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Sangay Siddhartha: A blend of folklore, spirituality, and modernity

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.

Sep 30, 2025 2 mins read 5,926 views
Fighting corruption, both real and perceived

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) recent investigation into the Paro Dzongkhag engineering cell has once again revealed how entrenched and systemic corrupti...

Sep 30, 2025 2 mins read 3,478 views
India prioritises cross-border rail links to Bhutan

Phuentsholing—India has approved two major cross-border railway projects connecting Samtse and Gelephu with West Bengal and Assam, committin...

Sep 30, 2025 2 mins read 3,914 views
Lyonchhen urges bold UN reforms and climate action at 80th UNGA

Bhutan has urged world leaders to go beyond institutional reforms and act decisively on the most pressin...

Sep 30, 2025 3 mins read 3,793 views
Khorlochhu Hydropower Project secures INR 48.29 billion financing from India’s PFC

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).

Sep 30, 2025 3 mins read 1,965 views
Bhutanese weaving gets a tech upgrade

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.

Sep 30, 2025 2 mins read 1,968 views
Supporting the hotel sector is not only for hotel owners

There is a perception that government support, or discussion on support rather, for hotels—through policy incentives or fa...

Sep 30, 2025 4 mins read 5,511 views
Made in India coaches and Indian technology all set to facilitate cross border rail link with Bhutan

India today reaffirmed its “very special relations...

Sep 30, 2025 3 mins read 1,736 views
Bhutan develops its own test kit for H. Pylori infection

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.

Sep 30, 2025 2 mins read 5,953 views
དད་ཅན་མི་མང་ཡོངས་ཀྱིས་ བྱིན་རླབས་ཅན་གྱི་ ལྷ་མོ་གཙོ་མོའི་སྐུ་འཆམ་ མཇལ་ཁ་ཞུ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ག་ནི་བ་གལ་ཆེ་བའི་ ཉིནམ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ འབྲུག་གི་རྒ...

Sep 29, 2025 4 mins read 826 views
ལ་མཐོ་སར་སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་ གནམ་གྲུ་ ཧེ་ལི་ཀོབ་ཊར་གྱི་གླ་ཆ་ ཕབ་ཆག་ལུ་བསྒུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ གླིང་བཞི་རྒེད་འོག་ ཆེ་སྦི་ས་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་...

Sep 29, 2025 10 mins read 653 views
ཕོ་སྐྱེས་ཅིག་ རི་གླང་གིས་ བསད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ རིན་ཆེན་ཟུར་སྤྱི་འོག་ནང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༤༣...

Sep 29, 2025 3 mins read 705 views
སྤ་རོ་ཨེཕ་སི་གིས་ འབྲུག་པི་རི་མི་ཡར་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་ལིག་གི་ རྒྱལ་རྟགས་འཐོབ་ནི།

༉ བི་ཨོ་བི་འབྲུག་པི་རི་མི་ཡར་ལིག་༢༠༢༥ གི་ ཕུཊ་བཱོལ...

Sep 29, 2025 5 mins read 549 views
མཉམ་འབྲེལ་དང་སྒྲིག་མཐུན་མེད་པ་ཅིན་ འཐུས་ཤོར་འབྱུང་ནི་ལུ་ ཐེ་ཚོམ་མེད།

༉ འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་དཔྱེ་གཏམ་ནང་ ཆུ་མ་འོངམ་ལས་གཡུར་བ།...

Sep 29, 2025 6 mins read 1,069 views
ཁྲིམས་ཤིང་ལུ་ དྲུང་པ་མེད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ མི་མང་ཞབས་ཏོག་ལུ་ ཐོ་ཕོག་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ ཁྲིམས་ཤིང་དྲུང་ཁག་ནང་ དྲུང་པ་མེད་པར་...

Sep 29, 2025 10 mins read 598 views
རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གཞུང་ཚབ་གསརཔ་གིས་ མི་དབང་མཆོག་ལུ་ ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཡིག་ཆ་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་རྒྱ་...

Sep 29, 2025 3 mins read 662 views
A workable solution with public trust

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...

Sep 27, 2025 2 mins read 3,080 views
Egg shortages: A crisis seeded months ago

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.

Sep 27, 2025 4 mins read 3,664 views
Highlanders await promised reduction in helicopter fares

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.

Sep 27, 2025 4 mins read 3,389 views
ACC uncovers corruption in Paro Dzongkhag’s engineering cell

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has uncovered systemic corruption in the engineering cell of Paro Dzon...

