DoMCIIP announces second phase of artist support programme under ESP

The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Property (DoMCIIP), under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE), has announced the second phase of its comprehensive support programme for digital content creators.

Our global education dream strangled by red tape

Bhutan aims to become a global education hub by 2035, and this is the right step for the government to take because the country has political stabili...

An alternative solution to resolve Bhutan’s loan crisis-The Druk Asset Reconstruction Company

The Covid-19 pandemic struck at the heart of Bhuta...

Bhutan Pavilion in Japan World Expo draws nearly 100,000 visitors, generates Nu 24.87M in sales

Bhutan’s pavilion at World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Jap...

Naro gewog seeks reinforcements to guard cordyceps harvest from poachers

In Bhutan’s remote highland gewogs, the annual cordyceps harvest is both an economic lifeline and a flashpoint for conflict.

Indian community in Bhutan celebrates its 79th Independence Day

The Indian community in Bhutan celebrated the 79th Independence Day of India at the Indian Embassy in Th...

Matsutake Mushroom Festival enhances local livelihoods

A gentle breeze carried the earthy aroma of mushrooms through Geney Zampa yesterday as locals and visitors gathered as early as 7am...

National Spatial Data System to tackle planning and land use issues

Costly planning errors and fragmented data systems, a long-standing challenge for the countr...

Beyond the box test

Bhutan’s roads are still relatively peaceful compared to chaotic highways elsewhere in the region. But spend ten minutes in a Thimphu traffic jam and the true colours of our driving culture appear - blaring horns, lane-cutting, impatient overtakes, drivers trying to squeeze through impossible gaps.

DHI Group 10X Roadmap aims for Nu 700 billion revenue by 2035

Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) and its group launched their ambitious strategic plan, the 10X Roadmap in T...

Bhutanese man missing in Western Australia; community joins search

A 26-year-old Bhutanese man, Tashi Dewa, has been missing from his home on Frankel Street in Ca...

DoST plans to improve Naro GC road this FY 2025-26

New performing arts institute to nurture skilled Bhutanese artists

The lack of a formal institution has led to a decline in trained artists, posing a risk to the continuity of the country’s traditional performing arts, which are integral to the nation’s identity and the philosophy of Gross National Happiness.

Candidates pledge farm road upgrades in Nubi-Tangsibji bye-election debate

During a live public debate for the Nubi-Tangsibji constituency bye-ele...

ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ རུལ་བཏུབ་པའི་ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་བསྐྱར་བཟོ་ འཕྲུལ་ཁང་དང་པ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ས་ལྟེ་བ་ལུ་ ཕྱགས་སྙིག...

བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་གྱི་ འགེགས་སྲུང་སྒོ་ར་ སྒོ་ཕྱེ་རུང་ ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ ལྟ་བཤལ་གོང་འཕེལ་བཏང་མ་ཚུགསཔ།

ལྟ་བཤལ་པའི་འཛུལ་སྒོ་ སྒོ་ཕྱེ་ཞིནམ་ལས་ད་ལྟོ་ཚུན་ལུ་...

དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གི་ཚོང་ཁྲོམ་ནང་ ཡར་ཐོན་གྱི་ཁེ་ཕན་འབྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ནད་ཡམས་ལུ་བརྟེན་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གི་ ཚོང་ལམ་དེ་ ཤུག...

Gelephu hospitality sector sees post-pandemic uptick

Gelephu—After years of business downturn caused by the pandemic, the hotels and restaurants in Gelephu are now seeing an upturn in operat...

Samdrupjongkhar gateway fails to deliver tourism boom for the East

Around 10 months after Bhutan opened Samdrupjongkhar border gate to international visitors, few...

Workshop trains civil servants to harness generative AI

With the aim of introducing civil servants to the transformative potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in gove...

An alarming projection

For thousands of young Bhutanese finishing school or university, the latest youth unemployment projections are deeply unsettling. For those awaiting the civil service entry examinations, they are not just bad news. It is alarming.

Bhutanese youth lead local actions for sustainable future

Bhutanese youth are driving grassroots solutions in climate action, agriculture, and innovation while calling for greater...

Thimphu Thromde launches first compost plant to tackle wet waste

Thimphu Thromde has taken a long-awaited step in tackling one of the capital’s biggest waste challeng...

མི་མང་གི་ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ ཏམ་ཁུ་འཐུང་ནི་ལས་ བཀག་ཐབས་ལུ་ ཏམ་ཁུ་འཐུང་སའི་ ས་གོ་བཟོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཏམ་ཁུ་འཐུང་པའི་སྐབས་ དུ་པ་གཞན་ལུ་ཕོག་མི་དང་ མི་མ...

འབྲུག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༣༥ གི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་ཤེས་རིག་ལྟེ་བ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ བཟོ་ནི་གི་དམིགས་ཡུལ།

བཟོ་གྲྭ་གོང་འཕེལ་ལམ་སྟོན་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་...

ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ལས་ གཏོང་དངུལ་ཡར་སེང་།

རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ དངུལ་གཏོང་ལེན་འབད་མི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་སེང་སོ...

སྤ་རོ་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མི་ཁུངས་ཅིག་ལུ་ བཙོན་ཁྲིམས་ལོ་༦ བཀལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མི་ཁུང...

ན་གཞོན་ལཱ་གཡོག་མེད་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༢༡ སང་ཕོད་ཡང་ ལུས་ནི་ཨིནམ།

༉ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ལཱ་གཡོ...

