Ask Mr Bhutan

In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating a mindset of gratitude is not only challenging but absolutely necessary for our well-being.

Reclaiming our agricultural heritage

Not long ago, villagers-turned-landlords from Chang and Barp in South Thimphu returned to their ancestral lands in Punakha after urban expansion devoured their paddy fields. Some reclai...

Vehicle dealers stop taking vehicle quota orders amid tax overhaul uncertainty

Automobile dealers in the country have stopped accepting ne...

Gelephu Airport recruitment draws over 5,100 applicants

Gelephu—Rigsar-Vajra Joint Venture (RVJV) Private Limited, undertaking earth-filling works at Gelephu International Airport, rec...

Local leaders seek solutions for cross-border meat smuggling in Samtse

Samtse—Local leaders in Samtse say the illegal import of meat from across the border is threatening consumer health, possibly contributing to livestock disease outbreaks, and destabilising the local market.

Bhutan, India in talks on air traffic pact for Gelephu International Airport

Bhutan and India are in advanced talks over the air traffic servi...

Govt. revises taxes on alcohol and tobacco to curb NCDs

Amid a growing health crisis fueled by a rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the government is implementing a new taxation...

Government unveils strategy to tackle youth unemployment

The government has set out a strengthened strategy to curb youth unemployment rate and reduce outmigration by enhancing job c...

Catching up with cybercrime reality

Bhutan faces an escalating digital security crisis. The Royal Bhutan Police documented 56 cybercrime cases and 960 cyberbullying incidents in 2023 alone, with numbers continuing to climb.

Managing monsoon stormwater in Bhutan’s urban landscapes: A sustainable perspective

Urbanisation increases impervious surfaces by tran...

New cohort graduates from JSW Law School

This year’s graduating cohort comprised 24 students from the five-year LL.B/PGDNL programme and 11 from the one-year Post Graduate Diploma in National Law programme

MoH revises medical referral rules to ease burden on patients

The Ministry of Health is finalising new rules for medical referrals abroad, which is expected to strengthen p...

Digital health platform to help improve care and policy in Bhutan

A nationwide digital health platform is being developed by the government in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), with the aim of improving healthcare services, promoting preventive care, and equipping policymakers with better data for decision-making.

Education ministry clarifies ECCD admissions are open to all

When a mother in Punakha was denied a seat for her daughter at an Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) cen...

‘Our partnership has been agile in responding to the needs of the time’

As your tenure as Ambassador of India to Bhutan comes to an end, how...

Finance ministry to soft launch GST system on November 11 this year

The finance ministry will soft launch the goods and services tax (GST) system on November 11...

Ageing well must be Bhutan’s next big goal

The opening of the 9th International Conference on Medical and Health Sciences in Thimphu this week could not have come at a more crucial time.

Bhutan’s social protection system covers just 8% of population

A new report has warned that Bhutan’s social protection system is fragmented and underfunded, leaving...

ICMH 2025 focuses on ageing and emerging health challenges

The three-day 9th International Conference on Medical and Health Sciences (ICMH 2025) opened yesterday in Thimphu with...

Paro court sentences Indian national to 20 years for heroin smuggling

The Paro District Court yesterday sentenced Indian national Aamir Rasul Shikalgar, 35,...

Bhutan, India expand agricultural cooperation

Bhutanese farmers are set to benefit from a new five-year agreement with India that promises support in improving productivity, expanding market access, and strengthening rural livelihoods.

WWF Bhutan launches project to save endangered musk deer

The country’s rich forests are home to the musk deer, locally called Lachum, but its survival is under threat. Male Lachum ca...

First cricket academy gaining momentum with young players

The country’s first private cricket academy, founded by national cricket icon Ranjung Mikyo Dorji in the capital in 2023,...

དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ ཉེན་སྲུང་དང་ལྡནམ་སྦེ་བཞག་ཐབས་ལུ་ པར་ཆས་བཙུགས་སྒྲིག་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ གསར་སྤང་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ཕ...

ཨམ་སྲུ་དང་ ཨ་ལུ་ཕྱེད་ཀ་དེ་ཅིག་ ཁྲག་ནད་ཡོད་པའི་གསལ་སྟོན།

༉ གསོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ལེགས་ཤོམ་མེད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རྒྱལ་...

སྤུ་ན་གཙང་ཆུ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་༢ པ་དེ་ ཧྲིལ་བུམ་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ཡང་ ཟད་འགྲོ་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༨༨.༥ བཏང་...

འཕེལ་ཚད་བཅུ་ལྟབ་ཀྱི་འཆར་སྣང་དེ་ སོ་ནམ་སྡེ་ཚན་ནང་ ཁ་སྒྱུར་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྒེར་གྱི་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཐོག་ལས་ རྒྱལ་...

མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཨམ་སྲུའི་ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་ གཙུག་སྡེ་ཅིག་འགོ་འབྱེད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་ དགུང་ལོ་༧༠ བཞེས་པའ...

དམིགས་བསལ་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་ལས་རིམ་གྱིས་ སྐྱིན་ཚབ་དུས་ཚོད་ཁར་ བཏབ་མ་ཚུགས་མི་ལུ་ ལྷན་ཐབས་འབད་ཚུགས་ནི།

ལོ་ངོ་དག་པ་ཅིག་གི་ཧེ་མར་ ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་-༡༩ ལུ་བརྟེ...

Saving the troubled hotel industry

The hotel industry is in deep trouble. Nearly three years since the pandemic, occupancy rates are at rock-bottom, while debts have piled up. The overall occupancy currently hovers around 20 p...

Punatsangchhu-II hydropower fully commissioned

After nearly 14 years in the making, the Punatsangchhu–II Hydroelectric Project has been fully commissioned, with its final Unit-6 (170MW) successfully syn...

MoAL aligns with 10X vision to transform Bhutan’s agriculture sector

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) is working under a comprehensive s...

Police step up surveillance operations in Gelephu

Gelephu—Criminal activities, traffic violations, and other unlawful acts, including illegal waste dumping in Gelephu and Sarpang, are now being raided under real-time monitoring to encourage law-abiding residents in the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).

Royal Thimphu College celebrates global academic collaborations

Royal Thimphu College (RTC) celebrated its international partnerships yesterday, honouring its long-term...

First-ever Bhutan Fashion Week to launch creative industry into global spotlight

Bhutan is preparing to host its first-ever Bhutan Fas...

Govt. launches climate-resilient urban development pilot projects in Thimphu and Paro

In a joint effort to combat the growing impacts of...

Two Bhutanese trail runners debut at UTMB World Finals in France

Bhutan will be represented for the first time at the world’s most prestigious trail running event, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) World Series Finals, as Rigzin Chodra, 44, from Thimphu, and Jigme Tenzin, 38, from Samtse, take to the starting line today in Chamonix, France.

Fix the health workforce now

Bhutan’s greatest national achievement since the introduction of planned development has been the delivery of free healthcare for every citizen. It is a policy rooted in compassion and equity, and even today,...

Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck launches institute to empower women

To commemorate the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth King, Edith Cowan Univer...

Hoteliers to push banks to cut interest rates, ease repayments

The hotel industry in the country, battered by sluggish tourist arrivals and mounting debt, is preparing to...

Special loan rebate scheme to help borrowers clear NPLs

The Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICB) has launched a special loan rebate scheme to help borrowers recover from the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

More than 70,000 students to benefit from FIFA digital programme

Children in the country will soon have greater opportunities to learn through technology, programming...

Frequent blackouts affect residents and public services in Dorokha

Samtse—Residents of Dorokha in Samtse are struggling with frequent power fluctuations that have...

Restoration of Changyuel Galem’s house to begin with joint funding

Punakha—Changyuel Galem’s house in Punakha, recognised as a heritage building for its cul...

Ask Mr Bhutan

གཞུང་གིས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ཁྱད་པར་བསུབ་ནི་ལུ་ ནང་འཁོད་ལས་ ཤའི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་འབད་ནི།

གཞུང་གིས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ཁྱད་པར་བསུབ་ནི་དང་ ནང་འདྲ...

ལུང་ནག་ན་གི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་ འཕྲལ་མགྱོགས་ར་ སློབ་ཁང་གསརཔ་ནང་ སྤོ་ཚུགས་ནི།

༉ ལུང་ནག་ན་ བསྟན་ཆོས་སློབ་གྲྭའི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་དང་ སློབ...

ངན་ལྷད་བཀག་སྡོམ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ནང་ ལས་བྱེདཔ་དགོངས་ཞུ་འབད་མི་ ལེ་ཤ་ཡོད་རུང་ ངན་ལྷད་ཀྱི་གདོང་ལེན་ཡོདཔ།

འདས་པའི་རྩིས་ལོ་ནང་ དགོངས་ཞུའི་ཚད་གཞི་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༨.༣...

བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ ཌོག་ཊར་མ་ལང་པའི་དཀར་ངལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་སྨན་ཁང་གཉིས་ནང་ ཌོག་ཊར་མེད་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ཐོན་ཡོདཔ་ད་ རྡོ་རོ་ཁ་དང་ སྒོམ་ཀྲུ་གི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་ གསོ་བའི་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་འཐོབ་ནི་ལུ་ ལཱ་ཁག་བཏང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Nation cannot thrive on half its blood

Anaemia is not a distant health statistic. It is one of the most pressing health problems in the country today, and it is silently weakening the foundation of our society.