A bold plan for tomorrow

Thimphu stands at the threshold of a transformation. The Thimphu Structure Plan 2023–2047 is not just another government blueprint; it is a bold reimagining of what our capital can and must become.

Public debt could cross Nu 400B by FY 2026-27

The country’s public debt is expected to surge past Nu 400 billion within two years, driven by hydropower borrowing and persistent budget deficits, raising co...

Tsimalakha township stalls due to small plots

Chukha— In Tsimalakha town, Chukha, more than 30 shopkeepers and families continue to live in makeshift huts and aging traditional houses, even though they we...

Zambala Dairy Group boosts livelihoods in rural Pemagatshel

In rural Norbugang in Pemagatshel, the Zambala Dairy Group has become a powerful engine of economic growth. With ove...

Phuentsholing-Samtse road to undergo Nu 100 million renovation

Samtse—The 54-kilometre road between Phuentsholing and Samtse will undergo renovation and maintenance in the fiscal year 2025–26 with an allocation of Nu 100 million, following years of budget constraints that left the route in poor condition.

“Strengthening systems over individuals”

As the new President of KGUMSB and JDWNRH, what is your overarching vision for these institutions, and what immediate priorities do you hope to tackle within the...

Pema Norbu earns Bhutan’s first ITF ranking

Pema Norbu, a 36-year-old tennis player, has made history by becoming the first Bhutanese to earn a world ranking from the International Tennis Federation (IT...

ཐིམ་ཕུག་གི་བཟོ་བཀོད་འཆར་གཞི་༢༠༣༧ ནང་ རྒྱ་ཆེཝ་སྦེ་འབད་ཚུགས་ནི།

༉ མ་འོངས་ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གི་ དགོས་མཁོ་དང་བསྟུན་ ཐིམ་...

གོ་བ་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་ཡར་འཕར་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ནང་འཁོད་རྩུབ་སྤྱོད་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ སྙན་ཞུ་འབད་མི་ཡར་སེང་།

མི་མང་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལུ་ གོ་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་ ཡར་སེང་འབད་མ...

གཞོང་སྒར་རང་ལུགས་མདའ་རྩེད་འགྲན་བསྡུར་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ།

ད་རེས་ནངས་པ་ མོང་སྒར་རི་དཱ་ཟ་ལུ་སྦེ་ རྒེད་འོག་ནང་འ...

བཟའ་ཁང་ཚུ་ནང་ ལས་བྱེདཔ་ལང་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ཐོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བཟའ་ཁང་དང་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཁང་ཚུ་ ཧེ་མ་ལས་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་གྱ...

Breaking the cycle of domestic violence

The Royal Bhutan Police recorded 358 cases of domestic violence in the first six months of this year. This figure tells only one part of the story. In 2020, just 33 cases were...

Hotel industry reels from staff exodus, explores foreign workers to fill the gap

Already battered by financial strains, the hotel industry now faces another blow – shortage of skilled staff – as relentless attrition and poaching threaten to cripple operations.

Thimphu Structure Plan outlines extensive city development projects through 2037

The Thimphu Structure Plan (TSP) 2023–2047 layed o...

Bhutan achieves major HCFC cut, eyes complete phase-out by 2035

Bhutan observed World Ozone Day yesterday by celebrating a milestone: its first year of banning hydrochl...

Bhutan and ISA launche CPS to accelerate solar energy expansion

Bhutan launched the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2025–2029 in collaboration with the International...

Pema ‘Tintin’ Tshering’s latest body of work, in between dreams, opens at Gallery Threshold in New Delhi

Known simply as Tintin, he has emerged as one of the leading figures in Bhutan’s contemporary art movement, blending Buddhist iconography with modern visual language. His new exhibition, which runs until October 7, invites viewers into the layered spaces of the bardo—the Buddhist state between death and rebirth—as well as into dreams, illusions, and the present moment.

Zhongar Traditional Archery Championship underway

The gewog-wise Zhongar Traditional Archery Championship is currently underway at the Ridaza in Mongar. The tournament began on September 13, and t...

གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལྷ་དབང་སྒྲུབ་ཆེན་ཐེངས་༣༡༦ པ་འགོ་བཙུགས་གནང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རང་ལུགས་གནམ་ལོ་ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ རང་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་...

དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འགྱུར་བ་འབག་འོང་མི་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ལུ་ གསར་བཏོད་ཀྱི་མགྲོན་བརྡ།

༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གི་ ཐུགས་ཀྱི་དགོངས...

GMC invites young changemakers to innovate

Gelephu—When His Majesty the King envisioned Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), it was conceived as more than an economic hub. It was imagined as a living experiment in m...

More people reporting domestic violence as awareness improves: Police

Increased public awareness and nationwide campaigns have encouraged more people to rep...

Bhutan hosts Asian bankers’ conference, focused on sustainable and digital banking

Paro—The two-day general meeting and conference of...

