Nursing students face clinical hazards

Nursing students, future frontline health workers in the country, remain highly exposed to preventable risks such as infection, injury, and psychological hazards during clinical placements.

Safety practices poor at workplace

Consider these facts. Toxic lead exposure, eye injuries, and irreversible hearing loss. Weak safety practices, along with the low use of protective gear, paint a rather grim picture of workin...

GMC offers multi-sector opportunities: Thai financial expert

I see plenty of them. we see opportunities across many areas such as wellness, hospitality, recreational work, li...

Dorjilung hydropower project’s access roads, bridges 75% complete

wo contracted firms have completed 75 percent of the access roads and bridges for the Dorjil...

Surviving twice: Resilience in the face of blood cancer

At 27, Chhimi Eden carries a quiet kind of strength, the kind shaped by endurance and resilience, forged over years of illness, uncertainty, and recovery – a journey that has tested the limits of body and spirit.

Hip-hop’s rise fuels debate over lyrics and cultural influence

Once confined to niche audiences, Bhutanese rap has moved steadily into the mainstream, gaining a foo...

When self-reliance slips: Bhutan’s food and energy reality

Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.

Amochu transforms from flood zone to investment hub

From a dangerous flood zone to a booming investment hub, Phuentsholing’s Amochu area is witnessing a construction explosion, with over 40 new permits issued in just two years.

Govt. shelves 50-bed Thimphu Hospital, proposes super -speciality facility

Is a state-of-the-art “super-speciality” facility worth the wait, or di...

Film industry grapples with rising piracy and weak copyright enforcement

Bhutanese filmmakers are fighting a losing battle against cinema-goers record...

Wangdue Court sentences man to 11 years for raping minor

The Wangdue Dzongkhag Court has sentenced a 51-year-old man to 11 years for raping a minor and ordered the Ministry of Educat...

Unseen effort behind Mid-Term Review meetings

National OHS audit identifies risks, calls for stronger enforcement and worker training

ཁྲོམ་ཁར་སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཁང་གླ་ཡར་སེང་དང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལང་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དང་གདོང་ལེན།

༉ ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་ནང་ ཁྱིམ་གྱི་ཁང་གླ་དེ་ ཐབས་སྐྱོ་ཤོས་ཅ...

ལ་མཐོ་སའི་ ས་གནས་ནང་ ན་གཞོན་ཅིག་གིས་ མངར་ཟས་ཀྱི་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༢༨ ལང་མི་ ཕུར་པ་སྒྲོལ་མ་གིས་ ཆུ་ཁ་ལུ་ ལ...

སྐྱེ་རྒྱུན་ཚད་གཞི་མར་བབས་ཀྱིས་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གི་རྒྱབ་ལས་ གནོད་ཉེན་འབྱུང་སྲིད་ནི།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་འགྱུར་བ་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོད་མི་ལུ་...

དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་འཐུ་ནིའི་དུས་ཚོད་རནམ་ལས་ ལ་མཐོ་སའི་ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ ཕན་ཚུན་གྱི་ རྩོད་རྙོག་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ མཐའ་ཟུར་ཅིག་ཨིན་མི་ ལུང་ནག་ནང་གི་མི་...

No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from paren...

Pay gaps trigger job-hopping, deepen talent strain

Why stay loyal when your peer in another sector earns more for the same work?. Clean wage system was supposed to fix this, but a "quiet, struct...

GMC brings hope to Dadgari

Land prices just across the border have skyrocketed from Nu 100,000 to Nu 500,000 per acre almost overnight. The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) has already started benefiting the neighbouring town.

Teachers struggle with distant postings and divided families

Phuentsholing—A teacher posted in Trongsa meets his family only when rare timetable adjustments allow him to trav...

Govt. steps up to bring home Bhutanese hit by Gulf job cuts

Thirty-nine Bhutanese have been stranded in Kuwait for over two months amid rising uncertainty. Is the dream of high...

RMA to roll out 5% interest subsidy for hotels from May 1

Nu 844 million is a lifeline for struggling hoteliers. But there’s a catch: they must resume payments to qualify, or risk...

Sustaining progress for children key to Bhutan’s future

Over the past year, UNICEF, in close partnership with the Government of Bhutan and other stakeholders, has worked to advance national priorities for children while also positioning itself to respond to emerging issues affecting their well-being.

