Sakteng, Trashigang—It is late morning in the highland settlement of Sakteng and the winter’s chil...
Community-led initiatives are transforming water safety and sustainability, ensuring safer, more secure...
A recent assessment report, Assessment of Gender Equality in Public Administr...
Baku, Azerbaijan – An official from a UN office in New Delhi, India, who recently visited Thimphu and Paro, commended Bhutan for its pristine rivers and environmental consciousness. Howeve...
The National Council’s special committee on educat...
Despite the National Assembly’s endorsement in Jul...
Baku, Azerbaijan— The first week of the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) summit, held in Bak...
Poverty, social pressure, cultural norms, and inadequate resources contribute to early...
Dagana — Residents of Dogak and Balleygang chiwogs, Gozhi gewog in Dagana will soon initiate an aloe-vera soap pr...
A webinar titled “Citizen Participation and Engagement in Bhutan”, organised by the Bhutan Media Foundation, G...
367 BTC worth USD 33.5M sold last Thursday
The government has awarded the contract to develop the BITS to Data Torque, a New Zealand-based tech firm, with an estimated project cost exceeding Nu 1 billion
His Majesty the King graced the ground breaking (Salhang tendrel) ceremony of the Gelephu Choeten yesterday, which will be a significa...
The review, supported by UNDP and UNDESA, assessed...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has installed advanced flood Early Warning Systems (EWS) in...
Bhutan’s battle against climate change is becoming increasingly urgent, but experts say that much of the focus has been at the national and policy le...
Around 15 members of Bhutanese delegation are part...
The Minister for the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE), Namgyal Dorji, said that creating job opportunities was a top priority for the...
As social media use in Bhutan continues to grow, concerns about the lack of regulations and its potential negative impact on society are intensifying.
Wangdue — Four individuals, aged between 50 and 66, have been arrested in Wangdue for allegedly attempting to strike a deal involving four Asian elephant tusks in Punatshangchhu.
RCSC implements pre-birth maternity leave and can carry over annual leave
The National Council (NC) presented a series of resolutions aimed at impro...
The Economic Affairs Committee of the National Council (NC) has raised concerns over the uneven...
The National Assembly (NA) supported the Cattle Tax Exemption Bill 2024 after the finance minister proposed to exempt cattle tax to encou...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) launched a nationwide screening programme yesterday for early detection and prevention of non...
Pemagatshel—When the Desuung National Service Water Project was completed in Khar, Pemagatshel, Ugyen Wangmo, a 49-year-old resident of Reythung village, was positive that it would solve the lon...
The Mongal Ecology Centre (MEC), a non-governmental organisation from Mongolia, donated 15 motorcycles to the Department of Forest and Park Services (DoFPS) as part of it...
Baku, Azerbaijan—Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay led a high-level gathering of leaders from the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region at...
Paro—The ban on corporal punishment needs to be backed by a clear law to prevent parents, teachers, and caregivers from using physical discipline, though without resorting to criminal sanctions.
Punakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another child?
For more than a decade, Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) has steadily transformed cancer care in the country from a subject c...
A Bhutanese based in New York, who runs Tasha International News, a Telegram- based unofficial news channel, has collect...
A Nu 43.7 million eco-tourism facility built to transform a local community has become a white elephant in the capital....
Once coveted positions, local administrative posts such as drungpa and dzongrab have become less attractive to civil servants, leaving critical leadership roles vacant due to stagnant career progression.
The private leasing of 200 acres of state land at Darla Top has sparked massive local controversy, forcing the Prime Min...
As geopolitical hostilities rapidly escalate in the Middle East, more than 7,700 Bhutanese workers remain in the Gulf re...
The government is accelerating efforts to expand domestic production of biofertilisers and biopesticides to reduce depen...
No definitive timeline: The government has halted two of its major campaign promises 95 percent housing finance and rela...
The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTF) yesterday signed a Nu 2.5 million grant agreement to support...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of...
The key barriers identified in the report - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are no...
Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple...
The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more...
A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.
Read MoreBhutan has witnessed a sharp rise in Australian student visa refusals over the past six months, with education consultants describing the rejection rate as the highest in recent years.
Read MorePhuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with the latest disruption occurring even before the onset of the monsoon.
Read MoreA widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raising concerns about leadership succession, institutional continuity and the long-term resilience of the country’s public sector workforce.
Read MoreShareholders of Sherza Ventures Ltd. have been unable to trade their shares for seven months because the company remains suspended from the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB).
Read MoreThe closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.
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