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༉ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་ ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་ དར་ལ་རྒེད་འོག་ གཏུམ་བྲག་ཨ་མའི་གནས་ལུ་ གནས་སྐོར་འགྱོ་མིའི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོད་མི་དང་འབྲེལ་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་དྲུང་ཁག་བདག་སྐྱོང་གིས་ ས་ཁོངས་ཉེན་སྲུང་དང་ ལྷོད་ལམ་ལེགས་ལྡན་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞི་རྟེན་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་ ལེགས་བཅོས་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་གྱི་ གཞུང་ལམ་བདའ་སྟེ་ རྟ་ཚུ་བདག་མེད...
Bhutan’s economy is set for strong growth from hydropower, but youth unemploy...
In what residents are describing as the worst hailstorm of their lifetimes, a violent downpour of hailstones swept across Sarpang dzongkhag on April 7,...
“More than profit, our mission has always been to provide high-quality drinking water to our consumers,” he said. “This new line is not just about speed, but about maintaining global standards while making our product accessible to more people.”
The Wobthang Organic Wonders (WOW) farm in Tang Gewog, Bumthang, a 35-acre, multi-million-ngultrum project launched in May 2020, now lies la...
Students like 12-year-old Tandin Tshomo and her seven-year-old brother walk five...
The GMCA has opened a two-week public consultation on six draft corporate and commercial laws to refine policies in the Special Adm...
The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has suspended the issuance of Audit Clearance Certificates (ACC) to enforce resolution of long-standing audit issues totaling Nu 3.26 billion.
Foreign exchange reserves reached USD 1.15 billion in February 2026, up 33.64 percent year-on-year, and are sufficient to cover 30 months of essential imports, well...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development plans to rein...
Starting with a simple sewing machine and a curiosity for the craft, Wesel gradually developed her skills, combining Bhutanese tradition with global design trends.
Southern Bhutan faces heavy rain and storms, while northern highland...
The Beyond Graduation Production and Empowerment-supported unit might be a...
By 2030, BRECSA aims to boost resilient commercial agriculture by 30 percent across the four districts, improve food and nutrition security, and connect scattered producer groups into a coordinated agri-food system.
Electricity and improved roads have enabled residents of Merak to upgrade homes, switch from traditional fire stoves to wood-burning, gas, and electric hea...
With Bhutan aiming for His Majesty’s Gelephu Mindfulness City and a tenfold GDP boost, the BOC says spor...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ རྒ...
༉ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་ ས་སྣུམ་དང་ མེ་རླུང་གི་གདོང་ལེན་ཚུ་ ག་དེ་སྦེ་བྱུང་སྟེ་འབད་རུང་ ང་བཅས་ལུ་ ཐོ་མི་ཕོག་ཟེར་ཨིན་མི་དེ་ཡང་ རྒྱ་གར་ནང་ གསོག་འཇོག་དང་ འབྲེལ་གནད་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཚུ་ འབད་ཡོད་ནི་དེ་གིས་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བཟའ་འཐུང་ནང་འདྲེན་མར་ཕབ་དང་ གཡུས་ཁ་ལས་ ཁྲོམ་ཁར་ག...
༉ ན་གཞོན་རིག་རྩལ་ཅན་དང་ ཤེས་ཡོན་ཅན་ ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་ཅན་...
The government has made a slew of pledges to reform the media sector, yet, little of it has been realised so far. The commitme...
Punakha—The 74-kilometre Punakha–Gasa National Highway, the only motorable road linking Gasa Dzongkhag, is undergoing major restoration, with completion due by April this year.
༉ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ དབང་ཚད་ཕྱིར་སྤེལ་ལམ་ལུགས་དེ་ མ...
༉ དྲོ་པ་གནམ་མ་ལངམ་ལས་ རྔ་བརྡུང་མིའི་སྐད་གོ་ནི་དང་...
The government will upgrade a 28 km ring road from Sherubling to Nubi Gewog Centre in Trongsa Dzongkhag.
This year’s edition also introduces new features under a dedicated branding campaign, “Haa-Lay Mi Lay”, aimed at positioning Haa Dzongkhag as a high-end tourism destination.
How long can policy silence justify poverty wages in a rising-cost Bhutan?
A third telecom operator may be introduced to lower d...
Despite a government allocation of Nu 800 million and a 50 percent subsidy, the Nat...
The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely intervention. The initiative calls for shared responsibility amid rising fuel costs and a supply line shrouded in uncertainty.
This week's executive order from the prime minister, accompanied by a guideline for fossil fuel use minimisation, serves as a pertinent reminder that durin...
In the international scenario, the word “Buddhist” evokes an image of peace and calm....
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I stro...
Gelephu—Before deciding where buildings should rise, planners of Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) are being asked to answer a more fundamental question: Where do forests stand, where do rivers spread, and where do elephants walk?
