Over 27,000 students engage as UPSHIFT goes digital in Bhutan

The fourth annual National Innovation Challenge, themed “UPSHIFT for a Greener Bhutan,” saw 32 students from eight schools competing to tackle real-world environmental challenges.

ཁས་བླངས་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ གྲུབ་འབྲས་བྱུང་ཡོད་མེད་ཀྱི་ དཔྱད་ཞིབ།

༉ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ ལོ་ལྔའི་བསྐྱར་ཞི...

བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་ སོ་ནམ་བཟའ་ཆས་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཐོག་ལུ་ ཞལ་འཛོམས་འཚོགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སོ་ནམ་དང་སྒོ་ནོར་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་སྦེ་ ཉིནན...

སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ ཁུ་རུ་ཀུན་ཕན་ཟམ་གསརཔ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ ཁུ་རུ་ཀུན་ཕན་ཟམ་གསརཔ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་ད...

𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬

At the age of 30, Dasho Lhadarla was appointed Nyerchen of Jakar. In 1965, he was awarded the Red Scarf by the Third King in recognition of his dedicated service

When Words Create Worlds

Decline in concentration and attentional capacity

When war interrupts fuel that runs everything

The war‑related closure of this route has sent LNG prices surging to multi‑year highs and left governments scrambling to reduce consumption, fill gaps with co...

Vanishing dancers, fading rituals

When Ugyen Dorji, 32, and four companions performed the sacred Achi Lhamo mask dance in Thimphu recently, the moment felt celebratory. The performance marked the eighth edition of the event, drawing large crowds.

Bhutan’s rice bowl under climate pressure

Pre-monsoon maximum temperatures have risen by around 2.8°C per decade, while average maximum temperatures have climbed even faster, by roughly 3.55°C per decade. P...

Cracking the distribution barrier for Bhutanese films

“Distribution is the hardest part of the filmmaking journey,” said Charmi Chheda, founder of Bezya Pictures. “A film may be beautifull...

Highland LG leaders call for attendant inclusion in emergency airlifts

“We are only requesting one attendant, not two,” he said, adding that three health...

Culture under threat?

Govt. assures no fuel supply disruptions amid global volatility

Despite being a hydropower-rich nation, the country remains heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels,...

Bhutanese stranded in the Middle East battle rising costs, psychological distress, and uncertainty

“I have already spent over 150 Kuwaiti Dinars (Nu...

Cluster school leadership model reopens concerns over past administrative failures

Critics also point to past experience under the ce...

Middle East conflict puts Bhutan’s ambitious growth target at risk

With a 10 percent increase in global oil price, economic growth is expected to decrease by 0.7 percent and by up to 1.4 percent with a 20 percent increase.

SMCL pays Nu 170M compensation to gypsum-hit communities in Pemagatshel

About 36.98 acres will be sourced and distributed among 33 households.

Tragopan Pheasant Festival draws over 4,000 visitors

The event aims to promote eco-tourism while showcasing the community’s rich natural and cultural heritage. The festival also created econ...

Damcha won votes, not in delivery

JDWNRH neurosurgeon resigns over patient safety concerns

Dr Sonam Jamtsho said the case’s handling revealed a misalignment in professional values between himself and the hospital administration.

The quiet exodus: Why young, skilled, and educated Bhutanese leave

Many are leaving the system, but limited replacement is putting pressure on those who remain. “...

Compound archers set new milestone with semi-final finish

They lost the semi-final 228–232, but their performance remained an exciting moment for the archery community and fans. Th...

138 gamers compete at Bhutan Esports National Championship

BeNC 2026 aims to celebrate youth culture and competition. The championship promotes cosplay and creative expression, d...

Khuru Kuenphen bridge opens in Punakha

The 100-metre Khuru Kuenphen Bridge in Punakha, built under the India-Bhutan Friendship Project with Nu 250 million support from India, was inaugurated on March 27.

གཞལམ་སྒང་ལུ་ དབུལ་ཕོངས་ཀྱི་ཚད་གཞི་མར་བབས་སོང་རུང་ འདྲ་མཉམ་མེད་པའི་གནས་ཚད་ཡར་སེང་།

༉ གཞལམ་སྒང་ལུ་ འདྲ་མཉམ་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ ཆ་མཚུངས་མེ...

སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་ ཨམ་་སྲུ་འཐུས་མི་ མར་བབས་སོང་མི་ལུ་ བཙག་འཐུའི་བྱ་རིམ་ གཞི་སྒྱུར་འབད་དགོ་པའི་ གྲོས་དོན།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ མི་རློབས་ཕྱེད་ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ཡོད་ར...

Mountain Hazelnuts earns Rainforest Alliance Certification

Mountain Hazelnuts becomes first company in Bhutan to earn Rainforest Alliance certification. The recognition is expec...

