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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 silence.
The violence that erupted during the Bhutan Premier League match between Thimphu FC and Drukpa FC at Changlimithang Sta...
The Phuentsholing General Hospital has apologised...
The State of the Nation Report (SoTNR) presented b...
It was around 5:30 pm when the phone rang at the PEMA Helpline number 1098. On the other end was a worried man. His voice trembled as he asked for help, not for himself, but for a middle-aged friend who had just attempted to end his life.
Sarpang—With schools reopening today after the mid-term break, a group of teachers heading to Jigmecholing had to brave one o...
The Film Association of Bhutan (FAB) is mounting a fresh bid to renew its registration with the Civil Society Organisations Authority (CSOA), afte...
The first nationwide inventory of freshwater lakes has identified 2,391 freshwater mountain lakes, establishin...
The Wangdue Dzongkhag Court has convicted a 33-year-old man for sexually harassing a seven-year-old girl, sentencing him to 11 months of compoundable imprisonment.
The rare and highly prized fungus, locally known as Yartsa Goenbub, which typically attracts...
As the National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) warns that the current El Niño is expecte...
Every so often, an international report invites us to pause and see ourselves through someone else’s lens. Sometimes we agree with its findings. Sometimes we question its methodology. Often, we debate whether Bhutan ca...
There comes a time in life when every young Bhutanese asks themselves one simple yet important question - “What is my purpose in life?”
At more than 5,000 metres above sea level, Wakila in Laya is where Dorji herds his yaks acro...
༉ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༣༡ ལང་མི་ འབྲུག་པའི་དགེ་སློང་བགྲེསཔ་ འཕ...
འབྲུག་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལས་འཛིན་གྱི་ རྩོམ་སྒྲིག་འགོ་དཔོན...
༉ འདོད་པ་འདོད་པ་ཟེར་མི་འདི་ ནམ་དང་ནམ་ཡང་འཚིམས་ནི་མ...
༉ ངན་ལྷད་བཀག་སྡོམ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ ཧཱ་དང་ སྤ་རོ་བསྡོ...
Gelephu—The Regional Veterinary Hospital and Epidemiology Centre (RVHEC), Gelephu, has confirmed that the e...
སྤ་རོ་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་ཨེ་ཀ་ཌ་མིག་དེ་ ལྷོ་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡའི་ ཨེ་ཤི...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱུ་ནོར་གཞི་བཟུང་གིས་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ཁྲོམ་གོང་འཕེལ་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ དུས་ཚོད་ཁར་ལཱ་འབད་དེ་ གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་ཆར་ཆུ་གིས་ གནོད་སྐྱོན་མི་རྐྱབ་ནི་སྦེ་ ཁས་བླངས་འབད་མི་དེ་ ཆུ་རུད་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་རིམ་ལུགས་ཚུ་ལུ་ གཙོ་རིམ་སྒྲིག་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཉམས་ཉེན་ཅན་གྱི་བྱ་རིགས་ཅིག་ཨིན་མི་ ཆུ་བྱ་ཕོཝ་དཀར...
༉ ཤེས་རིང་དང་ རིག་རྩལ་གོང་འཕེལ་བློན་པོ་ ཡིད་བཟང་ཌི...
A multimillion-ngultrum radiotherapy service at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) has remained id...
Phuentsholing—Flooding triggered by last month’s heavy rainfall has intensified Phuentsholing’s already acute housing shortage, forcing about 87 families from their homes and exposing the town’s limited capacity to accommodate displaced residents.
For a 39-year-old mother of two sons, the dream of a large family did not fade for lack of wanting. It ended because raising children in Bhutan has become increasingly unaffordable.
Central banks from across the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) regio...
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 officials, sawmille...
Recent news reports and editorials have pointed to excessive meetings and travel as proof that the public service is adrift. The framing suggests public servants have been looting public money, helping themselves to the treasury. The lived reality is the reverse, if not worse: the travel is a personal expense they absorb, not a benefit they enjoy.
The Wangdue Dzongkhag Court has fined a couple, th...
In a judgement passed yesterday, the Paro Dzongkha...
All of us carry a subtle, nagging insecurity about who we are — a persistent need to confirm that there is a solid, permanent self we call “me.” This insecurity comes from an unconscious habit: treating this “me” as fixed and real, even though that assumption has no foundation at all.
