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Thimphu stands at the threshold of a transformation. The Thimphu Structure Plan 2023–2047 is not just another government blueprint; it is a bold reimagining of what our capital can and must become.
The country’s public debt is expected to surge past Nu 400 billion within two years, driven by hydropower borrowing and persistent budget deficits, raising co...
Chukha— In Tsimalakha town, Chukha, more than 30 shopkeepers and families continue to live in makeshift huts and aging traditional houses, even though they we...
In rural Norbugang in Pemagatshel, the Zambala Dairy Group has become a powerful engine of economic growth. With ove...
Samtse—The 54-kilometre road between Phuentsholing and Samtse will undergo renovation and maintenance in the fiscal year 2025–26 with an allocation of Nu 100 million, following years of budget constraints that left the route in poor condition.
As the new President of KGUMSB and JDWNRH, what is your overarching vision for these institutions, and what immediate priorities do you hope to tackle within the...
Pema Norbu, a 36-year-old tennis player, has made history by becoming the first Bhutanese to earn a world ranking from the International Tennis Federation (IT...
༉ མ་འོངས་ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གི་ དགོས་མཁོ་དང་བསྟུན་ ཐིམ་...
མི་མང་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལུ་ གོ་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་ ཡར་སེང་འབད་མ...
ད་རེས་ནངས་པ་ མོང་སྒར་རི་དཱ་ཟ་ལུ་སྦེ་ རྒེད་འོག་ནང་འ...
༉ བཟའ་ཁང་དང་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཁང་ཚུ་ ཧེ་མ་ལས་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་གྱ...
The Royal Bhutan Police recorded 358 cases of domestic violence in the first six months of this year. This figure tells only one part of the story. In 2020, just 33 cases were...
Already battered by financial strains, the hotel industry now faces another blow – shortage of skilled staff – as relentless attrition and poaching threaten to cripple operations.
The Thimphu Structure Plan (TSP) 2023–2047 layed o...
Bhutan observed World Ozone Day yesterday by celebrating a milestone: its first year of banning hydrochl...
Bhutan launched the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2025–2029 in collaboration with the International...
Known simply as Tintin, he has emerged as one of the leading figures in Bhutan’s contemporary art movement, blending Buddhist iconography with modern visual language. His new exhibition, which runs until October 7, invites viewers into the layered spaces of the bardo—the Buddhist state between death and rebirth—as well as into dreams, illusions, and the present moment.
The gewog-wise Zhongar Traditional Archery Championship is currently underway at the Ridaza in Mongar. The tournament began on September 13, and t...
༉ རང་ལུགས་གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ རང་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གི་ ཐུགས་ཀྱི་དགོངས...
Gelephu—When His Majesty the King envisioned Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), it was conceived as more than an economic hub. It was imagined as a living experiment in m...
Increased public awareness and nationwide campaigns have encouraged more people to rep...
Paro—The two-day general meeting and conference of...
An inception workshop yesterday brought together m...
Bhutan will play its first match against Pakistan today in the 2025 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) under-17 championship, being held in Sri Lank...
༉ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་དང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ དེ་ལས...
Exporters have sent 57 truckloads of mandarin to Bangladesh as of yesterday
A community of Bhutanese heritage in India
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ ད་རེས་འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ཁྲོ...
མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་གོ་སྐབས་དང་པ་དེ་ འབྲུག་ལྟ་བཤལ་ལ...
༉ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༩ པའི་ཚེས་༡༣ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་བཙུན་རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཨའི་དང་ ཨ་ལུ་གི་སྨན་ཁང་ནངལུ་སྦེ་ ཨོམ་གྱི་སྨན་ཁང་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Trashigang—Under the scorching sun in Trashigang, men, women, and civil servants gather around the sacred Lungten Zampa Chorten in Samkha...
Our response is at a turning point. The launch of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) last December marked a bold step towards prevention, placi...
Gelephu—Bhutanese tourism stakeholders will get the first chance to invest in tourism, one of the key economic drivers...
