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Wildlife and forest-related offences recorded in the Forest Information Reporting and Monitoring System (FIRMS) dropped sharply in 2024, falling to 749 cases from 1,295 the previous year—a 42 percent decline. The drop extends a four-year slide since the pandemic peak of 1,917 cases in 2020.
Pemagatshel Dzongkhag Administration is preparing to host the country’s first-ever Bathing Carnival Bhutan (BCB) 2025, a new festiv...
The National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC...
Chukha—A batch of 115 officials from the National Land Commission Secretariat (NLCS) successfully completed an integrated training programme at the Roya...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ས་གནས་ རཱཇ་གིར་ཟེར་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁབ་ལུ་ འབྲུག་པའི་ལྷ་ཁང་གསར་བསྒྲུབས་མཛད་མིའི་ནང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༩ པའི་ཚེས་༦ ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
For years, cleaning campaigns in Bhutan have been little more than a ritual. People came together with gloves and sacks, streets looked tidy for a day or two, and social med...
His Holiness the Je Khenpo is presiding over a three-day Moenlam Chhenmo (great prayer ceremony...
In Lunana, where only the hardiest people and yaks endure the unforgiving cold, a mission begins this week, one that could decide the...
A 75-year-old man from Lungo village in Laya, Gasa was killed by a bear at a yak herder camp in Gangiten, Laya, on the morning of September 5.
Samtse—Farmers of Jangcholing chiwog in Samtse can finally secure their cr...
A key government pledge to improve inter-dzongkhag connectivity is moving forward, the topographic survey for the Nahi in Wangdue to Chamgang in Thimphu road begins today.
Samdrupjongkhar—The completion of a new water supply system on May 31, 2025 under the Dewathang water supply project helps en...
Sherab Gyeltshen, 31, from the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) is the champion of the men’s category of the sixth edition of the Dragon Fury Mountain Bike Race held on September 6.
In a cramped one-room home in Thimphu, 39-year-old Rinchen Dema is w...
Adani Power, India’s largest private power producer, and the Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) s...
The country’s national debt climbed to Nu 303.97 billion as of June this year, which is equivalent to 100.5 percent of the estimated gross domestic product (GDP), according to the fi...
Gelephu—The sun beats down on Gelephu, where temperatures hover around 33°C, yet the heat and humidity do not slow the steady rhythm of thousands of Bhutanese volunteers. Dressed in national attire, sun-caps, and boots, they swing knives and sickles, clearing bushes and undergrowth with tireless determination.
Electricity is finally on its way to Lunana, one of the highland frontiers of the country, which takes more than a week on fo...
The health ministry is finalising new rules for medical referrals abroad aiming to strengthen patient safety, ensure equitabl...
I complete exactly six years today since I started writing a weekly legal op-ed for Kuensel Publishing, over 2...
Trongsa—The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secured a victory in the Nubi-Tangsibji bye-election, a win that was driven by voters’ continued confidence in the ruling party’s ability to deliver on its commitments.
Bhutan and Vietnam are strikingly different in geography, economy, and politics, yet they...
From the border town of Phuentsholing to international bodybuilding stages, Bollywood film sets, and the forefront o...
A Bhutanese geologist has been awarded a prestigious grant to strengthen t...
Plans to relocate the Thimphu Dzongkhag Administration, a proposal that has been in the works for more than a decade, remain unfulfilled because of shifting urban development plans.
For years, some Thimphu residents slipped out under the cover of night—and sometimes at the break of dawn—to dump...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༧ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་ཞབས་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༧ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་ཞབས་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་...
༉ ད་རེས་འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ བསྒྲུབས་ཚར་མི་ རྒྱ་གར་རྡོ...
༉ ད་རིས་ལས་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱ་གར་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྫོང་ཁག་བདག་སྐྱོང་དེ་ ས་གནས་གཞན་ཁར་ སྤོ་...
