Taxes and regulations drive up business costs in Phuentsholing

Why pay Nu 41.5 for a kilogram of tomatoes when they cost just INR 12.3 across the border? Heavy local taxes and fees are driving Bhutanese shoppers directly to Jaigaon, leaving local merchants struggling to survive.

MoICE achieves 98.5 percent target as of FY 2025-26

With 66 out of 67 targets achieved, one government ministry recorded a near-perfect score of 98.5 percent this fiscal year, with only...

Siddhi Bistro opens in Thimphu to promote plant-based dining

Jangsa Animal Saving Trust has launched Siddhi Bistro, a plant-based eatery in upper Motithang, Thimphu, serving...

One dead, another missing in separate incidents in Mochhu

Tragedy struck the Mochhu River twice in a single day, claiming the life of an 88-year-old man and leaving a 24-year-old i...

Labour Department finds Bhutan Telecom employee compulsory retirement legitimate

Fired after a late-night workplace clash involving allegations that she was on TikTok Live during her night shift, a former Bhutan Telecom employee has taken her case to court after labour officials upheld her forced retirement.

Bhutan needs more EV chargers, but not everywhere

The growing number of electric vehicles (EVs) is putting pressure on some charging stations, while others remain largely unused, according to a ne...

Years of restoration delays end in collapse of historic Galem house; family demands accountability

After seven years of red tape, bureaucratic delays...

Mongar proposes one-stop service centre to tackle business bottlenecks

Imported items bought for Nu 650 in India are being resold locally for up to Nu 1,5...

Clarification on government procurement and the “Lowest Bid”

The Ministry of Finance would like to clarify a point raised in recent media coverage suggesting that government contracts are required to be awarded to the bidder offering the lowest price.

Yojay–Sharing the practice of prayer

The offering of alms is a sacred Buddhist practice which offers people the opportunity to earn eternal merit through their generosity. Known from the time of the Buddha himself, t...

Their Majesties grant audience to Princess Akiko at Tashichhodzong

Her Imperial Highness Princess Akiko of Mikasa received an Audience with His Majesty The King a...

Paro FC secures third consecutive AFC Challenge League group-stage spot

Paro FC secured a 2–0 victory over Afghanistan’s Abu Muslim FC, clinching a plac...

ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་འགྲུལ་འཁོར་བཱསི་གི་ དེད་གཡོགཔ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ལཱ་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ཁེ་འཐུས་མེདཔ།

༉ ལས་མི་དང་ལཱ་གཡོག་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་༢༠༠༧ ཅན་མའི་ནང་ ནུབ་མ...

རྒེད་འོག་རེ་ནང་ ཌོག་ཊར་རེ་གི་ཚབ་ལུ་ རྒྱང་རིང་སྨན་བཅོས་ཀྱིས་ ཕན་ཐོགས་འབྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ གསོ་བའི་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་རིམ་ལུགས་དེ་ ཁྱད...

རྒྱལ་ས་ལྟེ་བ་ལུ་སྡོད་ནི་དེ་ ཟད་འགྲོ་ལྕི་དྲགས་འབདཝ་ལས་ མདུན་བསྐྱོད་ཀྱི་ཐབས་བྱུས་དགོཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ས་ལྟེ་བ་ལུ་ སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ཁྱིམ་གྱི་...

བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ལུ་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ ཐབས་སྐྱོ་སུ་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཤར་ཕྱོགས་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ མཐའ་ཟུར་ཅན་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ བཀྲི...

འཁོར་ལོ་ཆུ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་ལཱ་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༡༥ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ འཁོར་ལོ་ཆུ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་ ནུས་ཤུགས་མེ་ག་ཝཊ་༦༠༠ འབད་མི་དེ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་གིས་ ས་གནས་ཀྱི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་ལུ་ མི་ཚེའི་གནས་སྟངས་ ཡར་དྲག་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།

གཞུང་གིས་ བསམ་རྩེ་སྨན་ཁང་དེ་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་གཙོ་བསྟེན་སྨན་ཁང་ལུ་ རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་འབད་ནི།

༉ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ བསམ་རྩེ་གི་སྨན་ཁང་དེ་ རྩིས་ལོ་...

རིན་བསྡུར་གྱི་གོང་ཚད་ དམའ་ཤོས་བཀོད་མི་གིས་ མི་མང་གི་ལཱ་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ ཐོ་ཕོག་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་གྱི་སྤུས་ཚད་བྱང་ངེས་དང་ ལཱ་ཕྱིས་ཏེ་ལུས...

His Majesty The King reviews progress of key GMC projects

His Majesty also visited the Gelephu International Airport site and the construction site for the 108 Chortens to be built...

Airborne survey uncovers copper, tungsten, and rare earth mineral deposits

The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR) has completed the nationwide airborne geophysical survey, uncovering promising signs of copper, tungsten, rare earth elements, and geothermal resources.