Global summit in Bhutan to reshape food systems through consciousness and values

Bhutan is set to host the Global Conscious Food Systems Summit 2026 from August 31 to September 4, aiming to promote sustainable and regenerative food systems.

MoAL conference in Bumthang focuses on turning agrifood policies into action

Illegal cordyceps collection to face severe action:PM

“If people go against the rules and engage in such illegal activities, the government will impose full penalisation,” the Prime Minist...

Govt. extends power imports from India till May amid global energy crisis

As the global energy crisis deepens, driven by disruptions to fuel supplie...

GMC offers low-rate income tax to achieve 10X productivity goal

Bhutan now operates under two distinct income tax systems. The Income Tax of Bhutan (Amendment) Act 2025 applies across the country under the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB), while the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) Income Tax 2025 framework introduces separate rules for individuals and businesses within the economic hub.

Thimphu Dzongkhag achieves 60% 13th Plan targets, flags funding and labour gaps

Thimphu Dzongkhag Administration has reported steady pro...

12-year-old boy confesses to killing elderly woman in a fit of anger

A 12-year-old boy who allegedly murdered a 68-year-old in Ngatshang, Mongar, on September...

Promises and performance

As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must be measured against the promises it made. Such a review is essential to assess delivery on pledges and...

Fortifying measures against discrimination

Reflections on GNH from a Political Scientist in Prague

As a political scientist drawn to GNH, my thoughts naturally and predictably gravitate toward the pillar of good governance.

A monastery where compassion reaches the plate

Gelephu—In Pelrithang, the monks at Pema Yoedling Dratsang, popularly known as Phurpa Lhakhang, begin their day much like monks elsewhere in Bhutan, with p...

Thangrong farmers reclaim eroded land with terracing project

Mongar—Farmers in Thangrong Gewog are actively transforming sloping, erosion-prone fields into productive farmlan...

Tsirang shows strong mid-term gains, but implementation challenges remain

Tsirang—Tsirang has recorded strong gains in vegetable production, poultry, dairy, and human development indicators at the midterm review of the 13th Plan on  March 24, even as budget absorption and coordination challenges continue to hamper progress.

Post-harvest losses threaten food security as farmers lose millions

A bundle of asparagus wilts within a week after harvest, but blast freezing can preserve it...

Young boxer chases bigger dreams

Young and energetic, Chimmi Wangmo, 23, from Chagsakhar, Mongar, is stepping not just into the boxing ring, but into the ring of her future. With every jab, every dodge, and every drop of sweat, s...

His Majesty inspects construction site for 108 Jangchub Chorten

His Majesty the King visited Gelephu Mindfulness City  yesterday to inspect the site identified for the...

ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ ཁྲིམས་བརྒལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་ག་ལྷོད་བཀོག་མི་ ངོ་རྐྱང་༢༩ ལུ་ ཉེས་བྱ་བཀལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་ འཁོར་ལམ་དང་ གཙང་ཆུ་ དེ་ལས་ མ...

སྨན་གཡོགམ་གི་མཐོ་རིམ་མཐར་འཁྱོལ་མི་ ལེ་ཤ་ཡོད་རུང་ མཁོ་འདོད་བཀོད་མི་ མང་སུ་ཐོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྨན་གཡོགམ་གི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ལས་རིམ་གྱིས་...

ལྕང་ཤིང་སྤེག་-ན་གླིང་གི་ ས་གནས་ས་ཁོངས་འཆར་གཞི་དེ་ མཐའ་བཅད་གུ་ལྷོད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་ ལྕང་ཤིང་སྤེག་དང་ ན་གླིང་བར་ན་གི...

རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ དུས་ཚོད་ལཱ་ཁག་ཅིག་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་མངོན་གསལ།

༉ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ བྲེལ་ཟིང་དང་ འུར་ཟིང་ཅན་གྱི་གནས་སྟ...

འཛམ་གླིང་དམག་འཐབ་བྲེལ་ཟིང་དང་ ནང་འཁོད་ཅ་ཆས་དང་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཁྲལ་གྱིས་ སྐྱ་ནམ་གོང་ཚད་ཡར་སེང་ འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ནང་ པར་སི་ཡན་གཱོ...

ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ ས་གནས་གཞུང་གི་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཞི་བའི་མི་སྡེ་ལས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ མཁོ་གལ་མང་སུ་དགོ་ནི།

༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཞི་བའི་མི་སྡེ་ལས་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ ཤེས་རབ་རྩེ་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་སྦེ་ ཉིནམ་གཅིག་གི་ གོ་བ་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་ཀྱི་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ས་གནས་གཞུང་གི་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་དང་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་གིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།