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The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more challenging.
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལོ་ཐོག་དང་ སྒོ་ནོར་ཉེན་བཅོལ་ལས་འཆར་འགོ...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་...
༉ ད་འབདན་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་དང་ སྤྱིར་འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ...
༉ སྒོམ་ཕུག་གཡུས་ཚན་ལས་ཨིན་མི་ འཆི་མེད་སྒྲོལ་མ་གིས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཆུ་གཙང་སྦྲ་ཅན་དེ་ ཐག་རིང་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཅིག་སྦེ་ སྡོད་པའི་སྣང་བ་ཤར་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ རོང་ཆུ་ནང་འགྱོ་ནི་དོན་ལུ་ གྱེན་གཟར་དྲག་དང་བཅས་པའི་སྒོ་ལས་ རྐང་སྟོང་སྦེ་སོང་སྟེ་ ཆུའི་སྦོ་ལོགས་ལྷོདཔ་ད་ ཆུ་དེ་འདམ་ཁོག་ཁོག་ཨིན་པའི་ཁར་ ཧོལ་མ་དུ་དུ་སྦེ་འོང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ ང་བཅས་ཀྱིས་ ལོ་༢༠ དེ་ཅིག་གི་ཧེ་མ་ལས་ར་ འཐུང་ཆུ་དགོས་མཁོ་ཅན་གྱི་སྐོར་ལས་ ལོ་རྒྱུ
Gelephu—The Gelephu Choeten, modelled on the iconic Jarung Khashor Choeten (Boudhanath Stupa) in Kathmandu, Nepal, is set to become...
For many families, the numbers behind inflation tell only part of the story. What matters more is what they pay at t...
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic. As the nation celebrated the 46th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, two deeply auspicious miles...
Gelephu—The consecration of Ugyen Norlha Choeten, the first co...
The government aims to bring 15,220 acres of farmland under sustainable land man...
Chukha—Nearly 40 years after its commissioning in 1988, the Bhutan Board Products Limited (BBPL) factory in Darla continues to be one of the region’s largest employers, driving the local economy and supporting community livelihoods.
The Thailand Open Men’s T20I Quadrangular Series 2026 begins today. Host Thailand take...
Gelephu—His Majesty the King conferred the Druk Thuksey Medal on Thippaporn Ahriyavraromp and Dr Nathawat Ahriyavraromp of Th...
Gelephu—More than 16,000 registered volunteers gathered in Gelephu from February 21 to 25 for the fifth...
༉ མཁོ་སྒྲུབ་བསྣར་འགྱངས་དང་ མི་སྟོབས་ཀྱི་དཀའ་ངལ་ དེ...
༉ དུས་ཅི་རང་ལུགས་གནམ་ལོ་ མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ གསར་དུ་ཚེསཔ་...
༉ ལྷུན་རྩེ་ལས་ཨིན་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༢༤ ལང་མི་ མཛོད་ཁྱད་...
The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacherous rivers, dense forests, and wildlife to reach s...
I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything gran...
Charmi Chheda’s relationship with the stage began long before she understood what theatre could mean. At eight years old, shy and withdrawn,...
The country’s food safety system rests on a single accredited laboratory, raising concerns over delays in food testing and clearance.
The Department of Tourism (DoT) has identified signature...
The government has intensified programmes to protect and promote yak-based livelihoods across the country’s highland communities, even as the number of yak-rearing households continues to decline due to persistent connectivity gaps, infrastructure constraints, and limited market opportunities.
In a world hungering for stories of hope and transformation, the tale of Bhutan shines like a beacon. I feel immensely blessed to witness this majestic evolution, that is not only redesigning the physical landscapes, but also the very soul of a nation. I consid...
The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder that Bhutan's capital sits on shaky grounds. Their warning...
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has begun the process of outsourcing the design of a Nu 200-million government office complex, which will house all the scattered ministries, improving access to public services.
Punakha—In a hospital room far from home, 32-year-old single mother Chungdu Lhamo from Zhemgang learned how swiftly a mother’s world can collapse.
Bhutan’s Himalayan glaciers are vanishing at an accelerating pace, with more than 500 small ice bodies disappearing across the wider Bhutanese Himala...
Thousands of Bhutanese undertake pilgrimages each year to sacred...
