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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.
Land prices just across the border have skyrocketed from Nu 100,000 to Nu 500,000 per acre almost overnight. The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) has already started benefiting the neighbouring town.
Thirty-nine Bhutanese have been stranded in Kuwait for over two months amid rising uncertainty. Is the dream of high-pay...
Nu 844 million is a lifeline for struggling hoteliers. But there’s a catch: they must resume payments to qualify, or ris...
Over the past year, UNICEF, in close partnership with the Government of Bhutan and other stakeholders, has worked to adv...
Trashigang—The Rangjung Technical Training Institute (TTI) will introduce eight higher-level technical courses in blockc...
Karma Dorji, a resident of Wangdue, was convicted under Section 183 of the Penal Code (Amendment) Act of Bhutan 2021, wh...
A severe windstorm, flash floods, and hailstones hit eight gewogs across Mongar on April 22, leaving 42 households affec...
Rising costs and tight budget ceilings are slowing critical infrastructure projects within the Royal Bhutan Police, rais...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MoFAET) has proposed the reprioritisation of key activities, the dis...
The ICCAP aims to provide a single, trusted national standard for parenting and childcare guidance, bringing together ef...
The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...
The shortage of farm labour is a real problem faced by farming households across the country. Over the years, this has...
For 15-year-old Nima Dema, a student from Tendruk Central School in Samtse, the opportunity to take part in the ongoing...
The resumption of works on the 1,200-megawatt Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project I offers a flicker of hope. After all, th...
Bhutan’s clean air is becoming a comforting myth—pleasant to repeat, dangerous to believe. For years, we have worn the r...
Amid growing concerns over misinformation, declining public trust and recent drop in international press freedom rankings, journalists, regulators and government representatives gathered yesterday to discuss how media and institutions can work together more openly and effectively in the digital age.
Read MoreThe 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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.
Read MoreThe three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expected to generate 494 million units (MU) of electricity annually.
Read MorePunakha—The Royal Bhutan Police has deployed 28 police personnel, including two officers, to Lunana amid mounting security concerns triggered by a surge in illegal cordyceps collection in the remote highlands.
Read MoreThousands of bank accounts across the country’s financial institutions (FIs) have become dormant, holding idle funds for years because customers stopped using them, forgot about them, or shifted to other FIs.
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