Shaping the future of tourism in GMC

DECC develops national clean air action plan to tackle growing air pollution challenges

An inception workshop yesterday brought together m...

Bhutan faces Pakistan in SAFF U-17 championship

Bhutan will play its first match against Pakistan today in the 2025 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) under-17 championship, being held in Sri Lank...

བཀྲིས་སྒང་གི་ མི་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་ མཉམ་རུབ་ཐོག་ལས་ སྤྲོ་སེང་གླིང་ག་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་དང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ དེ་ལས...

Mandarin exporters in east gear up for a promising season

Exporters have sent 57 truckloads of mandarin to Bangladesh as of yesterday

Drukpas of Lepchakha

A community of Bhutanese heritage in India

ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་ཁར་ པར་ཆས་སི་སི་ཊི་བི་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ ཚུལ་མིན་འཐབ་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཉེས་བྱ་དང་ ཉེས་ཆད་བཀལ་དོ་ཡོདཔཔ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ ད་རེས་འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ཁྲོ...

མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་གོ་སྐབས་དང་པ་དེ་ འབྲུག་ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེ་ཚུ་ལུ་ བྱིན་ནི།

མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་གོ་སྐབས་དང་པ་དེ་ འབྲུག་ལྟ་བཤལ་ལ...

མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ ཨོམ་གྱི་ཀེན་སར་གྱི་ སྨན་ཁང་ འགོ་འབྱེད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༩ པའི་ཚེས་༡༣ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་བཙུན་རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཨའི་དང་ ཨ་ལུ་གི་སྨན་ཁང་ནངལུ་སྦེ་ ཨོམ་གྱི་སྨན་ཁང་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

A community builds a recreational park in Trashigang

Trashigang—Under the scorching sun in Trashigang, men, women, and civil servants gather around the sacred Lungten Zampa Chorten in Samkha...

Bhutan’s test of resolve in the fight against HIV

Our response is at a turning point. The launch of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) last December marked a bold step towards prevention, placi...

Bhutanese tour operators get first priority in GMC tourism

Gelephu—Bhutanese tourism stakeholders will get the first chance to invest in tourism, one of the key economic drivers...

Thromde fines litterbugs caught on CCTV

Thimphu Thromde has begun fining residents caught on surveillance cameras for dumping trash. As of September 13, the Thromde has penalised 12 individuals and groups for offences ranging from littering to dumping waste in rivers under the Waste Prevention and Management Act 2009 and the Waste Prevention and Management Regulation 2012.

Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck inaugurates first multidisciplinary breast clinic

Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck inaugu...

AI and the politics of expertise: Outputs and variables

What is it about AI that suddenly turns everyone talking about technology into self-proclaimed experts? Whether in tech circles...

Jangcholing’s beekeepers harvest sweet success

Samtse—Farmers in Jangcholing, Samtse, are finding success by shifting from traditional hollow log hives to modern wooden beehives, which has boosted...

MoIT allocates Nu 20 million to manage urban sprawl in Paro

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT), in collaboration with the Paro Dzongkhag, is fast-tracking the preparation of several Local Area Plans (LAPs) to manage rapid urban growth and prevent uncoordinated development.

All eyes on ACC?

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has a huge task at its hands. It is investigating a case where the Prime Minister and a minister are alleged to have misused their authority to direct generous loans from the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP)...

Bhutan’s hotel crisis: Too many beds, too few guests

At a three-star hotel in Thimphu, the front desk staff waits for guests who never arrive. Rooms that once catered to high-end touri...

Fronting grips Gelephu salon business

Gelephu—A business practice long associated with border towns is creeping into Gelephu’s salon sector, sidelining legitimate local entrepreneurs.

PrEP rollout raises hope, but sustainability remains a concern

To achieve the goal of ending HIV in Bhutan by 2030, the Ministry of Health has introduced Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as a key preventive tool.

Police record 106 child-related offences in first six months

The children in conflict with the law (CICL) is on the rise, with 106 incidents reported across the country in th...

Students perform poorly in mathematics: National Education Assessment

Bhutanese students are showing improved English reading skills but are continuing to s...

མི་སྡེའི་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་ལུ་ ཚ་གྱང་གི་གཞི་གནད།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ འོང་འབབ་བར་མ་འབད་མི་ཚུ་...

Poaching declines, but key species still under threat

According to the Forest Information Reporting and Monitoring System (FIRMS), poaching cases dropped to just 13 detected cases in 2024—the lowest in five years. While the decline suggests encouraging progress, the species involved show that the country still faces persistent threats to its biodiversity.

རྩི་མ་ལ་ཁ་ཁྲོམ་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཉེན་སྲུང་མེད་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་འོག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྩི་མ་ལ་ཁ་ཁྲོམ་ཆུང་དེ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༡༩༧༠ དོན་གྲངས་ལུ་ ཆུ་ཁ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་ས་ཅིག་སྦེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ གྱུར་བ་མེདཔ་སྦེ་ མཐོངམ་ཨིན་པས།