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In a country where the past and present often exist in delicate tension, Bhutanese audience were given a rare theatrical gift this week in “Sangay Siddhartha”, a visually inventive and thematically resonant play staged in Thimphu.
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) recent investigation into the Paro Dzongkhag engineering cell has once again revealed how entrenched and systemic corrupti...
Phuentsholing—India has approved two major cross-border railway projects connecting Samtse and Gelephu with West Bengal and Assam, committin...
Bhutan has urged world leaders to go beyond institutional reforms and act decisively on the most pressin...
India’s Power Finance Corporation (PFC) signed an INR 48.29 billion loan agreement in Thimphu on September 28 to finance the 600-megawatt (MW) Khorlochhu Hydropower Project Limited (KHPL).
The Royal Textile Academy (RTA) launched four innovative prototypes yesterday under its “Weaving into the Future Programme,” a major step toward modernising the traditional craft.
There is a perception that government support, or discussion on support rather, for hotels—through policy incentives or fa...
India today reaffirmed its “very special relations...
The Royal Centre for Disease Control has started producing rapid test kits to detect Helicobacter Pylori (H. Pylori) infection among the population in the country.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ག་ནི་བ་གལ་ཆེ་བའི་ ཉིནམ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ འབྲུག་གི་རྒ...
༉ ན་གཞོན་མཐོ་རིམ་ཤེས་ཚད་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ གོ་སྐ...
༉ དུས་ཅི་ལོ་མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཁམས་ལས་ བུར་སྒང་ཆུ་གི་ གློག་...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ གླིང་བཞི་རྒེད་འོག་ ཆེ་སྦི་ས་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་...
༉ པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ རིན་ཆེན་ཟུར་སྤྱི་འོག་ནང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༤༣...
༉ བི་ཨོ་བི་འབྲུག་པི་རི་མི་ཡར་ལིག་༢༠༢༥ གི་ ཕུཊ་བཱོལ...
༉ འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་དཔྱེ་གཏམ་ནང་ ཆུ་མ་འོངམ་ལས་གཡུར་བ།...
༉ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ ཁྲིམས་ཤིང་དྲུང་ཁག་ནང་ དྲུང་པ་མེད་པར་...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་རྒྱ་...
When the late Zimpon Dorji Gyeltshen chose modern incineration over traditional cremation, it was seen as a personal choice. But if the late Dasho had made a prayer or a wish to conv...
It might surprise many to learn that the current egg scarcity and the steep rise in prices to as high as Nu 480 per tray was set in motion half a year ago.
Tenzin Wangda, a 67-year-old highlander from Chebisa Village in Lingzhi Gewog, Thimphu relies on helicopter services twice a year to travel between the highlands and lowlands, avoiding a grueling three-day trek on foot. However, each trip comes at a steep price.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has uncovered systemic corruption in the engineering cell of Paro Dzon...
Phuentsholing—A digital lottery scam across the Bhutan–India border has left scores of Bhutanese vulnerable, with the Indian police in Bihar recently arresting s...
A 68-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by a 12-year-old boy in Ngatshang, Mongar, on the evening of Septem...
A new report by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) reveals that the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, which includes Bhutan, remains energy-poor despite its immense renewable energy potential.
Bhutan's urban centres like Thimphu and Paro face a critical tipping point with crumbling roads, unmarked pedestrian hazards, and overflowing drainage creating dail...
The environment that individuals and organisations experience is gradually becoming digital...
It is a crisp morning in Kanglung, Trashigang. The steady whir of a sewing machine fills a small tailoring room at Draktsho East...
Could you tell me how Bhutan first came into your life and what it felt like when you arrived here for the first time?...
“Ap Dorji! Ap Dorji!...” The urgent call of a doctor echoed through the Centre for Simulation-Based Training Lab at the Khesa...
Bhutan Telecom Limited (BTL) has been told to go back t...
At the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Bhutan reaffirmed its climate leadership, inclusive...
The inaugural Indo-Bhutan Inter-Club Golf Tournament, held in the capital from September 25–26, featured 24 teams from both countries. With four golfers each team, the event saw a total of 96 participants, including few women’s teams.
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly may be remembered for many speeches on war, climate, and inequality. But amid the usual noise, Bhutan’s Prime Minister T...
His Majesty the King granted an audience to the new Ambassador of India to Bhutan, Sandeep Arya, who presented his credentials on Wednesday, September 24.
Bhutan will make its debut at Milan Fashion Week 2025 with a capsule collection co-created by B...
The sky over Bumthang was clear as the Wangduechholing Palace hosted its first exhibition “Echoes of a Kingdom: A Tribute to the Bodhisattva King of Bhutan”. The courtyard set the stage for an event that brought together art, memory, and celebration.
A 43-year-old farmer from Rinchenzor Chiwog, Pemagatshel, was killed and another man injured after a gaur attack in the Manas Park area, about seven kilometres from Norbugang Gewog, on September 20. T...
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has increased the number of vacancies for administration an...
As we mark 40 years of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Sweden, this is a significant milestone. Why is celebrating this 40-year jubilee so impor...
