Fronting, smuggling rock Bhutan’s cardamom market, farmers pay the price

Phuentsholing—A farmer from Mongar recently sold 2,082 kilograms (kg) of cardamom for Nu 1,585 per kg, netting over Nu 3.29 million. But had market conditions been fair, he could have earned nearly Nu 864,000 more.

Police nab thieves behind Takila gold butter lamp heist

The Royal Bhutan Police arrested three individuals, including two former monks, for stealing a gold butter lamp worth Nu 12 mill...

GMC domestic bonds oversubscribed

The 10-year Gelephu Mindfulness City’s Nation Building Bond (GNBB) drew strong interest from Bhutanese residents, surpassing Nu 2 billion bond value in subscriptions by yesterday afternoon.

NC calls for reforms to boost forest sector revenue

Although forests cover nearly 70 percent of the country’s land area, the forestry sector’s share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is disp...

Contract teacher pay not within ministry’s authority: Education Minister

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development has no authority to revise the pay structure or entitlements of national contract teachers, according to Minister Yeezang De Thapa.

Agriculture minister details plan to improve farmers’ income

In response to concerns raised by Lingmukha-Toedwang MP Namgay Wangchuk regarding the scarcity of reliable...

Nationwide survey to review building height limits in satellite towns

Beginning this June, a team of urban planners will travel across all 20 dzongkhags to...

MaX(imum) Pressure?

There is a growing consensus among elected leaders to undo the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) initiative—planned, discussed, and implemented for the greater good of the bureaucracy. Both ruling and opposition members are demand...

Red-eye flights for penny-pinched foreign trips

Many people assume that every official foreign trip by public servants boosts their personal finances. However, these trips often drain their savings, as the allowances for foreign travel have not been substantially revised in over two decades and fail to cover even basic expenses. With inflation ignored and outdated rates in place, many officials are forced to use their own money just to get by—w

Thawing Drukair’s funds: U.S. Myanmar sanctions and Bhutan

In 2003, as part of the U.S. government’s economic sanctions against Myanmar (Burma) funds belonging to Bhutan’s...

Bright side of media: Not all is gloom and doom

The 2025 Rapid Assessment of Bhutan’s media landscape, conducted by the Journalists’ Association of Bhutan (JAB), presents a sobering yet nuanced portra...

Unit 4 of Puna-II synchronised with grid

In another key step toward full commissioning, Unit 4 (170 MW) of the 1,020MW Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project (HEP) was successfully synchronised with the national po...

Investigation into teen pregnancy shifts after DNA clears stepfather

Punakha—A complex investigation into the paternity of a newborn in Punakha has taken a significant turn after DNA analysis exonerated the initially accused stepfather of a 17-year-old girl.

Vehicle dealers agree to revise terms and conditions after regulatory push

Following a recent intervention by the Competition and Consumer Affairs...

Govt. allocates Nu 500 million across sectors for disability support

Health Minister Tandin Wangchuk highlighted the comprehensive roadmap for supporting pers...

When forest becomes a lifeline: Why Namchella’s HCV status matters

Namchella, Dagana, May 25—In the wild, green heart of Namchella, a footpath winds through...

Education minister defends notification on corporal punishment

The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Yeezang Dee Thapa, yesterday defended the ministry’s recent notification addressing the continued use of corporal punishment by teaching staff, which specifically mentioned Dzongkha teachers during the National Assembly’s question and answer session.

Bhutan women’s team set for strong finish in Tri-Nation Cup

Bhutan’s senior women’s national football team is determined to beat Malaysia on June 3 in their final match o...

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ནང་ ལྟ་བཤལ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་གུ་ གསུང་གྲོས་རྩོད་བསྡུར་ཅན།

ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ལྟ་བཤལ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་གུ་...

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ ངན་ལྷད་བཀག་སྡོམ་གྱི་ དང་ལེན་འཆར་གཞིའི་སྐོར་ལས་ དོགས་སེལ་འབད་དགོ་པའི་བཀོད་རྒྱ།

རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ཁར་ གནས་སྤོ་འགྱོ་བའི་དཀའ་ངལ།

༉ ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་-༡༩ ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ...

སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་གི་ གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོ་ ཡར་སེང་འབད་མི་ཚུགས་ནི།

གཞུང་གིས་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་གི་ གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོ་དེ་...

Outmigration: Bhutan’s existential dilemma

The sharp rise in Bhutanese outmigration since the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer just a trend; it has become a full-blown national crisis. Prime Minister Tsheri...

Poverty rate drops, regional disparities still a hurdle

Bhutan’s national poverty fell from 28 percent in 2017 to 11.6 percent in 2022. The World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Assessmen...

NA seeks clarity on Anti-Corruption action plan

The National Assembly (NA) yesterday instructed its Good Governance Committee (GGC) to present a detailed action-taken report on the resolutions concerning the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) Annual Report for the Financial Year 2023–2024.

Farmers poised to benefit from insurance scheme next season

Bhutanese farmers may begin benefiting from the long-anticipated Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme (CLIS) as early...

Cutting-edge drones to aid DPR development for hydropower projects

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) handed over advanced drone equipment to the D...

Opposition calls for urgent review of civil service performance system

The Opposition Party today issued a strong statement, expressing its firm support f...

Global HDI recovery stalls amid rising inequality and AI opportunities

Global progress on the Human Development Index (HDI) has stalled, with the 2025 report showing the slowest growth since its inception excluding the pandemic year.