Sep 27, 2025 1 mins read 13,724 views
Cross-border lottery scams prey on Bhutanese

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...

Sep 27, 2025 2 mins read 3,239 views
12-year-old boy allegedly murders elderly neighbour in Mongar

A 68-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by a 12-year-old boy in Ngatshang, Mongar, on the evening of Septem...

Sep 27, 2025 1 mins read 38,795 views
HKH rich in renewable energy but largely untapped

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.

Sep 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,674 views
Our crumbling cities and our municipalities

Bhutan's urban centres like Thimphu and Paro face a critical tipping point with crumbling roads, unmarked pedestrian hazards, and overflowing drainage creating dail...

Sep 27, 2025 3 mins read 4,143 views
FAIR Data: The fuel for GNH-driven digital infrastructure in Bhutan

The environment that individuals and organisations experience is gradually becoming digital...

Sep 27, 2025 5 mins read 3,963 views
Draktsho East: A lifeline for children once left behind

It is a crisp morning in Kanglung, Trashigang. The steady whir of a sewing machine fills a small tailoring room at Draktsho East...

Sep 27, 2025 4 mins read 6,396 views
“I wanted the project to be a pure gift from my heart”

Could you tell me how Bhutan first came into your life and what it felt like when you arrived here for the first time?...

Sep 27, 2025 10 mins read 4,073 views
Lifesaver training mobilises emergency response capacity

“Ap Dorji! Ap Dorji!...” The urgent call of a doctor echoed through the Centre for Simulation-Based Training Lab at the Khesa...

Sep 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,441 views
BICMA directs Bhutan Telecom to revise plan after falling short of 50% data cut

Bhutan Telecom Limited (BTL)  has been told to go back t...

Sep 27, 2025 2 mins read 5,638 views
Bhutan reaffirms climate leadership at 80th UN General Assembly

At the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Bhutan reaffirmed its climate leadership, inclusive...

Sep 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,230 views
Where competition ends, friendship begins

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.

Sep 27, 2025 3 mins read 4,278 views
On the world stage: Leading on the lead

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...

Sep 26, 2025 2 mins read 2,561 views
New Indian Ambassador presents credentials

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.

Sep 26, 2025 1 mins read 3,181 views
Kishuthara to make global fashion debut at Milan Fashion Week 2025

Bhutan will make its debut at Milan Fashion Week 2025 with a capsule collection co-created by B...

Sep 26, 2025 3 mins read 2,910 views
Seventy paintings for seventy years: A tribute to Bhutan’s Bodhisattva King

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.

Sep 26, 2025 2 mins read 4,483 views
Gaur kills farmer in Manas Park

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...

Sep 26, 2025 1 mins read 5,903 views
RCSC increases vacancies for administration and finance services

The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has increased the number of vacancies for administration an...

Sep 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,646 views
Celebrating 40 years of Bhutan-Sweden relations

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...

Sep 26, 2025 4 mins read 2,326 views
Sherubtse students take GNH values beyond campus

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.

Sep 26, 2025 3 mins read 5,100 views
Paro FC wins Bhutan Premier League

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.

Sep 26, 2025 1 mins read 4,360 views
ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ བཙོག་གཡུར་ལེགས་བཅོས་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༦༦.༦ བགོ་བཀྲམ།

ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ བཙོག་ཆུ་གཡུར་བ་ལམ་ལུགས་ ལོག་...

Sep 25, 2025 6 mins read 715 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ བཟའ་ཁང་སྟོངམ་ལུས་མི་གིས་ འགུལ་མེད་རྒྱུ་དངོས་ཀྱི་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཞུ་བ།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་དེ་ ཧེ་མ་ཚར་ཅིག་ འུར་བྱེལ་...

Sep 25, 2025 8 mins read 701 views
གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

Sep 25, 2025 1 mins read 797 views
Why agriculture matters

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.

Sep 25, 2025 2 mins read 2,768 views
Phuentsholing’s empty hotels raise fears of real estate crash

Phuentsholing—Hoteliers in Phuentsholing, once thriving on the town’s role as a busy transit point for t...

Sep 25, 2025 3 mins read 5,203 views
Burgangchhu and Yungichhu hydropower projects to begin operations this year

The 54 megawatt (MW) Burgangchhu and the 32MW Yungichhu hydropowe...

Sep 25, 2025 2 mins read 4,884 views
Lyonchhen calls for urgent global action on childhood lead poisoning at UNGA

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.

