Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay alerted the 20 dzongdags to ensure that their respective dzongkhags are safe

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay alerted the 20 dzon...

Twenty designers take part in the Bhutan Fashion Week

Preparing Bhutan for the AI era

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept. It is rapidly becoming a key component of organisational life, transforming how businesses operate, governments function, and societies...

Second Gyalsung cohort graduates, enters national duty phase

The Passing Out Parade (POP) for the Second Cohort of the 2025 batch of Gyalsung was held yesterday, with simulta...

MoAL launches USD 34.7 M project to transform rural economy

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) launched the “Accelerate Bhutan’s Job Transformation through Renewable Natural Resource (RNR) Value Chains Project” in partnership with the World Bank yesterday to make farming and rural livelihoods more attractive, profitable, and sustainable, particularly for youth and women.

India-Bhutan Youth Summit discusses GMC and cross-border cooperation

Phuentsholing—The 4th India-Bhutan Youth Summit concluded yesterday with renewed optimism...

Thimphu Dzongkhag Court sentences man to life for Changangkha murder

The Thimphu Dzongkhag Court sentenced Lekden D. Dorji, 29, to life imprisonment for the m...

From plastic to purpose: How climate education is shaping young guardians of the mountains

Laya - At 12, Dorji Zangmo thought nothing of toss...

Bhutan charts new one health strategy for livestock and environment

Paro — A four-day national workshop concluded yesterday, advancing integrating Bhutan’s livestock production with environmental conservation and human health.

Police detain Sandeep Rai Chamling amid crypto mentorship and trading complaints

South Thimphu Police have detained Sandeep Rai Chamli...

ཐའེ་གི་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་གཤགས་མི་ལུ་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་ གུས་བཏུད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙ...

འབྲུག་གོང་འཕེལ་དངུལ་ཁང་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་གནད་དོན་ཁ་གསལ་ གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་མི་ཆོག་ནི།

༉ འབྲུག་གོང་འཕེལ་དངུལ་ཁང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷ...

དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་སྨན་ཁང་ནང་ མོ་ནད་མཁས་མཆོག་མེད་པར་ ཟླཝ་༥ ལང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྨན་ཁང་ནང་ མོ་ནད་མཁས་མཆོག་མེད་པ...

དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༡.༩༡ གནས་པའི་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་བསྡུ་ལེན་གྱི་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་༢ མེདཔ་ཐལ་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་༩.༡༥ གནས་པའི་ ཕྱག...

Bhutanese youth must prepare for GMC jobs

The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is beginning to take shape in tangible ways, creating opportunities and opening new career pathways. The recently held GMC Career Fair...

Their Majesties pay respects to late Queen Mother of Thailand

His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen are in Thailand to pay respects to Her Late Majesty Queen S...

BDBL cannot disclose ESP borrowers’ details: OAG

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has clarified that the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) does not have the legal authority to disclose the names and detailed loan information of borrowers under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP).

iCTG brings safer pregnancies to rural mothers

For mothers in remote Sakteng Gewog in Trashigang, monthly pre-natal check-ups were once a major challenge. Expectant mothers had to endure long journeys o...

Finding ability beyond disability: A journey to independence

Trashigang —The soft rhythm of a chisel against wood fills the quiet room as 28-year-old Tenzin Wangchuk rolls hi...

AI skills gap in civil service shows urgent training need

A recent survey by the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) and the GovTech Agency has revealed a significant gap in Arti...

Inaugural Bhutan Fashion Week celebrates innovation and heritage

Paro—The soft drizzle and chill in the air did not stop Bhutanese designers and models from transforming the main street in Paro into a vibrant runway at the inaugural Bhutan Fashion Week (BFW) yesterday.

BOC and Japan’s NSSU collaborate to boost coaching standards

The Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) and Japan’s Nippon Sport Science University (NSSU) launched a Coach Deve...

དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ནང་ ཆུ་ཚོད་༢༤/༧ གྱི་ཐོག་ལུ་ ལཱ་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་ཐང་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་གྱི་ལཱ་...

གཙུག་སྡེའི་ལྷན་འཛིན་དང་ ཁྲི་འཛིན་ སྤྱི་འཛིན་གསརཔ་ བསྐོ་བཞག་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ངན་ལྷད་བཀག་སྡ...

Making ESP education loan more accessible

The goal of the Economic Stimulus Programme’s (ESP) education loan is, at its core, both forward-looking and noble. It has been initiated to provide opportunities for children from poor, low-income families to pursue higher or technical education.

New Constitutional post-holders appointed

His Majesty the King granted Dhar to appoint the Chairperson and members of the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Chief Election Commissioner and Commissioners of the Elect...

