ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁ་ལུང་གཤོང་ནང་ཁྲུང་ཁྲུང་ཉམས་སྲུང་ལུ་ ཚ་གྱང་ལང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁའི་ས་ཁོངས་དེ་ ཆུ་ཞིང་རམ་སཱར་ཟེར་ ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་ཡོད་རུང་ ལུང་གཤོང་དེ་ཁར་ མཐའ་འཁོར་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ཚུ་ ཐོན་དོ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ སྤྱང་འཁྱམས་སྡོད་མི་ སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་རིགས་དང་ ཚུལ་མཐུན་མེད་པའི་ སྒོ་ནོར་སེམས་ཅན་འཚོ་སྐྱོང་འཐབ་ནི་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ཤོམ་མ་འཐབ་མི་ དེ་ལས་ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ གནད་དོན་ཚུ་ ཡར་འཕར་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

དོ་འགྲན་དཔྱད་ཡིག་ཟིན་བྲིས་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ཆ་འཇོག་གི་དོན་ལུ་བསྒུགས་ཡོདཔ།

དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་གྱི་ ལོ་བསྟར་སྙན་ཞུ་༢...

A moment of reckoning, a future in the making

As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hesitation, but by bold conviction.

New national energy policy charts bold path to 2040

The new National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025 marks a strategic shift in how the country will manage its energy future. While continuing to hono...

Draft Competition Bill finalised, awaits Cabinet approval

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has finalised the draft of a new Competition Bill, according to the CCAA’s Annual Report 2024-25.

25-year-old wins Nu 20 million lottery jackpot

A life-changing win has transformed the fortunes of Tandin Tshering, a 25-year-old resident of Phuntsholing, who secured the Nu 20 million grand prize in t...

Bhutan and Switzerland mark 40 years of friendship

Bhutan and Switzerland yesterday marked a significant milestone, celebrating the 40th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations alongside the...

Bhutan NDI launches advanced security features to combat digital fraud

Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) has launched a suite of advanced security fe...

His Majesty’s Address to the Nation On the Commencement of Construction Work for Gelephu International Airport

Today, as we gather to start the construction works for the Gelephu International Airport, we are laying the foundations of a legacy that will shape the lives of generations to come.

Phobjikha valley faces pressures amid growing conservation concerns

Phobjikha-Although Phobjikha is a Ramsar-designated wetland, the valley is experiencing incr...

རྒྱ་གར་གྱིས་ ཅ་ཆས་དང་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཁྲལ་ བསྡུ་མི་ལུ་ ནང་འཁོད་ནང་འདྲེན་པ་ཚུ་ སེམས་དང་མ་ལྡན་པར་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱ་གར་ལས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ནང་འདྲེན་འཐབ་པའི་སྐབས་ ཁྲལ་...

དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་རྐྱབ་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒ...

Learning from the Tading experience

While much of the country debates taxes on fixed deposit interests, GST, and the legality of certain parliamentary decisions, something more quietly transformational is happening in Tading, Samtse. There, residents are reaping the benefits, modest it may be,of smart infrastructure planning and decisive execution.

Construction of Gelephu International Airport begins

His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel and Gyalsey Ugyen Wangchu...

Local importers claim unlawful Indian GST charges on zero-rated exports

Despite trade agreements ensuring zero-rated status for exports from India to Bh...

Gangtey-Phobjikha residents urge road widening as safety concerns grow

Phobjikha Gewog, famed for its sweeping valley, sacred heritage sites, and the grac...

NCOA puts more effort into promotion of quinoa cultivation

Once an unfamiliar grain in Bhutanese farming circles, quinoa is fast emerging as a promising staple in the country’s evolving agricultural landscape, according to the 2024–2025 annual report of the National Centre for Organic Agriculture (NCOA), Yusipang.

Dry spell and water shortage hinder paddy cultivation in Thangchhenang

Tashicholing—Farmers in Thangchhenang village (Biru Tar) under Pemaling Gewog, Samt...

From prompt to problem: How sharing sensitive data with AI can backfire-and what you can do about it

Imagine you are drafting an important email to be...

Women’s football team confident after opening victory

Bhutan’s national women’s football team are full of confidence as they prepare to face Lebanon tomorrow in the ongoing AFC Women...

སོ་ནམ་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༣.༥༡ དེ་ཅིག་ ཡར་འཕར་སོང་ཡོདཔ།

རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༤-༢༥ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ སོ་ནམ་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་དེ...

རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ གི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞུང་གི་ཁྲིམས་བཟོའི་འཆར་གཞི།

༉ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ གི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞུང་གི་ གལ་གནད་ཅན་གྱ...

མི་དབང་མཆོག་གིས་ ཤེས་རིག་གི་དཔེ་སྟོན་རྩ་གཞུང་ གསར་བཏོན་གནང་དབུ་བཞུགས།

སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༤ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མ...

Inclusion in agriculture must be more than policy dream

Bhutan’s ambition to make its agriculture sector more inclusive by involving persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a welcome and c...

Govt. outlines legislative plans for fiscal year 2025-2026

The government has outlined a crucial and ambitious legislative plan for fiscal year 2025–2026, prominently featuring the renewal of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Bhutan and India, originally signed in 1972 and set to expire this November.

