Bhutan’s wolves belong to ancient Himalayan wolf lineage

Wolves found in the country’s high-altitude landscapes belong to the ancient Himalayan wolf (Canis lupus chanco) lineage, according to the first genetic study of wolves in Bhutan.

Same choice, same result: A letter to someone in recovery

There are two simple reminders from the recovery community that are worth bearing in mind: “Whatever the problem, drugs an...

Gelephu CRRH records five-year high in outpatient visits

Gelephu—The Gelephu Central Regional Referral Hospital (CRRH) saw its highest number of outpatient visits in five years in 20...

Budget constraints leave Tading-Phuentshopelri road in poor condition

Samtse—A road linking Tading and Phuentshopelri has remained in poor condition for yea...

Assistant Professor Dr Phurpa receives 16th Nakatsuka Medical Award

An Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Undergraduate Medicine, Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan (KGUMSB), Dr Phurpa received the 16th Nakatsuka Medical Award from the Faculty of Medicine at Oita University, Japan, for his doctoral research on biological processes involved in heart failure.

The garden and the giant: How India’s Naya Bharat is nurturing GMC

In November 2025, Bhutan and India signed a joint statement that did more than reaffirm o...

Nearly 200 illegal collectors intercepted in Lunana’s cordyceps season

Punakha—Police and forest officials encountered 191 illegal cordyceps collect...

What triggered the eight cross-votes against PDP’s Speaker candidate?

The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) suffered a surprise defeat in the Nat...

Indian dealers stop selling Toyota cars to Bhutanese buyers after STCBL complaint

Hundreds of Bhutanese buyers who received government authorisation to import Toyota vehicles, mainly the Urban Cruiser Hyryder and Innova Hycross models, directly from India are now unable to complete their purchases after dealers in Siliguri stopped supplying them, alleging intervention by the State Trading Corporation of Bhutan Limited (STCBL).

National Assembly elects Opposition MP as Speaker

In a result few had predicted, Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Tempa Dorji defeated the ruling party’s candidate, Health Minister Tandin Wang...

Rethinking Phuentsholing’s economy

Phuentsholing and Jaigaon are twin border towns with a shared business ecosystem. They depend on each other for trade, employment, and services. At the same time, they also compete for...

Samtse still waiting for dzongkhag thromde promise

Samtse—Samtse’s economic growth is outpacing its town’s development, with local leaders seeking a clear decision on whether it will finally be...

RBP arrests 17 in lhakhang and chorten vandalism syndicate

The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has arrested 17 individuals in connection with a series of vandalism cases involving lhakhangs and chortens across the country.

Development gaps persist despite improved health and public spending

Government expenditure, population size, and access to health and education services vary...

RICBL disburses over Nu 11M for earthquake damage claims

Following the 5.5 magnitude earthquake that struck near Punakha, the Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL) ha...

Solar lift irrigation: A game-changer for rural agriculture

Punakha—At 45, Tshering Pem of Humpathang village in Chhubu Gewog, Punakha, is the beneficiary of an individually ma...

Agriculture and livestock sector misses emission target

The mitigation target, which was set in 2021 to reduce agriculture and livestock emissions by 266.28 kilotonnes of CO₂ equivalent (ktCO₂e) by 2025, has not yet been achieved.

Foraging the prized Sangay Shamu

It is 3:30am. The village of Geney, south of Thimphu, is still wrapped in darkness. A single torch flickers on inside Tandin Dorji’s home. Somewhere beyond the window, the forest waits.

Snow leopard numbers growing in Bhutan, trends vary across High Asia

Snow leopard populations across High Asia present a mixed picture, with improved assessme...

Encourage solar roofing in the land of GNH

Bhutan has set an ambitious target to generate 25,000 MW of energy by 2050, with 5,000 MW expected to come from solar power. To achieve this goal, we must urgently exp...

When discipline leaves a mark

What his eyes taught me about inclusion!

Speaker Election: Eight votes could decide opposition’s bid for Speaker

The National Assembly Speaker election will be contested between Health Mi...

རྟ་རྦབ་ཀྱི་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་སླར་རྙེད་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ ལག་ལེན་མ་འཐབ་པར་ ལོ་༥ ལང་རུང་ འགན་འཁྲི་འབག་མི་མེདཔ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ རྟ་རྦབ་ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་སླར་སྤྱོད་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་...

ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ལུ་ ཐབས་བྱུས་བཏོན་དགོཔ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ད་རེས་འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ དོ་འགྲན་དང་ ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་...

མོ་ཆུ་ནང་ རྐྱེན་ངན་ཁག་གཉིས་བྱུང་ས་ལས་ མི་གཅིག་ལུ་ཤི་རྐྱེན་དང་ གཅིག་འཚོལ་མ་ཐོབ།

༉ འདས་པའི་རིང་ལུ་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ལུ་ མོ་ཆུ་བདའ་སྟེ་ ས་གནས...

ལྕང་ཡུལ་དགའ་ལེགསམོ་གི་ཁྱིམ་ ཉམས་བཅོས་འབད་ནི་ ལོ་ལས་བཅད་དེ་ཕྱིས་མི་གིས་ ཁྱིམ་དེ་རམ་སོང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ལོ་ངོ་མང་རབས་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ ལྕང་ཡུལ་བུམ...