Gelephu Airport construction goes 24/7

Gelephu—Even as construction at Gelephu International Airport progresses rapidly on schedule, the Rigsar-Vajra Joint Venture, carrying out the earth-filling works, has moved to ro...

Garbage compactor trucks worth Nu 9.15 million sit idle over mechanical failures

Thimphu Dzongkhag Administration’s two garbage compac...

Scientific timber grading initiative launched to strengthen construction quality

Phuentsholing — A multi-sectoral initiative to scientifically grade timber was launched at the College of Science and Technology (CST) in Phuentsholing recently.

Renowned Australian Fashion Editor Jillian Davison to attend Bhutan Fashion Week

The Bhutan Fashion Week will welcome one of the most...

Combine harvesters boost productivity but remain hard to get in Paro

Paro — As the golden paddy fields of Paro turn a mellow hue under the crisp autumn sun, f...

Bhutanese youth show grit and promise at Asian Youth Games 2025

Despite their best efforts, nearly all Bhutanese athletes at the ongoing Asian Youth Games (AYG) 2025 in...

Bhutan and the European Union celebrate 40 years of friendship

Bhutan and the European Union celebrate 40 years of friendship Bhutan celebrated 40 years of diplomatic relations with the European Union (EU), Denmark, and the Netherlands. To celebrate, a special two-hour musical concert was held at the Chang Yul Park in Thimphu on October 17.

དཔལ་སྲུང་ཤོ་ཐེངས་དང་པ་གིས་ བདེ་སྲུང་འབྲེལ་མཐུན་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ དཔལ་སྲུང་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་འབད་མི་༣༢༥ དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཐོ་ར...

ཟམ་རྙིངམ་གི་སོར་ཚབ་སྦེ་ གཏན་འཇགས་ཀྱི་ ཟམ་གསརཔ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན།

༉ ས་ཐོག་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ ཇ་པཱན་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་...

𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗽 𝗚𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗴?

The golden fields of Laphuna in Punakha sway gentl...

A teacher’s gift to the nation

It is not often that a Bhutanese citizen receives a prestigious award from abroad. Yet, a teacher from Samtse, Chimi Dema, became Bhutan’s first recipient of the Princess Maha Chakri Award in Thailand, one of the most respected recognitions in the region for exceptional teachers.

First Pelsung cohort completes Desuung Integrated Training

Gelephu — Some 325 Pelsups, including 18 with master’s degrees and a PhD, begin the Innovation and Gelephu Mindfulness...

BoB disburses Nu 49 million under ESP education loan scheme

Bank of Bhutan (BoB) has disbursed around Nu 49 million in education loans under the Economic Stimulus Programme’s (...

GMC Career Fair opens global doors for Bhutanese professionals

At the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) Career Fair held at the Royal University of Bhutan auditorium yesterd...

Gender gap in political representation continues to widen

A decline in women’s participation in local government and politics is raising concerns over gender equality in decision making roles, even as their representation in the civil service remains stable.

Youth group drives eco-tourism at Jomolhari

Soe, Thimphu — Earlier this month, during the 11th Jomolhari Mountain Festival, a small yak-hair tent pitched at 4,100 metres above sea level came alive with the...

A village that defies rural exodus

Unlike some parts of the country witnessing goongtong (empty or abandoned rural households), Laya in Gasa is bucking the trend with a consistent annual increase in household numbers. The gewo...

Walking for those who cannot walk

There are journeys that test strength, and there are those that reveal the heart. Ani Pema Deki’s 400-kilometre walk across the Trans-Bhutan Trail is both.

Karmi Tongchoe for Late Queen Mother of Thailand

His Majesty the King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, and Her Majesty Gyalyum Tshering Yangdoen Wangchuck offered prayers and lit one thousand butterlamps on October 25 at the Grand Kuenrey of Tashichhodzong in memory of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother of Thailand.

Walking for a purpose

By the time I caught up with Ani Pema Deki at Dochula, it was nearly 11 am. The mountain air was crisp and sharp, cutting through the quiet.

Soe women’s group turns plastic waste into reusable products

Soe, Thimphu—A women’s self-support group in Soe has started weaving plastic waste into practical products...

No gynaecologist at Wangdue Hospital for five months

Wangdue Hospital has been without a gynaecologist for over five months, a critical shortage that is severely impacting maternal health se...

Permanent bridges to replace old bailey bridge

The Department of Surface Transport (DoST) will build two permanent bridges at Namling and Durdari in Mongar under a Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Grant Aid Project.

Education ministry to roll out revised Cambridge-aligned curriculum next year

The education ministry will roll out the revised and Cambridge-aligned curriculum starting from the 2026 academic year, a key achievement in the country’s efforts to transform education system.