The Sarpang Strikers were crowned champions of the Bhutan Tourism Corporation Limited Women’s T20 Smash 2025 yesterday, defeating Thimphu Cricket Club (CC) by 16 runs in the final held at the Jigmethang Cricket Ground in Thimphu.
Following two consecutive wins, Bhutan’s national women’s football team (the Dragon Girls) is now left with two c...
Thimphu Cricket Club (CC) concluded their league stage with a commanding 211-run victory over Samtse Stallions in the ongo...
In 2021, Thinley Jamtsho took his first steps into baseball as a catcher for his school’s under-15 league team. At the time, he had little idea wh...
Bhutanese bodybuilders had a great first day at the 15th South Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation Championship 2025 in Thimphu yesterday. They won nine medals-four gold, two silver, and three bronze.
Sonam Penjor (PhD), the newly elected vice president of the South Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation (SA...
Bhutan’s senior national men’s football team will face Brunei at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium in Brunei on June 10 as part of the third r...
Bhutan’s senior women’s national football team is determined to beat Malaysia on June 3 in their final match o...
Bhutanese archer Kinley Tshering claimed gold medal in the foreign individual recurve category at the 2025 Gyeyang Open Archery Championship in Incheon, South Korea, yesterday, marking one of Bhutan’s most notable international archery victories in recent years.
Bhutanese archer Kinley Tshering advanced to the third round of the Incheo...
Bhutan’s national women’s cricket team wrapped up their campaign at...
Torrential rain has upended the ICC Women’s T20 Wo...
After a 14-year break, Bhutan is once again stepping onto the international bodybuilding stage. The country will host the 15th South Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships 2025 from June 11 to 15 at the iconic Clock Tower Square in Thimphu.
Bhutan emerged as the top medal-winning nation at the first South Asia Youth Judo Development Tournament and Camp, held in...
Bhutan’s under (U)-19 men’s national football team played out a spirited 2...
Chimi Dema, a 28-year-old cyclist from Punakha, added another victory to her rec...
The BoB Bhutan Women’s National League 2025 is shaping up to be the most competitive and exciting season yet, drawing attention from football enthusiasts across the country.
The Senior Bhutan National Women’s Cricket Team is currently in Assam, India, for a 10-day training session in preparation for the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC)...
Bhutan is hosting the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Level 3 Coaching Course for the first time in Thimphu. Four master educato...
An eight-woman team representing Bhutan recently participated in a friendly compound archery match in Sikkim, India, indicating the sport’s rising po...
Ritu Porna Chakma, 21, is a midfielder for the senior women’s national football team of Bangladesh. In 2024, she played for RTC FC in the AFC Women’s Champions League (Preliminary Stage).
To mark the Royal visit of Thailand’s King and Queen on April 25, a highly anticipated under-17 (U-17) football match between Bhutan a...
The Clock Tower Square in Thimphu came alive over the weekend with the colours, flavours, and rhythms of Thail...
The BoB Bhutan Premier League (BPL) 2025, the country’s top football tournament, retur...
All 16 Bhutanese boxers, comprising eight women and eight men, bagged medals at the 2025 Four Nations Boxing Championship, held in Thimphu from April 11 to 13.
The 2025 Four Nations Boxing Championship will begin today at the Clock Tower in the capital, featuring proficient boxers from Bhutan, Sikkim (India...
Gelephu—In the inaugural Bhutan-India Friendship Association (BIFA) Cup 2025 cricket tournament, which kicked off yesterday at t...
The Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) is intensifying its efforts to ensure that Bhutanese athletes are not ju...
Bhutanese basketball club Thimphu Magics will face TREX BC from the Maldives in the highly anticipated South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) Club Championship tomorrow in Chennai, India.
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Despite trade agreements ensuring zero-rated status for exports from India to Bhutan, local importers are increasingly reporting that Indian suppliers are allegedly and unlawfully applying Indian Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Phobjikha Gewog, famed for its sweeping valley, sacred heritage sites, and the graceful winter presence of the endangere...
Once an unfamiliar grain in Bhutanese farming circles, quinoa is fast emerging as a promising staple in the country’s ev...
Tashicholing—Farmers in Thangchhenang village (Biru Tar) under Pemaling Gewog, Samtse, are struggling to begin paddy cul...
