Norbugang Industrial Park nears completion

Samtse—With just two months remaining until its scheduled September completion, the Norbugang Industrial Park in Samtse has reached 76 percent overall progress.

Climate shocks and service gaps threaten Bhutan’s poverty reduction gains

Bhutan’s hard-won gains in poverty reduction are under perilous thre...

CCAA refunds over Nu 300, 000 to consumers

Bhutanese consumers have received over Nu 339, 567  in refunds from the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) through mediation and referrals, highlighting...

Gangtey-Phobjikha faces growing waste challenge amid tourism boom

Phobjikha—As the valleys of Gangtey and Phobjikha in Wangdue continue to draw more visitors each y...

Former Dorji Lopen murdered at his residence

The former Dorji Lopen, Yonten Gyeltshen, was stabbed to death at his residence in Nalanda, Punakha, in the early hours of July 2.

High-level meet to accelerate future of agriculture

Renewable energy vital in transformation of Bhutan’s food security, experts say. Departments of Energy, Agriculture and Water review potenti...

The 13th Plan and the USD 5 billion GDP target

The 13th Five-Year Plan (FYP), which commenced in July 2024, lays out a bold vision to transform Bhutan’s economy.

Where trees remember: The sacred forest of Namchella

In the forest of Namchella chiwog in Dagapela, nature has reclaimed what time and tragedy left behind. Once a thriving village, its tr...

Internet instability linked to infrastructure gaps

Internet stability in the country is hampered by a combination of infrastructure challenges, right-of-way hurdles, network congestion, and application server limitations, the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment, Namgyal Dorji said during the 17th Meet-the-Press yesterday.

National curriculum aligns with Cambridge, not adopted: MoESD minister

The Ministry of Education and Skill Development (MoESD) clarified that it is not ad...

Finance minister attends global financing conference in Spain

The finance minister Lekey Dorji led Bhutan’s delegation to the Fourth International Conference on Financing f...

Leave the US with dignity

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay yesterday urged Bhutanese overstaying their visas in the United States to return home voluntarily. While presenting the State of the Nation Report, Lyonchhen reminded Bhutanese living in...

Govt. unveils three-pronged strategies to tackle skilled migration crisis

As Bhutan faces a growing challenge of skilled citizens moving abroad for work, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay yesterday outlined the government’s commitment to boosting the economy, fostering employment, and offering competitive wages to keep talent within the country.

Airborne mineral survey nears halfway mark as Bhutan pushes 21st Century Economic Roadmap

Bhutan’s first-ever Airborne Geophysical Survey ha...

Hydropower investments exceed Nu 200 billion

Bhutan has surpassed Nu 200 billion in hydropower investments, signaling a major stride towards its energy security goals and ambitious plans for economic transf...

NA adopts Excise Tax Bill, rejects most NC recommendations

The National Assembly (NA) yesterday adopted the Excise Tax Bill of Bhutan 2025, approving only one of the three recomm...

Solar-powered irrigation emerges as key to food security and rural livelihoods

A growing coalition of government agencies, researchers, and development partners is turning to renewable energy–powered irrigation systems to address some of the country’s most pressing challenges—food insecurity, rural joblessness, and climate vulnerability.

Gangtey-Phobji wetland to benefit from new investment model

Wangdue—Designated in 2014 as Bhutan’s largest Ramsar site, the 974.65-hectare Gangtey-Phobji wetland is now the foc...

ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་བསྐྱར་གསོའི་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་གཞི་བཙུགས།

ཉིན་བསྟར་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་ཡར་སེང་ སོང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ བསམ་...

འདས་པའི་དངུལ་འབྲེལ་རྩིས་ཉོགས་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༢༦ དེ་ཅིག་ རྩིས་འགྲིག་མ་འབད་བར་ཡོདཔ།

ལོ་བསྟར་རྩིས་ཞིབ་སྙན་ཞུ་༢༠༡༠ ལས་༢༠༢༣ ཅན་མ་དང་འཁྲིལ...

When silence becomes a risk

The recent outbreak of leptospirosis among de-suung trainees in Dewathang has left the nation in grief and shock. Three young lives have been lost, and many continue to recover from a preventable illness.

Over 26 percent of past financial irregularities not resolved

More than Nu 4.7 billion in financial irregularities, representing over 27 percent of cases identified since 2...

NA passes GST Bill, rejects NC recommendations

The National Assembly (NA) yesterday passed the Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan, 2025, rejecting two recommendations proposed by the Nati...