མོང་སྒར་ལུ་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ནང་གདོང་ལེན་མི་འབྱུང་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ཀུན་ཚང་ལྟེ་བའི་ཞབས་ཏོག་གི་གྲོས་གཞི།

༉ མོང་སྒར་གྱི་ ཚོང་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་དང་ ནང་འདྲེ...

གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ ནུས་ཤུགས་འགྲུལ་འཁོར་ ལྷན་ཐབས་ཕབ་ཆག་ བཀག་འཛིན་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྒེར་གྱི་ ནུས་ཤུགས་འགྲུལ་འཁོར་ཉོ་མི་ཚུ་ མཐུན་རྐྱེན་གསར་པའི་དོན་ལུ་ ཡུན་རིངམོ་སྦེ་ར་བསྒུགས་དགོ་ནི་ཨིན་མི་དེ་ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ ཚོང་ཁྲལ་དང་ ལྷན་ཐབས་ཕབ་ཆག་གི་རིགས་ཚུ་ ལག་ལེན་མི་འཐབ་ནི་སྦེ་ གྲོས་ཐག་བཅད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཨིན་པས།

Matsutake price picks up again

Sangay Shamu was priced at Nu 2,000 per kilogramme for Class A mushrooms and Nu 1,800 per kilogramme for Class B this year. Last year, Class A mushrooms fetched only Nu 1,800 per kilogramme.

The vanishing trade of Drukor

“Merak Sakteng cee Sakteng, Waaktsa beeley cee mala. Radhi Phongmey toh Phongmey, Waaktsa beeley toh mala.”

“Bhutan must treat agriculture as economic mandate to secure food future”

It is more than personal recognition. It is an acknowledgment...

Tsirang prepares for a new tourism role along the road to GMC

Tsirang—Tsirang is preparing to take on a larger role in the tourism economy emerging around Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), as the dzongkhag invests in roadside facilities, agro-tourism, and local products while retaining agriculture and livestock as its economic foundation.

Khamdang LSS students creates eco-friendly pens to reduce plastic waste

Trashiyangtse—Students of Khamdang Lower Secondary School (LSS) have turned an e...

The colour drains from the scene

Sure, here’s a version edited to fit the lower word limit. For two weeks I have woken to the silhouette of a large potted plant, its leaves etched against the pale morning light.

The one reform that made it off the page of Dhamcha

Halfway through its five-year term, this government invites a fair and necessary question: how many of its promises have travelled from mani...

The buck must stop somewhere

As a resource-strapped country, we cannot afford to waste public funds. Yet it keeps happening. Several projects built with scarce public funds and donor money are either sitting idle or falling apart. What’s alarming is no one is held accountable.

Low wages, long shifts: Reality for Bhutan’s private security guards

Government offices, public institutions, corporate entities, and private businesses...

Millions spent, three incinerators sit idle

Nearly four years after the government procured three incinerators with USD 374,000 in donor funding during the Covid-19 pandemic, the machines in Thimphu, Mongar,...

Informal trade undercuts formal businesses in Phuentsholing

Phuentsholing—The growing movement of commercial goods into Bhutan through private vehicles and informal distributio...

“As a public broadcaster, BBS needs particularly strong protection for editorial independence”

To be honest, I am still not sure about pursuing the matter further. I don’t know if it will bring any outcome because it seems to be complicated. I used to think that rights and wrongs were straightforward but this experience has taught me otherwise.

Leopards co-exist with growing tiger population, nationwide study finds

Common leopards are thriving in Bhutan despite a growing tiger population, with...

Punakha hits record 39.5°C as experts warn of warmer climate

Punakha—Punakha recorded the country’s highest-ever temperature of 39.5°C last July, a record-breaking event t...

Hotels enrolled for interest subsidy scheme rise to 218

Ninety-seven hotels were onboarded for the four percent interest subsidy in July, according to the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA...

Kalu Rinpoche faces legal action over Perth community centre allegations

Kalu Rinpoche has been served with two legal notices in Australia following allegations he made in a video concerning donations collected for the proposed Druk Community Centre in Perth.

Engineers begin advanced solar training at CST as sector expands

Phuentsholing— Bhutan’s push to develop 5,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power by 2040 is creating deman...

Y-VIA marks International Youth Day with nationwide youth initiatives

Young people across the country marked International Youth Day today with celebrations...

The bridge to cheaper goods

The findings from the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority’s (CCAA) latest study should worry anyone who cares about the future of Phuentsholing.

Dual ministerial resignations stir speculation over Cabinet reshuffle

The voluntary resignations of two Cabinet ministers have opened two vacancies in the government and fuelled speculation over whether the Prime Minister could use the departures to undertake a broader reshuffle midway through his government’s term.

Taba waste facility idle for five years; no one held accountable

Built to process 40 tonnes of waste a day, a government-funded facility in Taba has not processed a single load in five years. Now, officials plan to tear it down and relocate it without holding anyone accountable.