Prosperous Bhutan cannot be built on empty pockets and empty villages

The country’s third Voluntary National Review (VNR) is a story of progress shadowed by warning signs. It proudly reports achievements—poverty reduced from 28 percent in 2017 to 11.6 percent in 2022, maternal and child mortality down, safe drinking water for nearly all, and forest cover holding at over 69 percent.

Youth unemployment to persist, nearing 21 percent next year

The country’s unemployment rate is estimated to slightly increase to 3.6 percent in 2025, up from the 2024 average o...

Bhutan aims to become a global education hub by 2035

Bhutan is making concerted efforts to position itself as a premium destination for holistic and high-quality education by 2035, according...

Money supply growth slumps in FY 2023–24 as deposits fall

Money supply grew at its slowest pace in years during fiscal year 2023–24, as a sharp drop in current account deposi...

Indian man sentenced to six years for smuggling 7.3 kilos of cannabis

The Paro District Court yesterday sentenced an Indian national to six years in prison for smuggling more than 7.3 kilograms of cannabis into Bhutan from Thailand, in one of the country’s largest cannabis seizures in recent years.

Phuentsholing sets up smoking zones to curb public smoking

Phuentsholing—In a first for the border town, Phuentsholing Thromde has established six designated smoking zones in the...

Paro FC stuns Afghan champions in stoppage-time winner

Paro FC has earned a place in the AFC Challenge League group stage for the second straight year after a dramatic 1–0 victory over A...

ས་སྣུམ་གོང་ཚད་ ཁེ་ཏོག་ཏོ་ཐོབ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ས་མཚམས་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ཚུ་ནང་ ནག་ཚོང་འཐབ་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

རྒྱ་འབྲུག་གི་ ས་མཚམས་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ཚུ་ནང་ ཉིན་བསྟར་བཞིན...

ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་འགེགས་སྲུང་འཛུལ་སྒོའི་ མི་མང་གསང་སྤྱོད་ ཁྱད་རིག་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་འཐབ་ནི།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ རྐང་ལམ་འགེགས་སྲུང་སྒོ་ར་ནང་ མི་མང་གསང་སྤྱོད་དེ་ ཁྱད་རིག་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལག་ལེན་ཐོག་ བསྟར་སྤྱོད་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

ཡུན་བརྟན་གོང་འཕེལ་དམིགས་ཡུལ་སྒྲིང་སྒྲི་འགྱོ་རུང་ ན་གཞོན་ལཱ་གཡོག་མེད་མི་དང་ གནས་སྤོ་འགྱོ་མི་གི་ གདོང་ལེན་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁས་བླངས་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་གསུམ་པའི་ ས...

ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་པ་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་རྒྱུན་འགྲུལ་གྱི་ སྒྲིག་གཞི་དམ་སྒྲིང་བཟོ་ཡོདཔ།

འགན་འཁྲི་ཅན་སྦེ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་གཏང་ནི་དང་ རྐང་འགྲུལཔ་ཚ...

Will the new industrial roadmap deliver?

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment unveiled its Industrial Development Roadmap last week, which offers a gamut of incentives, including tax holidays and cheap...

Police tighten traffic discipline in Gelephu

Gelephu—Motorists exceeding the speed limit or failing to fasten seatbelts in Gelephu and Sarpang are being pulled over by traffic police, fined, and reminded to comply with traffic regulations — not only to enforce driving discipline but also to ensure safety.

Outward remittances rise, chipping away at inflow gains

The country’s rising inward remittance flows are facing a quiet counterweight - a steady climb in outward remittances, driven la...

NCD launches second 10-year strategy to protect endangered red panda

The Nature Conservation Division (NCD) under Department of Forests and Park Services (DoF...

SDG progress strong, but youth unemployment and migration pose challenges

Bhutan’s third Voluntary National Review (VNR) reports significant progres...

Phuentsholing Terminal adopts professional management for public toilets

Phuentsholing—The Pedestrian Terminal in Phuentsholing will implement professional management practices for its public toilets.

Workshop aims to institutionalise science-policy links for conservation

A three-day consultation workshop is underway in Lamaigoemba, Bumthang, to provi...

ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འཛིན་སྐྱོང་དང་ ཞབས་ཏོག་སྐྱེལ་སྤྲོད་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ཐབས་ལུ་ གསོ་བའི་ལས་སྡེ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་ཆ་འཇོག།

གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ གཞི་རྟེན་གཞི་སྒྱུར་གྱི་ ལས་སྣ་མང...

གཙོ་རིམ་ཅན་གྱི་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཁང་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ སྐྱེད་ཉུང་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་དང་ ཁྲལ་ཡངས་གྲོས་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་དང་ ནང་འདྲེན་མར་ཕབ་ དེ་ལས་ ལཱ...

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ གཙོ་རིམ་གོང་འཕེལ་མ་དངུལ་གྱི་ གནད་དོན་གུ་དོགས་སེལ།

འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ རྩིས་ལོ་༢...

Unfinished battle for our health

Our health story is one of remarkable victories. Maternal and child mortality rates have fallen to levels once thought unattainable. Malaria has been eradicated, and cervical cancer prevention efforts stand as a model for the world. These achievements are the result of decades of political commitment, community trust in the health system, and a culture of solidarity that places collective wellbein