Bhutanese national recurve archer Lam Dorji’s rise from a curious teenager to an Olympic archer showcases his relentless pursuit of excellence and the growing strength of Bhutanese archery.
From water flowing through household taps to bottled drinking water stored in refrigerators, microplastics have become part of daily consumption for many Bhutanese, according to the first systematic assessment of microplastic contamination across water sources in Thimphu.
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In two and a half years, I am not going to promise the world, but I can commit to a few concrete outcomes the public can hold me to. On hydropower, I want PHPA-I to be completed on the current 48-month schedule from the resumption of dam works in April 2026, while the other under-construction projects, involving roughly 3,500MW of hydropower and solar, are commissioned as targeted.
Punakha—The rear section of Changyul Galem’s House in Punakha, a rammed-earth structure more than 400 years old, collaps...
Fourteen-year-old Bhutanese youth advocate Ugyen Tsheden Tobgay has been recognised as Bhutan’s National Winner at the i...
For farmers in Majathang, Samtse, nightfall does not mean the day is done. It marks the start of another uneasy vigil –...
Several aspiring candidates who sat for the Functional Literacy and Possession of Skills Test (FLT) for the second phase...
More than 400 delegates from over 60 countries have gathered in Paro to chart a “conscious” future for global food syste...
The 570MW Wangchhu Hydroelectric Project has entered its main construction phase, with the first blast for the diversion...
With 17 households, 80 people and about 35 acres of wetland, the village is working to protect the habitat of one of the...
EtonHouse International School, the country’s first international school, opened on August 31, with an education model...
The first systematic survey of wild edible forest resources in Biological Corridor 3 (BC-3) has recorded 134 species fro...
The Film Association of Bhutan (FAB) has lost its legal standing as a Civil Society Organisation following its deregistration by the CSO Authority in January, after prolonged non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
As voters head to the polls today to elect the Thrompons and thromde thuemis of Thimphu and Phuentsholing, the most striking feature of this election has not been fierce competition or spirited public debate. It has been the sil...
Bhutan's rich forests are not only a source of clean air, water, and wealth. Hidden within the thickets is also a web of corruption whether in illegal felling, illicit sale, or collusion among official...
Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is under construction. Heavy earthmoving machines and trucks work round the clock at the international airport. Designs for highways a...
Summer holidays have officially begun for students across the country, and with them comes a familiar parental dilemma. If you have relaxed the screen-time rules and returned that confiscated phone or tablet to your child’...
It is a common perception that corruption, in its quieter forms of favouritism and nepotism, is no longer an aberration but a feature of how things work in Bhutan.
The Election Commission of Bhutan’s (ECB) recent announcement that it will vet election pledges comes at the most appropriate time. The first test will be applied to the aspiring Thrompon candidates, who hav...
Homeownership in Bhutan, long understood as the most reliable pathway to financial security, is rapidly becoming an illusion. For young professionals, civil serva...
A common development paradox in Bhutan is the squandering of scarce resources on funding our projects, big or small.
The Royal Civil Service Commission has identified a concerning trend that deserves urgent attention. Our civil service, the backbone of national administration, faces a dangerous hole in it...
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...
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....
The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators,...
The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for dom...
Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erect...
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 Thim...
Bhutan is entering one of the most ambitious periods of development in its history. Hydropower projects are expanding, major infrastructure investments are taking shape, and the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is expected to open new avenues for economic growth. However, a major constraint could undermine these ambitions: shortage of engineers.
Read MoreThe recent flood disaster along the Nepal–Tibet border, which has claimed over thousand lives with thousands still missing, should give Bhutan serious pause.
Read MoreThe 7 Star Season 1 Traditional Gewog Archery Tournament has brought together archers from 43 gewogs in Paro, giving participants an opportunity to compete as representatives of their own communities while encouraging wider participation in traditional sport.
Read MoreFor 62-year-old Dorji of Dawakha in Toedwang Gewog, nights once meant standing guard over his crops, shouting and banging tins to scare away wild animals. Today, he no longer has to.
Read MoreBhutan has become the second country in the world, after Mexico, to receive WHO validation for eliminating dog-transmitted human rabies as a public-health problem, and the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve this milestone.
Read MoreThere are two distinct objectives to my visit. First, Bhutan has made tremendous progress over the past three decades in child survival, health and education. However, there are emerging challenges around nutrition, mental health, disparities between rural and urban communities, and climate risks.
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