Trashigang—Every Saturday afternoon, a group of Sherubtse College students can be found at Draktsho East in Kanglung, engaging children in games, storytelling, and mindfulness exercises. For these young volunteers, service is about practicing the values of Gross National Happiness (GNH) beyond the classroom.
Paro FC has once again retained its position as the country’s top football club by winning the BoB Bhutan Premier League (BPL) 2025 with one game still left to play.
ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ བཙོག་ཆུ་གཡུར་བ་ལམ་ལུགས་ ལོག་...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་དེ་ ཧེ་མ་ཚར་ཅིག་ འུར་བྱེལ་...
Since time immemorial, agriculture has shaped our landscapes and our way of life. Even today, more than 40 percent of our population work in the agriculture sector. It is a critical sector for food security.
Phuentsholing—Hoteliers in Phuentsholing, once thriving on the town’s role as a busy transit point for t...
The 54 megawatt (MW) Burgangchhu and the 32MW Yungichhu hydropowe...
As the world marks 80 years of multilateralism, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has placed a rarely discussed but devastating health crisis at the heart of the United Nations General Assembly: childhood lead poisoning.
The High Court yesterday upheld the lower court’s decision to terminate the former chief executive officer (CEO) of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service Corporation (BBS), Kaka Tshering.
In an encouraging initiative for persons with disabilities (PwDs), the Bhutan Foundation and the Disabled People’s Organisation of Bhutan (DPOB) launched Dra=Nyam, the country’s first dedicated outlet for products made by PwDs, on December 3 in Paro.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a key tool in higher education, helping students and teachers enhance learning,...
Bhutan will host the 16th South Asian Bodybuilding Championship in the capital, Thimphu from June 30 to July 4 next year...
The National Assembly yesterday adopted the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 after three days of intense debate that expose...
The National Council (NC) endorsed three out of six recommendations on climate-resilient watershed management presented...
The National Council pressed the government on the country’s preparedness for natural disasters yesterday, questioning w...
Punakha—Punakha’s iconic suspension bridge, a favourite among locals and tourists, is closed to the tourists after 5pm....
When the Fifth Asian Youth Para Games open in Dubai this week, two young Bhutanese para-athletes will carry not only the...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has assured that budgets for central and non-central schools ar...
The Accelerating Maternal and Child Health Programme (AMCHP) or the 1,000 Golden Days Initiative has reached 7,520 pregn...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are calling for a flood protection system after recent floods caused extensive damage, with losses estimated in the billions.
Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act. Your family, friends, school, city, country, social media accounts, television and news channels, habits, and heroes are all shaping you into replicas of the admired, the powerful, and the majority around you.
In passing the Livestock Bill of Bhutan, 2025, National Assembly members engaged in a good debate, a meaty one, even if it missed the core issue. The Bill was not about advocating slaughter houses in the country to meet the increasing demand, but on improving service delivery, setting standards and ensuring quality.
The National Council this week questioned the government on the country’s disaster preparedness. This is a pertinent issue, especially when extreme weather events are frequent and more intense. Preparedness is therefore the most effective stra...
During a recent Question Hour session in the National Assembly, Members of Parliament (MP) called for an open debate on education quality and budget allocation. And rightly so. Education is the foundation upon which every other...
Far from the bustling capital, the community of Genekha observed an important global day. December 1 was World AIDS Day. They chose to mark the occasion at what they called the “fi...
Youth unemployment has become one of Bhutan’s most persistent national challenges. And it endures despite successive gov...
In some schools, especially in urban centres, there are more teachers than timetables demand. In others, often remote schools, the absence of teachers in key subjects has become chronic.
The growing number of corruption reports in the past year forces the nation to confront a hard truth: something in our s...
The government’s commitment to address regulatory barriers that have choked business growth deserves recognition and sup...
The price of an egg in the capital has soared to a staggering Nu 20, pushing a standard tray of 30 to Nu 520. While it feels like a crisis, there's no pandemic to blame this time and despite common belief, the cold weather is not t...
The return of the Buddha’s sacred Piprahwa relics to India yesterday was more than a ceremonial farewell. It was a lesson in how nations should conduct themselves at a time when the world seems determined to spira...
Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...
In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...
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 death of 33-year-old Biren Kumar Kafley after he allegedly fell from a police van while trying to escape during a drug investigation has raised serious questions about police procedures, custodial safety, and whether the incident constitutes negligence or a custodial death.
Read MoreGelephu—After more than two years of surging prices, Sarpang’s land market has begun to cool, with prices falling sharply.
Read MoreSamtse—Gomtu is facing a severe housing shortage as a long-running construction freeze continues to restrict the number of rental units for a population that has grown around nearby industries and mining operations.
Read MoreThe country’s export, manufacturing, and trade sectors continue to face persistent structural and logistical hurdles that undermine the country’s economic competitiveness, according to a review of key economic sectors presented yesterday by the National Council’s Special Committee for Business Plus.
Read MoreThe Government of India (GoI) has released more than Nu 12 billion to Bhutan for projects under the 13th Plan, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Read MoreThe Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) and the Bhutan National Bank (BNB) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate the Bhutan Integrated Revenue Management System (BIRMS) with BNB’s mobile banking application, mPay.
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