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༉ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༣༦ ལང་མི་ པདྨ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་དང་ ཁོ་གི་ནུ་ཅུང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༣༢ ལང་མི་ ལས་སྐྱིད་ཚེ་རིང་དེ་ ཁོང་རའི་མི་ཚེའི་ནང་ མ་འདྲཝ་ཅིག་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཁོང་གཉིས་སྐྱེས་བའི་སྐབས་སུ་ གཟུགས་སྟོབས་སྒྲིང་སྒྲི་ཡོད་པའི་གུ་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་འགྱོ་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ཁོང་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་ ན་ཚ་ཐོབ་སྟེ་ ཡུན་རིངམོ་སྦེ་ན་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ གཟུགས་སྟོབས་མར་ཉམས་སོང་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ ལམ་ཡང་འགྱོ་མ་ཚུགསཔ་ཐལ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འགོ་བཙུགས་པའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ན་ཚ་ཆུང་ཀུ་ཅིག
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༢༧ གྱི་ནུབ་མོར་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༦༠ ལང...
There is a "great" new plan to tackle decongestion and urbanisation. Any new imitative to make Thimphu a more livable place is welcome. The old Thimphu Structural Plan 2002-2027 is n...
Phuentsholing—For 36-year-old Pema Lhendup and his younger brother, 32-year-old Leki Tshering, life unfolded differently from what they once imagined.
A new vocational classroom, designed to equip students with special needs with practical skills and advanced inclusive education, was inaugurated yesterday at Dechencholing Higher Secondary School (HSS) in Thimphu.
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, announced a new initiative to promote and encourage digital payments, be...
A high-level Project Monitoring Mission from the Adaptation Fund (AF...
This time, human–wildlife conflict hit home, and it f...
What began in 2005 as a small engineering firm with just two employees has grown into one of Bhutan’s most recognised construction companies. Today, Vajra Builders Private Limited employs nearly 2,000 people and undertakes some of the country’s most significant projects.
༉ གནམ་དགུན་གྱི་སྐབས་ལུ་ འབྲུག་གིས་ གློག་མེ་ནང་འདྲེ...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད...
For many students, when the final bell rings, the school isn’t over, it is time for tuition. Students taking tuition or coaching classes after school h...
The import of electricity during Bhutan’s lean season has dropped sharply this year following the commissioning of the Punatsangchhu-II hydropower project (PHPA-II).
To realise the vision of commercialising agricultu...
The pandemic almost killed the creative industry. The few existing cinema halls in the country went out of business as entire productions ca...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development has defended its decision to raise the school admission...
Gelephu—It was close to midnight on August 27 when 60-year-old Namgay Tshomo was jolted awake by the rumbling noise of a lone elephant hitting the walls of her room. For the past two years, she has rented two rooms in a single-storey bungalow at Tashiling, Gelephu town, alongside three other families.
Management is often described as the art of making choices, allocating resources, and balancing needs with available means. At its cor...
Bhutan’s Under (U)-23 National Men’s Football Team will face host Jordan tomorrow in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup Qualifiers.
The government’s decision to revise taxation on alcohol and tobacco products is a long-overdue step in the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A staggering 72 percent of all deaths in the country is due to...
Gelephu—Even as earth-filling works at Gelephu International Airport are accelerating, preparations are underway to start round-the-clock operations.
To tackle rapid urbanisation and congestion, the Thimphu Structure Plan (TSP) 2023-2047 i...
Overcrowding at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) is set to ease with the Ministry of Health’s plan to establish thromde hea...
Climate change is no longer an abstract environmental issue, it is reshaping the most basic aspect of people’s lives - health.
August 28, at exactly 5:30 pm, the door creaks open. A participant slips into a classroom at Changangkha Middle Secondary School — Bhutan’s first inclusive school. She bursts in laughing: “On the dot.” The words are spoken, not signed. For now. Like everyone else in the circle, she has come to learn Bhutanese Sign Language (BhSL).
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་མཐར་འཁྱོལ་ཅན་དེ་ འཆར་གཞི...
༉ སྙན་ཞུ་གསརཔ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ འབྲུག་དེ་ འོང་འབབ་ཆུ...
༉ སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མི་ཁུང...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་གིས་ ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཡར་དྲག་དང་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་མི་ཚེའི་གནས་སྟངས་ སྒྲིང་སྒྲི་བཟོ་ནི་ནང་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འབད་ནི་ ཨིན་པའི་ཁས་ལེན་འབད་མི་དང་འབྲེལ་ ལོ་ལྔའི་གན་ཡིག་གསརཔ་དེ་གིས་ ཁེ་ཕན་འབྱུང་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), has installed the country’s first high-altitude black carbon monitoring station near the benchmarked Shodug Glacier in the headwaters of Thim Chu.
The Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 has been reviewed by the National Council and forwarded to the...
Meat shops and meat sales outlets will be allowed to operate only from designated locations under the Livestock Bill of...
Finance Minister Lekey Dorji will present revised guidelines for the annual block grant for local governments during the...
Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, a...
Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...
Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...
Punakha—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 ch...
For more than a decade, Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) has steadily transformed cancer care in the country from a subject c...
A Bhutanese based in New York, who runs Tasha International News, a Telegram- based unofficial news channel, has collect...
The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...
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...
The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
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 Mindfulnes...
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...
The inaugural Bhutan International Travel Mart (BITM) 2026 has attracted more than 200 international buyers from 15 countries, with the majority from India, offering the tourism industry a major platform to promote its products and expand global partnerships.
Read MoreMore than 200 children and adolescents, including nuns, monks, and children with disabilities, celebrated the International Day of Play at Changlimithang Stadium today.
Read MoreThe dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).
Read MoreBhutan has taken a step closer to joining international forest carbon markets with the launch of an independent assessment of its REDD+ programme.
Read MoreMore than two years after promising to review the closure of drayangs, the government has ruled out the possibility of reviving the entertainment venues, signalling a definitive end to an industry that once formed a significant part of the country’s nightlife economy.
Read MoreAfter receiving training from Women’s Self-Support Group on Waste Management in 2023 on crafting new products from plastic waste, Jamyang Choden, 44, from Lhuentse, decided to give it a try.
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