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The Bhutan Construction and Transport Authority (BCTA) cancelled the permits of 25 designated taxis providing pick-up and drop-off services for the ongo...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ དུས་ཀྱི་གྱུར་བ་དང་བསྟུན་ གོང་འཕེལ་གྱ...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༣ ལུ་ ཨམ་སྲུ་རང་ལྕོགས་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ ཕྱ...
༉ རྡོ་སྐྱོང་ལ་དང་ དཔལ་ལི་ལ་ ཡོ་སྟོང་ལ་ དེ་ལས་ ཁྲུམ...
༉ ལྟ་བཤལཔ་ཚུ་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལས་སྦེ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོ...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ དྲོད་ཤུགས་ཆེ་ཤོས་ཅིག་སྦེ་ གནས་...
More than 300 farmers in Samtse are cultivating an...
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) inaugurated...
The High Court has upheld the Thimphu Dzongkhag Court’s judgment that the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) unlawfully terminated the employment of Tashi Phuntsho on June 9, 2026.
The two principal border towns, Phuentsholing and Samtse, are facing a range of regula...
༉ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ཀྱི་ དངུལ་ཁང་ཚུ་གིས་ དངུལ་སྐྱིན་འག...
༉ དེང་སང་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ལྟ་བཤལ་པའི་ས་ཁོངས་དང་ མི་སྡ...
A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.
Bhutan has witnessed a sharp rise in Australian student visa refusals over the past six months, with education consulta...
Phuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with th...
A widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raisi...
Shareholders of Sherza Ventures Ltd. have been unable to trade their shares for seven months because the company remains suspended from the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB).
The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’...
The National Council deliberations on the Jabmi (Amendment) Bill 2026 this week, the House generated more confusion than clarity. The debate exposed deep and...
Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches a historic milestone, becoming the longest-serving elected Prim...
Despite substantial investment in water infrastructure, the quality of drinking water in the country has shown no improvement over the past eight years.
Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.
A reflection on parental sacrifice, family struggle, and why timely support matters This is my personal reflection on family struggle, parental sacrifice, an...
With the clouds of uncertainty hovering over the business ecosystem, it has b...
The Central Monastic Body is set to host the month-long bestowal of the sacred Kathrid (Pith Instructions) and Kyilchog Dorji Threngwa (Mandala Ritual of the Vajra Garland) empowerments, scheduled to begin on June 15.
Having served as Medical Director for the past fou...
Three Bhutanese nationals were deported from Kuwait after being arrested on charges ranging from drug possession to morality violations and alcohol consumption.
As participants of the third Pelsung cohort prepare to pitch their i...
Empty or abandoned houses, known locally as goongtong, have emerged as one of the country’s most pressing development challenges, weakening community life and cultural traditions while contributing to a broader development imbalance.
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༉ ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཕགཔ་གསོ་སྐྱོང་འབད་མི...
༉ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ཁྲོམ་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༣༠ དེ་ཅིག་གི་ ས་ག...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཞི་བའི་མཁའ་འགྲ...
༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་རྩིས་ཞིབ་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ས་...
The Co-operatives and Farmer Groups Bill of Bhutan...
The Parliament passed the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 yesterday after the National Assembly adopted the amendments proposed by the National Council during its re-deliberat...
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.
More than 200 children and adolescents, including nuns, monks, and children with disabilities, celebrated the...
The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes,...
Bhutan has taken a step closer to joining international forest carbon markets...
More 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.
After 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...
It has been less than a month since Rinchen Yangzom moved into the Bjarpa community house beside Ngangla Lhakhang in Ngangla Trong. For the next three years, this is her home. She cannot leav...
An educated youth has shattered traditional age boundaries to get elected as Tshogpa, completely rewriting what leadership looks like for the n...
The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
Private livestock dealers claim a state-owned corporation lured them into investing, only to turn...
Banks in the country maintain high lending rates and low returns on deposits, which continue to strain busi...
The Department of Tourism spent over 85 per cent of its budget, yet...
Are we giving away massive corporate tax exemptions until 2040 without a fallback plan? While the government pushes forward with the Renewable Energy Tax Exemption Bill to cut winter electricity imports, MPs are raising serious questions about ultimate accountability.
The Ministry of Finance rejected a proposal to allow property taxpayers to make payments throughout the fiscal year as a standard practice, arguing that the current system already balances taxpayer convenience, administrative efficiency, and government revenue requirements.
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.
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...
A Nu 43.7 million eco-tourism facility built to transform a local community has become a white elephant in the capital....
Once coveted positions, local administrative posts such as drungpa and dzongrab have become less attractive to civil servants, leaving critical leadership roles vacant due to stagnant career progression.
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has already made many goods and services more expensive, disproport...
The key barriers identified in the report - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are no...
Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple...
The Bhutan Construction and Transport Authority (BCTA) cancelled the permits of 25 designated taxis providing pick-up and drop-off services for the ongoing Kathrid empowerment at Kuenselphodrang after operators were found violating transport directives.
Read MoreMore than 300 farmers in Samtse are cultivating and experimenting with moringa, blending traditional knowledge with modern science to produce what entrepreneur describe as one of Bhutan’s emerging premium wellness products.
Read MoreThe Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) inaugurated the first-ever Civil Service Innovation Day today, providing a platform for government agencies to showcase innovative solutions, systems, products, and best practices that are improving public service delivery.
Read MoreThe High Court has upheld the Thimphu Dzongkhag Court’s judgment that the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) unlawfully terminated the employment of Tashi Phuntsho on June 9, 2026.
Read MoreThe two principal border towns, Phuentsholing and Samtse, are facing a range of regulatory barriers that are hindering business growth and limiting their contribution to the national economy, according to a new report launched in Phuentsholing on June 11.
Read MoreA Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.
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