The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has approved the establishment of Tama Vocational Secondary School in Zhemgang after a feasibility study confirmed its viability.
Chukha—Restoration work on the Damchu–Chukha bypass is progressing after heavy rainfall in October damaged several sections of the road. The major da...
The 61st session of the Programming Committee of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) commenced yesterday. The me...
A government-led review has resolved more than half of the regula...
This year, Bhutan observes IDEVAW 2025 with special significance as the nation celebrates the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. On this historic occasion, we honor His Majesty’s visionary leadership and extraordinary contributions in laying the foundation for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls across the country.
Her Majesty Gyalyum Tseyring Pem Wangchuck, Co-Chair of the Bh...
Sarpang—The country is facing the sharpest spike in egg prices in years, as a nationwide shortage and increasing demand push costs to record...
His Majesty the King graced the special prayers at the kuenrey of the Tashichhodzong yesterd...
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) reports steady progress in implementing the ambitious 10-year Strategic Roadmap (2025–2035), designed to transform Bhutan’s public administration into an “Enlightened Entrepreneurial Bureaucracy”.
Punakha—Not long ago, a retired civil servant from Phongmey, Trashigang, Dorji, invested his entire life savings into a dream. He founded “The Happiness Farm” in Paro...
The new Integrated Checkpost (ICP) at Gasharibaley in Nganglam was formally i...
The third Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Science-Policy-Finance dialogue opened in Pa...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is breaking new ground in urban planning by embedding wildlife corridors into its design, aiming to preserve ecological connectivity and foster safe coexistence between humans and wildlife.
The 36th Session of the National Council (NC) will commence from November 27 to December 26. During this period, the House will deliberate on and adopt...
The Respect, Educate, Nurture, and Empower Women (RENEW) has successfully reintegra...
Some 15 Bhutanese nationals are stranded in the severely flooded Thai city of Hat Yai, Thailand, facing...
Deep within the forests of Gakiling in Haa, the sacred Rangtse Tshechu is set to unfold once more, drawing devotees and visitors.
Bhutanese entrepreneur Yangchen Dolkar Dorji has won the Unlock Her Future Prize 2025 South Asia Edition...
Dhaka, Bangladesh—Bhutan and Bangladesh are prepar...
Wangdue—Ten-year-old Sangay Wangchuk had never left his high-altitude village in Lunana, until this week, when he boarded a helicopter and headed to Wangdue Hospital.
Sarpang—The government will upgrade a 22-kilometre section from Darachu to Relangthang along the Tsirang–Sarpang National Highway, a vital artery to the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), during the current financial year.
In the ancient, spiritually charged town of Rajgir, where the Buddha once walked and taught, a new sanctuary r...
After 37 days, Ani Pema Deki (Emma Slade) and her two companions complete...
The country’s health sector is facing a growing crisis as it loses trained professi...
Tsirang—Damphu town in Tsirang, with its strategic location along the primary route to the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), will undergo major upgrades in infrastructure, amenities, and urban services.
Druk Green Power Corporation Limited (DGPC) and Ta...
The Thimphu Dzongkhag Court in a recent judgement determined that employees of the Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL)...
Five workers balanced on bamboo scaffolds while roofing a four-storey building in Bebena. None wore safety harnesses, and their helmets lay untouched...
Wearing a black shirt with the upper half of his Mathra gho folded at his waist, barefoot and gripping a rope,and even dropping a few Dzongkha words, Brandon Jackson Uveges made a striking entry onto the Nyagoe (strongman) battlefield in Trashigang.
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The Asian Development Bank has maintained Bhutan’s 2026 growth forecast unchanged at 6.5 percent, even as it sharply raised its inflation projection for the year.
Phuentsholing—Phuentsholing’s urban facelift is expanding next month with the launch of the 2.8-acre Kaja-Throm Changyul...
As a CSO working to reform, rehabilitate, and eventually reintegrate children who come in conflict with law, Nazhoen Lam...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has launched a six-year project to move smallholder farmers in the east from s...