༉ གྱང་བསིལ་ཆེ་བའི་ལ་མཐོ་ས་ དཔལ་ལི་ལ་བཟུམ་ཅིག་ནང་ སྦ་སྒོར་ཆུང་ཀུ་རེ་བཟོ་ཐོག་ལས་ ཚོང་བཙོང་སྡོད་མི་ ལས་སྐྱིད་སྒྲོལ་མ་གིས་ ལག་པའི་མཛུབ་མོ་དེ་ སྡོད་ནི་ར་མེད་པའི་སྒོ་ལས་ སྔར་སྲོལ་གྱི་སྐེ་རགས་ཅིག་འཐག་མི་དང་ ཁ་ལས་གླུ་གཞས་རེ་འཐེན་ཏེ་འབདཝ་ད་ ཚོང་མགྲོན་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཚོར་སྣང་ཅིག་ཡང་ འབྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The consecration of the Royal Bhutan Temple in Rajgir is not merely about architecture, artistry, or even religion. It is about Bhutan placing its spirit in foreign soil, a reminder that faith and diplomacy are not separa...
His Majesty the King joined 7,050 volunteers contributing zhabtog to develop public spaces and parks across...
Trongsa—The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Phuntsho Dendup, has won the Nubi-Tangsibji bye-election, securing the seat for his party for the fi...
His Holiness the Je Khenpo consecrated the Royal Bhutan Temple in Rajgir, India, called Druk Goen Wogmin Nyipa, yesterday, marking a milestone in Bhutan’s spiritual and diplomatic ties with India.
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) is working on an ambitious plan to recast the country’s bureaucracy into an “...
Trongsa—High on the windy Pelela Pass, huddled inside a small, makeshift stall, Leki Dema’s fingers are in constant motion. She quietly w...
The cost of goods and services eased slightly in June this year, but prices remain higher compared to the same month last year,...
Samtse—More than 28,000 people in Tashicholing, Samtse, and nearby areas now have better access to healthcare following the inauguration of a new 20-bed hospital yesterday.
དེ་ཡང་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འགོ་འབྱེ...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ དགའ་བ་དུང་ཟེར་མི་ ཡོངས་གྲགས་ལུ་ སུག་རི་...
In 2017, a Royal Command set in motion an ambitious vision: the establishment of a cancer hospital in Bhutan. That vision is now taking shape—not only in the form of buildings, but also through pol...
Gelephu—In the spirit of nation-building, 5,357 Bhutanese from every corner of the country have converged in Gelephu to take part in the second phase of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) voluntary service (zhabtog).
The Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICB) launched two new products yesterday, the Deferred Annuity S...
Samtse—Residents of Gawadung, formerly known as Sukreti in Samtse, will no longer face isolation during the summer months....
Beginning this month, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, has rolled out an...
Phuentsholing-Phuentsholing's sewage treatment system, which has long relied on catfish in a lagoon to clean wastewater, will be soon connected to a modern sewage treatment plant.
At Khasadrapchu yesterday morning, the firewood pile refused to light. Even after petrol was poured, the flames would not catch. Some in the crowd murmured that the local deity of the area was suppressing the fire. Others grew restless—this was supposed to be a high-profile demonstration of a new fire suppression technology, and nothing seemed to be happening.
The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked concern in Bhutan over the future of its prized cordyceps economy.
Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...
The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...
Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...
Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay accepted responsibility for a communication gap between the Ministry of Finance and the E...
What if waste was no longer viewed as rubbish, but as a resource waiting for a second life? That idea took centre stag...
The National Assembly today unanimously adopted the Renewable Energy Tax Exemption Bill of Bhutan 2026, which now moves...
The Eminent Member raised concerns over e-waste and electric vehicle (EV) battery waste management, malfunctioning incin...
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before rolling it out nationwide in January 2027.
Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.
Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...
Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...
Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...
The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.
About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...
In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...
When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...
Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erecting 108 Jangchub Choetens along the Mao Chhu in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...
The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal v...
Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was never going to be an easy transition. Major tax reforms rarely are. Introduced in January this year, GST was envisioned as a modern tax system, replacing an outdated framework...
Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.
The 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 confl...
The 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,...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...
The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...
The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...
Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
Meat shops and meat sales outlets will be allowed to operate only from designated locations under the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025, which the National Council adopted today after members raised concerns over the scattered location of such businesses.
Read MoreFinance Minister Lekey Dorji will present revised guidelines for the annual block grant for local governments during the upcoming winter session of Parliament.
Read MorePhuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable services starting next month, as immigration counters move back to the newly renovated ground-floor facility.
Read MoreCivil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, according to the Ministry of Finance’s latest Quarterly Macroeconomic Situation and Outlook.
Read MoreFamily members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged wrongful implication and institutional failure after the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) closed two long-running investigations into the handling of private donations and the establishment of a radiotherapy facility at the national referral hospital.
Read MorePunakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another child?
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