Boost in crop yields offers respite to agriculture sector

The agriculture sector has received a timely boost with a notable increase in the production of major crops and cereals, a...

Critical gaps in school sanitation and hygiene in Thimphu: RAA

A performance audit report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA), tabled in Parliament yesterday, shed light on shortcomings in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities and services across government schools in Thimphu Thromde.

PW Waste Recovery Center professionalises waste recycling in Samtse

Samtse—With increasing volumes of waste generated daily, the PW Waste Recovery Center in Sam...

ཚོགས་ཁང་གོང་འོག་གིས་ གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་འཁོན་འདུམ་འཕྲི་སྣོནདཔྱད་ཡིག་གུ་ ཞལ་འཆམ་བྱུང་མ་ཚུགསཔ།

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་འཁོན...

ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ ཨ་མོ་ཆུ་ལུ་ འཁོར་ལམ་གྱི་ གནས་སྟངས་སྐྱོ་དྲགས་ཐལ་ཡོདཔ།

ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ཨ་མོ་ཆུ་ འབྲུག་ཚོགས་འབྲེལ་ལས་འཛི...

མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ དམག་སྡེའི་གཙོ་འཛིན་དང་ མཇལ་ཕྲད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

70% seek jobs abroad?

After immense pressure and numerous tutorials, Sonam cleared her Royal Civil Service Commission entry exam last year. She was set to become a civil servant, earning around Nu 41,000 a month. Yet, she turned down the job and chose...

Parliament pushes for accountability as audit irregularities mount across sectors

The Parliament has called for legal action over Nu...

Initial investigation ties desuups’ deaths to contaminated training pond

The preliminary investigation into the leptospirosis outbreak among des...

Joint-sitting endorses performance-based budgeting for efficient capital budget use

The joint-sitting of Parliament yesterday, endorsed the implementation of performance-based budgeting across all budgetary bodies to address the persistent issues of capital budget underutilisation and enhance the efficient utilisation of resources.

NC seeks joint-sitting for ADR (Amendment) Bill 2024

The National Council (NC) has decided to seek a Royal Command to convene a joint sitting of Parliament after it declined to incorporate 4...

Nu 7 million project to transform urban sanitation infrastructure

A two-year nationwide sanitation project worth Nu 7 million is set to begin this month in Thimphu,...

Crypto payments gain ground among tourists

At the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) conversation on June 30 in Thimphu, the intersection of cryptocurrency, innovation, and tourism took center stage. Many internati...

དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཅན་གྱི་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་ ཆེ་རིམ་ཤེས་ཡོན་འཐོབ་ནི་ལུ་ གདོང་ལེན་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ གྲལ་བཙུགས་ཤེས་ཡོན་ ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་ ར...

འབྲུག་མི་ཕྱེད་ཀ་དེ་ཅིག་གིས་ རང་སོའི་ཁྱིམ་ནང་ སྡོད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྩིས་དཔྱད་བཀོད་འཛིན་གྱིས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག...

Students with disabilities struggle for access to higher education

Despite growing efforts to promote inclusive education in Bhutan, students with disabilities co...

Over half of Bhutanese households own homes

Bhutan’s housing landscape shows a near-even split between homeowners and renters, with 53.2 percent of households owning their dwellings and 46.8 percent renting,...

Nearly 70 percent of jobseekers eye migration

The World Bank’s latest report “Bhutan Poverty and Equity Assessment” reveals a stark picture of the nation’s poverty landscape: while wage and salary employment remains the clearest path out of poverty, most rural Bhutanese continue to depend on low-productivity agriculture.

Billions from abroad, but what lies ahead?

Remittances are pouring into the country. Our people, especially in places like Australia, are sending money home. This cash inflow is a big help. It supports families...

Dasho Driver – A review

For years, I have considered Dorji Wangchuk (Dorjigs) to be Bhutan’s best movie producer. I enjoy talking to Aue Dorji because he has a unique entrepreneurial approach to movie-making. With Dasho Driver, he is putting...

Amochu’s double lane road falls apart under heavy traffic

Phuentsholing— The double lane road near the STCBL fuel depot in Amochhu, Phuentsholing, once touted as a vital arte...

Bhutan and the World Bank dare to dream big

As my time in Bhutan as the World Bank’s Interim Country Director comes to a close, I leave with a deep sense of admiration, gratitude, and optimism for the country’s future.