Rangjung TTI to introduce courses in AI, blockchain and cybersecurity

Trashigang—The Rangjung Technical Training Institute (TTI) will introduce eight higher...

Wangdue Dzongkhag Court sentences man to nine years for rape of minor

Karma Dorji, a resident of Wangdue, was convicted under Section 183 of the Penal Code...

Himalayan gold, shifting ground: Beyond harvest

A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But while this once-every-five-years abundance may seem like an opportunity for highlanders to reap the alpine gold by the handful, it is also a breeding ground for serious trouble.

42 households affected as storm hits eight gewogs in Mongar

A severe windstorm, flash floods, and hailstones hit eight gewogs across Mongar on April 22, leaving 42 households a...

Budget shortfall slows RBP’s infrastructure development

Rising costs and tight budget ceilings are slowing critical infrastructure projects within the Royal Bhutan Police, raisin...

MoFAET proposes reprioritisation, drops six activities at mid-term review

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MoFAET) has proposed t...

When having a child becomes an act of economic self-harm

Integrated childcare blueprint aims to close gaps in parenting support

The ICCAP aims to provide a single, trusted national standard for parenting and chi...

ཨ་དཔའུ་ཟེར་མི་ ཁྱེགས་ཟས་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་འཕྲུལ་ཁང་གིས་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ང་བཅས་རའི་ ངག་གཤིས་ནང་སླབ་ཐངས་བཟུམ་ཅིག་འབད་བ་ཅིན...

Govt. recalibrates infrastructure priorities amid new projects and funding gaps

Shortages of specialised manpower, limited equipment, cl...

Bhutan positions farmers at the centre of Asia-Pacific agrifood transformation agenda

The 38th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific is being held from April 20 to 24, 2026.

Home Ministry completes 11 activities, 40 ongoing under 13th Plan

The Ministry of Home Affairs has utilised Nu 1.23 billion about 21 percent of the Nu 5.84 billion...

གཞུང་གི་ དམིགས་བསལ་ལས་འགུལ་གྱིས་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ བསྐྱར་གསོ་འབད་ཚུགས་ནི།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཛུལ་སྒོ་ བསྐྱར་བཟོ་འབད་ནི...

རྒྱ་འབྲུག་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་རིག་རྩལ་འགྲན་བསྡུར་༢༠༢༦ ནང་ལས་ མུ་ཏིག་ཐང་སློབ་གྲྭ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མུ་ཏིག་ཐང་འབྲིང་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་གོང་མ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་...

སྤུ་ན་གཙང་ཆུ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་༢ པའི་ སྤྱོད་འཐུས་རུ་པི་༥.༡༠ གུ་ལུ་ ཡར་སེང་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤུ་ན་གཙང་ཆུ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་༢ པ་ ནུས་ཤུགས་མེ་ག་...

Earth Day event promotes plant-based Bhutanese cuisine

According to the Karzay Foundation four of the participants had recently completed a two-week culinary training programme conducted...

JSW Law reports strong progress but flags challenges at Mid-Term Review

Curriculum expansion featured the launch of a graduate programme in Internationa...

Mid-term review finds sound progress in the MoESD

The mid-term review meeting of the 13th Plan for the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), chaired by the Prime Minister, assessed...

Young female entrepreneur runs bakery at 3,500 metres in Merak

Today, her shop, Phurpa’s Bliss Bite, is the only bakery in Merak. Built with support from the Loden Foundation and assistance from her brother, the business began without formal training but with determination to adapt to one of the harshest baking environments imaginable.

Rhododendron blooming patterns shift in Merak and Sakteng

Rhododendrons across the two communities typically bloom from April to June, with some varieties flowering as early as Mar...

Say “Aa-Pow” and support farmers

The Aa-Pow ice cream processing plant sits on half an acre in Pelrithang. It was inaugurated on August 6, 2022 after a Nu 15.12 million investment by the Sarpang Dzongkhag Administratio...

Unshackling the state

Conflict brews in the highlands over lucrative cordyceps harvest

The tensions come amid growing competition over cordyceps, a highly prized fungus that commands some of the highest prices in Bhutan’s natural resource markets. For many highland households, the annual harvest represents a crucial source of income.

Existing subjects to continue under revised curriculum: MoESD

The ministry’s clarification comes amid confusion among teachers, particularly in rural schools, over the status of periods such as value education, health and physical education (HPE), library sessions, and counselling.