Tourism reforms face scrutiny in NC despite majority support

The National Council (NC) yesterday supported five key tourism reform recommendations from its Economic Affairs C...

སློབ་གྲྭ་དང་ ཨ་ནེམོ་གྲྭ་ཚང་ཚུ་ནང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༩ གི་ནང་འཁོད་ ཟླ་ཁྲག་ཆ་མཐུན་ཅན་བཟོ་ནི།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་་སློབ་གྲྭ་དང་ ཨ་ནེམོ་ཚུ་གི་ ག...

ཚོགས་དཔོན་ལུང་བསྟན་རྡོ་རྗེ་ ནུས་ཤུགས་དང་རང་བཞིན་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ དང་ལེན་སྙན་ཞུ་ལུ་ སེམས་དང་མ་ལྡན་པར་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མི་སེར་གྱི་ ས་ཞིང་ནང་ཚུད་དེ་ཡོད་པའི་ གློག་མེའི་...

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ ཞི་གཡོགཔ་ཚུ་གི་ གྲུབ་འབྲས་བརྟག་ཞིབ་ལམ་ལུགས་ མེདཔ་བཟོ་དགོ་པའི་ཞུ་བ།

ཨིན་རུང་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་ གནད་དོན་དེའི་སྐོར་ལས་ གྲོས་ཐག་གཅད་ནི་དེ་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཞི་གཡོག་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ལུ་ བཞག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཉེན་བཅོལ་ཐོབ་ཐང་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་དགོ་པའི་གྲོས་འདེབས།

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ལྡན་ཚོགས་ཆུང...

མཁོ་སྒྲུབ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་གྱི་ལག་ལེན་ ད་ལྟོ་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཁག་འབགཔ་དང་ བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཡུན་རིང...

ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེ་ བསྐྱར་གསོ་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གྲོས་འདེབས་༨ ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལས་དོན་ཚོགས...

ཅི་བ་འཕྲུལ་རིག་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་གིས་ མི་དབང་མཆོག་ལུ་ མཁས་དབང་སྐུ་ཡོན་གྱི་ གཟེངས་བསྟོད་ལག་ཁྱེར་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༧ ལུ་ ཇ་པཱན་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཅི་བ་འཕྲུལ་རིག་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་གིས་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལུ་ མཁས་དབང་སྐུ་ཡོན་གྱི་ གཟེངས་བསྟོད་ལག་ཁྱེར་ ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Chiba Institute of Technology confers Honorary Doctorate on His Majesty

Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan conferred an Honorary Doctorate on His Ma...

Speaker slams MoENR over powerline inaction

In a rare public rebuke, National Assembly Speaker Lungten Dorji expressed dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR) for its continu...

NC proposes revisions to rural life insurance scheme

The National Council’s Good Governance Committee (GGC) has proposed key changes to the Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), recommending a...

NC proposes 8 recommendations to revitalise tourism sector

The National Council’s Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) yesterday presented a comprehensive set of eight recommendations to the government aimed at revitalising Bhutan’s tourism sector and ensuring its equitable and sustainable growth.

NA pushes to scrap PME ratings, PM leaves decision to RCSC

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay’s assertion that the government has no authority to amend the Royal Civil Service Commis...

Our human development rank deserves a closer look

Our global brand—Gross National Happiness—is envied and admired. Yet our ranking in the Human Development Index (HDI) tells a different story. At...

NA opens deliberation on Co-operatives and Farmer Groups Bill 2025

The National Assembly introduced the Co-operatives and Farmer Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 yester...

A step closer to making all schools and nunneries period-friendly by 2029

Gelephu—All schools and nunneries across the country will have sanitary pad disposal bins, bringing the government closer to its commitment to making all schools and nunneries period-friendly by 2029.

Bhutan rises in global human development index

Bhutan achieved a significant milestone in 2023 by climbing to the 125th position out of 193 countries in the Global Human Development Index (HDI), accordi...

Major procurement reforms underway

The finance ministry is undertaking a significant overhaul of its Procurement Rules and Regulations (PRR) 2023 and Standard Bidding Documents (SBDs) 2023 to address long-standing issues faced...

སྒོ་ནོར་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་གིས་ སྒོ་ནོར་གྱི་ཕན་བདེ་དང་ སྐྱེ་ལྡན་ཉམས་སྲུང་ལུ་ གཞི་བསྒྱུར་འབད་ཚུགས་ནི།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༦ ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་སྒོ་ནོར་དཔྱད་ཡ...

ཟ་ཁང་ཚུ་གིས་ སྐྱིན་ཚབ་བཏབ་ནིའི་ ཕར་འགྱངས་དུས་ཡུན་ རྫོགས་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཟ་ཁང་དང་ བཟོ་གྲྭའི་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་གྱི་ སྐྱིན་ཚབ་བཏབ...

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ བིམསི་ཊེག་གི་ ཕན་ཚུན་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་གྲོགས་རམ་དང་ མཚོ་འགྲུལ་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་གན་ཡིག་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་ནི།

ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ བེང་གཱལ་མཚོ་ཁུག་སྣ་མང་ལས་སྡེའི་ འཕྲུལ་རིག་དཔལ་འབྱོར་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐབས་རིག་(བིམསི་ཊེག)གི་ ཕན་ཚུན་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་གྲོགས་རམ་དང་ མཚོ་འགྲུལ་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་གན་ཡིག་གུ་ གསུང་གྲོས་དང་ ཆ་འཇོག་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ངོ་སྤྲོད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།