Sep 25, 2025 2 mins read 3,475 views
High court upholds termination of former BBS CEO

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.

Sep 25, 2025 2 mins read 6,075 views
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Bhutan pitches high-growth sectors as Invest Bhutan Summit opens

The Invest Bhutan Summit has attracted strong international interest, drawing 71 foreign investors from 11 countries in sectors such as IT and digital infrastructure, agro-based industries, tourism and wellness ventures, and solar technologies.

Feb 12, 2026 3 mins read 1,493 views
Bhutan pitches high-growth sectors as Invest Bhutan Summit opens

The Invest Bhutan Summit has attracted strong international interest, drawing 71 foreign investors from 11 countries in...

Feb 12, 2026 3 mins read 1,219 views
RCSC’s three-month notice rule for EOL resignation sparks fairness concerns

A Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) rule requiring civil servants on extraordinary leave to serve a three-month noti...

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 6,836 views
ESP creates over 11,130 jobs, supports 329 new businesses

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) has generated more than 11,130 jobs and supported the creation of 329 new business...

Feb 11, 2026 1 mins read 1,805 views
ESP Secretariat reports tangible impact across key sectors

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) continues to deliver support across the country’s economy, driving growth in agric...

Feb 11, 2026 4 mins read 1,828 views
CCAA reviews consumer law amid surge in e-commerce fraud

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) plans to submit a modernised Consumer Protection Bill to the Cabin...

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins read 1,561 views
Nu 245 million ESP funds drive growth in creative sector

A targeted fund injection of Nu 245.03 million under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) has fueled a surge in the cou...

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 1,736 views
Advance payments leave mandarin suppliers facing losses

Mandarin suppliers across the country are facing financial risks as advance-payment-based orchard booking arrangements c...

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins read 1,427 views
Criminal convictions drop sharply in 2025

Bhutan recorded a sharp decline in criminal convictions in 2025, with the number of individuals found guilty falling by nearly a quarter compared with the previous year.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 1,192 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 8,272 views
Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...

Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 4,057 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 3,563 views
New FDI regime offers wider access to foreign investors in agriculture

The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...

Jan 03, 2026 3 mins read 4,569 views
BCCI submits 35 business ideas to govt. for private sector engagement

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 5,100 views
Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...

Dec 20, 2025 3 mins read 3,623 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 3,941 views
Driving a new generation of golfers: The 19th Hole

Feb 16, 2026 2 mins read 563 views
Giku-Na: A corner for a community

Feb 16, 2026 1 mins read 637 views
Koo Me Zha: A film review

Feb 16, 2026 1 mins read 703 views
A Café that kept it Simple

Feb 16, 2026 1 mins read 3,438 views
When stillness stirs a nation

Feb 16, 2026 4 mins read 523 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,640 views
Fitness is not defined by body size or age

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 1,610 views
Projecting growth

Feb 14, 2026 2 mins read 680 views
Builders or buyers?

The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 1,235 views
The burden of cancer

Feb 07, 2026 2 mins read 1,510 views
Inconvenience caused is highly not appreciated

The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 2,175 views
The tourism paradox

Jan 28, 2026 2 mins read 2,180 views
A relief for the hotel industry

Jan 24, 2026 2 mins read 2,469 views
High-value tourism, low-value jobs?

Jan 21, 2026 2 mins read 2,811 views
Tying the loose ends of GST reform

Jan 17, 2026 2 mins read 3,045 views
GST transition pains need urgent fixes

Jan 14, 2026 2 mins read 2,981 views
Making GST work past early hiccups

The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are part of a broader effort to modernise the country’s tax system to make taxation fairer, more efficient, a...

Jan 10, 2026 2 mins read 3,163 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 5,542 views
Movie Review: Lights, Camera, Action!

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 2,421 views
The Hamptons, born from the love of cooking

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 1,952 views
Yarn roses, tiny dolls, and business of careful hands

Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...

Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,800 views
Turning bridal hairstyling into a trend

Jan 26, 2026 2 mins read 2,804 views
Birbi and the art of taking your time

Jan 26, 2026 1 mins read 2,369 views
The cost of delay

Jan 07, 2026 2 mins read 3,952 views
A new chapter for Kuensel

Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct r...

Jan 03, 2026 2 mins read 3,348 views
Strengthening the third sector

Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referr...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 3,711 views
Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 4,001 views
Agencies must be held accountable for financial irregularities

The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 5,511 views

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