Phuentsholing—What started as a small backyard poultry farm in Samphelling, Chukha, has grown into a community-based ent...
Lhuentse—More than 30 shops in Autsho town, Lhuentse, which operate from leased private land, are still waiting for plot...
The government has reintroduced the Annual Performance Agreements (APAs), with the Prime Minister vowing to personally r...
Her Majesty the Queen Mother, Tshering Yangdoen Wangchuck, today inaugurated the newly constructed and renovated animal...
A 120-foot Bailey bridge over Chebju Khola at Gangatey in Pemaling gewog has ended the seasonal isolation of about 210 h...
For spectators attending matches at Changlimithang Stadium, the match-day experience begins long before kick-off. While...
Recent reports of an airborne geophysical survey identifying significant anomalies of tungsten, copper, and other precious metals could mark a pivotal moment for Bhutan. Although the country has already discovered several mineral resources since mining began including limestone, gypsum, dolomite, coal, quartzite, graphite, and talc, a substantial find of tungsten would be a game-changer.
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...
An initiative worth pausing to reflect on this week is the collaboration among three key agencies to review Bhutan’s bus...
More than seventy percent of international visitors to Bhutan now enter the country by land rather than through Paro International Airport. Phuentsholing alone accounts for the overwhelming majority of those arrivals. One of the ob...
Sky-rocketing house rents are a grim reality haunting the capital city’s residents. While this was once a burden shouldered only by those at the lowest economic rung, it now strains civil and public servants wh...
Every single day, Bhutan adds 38 new petrol and diesel vehicles to its roads. In just the first six months of this year, we registered 6,921 fossil fuel cars. Electric vehicles?...
The Film Association of Bhutan (FAB) has lost its legal standing as a Civil Society Organisation following its deregistration by the CSO Authority in January, after prolonged non-c...
As voters head to the polls today to elect the Thrompons and thromde thuemis of Thimphu and Phuentsholing, the most striking feature of this election has not been fierce competition or spirited public debate. It has been the sil...
Bhutan's rich forests are not only a source of clean air, water, and wealth. Hidden within the thickets is also a web of corruption whether in illegal felling, illicit sale, or collusion among official...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...
The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...
Lama, as a young guy, I’m concerned about the future. What do you think will be the biggest issue for the planet within...
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Set against the quieter surroundings of Lower Taba, Vietnam Corner brings a distinctive slice of Vietnam to Thimphu’s gr...
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Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is under construction. Heavy earthmoving machines and trucks work round the clock at the...
Summer holidays have officially begun for students across the country, and with them comes a familiar parental dilemma....
It is a common perception that corruption, in its quieter forms of favouritism and nepotism, is no longer an aberration...
The Election Commission of Bhutan’s (ECB) recent announcement that it will vet election pledges comes at the most approp...
Homeownership in Bhutan, long understood as the most reliable pathway to financial security, is rapidly becoming an illu...
Thimphu Police have recovered several sacred relics and artefacts stolen from 22 chortens and 13 lhakhangs in Thimphu, Paro, Wangdue, Punakha and Bumthang in cases reported between 2023 and 2026.
Read MoreBefore solar-powered irrigation reached Tempakha village in Chubu Gewog, Punakha, 23-year-old Pema Zangmo and her father trekked to distant mountain streams, carrying water on their backs to save the family's agricultural crop.
Read MoreThree years after the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) introduced the revised Managing for Excellence (MaX) performance management system in 2023, civil servants are questioning its tangible benefits, particularly in terms of incentives, career progression, and improvements in public service delivery.
Read MoreHis Majesty The King graced the Passing Out Parade of the Gyalsung Training 2026 Batch (Cohort 2) at the Gyalsung Academy in Khotokha, Wangdue on September 30.
Read MoreNearly two decades after the Road Sector Master Plan (RSMP) 2007-2027 was launched, only a handful of the planned activities have been implemented, even as successive governments campaigned on promises of major road building.
Read MoreLocal government leaders of Zhemgang are urging the government to expedite its decision on their petition seeking the transfer of current dzongda over alleged administrative and governance issues.
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