Beyond the statistics

The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more challenging.

Work on new cremation ground at Hongtsho yet to begin

Phuentsholing begins reset with launch of farmer’s market

Highway cleaners take pride in their service

From early passion to national team

Hotel business conundrum: Oversupply or low tourist arrival?

Over 1,500 businesses file GST returns ahead of March 2 deadline

Wildlife -friendly designs anchor major development in south

RCSC expands welfare grant to ensure fairer payouts for civil servants

Rangelands stable but not improving, study finds

Civil service should foster belonging, not trapped employees

Freedom of information in Bhutan: From constitutional promise to everyday practice

Haa to enforce strict controls on alcohol, tobacco and waste management

གཞུང་གིས་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༨༠༠ ཉེན་བཅོལ་དོན་ལུ་བཙུགས་རུང་ དང་འདོད་བསྐྱེད་མི་ ཉུང་སུ་ཅིག་ལས་མེདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལོ་ཐོག་དང་ སྒོ་ནོར་ཉེན་བཅོལ་ལས་འཆར་འགོ...

ཇི་ཨེམ་སི་ནང་ གཞིས་ཆགས་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་...

གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ མདུན་སྐྱོད།

༉ ད་འབདན་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་དང་ སྤྱིར་འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ...

མི་དང་ རི་དྭགས་སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་བྲེལ་ཟིང་ནང་ ཐབས་ལམ་གསར་པའི་ལས་འཆར།

༉ སྒོམ་ཕུག་གཡུས་ཚན་ལས་ཨིན་མི་ འཆི་མེད་སྒྲོལ་མ་གིས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཆུ་གཙང་སྦྲ་ཅན་དེ་ ཐག་རིང་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཅིག་སྦེ་ སྡོད་པའི་སྣང་བ་ཤར་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ རོང་ཆུ་ནང་འགྱོ་ནི་དོན་ལུ་ གྱེན་གཟར་དྲག་དང་བཅས་པའི་སྒོ་ལས་ རྐང་སྟོང་སྦེ་སོང་སྟེ་ ཆུའི་སྦོ་ལོགས་ལྷོདཔ་ད་ ཆུ་དེ་འདམ་ཁོག་ཁོག་ཨིན་པའི་ཁར་ ཧོལ་མ་དུ་དུ་སྦེ་འོང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ ང་བཅས་ཀྱིས་ ལོ་༢༠ དེ་ཅིག་གི་ཧེ་མ་ལས་ར་ འཐུང་ཆུ་དགོས་མཁོ་ཅན་གྱི་སྐོར་ལས་ ལོ་རྒྱུ

Bottled water is microplastic-free amid study findings: Bhutan Agro Industries Limited

Gelephu Choeten to become spiritual centrepiece of GMC

Gelephu—The Gelephu Choeten, modelled on the iconic Jarung Khashor Choeten (Boudhanath Stupa) in Kathmandu, Nepal, is set to become...

Rising prices squeeze households despite moderate inflation

For many families, the numbers behind inflation tell only part of the story. What matters more is what they pay at t...

National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

An auspicious beginning

Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic. As the nation celebrated the 46th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King, two deeply auspicious miles...

Ugyen Norlha Choeten: First sacred landmark rises in Gelephu Mindfulness City

Gelephu—The consecration of Ugyen Norlha Choeten, the first co...

Govt. targets 15,220 acres for sustainable land management in 13th Plan

The government aims to bring 15,220 acres of farmland under sustainable land man...

BBPL factory fuels local business boom in Darla

Chukha—Nearly 40 years after its commissioning in 1988, the Bhutan Board Products Limited (BBPL) factory in Darla continues to be one of the region’s largest employers, driving the local economy and supporting community livelihoods.

Bhutan faces Bahrain in Men’s T20I Quadrangular Series opener today

The Thailand Open Men’s T20I Quadrangular Series 2026 begins today. Host Thailand take...

His Majesty confers Druk Thuksey on Thai philanthropists

Gelephu—His Majesty the King conferred the Druk Thuksey Medal on Thippaporn Ahriyavraromp and Dr Nathawat Ahriyavraromp of Th...