Government holds off on immediate EV subsidies despite affordability concerns

Private electric vehicle (EV) buyers will have to wait longer...

Nearly 2,400 young Bhutanese actively seeking employment: MoICE

Nearly 2,400 young Bhutanese remain unemployed and are actively seeking work, according to a nationwide...

Govt. renews push to ease Suvidha fee burden on Bhutanese exporters

Phuentsholing—The government has renewed efforts to ease the Suvidha burden on exporters aft...

Foreign reserves remain above threshold despite import pressures: FM

The country’s foreign exchange reserves are expected to decline in the third quarter of 2026 as surging fuel import costs, a depreciating currency, and updated trade data weighed on national finances, according to the finance ministry.

Beyond hydropower: Bhutan’s hopes lie in the ground

Recent reports of an airborne geophysical survey identifying significant anomalies of tungsten, copper, and other precious metals coul...

A quiet investment in the scaffolding of our justice

An independent and efficient judiciary is the pivot on which checks and balances turn. Parliament enacts the law and the executive admini...

Why is informed governance an imperative for inclusive climate resilience?

If you ask a farmer in rural Nepal why her crops failed this year, and...

The empathy and humility to say yes

Empathy helps us understand the needs and perspectives of the people we serve, keeping us grounded in their realities. Without it, we risk becoming bureaucrats who create rules and regulations that are not only impractical but also cause unnecessary hardship. As the proverb reminds us, to truly understand another person’s circumstances, “we must walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.”

Piloting human rights initiatives in ASEAN

Tsirang business community presses for regulatory overhaul to unlock growth

Tsirang—Businesses, local leaders, and district officials in Tsirang...

Education ministry clarifies bullying case stance as investigation continues

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development has clarified th...

Student’s act of kindness wins thousands of hearts

On a rainy Thursday afternoon, Class X student Aishwarya Rai of Babesa Higher Secondary School made a simple decision that has since touched thousands of hearts.

‘Made in Nepal’ tells Nepal’s journey through changing times

Nepal’s first billionaire Binod Chaudhary has chronicled his journey from managing a family bus...

UNDP deputy regional director visits Bhutan to reaffirm partnership and see development results

UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Asia-Pacific, Ms...

Tergola Red Panda Trail: A community-led wildlife tourism model in Haa

“Where red pandas thrive, forests survive” reads the first sign along the Tergola T...

Changyuel Galem’s house still awaits restoration

Punakha—The government has reaffirmed its commitment to restoring Changyuel Galem House as concerns mount over its deteriorating condition and the growing risk of structural collapse.

From addiction to recovery: Nearly 1,000 receive treatment at PEMA Rehab

A 29-year-old man checked into PEMA Rehab in mid-2025 carrying anger, confusi...

Govt. allocates Nu 30M to upgrade Samtse hospital into regional referral hospital

Samtse—The government has prioritised the upgrade...

One gewog, one doctor was the promise; telemedicine may be the solution

Gelephu—As the country’s health system grapples with a shortage of specialist do...

Trongsa plans 10-minute economy to turn transit traffic into local business opportunities

Trongsa—Every day, hundreds of vehicles pass through Trongsa as they travel to eastern, southern, and western Bhutan. Most stop only briefly for a restroom break, a cup of tea or a quick photograph of Chhoetse Dzong before continuing their journey.

Thimphu Thromde issues ultimatum to Olakha workshop owners: Clear illegal structures or face demolition

Building owners and automobile workshop operators,...

Hydroelectricity powers economy to 8.52% growth in 2025

The country’s economy grew by 8.52 percent in 2025, one of the strongest growth rates in recent years, driven mainly by increase...

Khorlochhu hydro project construction reaches 15% completion

The ongoing construction of the 600MW Khorlochhu Hydroelectric Project (KHP) in Trashiyangtse is improving the li...

City bus drivers deserve better

The drivers who keep Thimphu’s city buses running deserve more than gratitude. They deserve fair pay for the hours they put in. City bus drivers work more than 12 hours a day, clocking in 120 hours of overtime in a month.

Journalists, bureaucrats and politicians: Can they truly understand one another?

In every democracy, journalists, politicians and bure...

Rethinking Bhutan’s WTO accession through the lens of intellectual property system

For more than two decades, Bhutan’s accession to t...

Tsirang records first photographic evidence of Himalayan musk deer

First photographic evidence of the endangered Himalayan musk deer (Moschus leucogaster) from so...

Centuries-old Obtsho Dzong ruins to undergo major conservation

Gasa—The centuries-old Obtsho Dzong ruins in Gasa will undergo structural consolidation and conservation to protect the remaining archaeological structures and preserve an important chapter of Bhutan’s early religious and political history.

Business going down in Trashiyangtse

Tucked away in the easternmost corner of the country, Trashiyangtse is a dzongkhag blessed with natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, and significant tourism potential.