As schools in the remote highlands of Lunana in Gasa prepare to reopen this month, students and teachers of Th...
Trashigang—Six months into launching his food business, Ugyen Phuntsho, 28, from Lumang G...
Global fertiliser markets face uncertainty from the Middle East c...
The Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) has recovered a total of Nu 66.38 million over the past five years from cases of non-declaration and under-declaration of rental income.
Personal Income Tax (PIT) collection has more than doubled over the past five years, rising from Nu 1...
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Ministry of Health are in discussions to raise the Daily Subsistence Allowance...
The government is revising guidelines to implement a four percent interest subsidy for the hotel industry, aiming to ensure that support reaches struggling yet viab...
His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, along with Their Royal Highnesses Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Gyalsey Ugyen Wangchuck, and Gyalsem Sonam Yangden Wangchuck, graced the opening of the second edition of the Rhododendron Festival at Sheytemi, Merak, yesterday.
The government’s fuel subsidy bill could climb to Nu 1.5 billion a month following the April 1 revision, should current global prices hold.
The escalating conflict in the Middle East has led to a wave of tourism cancellations to Bhutan, with ar...
By June, the homeownership strategy will be ready as the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) explores various aspects, from land to financing.
Bhutanese nationals living across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries remain safe for now, but growing travel disruptions, rising costs, and logistical barriers are creating mounting uncertainty for those considering a return home.
༉ རྩི་རང་ལུ་ ཚོད་བསྲེ་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དང་ བྱ་གསོ་སྐྱོང་ སྒོ་ནོར་ དེ་ལས་ མི་སྟོབས་གོང་འཕེལ་ཚུ་སོང་ཡོད་པའི་སྐོར་ལས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༢༤ ལུ་ ལོ་ལྔའི་འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་བར་མཚམས་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབདཝ་ད་ གསལ་སྟོན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ འཆར་དངུལ་མངམ་འགྱོ་མི་དང་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་གདོང་ལེན་ཚུ་ འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ར་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
This year’s edition also introduces new features under a dedicated branding campaign, “Haa-Lay Mi Lay”, aimed at positioning Haa Dzongkhag as a high-end tourism destination.
How long can policy silence justify poverty wages in a rising-cost Bhutan?
A third telecom operator may be introduced to lower data charges if existing providers fail to reduce prices, Prime Mini...
Despite a government allocation of Nu 800 million and a 50 percent subsidy, the National Crop and Livestock Insurance Sc...
Gelephu—Before deciding where buildings should rise, planners of Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) are being asked to answe...
As schools in the remote highlands of Lunana in Gasa prepare to reopen this month, students and teachers of Thangza Exte...
Trashigang—Six months into launching his food business, Ugyen Phuntsho, 28, from Lumang Gewog in Trashigang, is earning...
Global fertiliser markets face uncertainty from the Middle East conflict involving the US, Iran, and Israel, but Bhutan...
The Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) has recovered a total of Nu 66.38 million over the past five years from case...
Personal Income Tax (PIT) collection has more than doubled over the past five years, rising from Nu 1.53 billion in 2021...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.
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 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly advocate for free medical treatment and am deeply proud that Bhutan has achieved this despite its limited resources. Nothing can flourish in isolation. A flower needs warmth, moisture, and nourishment to bloom.
Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not spending enough time with our loved ones, and not investing enough time...
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of an industry that is still young but steadily maturing.
The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely intervention. The initiative calls for shared responsibility amid rising fuel costs and a supply line...
The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society members under the vision of building a resilient media ecosystem. The Bhutan Media Forum Award...
As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must be measured against the promises it made. Such a review is essential to a...
The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adjust to the unpredictable and fast-changing market and policy decisions. From the cost...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic....
The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder th...
As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroec...
Bhutan’s economy is set for strong growth from hydropower, but youth unemployment, outward migration, rising fuel prices, and regional disparities call for private sector development and targeted reforms.
Read MoreIn what residents are describing as the worst hailstorm of their lifetimes, a violent downpour of hailstones swept across Sarpang dzongkhag on April 7, leaving a trail of destruction that damaged homes, poultry farms, vehicles, and standing crops.
Read More“More than profit, our mission has always been to provide high-quality drinking water to our consumers,” he said. “This new line is not just about speed, but about maintaining global standards while making our product accessible to more people.”
Read MoreThe Wobthang Organic Wonders (WOW) farm in Tang Gewog, Bumthang, a 35-acre, multi-million-ngultrum project launched in May 2020, now lies largely idle.
Read MoreStudents like 12-year-old Tandin Tshomo and her seven-year-old brother walk five kilometres daily to school because Barshong Primary due to lacks teachers, boarding facilities, and basic infrastructure in Naro Gewog, Thimphu.
Read MoreThe GMCA has opened a two-week public consultation on six draft corporate and commercial laws to refine policies in the Special Administrative Region.
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