The 35-year-old founder of Shaoulee Food Products, Pema Lhadon, has won the Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award 2026, recognising her ef...
Mongar—A monk walks into a shop in Chhaling Gewog, Mongar, and asks, “Teru gak-pa?”, pointing toward a juice bottle on the shelf. His question, meaning “how much does it cost?”, is spoken in Chhaling Kha, an indigenous local di...
There is a particular kind of courage required to make a film almost entirely without dialogue, trusting landscape, silence, and a single face. At 70, veteran filmmaker Pelden Dorji (popularly known as Ata Pelden) precisely does that.
The 2026 summer monsoon across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is expected to be drier and hotter than...
Mongar—Sonam and his family of three members now use only one LPG cylinder a year....
The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology...
Ninety-four workers have been placed in jobs across the hotel, retail, and e-commerce sectors, a month after launching a pilot part-time employment programme in Thimphu.
༉ གཞི་རྟེན་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་དང་ སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་དེ་ མར་...
Although only about one in eight elderly citizens...
The Chief Editor of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) has resigned after alleging a prolonged pattern of workplace mistreatment, intimidation, and procedural irregularities surrounding his appointment, a dispute that has now landed before the Department of Labour.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has barred 18 sawmills in Haa and Paro from conducting business...
Four key economic sectors have breached the Royal Monetary Authority’s (RMA) 5 percent non-performing...
Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is under construction. Heavy earthmoving machines and trucks work round the clock at the international airport. Designs for highways are being finalised. More than a score spiritual projects are in different stages of...
The recent discussion about banning social media for children has made many of us stop and think. The Minister of Education’s suggestion has received mixed reactions, and understandably so.
When people think of aviation in Bhutan, they often picture aircraft approaching through dramatic mountain valleys, changing weather and some of the most demanding operating environments in the world. For those of us responsible for aviation rescue and firefighting, that landscape is not simply a beautiful backdrop.
Bhutan has been ranked as the only Asian country in the global Top 10 of a recent freshwater resources per capita ranking published by StatRanker.org, placing it fifth worldwide in a dataset that highlights extreme disparities in access to renewable water resources across countries.
A large-scale nationwide survey of the endangered musk deer has been completed in Bhutan, covering 17 dzongkhags with th...
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has proposed installing a runway lighting system at Yonphula Domestic Airpo...
Phuentsholing—Sluggish regulatory approvals, poor coordination among government agencies, and recurring breakdowns in di...
Phuentsholing—The frequent reversal of policies, programmes and development priorities by successive governments is emer...
Two industrials estates and four industrials parks across the country generated revenue of Nu 98.46 million during the 2...
Following the recent Mid-Term Review of the government, Japan has shifted its development cooperation in Bhutan towards...
The Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority (GMCA) and the Gelephu Investment and Development Corporation (GIDC) announced a...
On the slopy area of Gongdue gewog, Mongar, Jambay Lhamo and her friends are engrossed in weeding around the cardamom pl...
In a film industry where romance, horror, and comedy often dominate the screen, Naba Sho, a film by Pema Tshering, dares to step into a far more uncomfortable space, one that confronts corruption, nepotism, and the abuse of authority....
As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...
The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has already made many goods and services more expensive, disproport...
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 silence.
Read MoreThe violence that erupted during the Bhutan Premier League match between Thimphu FC and Drukpa FC at Changlimithang Stadium on July 7, 2026, has exposed a gap in the country’s football security arrangements and raised the question of who, ultimately, is responsible for the safety of players, officials, and spectators.
Read MoreThe Phuentsholing General Hospital has apologised for the recent incident and pledged to address systemic gaps in its patient registration process following an incident this week in which a father and his two young sons left the facility without receiving medical attention.
Read MoreThe State of the Nation Report (SoTNR) presented by the Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay during the summer session of Parliament states that the government has closed the initial gap of Nu 56 billion in the 13th Plan and now projects a surplus of Nu 20 billion by the end of the Plan period.
Read MoreIt was around 5:30 pm when the phone rang at the PEMA Helpline number 1098. On the other end was a worried man. His voice trembled as he asked for help, not for himself, but for a middle-aged friend who had just attempted to end his life.
Read MoreSarpang—With schools reopening today after the mid-term break, a group of teachers heading to Jigmecholing had to brave one of the most hazardous stretches along the Gelephu-Trongsa highway yesterday, navigating the landslide-prone boxcut area amid continuing monsoon risks.
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