Thimphu Thromde has begun fining residents caught on surveillance cameras for dumping trash. As of September 13, the Thromde has penalised 12 individuals and groups for offences ranging from littering to dumping waste in rivers under the Waste Prevention and Management Act 2009 and the Waste Prevention and Management Regulation 2012.
Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck inaugu...
What is it about AI that suddenly turns everyone talking about technology into self-proclaimed experts? Whether in tech circles...
Samtse—Farmers in Jangcholing, Samtse, are finding success by shifting from traditional hollow log hives to modern wooden beehives, which has boosted...
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT), in collaboration with the Paro Dzongkhag, is fast-tracking the preparation of several Local Area Plans (LAPs) to manage rapid urban growth and prevent uncoordinated development.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has a huge task at its hands. It is investigating a case where the Prime Minister and a minister are alleged to have misused their authority to direct generous loans from the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP)...
At a three-star hotel in Thimphu, the front desk staff waits for guests who never arrive. Rooms that once catered to high-end touri...
Gelephu—A business practice long associated with border towns is creeping into Gelephu’s salon sector, sidelining legitimate local entrepreneurs.
To achieve the goal of ending HIV in Bhutan by 2030, the Ministry of Health has introduced Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as a key preventive tool.
The children in conflict with the law (CICL) is on the rise, with 106 incidents reported across the country in th...
Bhutanese students are showing improved English reading skills but are continuing to s...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ འོང་འབབ་བར་མ་འབད་མི་ཚུ་...
According to the Forest Information Reporting and Monitoring System (FIRMS), poaching cases dropped to just 13 detected cases in 2024—the lowest in five years. While the decline suggests encouraging progress, the species involved show that the country still faces persistent threats to its biodiversity.
༉ ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་འོག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྩི་མ་ལ་ཁ་ཁྲོམ་ཆུང་དེ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༡༩༧༠ དོན་གྲངས་ལུ་ ཆུ་ཁ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་ས་ཅིག་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ གྱུར་བ་མེདཔ་སྦེ་ མཐོངམ་ཨིན་པས།
Private livestock dealers claim a state-owned corporation lured them into investing, only to turn around and aggressively take over their market share. Is the private sector being undermined in the name of regulation? Who is in the right?
The Department of Tourism spent over 85 per cent of its budget, yet critical tourism infrastructure is still lagging. Wh...
Are we giving away massive corporate tax exemptions until 2040 without a fallback plan? While the government pushes forw...
The Ministry of Finance rejected a proposal to allow property taxpayers to make payments throughout the fiscal year as a...
As the country’s industrial sector expands, workers are increasingly being exposed to cancer-causing substances amid low...
The State Mining Corporation Limited (SMCL) has restored a paddy field in Phuntshothang Gewog, Samdrupjongkhar, that was...
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 prepares to make history with a record 48 teams across three North American nations, football...
The amendment to the reservation on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was not adopted at...
Recurrent failures of pavements along Dochula, Pelela, Yotongla and Thrumshingla passes are partly attributed to design...
The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mo...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has already made many goods and services more expensive, disproport...
The key barriers identified in the report - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are no...
Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple...
A total of 2,937 graduates from 11 colleges under the Royal University of Bhutan received their degrees at the convocation.
Read MoreHis Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of the fifth session of the Fourth Parliament at Gyelyong Tshokhang in Thimphu today.
Read MoreFive students from Lungtenzampa Middle Secondary School have been suspended after videos of student fights circulated widely on social media, triggering investigations by police and education authorities.
Read MoreThe country’s economy is on a growth trajectory, buoyed by rising revenues, strong remittance inflows and improved public finances. Yet the country faces two major threats that could undermine long-term growth: outmigration of young Bhutanese and vulnerability to global fuel price shocks.
Read MoreGelephu—With prayers offered at the beginning, middle, and end of a future sacred corridor stretching along the Mao River, the Zhung Dratshang yesterday performed the groundbreaking ceremony (Salang Tendrel) for the 108 Jangchub Chorten project.
Read MoreThe country’s waste prevention and management system remains fragmented, weakly coordinated, and heavily dependent on collection and disposal rather than reduction, recycling, and recovery, according to a performance audit report released by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA).
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