systems at home remain among the main drivers behind the rise in substance abuse among...
As global climate forecasts warn of a possible “Super El Niño” this summer; raising fears of record-breaking temperature...
All foreign workers employed in the country for more than a month are required to open Bhutanese bank accounts.
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of an industry that is still young but steadily maturing.
As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must be measured against the promises it made. Such a review is essential to assess delivery on pledges and the broader mandate entrusted to the government. In a democracy, mandate review is equally important, if not more.
The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adjust to the unpredictable and fast-changing market and policy decisions. From the cost...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has already made many goods and services more expensive, disproportionately affecting low-income households.
The key barriers identified in the report - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are not new. Combined, these three factors account for 47.1 percent of the overall unemployment...
Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple through fuel markets, transport costs, manufacturing chains, and, ultimately, household budgets around th...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacher...
I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything grand, just a humble little place t...
The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more...
Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic....
The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder th...
As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroec...
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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