Bhutan to play last match at ITF Asia under 14 championships today

Kelzang Lhatsho Tshering will face a Brunei opponent today in the second round of the ongoing International Tennis Federation (ITF) Asia 14 and Under Development Championships 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Smuggling and investigations

It is said that crime and sex stories sell well in the media. This could be true considering the questions from the public on the stories local media report, often without follow up. The media is under pressur...

Teacher development to be priority in 13th plan

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) will prioritise teacher development and improvement in the 13th Five-Year Plan, according to Ed...

Rise in human trafficking cases?

USD 0.45M smuggling probe still stalled by evidence gaps

In the latest update on the smuggling case involving USD 0.45 million seized by Thai Customs at Bangkok International Airport last year, police have obtained a seizure memo from the airport, sources revealed.

HKH calls for action and support during the launch of IYGP

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) joined alongside UNESCO, UNESCAP, and the Asia-Pa...

NoMindBhutan: Young innovators driving Bhutan’s AI revolution

NoMindBhutan, the country’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, is charting a new path for innov...

What a contrast!

In the face of rising unemployment, the latest labour force survey report comes as a big concern demanding immediate attention. According to the report, more than one-third, or about 35 percent, of the country’s working-age population is economi...

Bhutan secures USD 20M climate grant to bolster urban resilience amid rising climate risks

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Least Develo...

Suicide cases rise among country’s economically -active population

The number of suicide cases among the country’s economically active population has reache...

Accidents in Wangdue kills four

Wangdue—A father, mother, their nephew, and their eight-month-old baby boy died in an accident on January 19.

Empowering PWDs about their rights remain a key challenge

Last year, for the first time, Respect, Educate Nurture and Empower Women (RENEW) recorded 10 cases from Persons with Disa...

Eco-tourism plan in Samrang to open doors for employment

Samdrupjongkhar–Samrang aims to become an eco-tourism hotspot but much depends on government support.

Ngawang Jampel joins Minerva as head of youth development

The assistant coach of Bhutan’s senior national football team, Ngawang Jampel, recently joined Minerva Academy Football Cl...

Paying for a fault not ours

This year, 2025, will be the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, with March 21 to be observed as the World Day for Glaciers. It is an important international year considering where tiny Bhutan is locate...

འདས་པའི་ལོ་༥ འི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ ཨམ་སྲུའི་ཆ་བཞག་དང་ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་ཡར་སྐྱེད་ལས་སྡེ་གིས་ གནད་དོན་༢,༥༣༦ ཐོ་བཀོད།

༉ འདས་པའི་ལོ་༥ འི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ ཨམ་སྲུའི་ཆ་བཞག་དང་ལྕ...

Grants inflow declines by over 25 percent after LDC graduation

Bhutan’s external grants inflow decreased after the country’s historic graduation from the least developed country (LDC) status in December 2023.

UN declares 2025 as International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation

To raise awareness and promote action to preserve glaciers, the United Nations General Assembly...

RENEW records 2,536 cases in five years, emotional abuse hits high

In the past five-years (2020-24), RENEW (Respect, Educate, Nurture, and Empower Women) recorded...

Businesses call for clearer regulation

While the tax breaks and benefits have reportedly supported economic growth and job creation, a report on business regulatory processes highlights that businesses are struggling t...

Ed Sheeran concert: Friday is coming

With just four days left until the first international concert by global icon Ed Sheeran on Friday, tickets are still being sold.

Bhutan heads to Sri Lanka for beach volleyball championship

The national beach volleyball teams will land in Sri Lanka today to compete in the 2025 Central Asian Volleyball Ass...

Nurture small industries for healthy business ecosystem

All of us, the Bhutanese, would have reflected on the words of wisdom of His Majesty The King expressed through the Royal Addres...

Fuel deflection can be solved with some initiatives

When there is shortage of fossil fuel (diesel and petrol), our authorities know how well to ration it. They will turn down even farmers who...

སྤ་རོ་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ལས་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ཧི་རོ་ཡན་ནག་ཚོང་འཐབ་མི་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མི་ཁུངས་ཅིག་ འཛིན་བཟུང་།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡ པའི་ཚེས་༩ ལུ་ སྤ་རོ་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་...

མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དགའ་སྐྱིད་དཔལ་འཛོམས་རྟགས་མ་ གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་...

Car dealers must refund over Nu 30M for inflated green tax

Eleven vehicle dealers in the country have recently been found guilty of overcharging customers by inflating green tax...

6,598 young people are unemployed

The youth unemployment rate in the country increased to 17.7 percent in the fourth quarter of last year (October to December) compared to the previous quarter.

National Startup Weekend returns

After a four-year hiatus, the National Startup Weekend (NSUW) is set to return to Bhutan from March 12–15, 2025. Organised by the Bhutan Innovation and Technology Centre (BITC) under Thimphu TechPark Limited (TTPL), this year’s event will focus on the theme: “Cultivating Conscious Innovation: Merging Emerging Technologies with Mindful Development Practices.”

Four monks die in car accident, bodies recovered

Sarpang—Kinley Penjor tightens his robe around his waist as he prepares to descend the cliff where the wreckage of his four teachers and their car li...

Indian held for heroin smuggling at Paro Airport

Punakha – An Indian national is in custody at the Paro Police Station after being caught with a substance suspected to be heroin at Paro Internationa...

Charity at the heart of Tiger United FC

Tiger United Football Club (FC), formed by Bhutanese residing  in Perth, Australia,in 2022, is not merely a club that promotes football, but also embarks on charitable activiti...

The unemployment paradox

The two months before the Royal Civil Service Commission entrance examination was the most tense for Lhaden and her parents. Having graduated from the peak of learning, Sherubtse college, Lhaden’s parents left no stone unturned to ensure their daughter gets through the selection examination.