Bhutan’s national women’s football team are full of confidence as they prepare to face Lebanon tomorrow in the ongoing A...
The government has outlined a crucial and ambitious legislative plan for fiscal year 2025–2026, prominently featuring th...
The country’s agricultural exports reached a record Nu 3.51 billion last fiscal year 2024-25, demonstrating robust growt...
Heavy monsoon rains have once again laid bare the vulnerabilities in Thimphu Thromde’s drainage system, triggering multi...
Samtse—What began as a period of widespread hardship during the Covid-19 pandemic has, surprisingly, reshaped the local...
Waste has always been Bhutan’s quiet embarrassment—a problem we have seen, smelled, and stepped around, yet never truly confronted. In towns like Phuentsholing, where trade and population converge, the burden is now too big to ignore. For once, we seem to be doing more than just talk.
When the Changjiji low-income housing project began over two decades ago, there was a hopeful rumour: tenants might eventually own the flats after years of rent payment. This gave many, especially low-income government employees, a gl...
More than 3,600 young people were arrested for drug-related offences between 2023 and 2024, accounting for over 50 percent of total drug arrests in the country. Most of those detained are young men, either unemployed or students -...
Even as we decry traffic jams, vehicular pollution, parking shortages and the fossil fuel import bill, elected leaders are championing, on behalf of the “common man”, to reduce tax on import...
The recent arrest of five young men linked to a series of burglaries across Thimphu comes as a welcome relief. The police acted swiftly, followed up on community reports, analysed CCTV footage, and apprehended the suspects...
Fronting in business, where Bhutanese citizens lend their names and licences to foreign nationals to operate businesses illegally, has become a rampant and disturbingly normalised practice in Phuentsholing and other border towns. This is...
Our forests have long stood as icons of our environmental philosophy and guardians of our national identity. With nearly 70 percent of the country under forest cover, we have earned international praise for our conse...
The government took a bold move, at the expense of political backlash, in backtracking the decision to revive the constituency development grant, put up as the Prior...
In much of the world, plant-based diets are gaining traction for their health benefits and environmental sustainability....
Wangdue—The third unit of Punatsangchhu-II hydropower project was commissioned yesterday, boosting the plant’s total gen...
The country’s economy, facing nearly three decades of premature de-industrialisation, requires a targeted industrial pol...
Forty-year-old entrepreneur Sonam Zangmo from Wangdue is pioneering organic glass noodles (Finn) made from buckwheat and...
Bhutan’s agricultural exports saw a strong performance last year, generating Nu 3.51 billion from both primary and proce...
There is a growing consensus among elected leaders to undo the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) initiative—planne...
The sharp rise in Bhutanese outmigration since the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer just a trend; it has become a full-blo...
Our global brand—Gross National Happiness—is envied and admired. Yet our ranking in the Human Development Index (HDI) te...
Even before the Economic and Finance Committee could review the Excise Tax Bill and Income Tax Bill 2025 presented by th...
The recent surge of Covid-19 sub-variants in India—LF.7 and NB.1.8—serves as a warning that the pandemic, while quieter,...
Coming to light after reports of fraudulent practices, the Department of Civil Registration and Census, in January this year, alerted the Trashigang Dzongkhag Administration and instructed officials to investigate how local government authorities failed to prevent the forgery of documents that resulted in a non-national getting citizenship.
Read MoreWith the monsoon in full swing, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued an urgent public advisory following an outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) across several districts in Assam, India.
Read MoreThree years after a government-subsidised project to transition taxis to electric vehicles (EVs) officially ended, 34 of the promised 300 EVs for taxi operators remain undelivered.
Read MoreParo Dzongkhag Court has sentenced an Indian national, Meghan Vijay Gujuran, to 17 years in prison for trafficking 9.73 kilograms of heroin into Bhutan. The 28-year-old was arrested at Paro International Airport on January 8, 2025, upon arrival from Bangkok, Thailand.
Read MoreHousehold farms form the backbone of the country’s livestock sector, accounting for 99.9 percent of all animal holders, leaving a mere 0.1 percent from non-household entities.
Read MoreA two-day workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Development begins today in Thimphu, aiming to explore how AI can be strategically leveraged to support Bhutan’s national development priorities. The event will run until July 16, 2025.
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