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Tuesday April 23 2024

Her Majesty The Queen’s Address at the opening ceremony of the Sustainable Finance for Tiger Landscapes Conference

His Majesty and I are delighted to welcome all our guests to Bhutan. Most of you have flown in from different parts of the world, and that in itself speaks volumes about your commitment to the cause of tigers and sustaining their landscapes.

Shortage of labourers behind fallowing land

Punakha—The absence of hands to till the land has left land...

CRPs initiative boost nutrition and food security in villages

A two-day experience-sharing workshop for Community Research Persons (CRPs) from five...

Pay boost sparks dedication and relief amidst hardship

On Saturday, near Nobding, a group of workers from the Department...

Editorial

For Mother Earth

Monday April 22 was the Earth Day. For more than half a century, we had been observing this day as a reminder, of many things, how we are destroying the mother earth that has given us life, nurtured and has been the source livelihoods and prosperity or progress as we like to call today.

Hope for the big cats

Talk about the tigers and Bhutan as a host...

Cashing in on waste?

Have we finally found a solution to our mounting...


Features

Revised tax rates are not burdensome, say senior citizens

In the living room of a duplex in Semtokha, Thimphu, a group of women spanning generations engage in lively chatter about the recently implemented revised property and land tax.

Empowering women and enriching communities in rural Bhutan

The homestay business in Haa has been reshaping the...

Dzondrakha Tsechu: Tradition, custom, and community dynamics in Lungnyi

At 7 am, the residents of Lungnyi in Paro...

Reviving the tradition of natural pigments

Trashiyangtse —The introduction of natural pigment art as a...

Sports

Karma Dema, lone female BPL coach

Karma Dema,  32,  from Mongar, will lead the newly formed Tsirang FC as head coach in the upcoming Bhutan Premier League (BPL) set to commence next month.

Druk Lhayul FC is no more

With the exclusion of Lhayul, BFF Academy FC, who...

Why Bhutanese athletes do not win Olympics quota

Bhutan has only secured one recurve archery quota in...

BPL 2024 to witness four teams from southern region

Over the past five years, the Bhutan Premier League...

Business

Finance ministry projects 5.68 percent growth this year

Thukten Zangpo The finance ministry projected Bhutan’s economy to grow at 5.68 percent this year, according to the ministry’s macroeconomic situation report for the second quarter for the fiscal year 2023-24. For 2025, the ministry forecasted the economy to expand by 8.97 percent and 3.16 percent growth for 2023. The economy is expected to show […]

Non-hydro debt set to reach threshold with Nu 35 billion borrowing in FY 2024-25

The government can borrow an extra Nu 35.88 billion...

Vehicle import ban saves Nu 5.3 Billion

The ban on importing vehicles could have helped Bhutan...

Bhutan’s economic growth could slow at 4 percent in this FY 2023-24: WB

The World Bank says Bhutan’s economy will grow slower...

Life Style

Ask Mr Bhutan

Natural selection is the process by which our genes have been pruned by our environment. Our genes retains that which is most conducive to our immediate survival and reproduction. Each one of our ancestors were a lab rat upon which our genes refined itself. Our bodies are a result of a very slow, painful and costly processes.

Ask Mr Bhutan

Why am I so inflexible and more importantly what...

Ask Mr Bhutan

What did Covid 19 pandemic teach you?  Please allow...

Videos

ANN

Bangladesh sees record potato production, yet prices going up

DHAKA – Potato prices are soaring even though farmers this year grew a record 1.04 crore tonnes, cutting the buying power of consumers, especially fixed and low-income people already battered by sustained high inflation.


Opinions

Protecting Children or Perpetuating Injustice?

The existing provisions under the Penal Code of Bhutan...

Protecting Children or Perpetuating Injustice?

The existing provisions under the Penal Code of Bhutan...

Jabmis’ call for improvement in justice system

The just-concluded three-day Annual General Meeting of the Bar...

Property Tax Reform: A small step toward citizen’s responsibility to develop Bhutan

In 2022, the government tabled the much-awaited property tax...

Employability initiative for college students and jobseekers launched by ADB, MoESD

The National Statistics Bureau’s new quarterly labor force survey...

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