Parliament’s “historic” tax reforms raise eyebrows over speed and focus

Agricultural exports soar to Nu 3.51 billion

The country’s agricultural exports reached a record Nu 3.51 billion last fiscal year 2024-25, demonstrating robust growth and strong global demand for its divers...

Thimphu Thromde’s drainage system inadequate, upgrades ahead

Heavy monsoon rains have once again laid bare the vulnerabilities in Thimphu Thromde’s drainage system, tri...

Health ministry to develop radiation emergency policy

The nation’s readiness for radiation emergencies has come under scrutiny following a recent Joint External Evaluation (JEE), which flagged the absence of a dedicated national policy on radiation, leading to the country receiving the lowest score in this critical category.

Local business in Tading thrives, driven by pandemic and toll fees

Samtse—What began as a period of widespread hardship during the Covid-19 pandemic has, surprisi...

མི་དབང་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་མཇུག་བསྡུའི་ ལས་རིམ་ནང་ དབུ་བཞུགས་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༥ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མ...

Drug smuggling—A threat far deeper than we admit

The recent sentencing of an Indian national caught smuggling over 4.6 kilograms of heroin into Bhutan is not an isolated incident—it is a sympt...

Launch of Bhutan Baccalaureate

His Majesty the King graced the launch of the Bhutan Baccalaureate at the Druk Gyalpo’s Institute in Dungkar Dzong, Paro on July 4.

MoAL opens agricultural pathways for PWDs

While the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) continues to prioritise food and nutrition security as its core mandate, it is increasingly adopting a more inclusi...

Prime suspect in former Dorji Lopen’s murder acted alone, driven by theft

The prime suspect in the alleged murder of the former Dorji Lopen, Y...

New mobile number series and stricter SIM card policies to combat digital fraud

To address the rising digital and financial fraud cases...

Health ministry and PEMA Secretariat expand mental health access

With the growing concerns over mental health challenges, Health Minister Tandin Wangchuk acknowledged the scale of the issue during a Meet-the-Press session on July 4, highlighting an encouraging shift in public attitude as more Bhutanese now seek help rather than suffer in silence.

We are made of star stuff: A cosmic reflection

We humans take selfies for various reasons: to mark milestones, capture fleeting moments, or simply to say, “I was here.” But perhaps the most extraordinar...

Creative industry gets Nu 530 million boost from ESP

The creative industry is set to receive a boost with an allocation of Nu 530 million from the government’s Nu 15 billion Economic Stimulu...

His Majesty the King graces closing ceremony of Parliament

His Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of the third session of the fourth Parliament on July 5. Speaker of th...

གཞུང་གིས་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་ ཕྱི་ཁར་འགྱོ་མི་གི་ གནད་དོན་སེལ་ཐབས་ལུ་ ཐབས་ལམ་གསུམ་གསལ་བསྒྲགས།

རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་ཅན་གྱི་མི་ཚུ་ ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་ ལཱ་འབད་བར་འགྱོ་མི་གི་ གདོང་ལེན་དེ་ ཡར་འཕར་སོང་མི་དང་བསྟུན་ ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་ཅན་ཚུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ར་ བཞག་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ གཞུང་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་སྒྲིང་སྒྲི་དང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་གི་ གོ་སྐབས་བཟོ་ནི་ དེ་ལས་ དོ་འགྲན་ཅན་གྱི་ གླ་ཡོན་བྱིན་ནི་ལུ་ ཁས་ལེན་འབད་དེ་ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

གློག་མེའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༢༠༠ ལས་བརྒལ་ཡོདཔ།

འབྲུག་གིས་ གློག་མེའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་...

Civic sense, infrastructure can end capital’s woes

The brief yet heavy downpours have exposed more than just blocked drains. They revealed the lack of civic sense among residents of the ca...

Bhutan’s working hours: Gross National Exhaustion?

Bhutan has drawn unexpected global attention following the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) latest global working hours report,...

Govt. urges overstaying Bhutanese in the US to return amid heightened immigration crackdown

Amid increasing immigration enforcement in the United States (US), Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MoFAET), Lyonpo DN Dhungyel, has urged undocumented Bhutanese nationals to voluntarily return home.

Indian national is sentenced to 15 years for smuggling heroin into Bhutan

An Indian national, Thanil Wanhengbam, 50, has been sentenced to 15 years...

RCSC to discontinue regular contract teacher system

Aiming to restore fairness and consistency, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) will discontinue the regular contract teacher system,...

Health ministry commits rural health access amid staffing woes

Despite facing ongoing shortages of medical professionals in urban centers, the health ministry has reaffir...

Setting the bar high to serve His Majesty and the nation

This week, Bhutan mourned the loss of three De-suup trainees to leptospirosis, with over 140 others affected. Such a tragedy...

NA adopts the Income Tax Bill, exempts up to Nu 400, 000 in fixed deposit interest

The National Assembly (NA) yesterday adopted the Income Tax Bill of Bhutan 2025, incorporating a key recommendation from the National Council (NC) regarding exemptions on fixed deposit interest, while rejecting a proposal on dividend income.