King and citizens work side by side in Gelephu Mindfulness City

Gelephu—More than 16,000 registered volunteers gathered in Gelephu from February 21 to 25 for the fifth...

Nansen to establish presence in Gelephu Mindfulness City

རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༤-༢༥ ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༦ དེ་ཅིག་ ལག་ལེན་མ་འཐབ་པར་ ལུས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མཁོ་སྒྲུབ་བསྣར་འགྱངས་དང་ མི་སྟོབས་ཀྱི་དཀའ་ངལ་ དེ...

གནམ་ལོ་རྟ་ལོ་གསར་དུ་ཚེས་པའི་ དུས་སྐལ་ཕྱོགས་གཙང་།

༉ དུས་ཅི་རང་ལུགས་གནམ་ལོ་ མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ གསར་དུ་ཚེསཔ་...

མཛོག་ཁྱདཔ་བཀྲིས་འོད་ཟེར་གྱིས་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིལ་རྩེད་འགྲན་ནང་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་ཅན་སྦེ་ འབད་ཚུགས་པའི་ དམིགས་གཏད།

༉ ལྷུན་རྩེ་ལས་ཨིན་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༢༤ ལང་མི་ མཛོད་ཁྱད་...

Reimagining education: Rooted in wisdom, ready for the world

Bhutanese entrepreneur creates watch brand rooted in cultural heritage

Damcha– A Promise Beyond the Blackboard

The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacherous rivers, dense forests, and wildlife to reach s...

Between Homes: Voices of Bhutanese living between home and elsewhere

I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything gran...

Dining in the Sun: Inside Solé

The spiritual and theatrical world of Charmi Chheda

Charmi Chheda’s relationship with the stage began long before she understood what theatre could mean. At eight years old, shy and withdrawn,...

Single lab delays food safety clearance

The country’s food safety system rests on a single accredited laboratory, raising concerns over delays in food testing and clearance.

DoT bets on ‘star attractions’ to drive year-round tourism across districts

The Department of Tourism (DoT) has identified signature...

Govt. steps up efforts to improve livelihood of highlanders

The government has intensified programmes to protect and promote yak-based livelihoods across the country’s highland communities, even as the number of yak-rearing households continues to decline due to persistent connectivity gaps, infrastructure constraints, and limited market opportunities.

New Bhutan

In a world hungering for stories of hope and transformation, the tale of Bhutan shines like a beacon. I feel immensely blessed to  witness this majestic evolution, that is not only redesigning  the physical landscapes, but also the very soul of a nation. I consid...

Are we prepared for a major earthquake?

The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder that Bhutan's capital sits on shaky grounds. Their warning...

Celebrating the diamond heart of our nation

Nu 200 million plan to build central government district for all ministries

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has begun the process of outsourcing the design of a Nu 200-million government office complex, which will house all the scattered ministries, improving access to public services.

A single mother’s journey through fear and hope

Punakha—In a hospital room far from home, 32-year-old single mother Chungdu Lhamo from Zhemgang learned how swiftly a mother’s world can collapse.

Glacier retreat surges across Bhutanese Himalaya

Bhutan’s Himalayan glaciers are vanishing at an accelerating pace, with more than 500 small ice bodies disappearing across the wider Bhutanese Himala...

Pilgrims report safety lapses and poor services in overseas pilgrimage tours

Thousands of Bhutanese undertake pilgrimages each year to sacred...

From Samdrupjongkhar to Paris: Lam Dorji excels in recurve archery

Bhutanese national recurve archer Lam Dorji’s rise from a curious teenager to an Olympic archer showcases his relentless pursuit of excellence and the growing strength of Bhutanese archery.

Microplastics detected in Thimphu’s tap and bottled water, sparking public health concerns

From water flowing through household taps to bottled drinking water stored in refrigerators, microplastics have become part of daily consumption for many Bhutanese, according to the first systematic assessment of microplastic contamination across water sources in Thimphu.