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The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living in high-crime nations like India and Senegal, as well as low-crime countries like Bhutan, and very low crime countries like Switzerland and Finland, have shaped my understanding. Having personally transitioned from a violent life to a non-violent one, I offer my thoughts and solut
The central bank, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), revised the minimum lending rate (MLR) to 6.38 percent in D...
When faced with the devastating reality of childhood cancer, Bhutanese families are often left to navigate...
A nation’s progress is not just about big infrastructure or economic growth; it is also about how efficiently systems function for its people. Today, in our country, despite efforts to modernise governance, some basic services remain frustratingly difficult. Tax payment is one of them.
More than 200 runners, including over 50 international participants, have signed up for the 11th Bhutan Intern...
Chukha-For many years, farmers in Darla gewog, Chukha, relied on cash crops like cardamom and citrus—crops that once brought prosperity but hav...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ དང་༢༦ ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མངའ་སྡ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༣ ལུ་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་གི་རྒྱལ་ས་ ཌ་ཀ་ལུ་སྦེ་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་ནང་པའི་རིག་གཞུང་དར་སྤེལ་ཚོགས་པ་གིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་ལུ་ པཎྲིཏ་ཝ་ན་རཏྣ་ཞི་བའི་ གསེར་གྱི་རྟགས་མ་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ གཙུག་ལག...
Last year, a French film, ”La Tresse” (The Braid),...
༉ ད་རིས་ འབྲུག་དང་ སིངྒ་པོར་གྱིས་ ནག་རྫས་ཀར་བཱོན་ཚོང་ལས་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ལག་ལེན་གུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། ཆིངས་ཡིག་...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རང་ཟླ་༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༩ ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ རང་ཟླ་དང་པའི་ཚེས་༤ ཚུན་ ཉིན་གྲངས་ལྔའི་རིང་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ དཀར་སྦིས་མཆོད་རྟེན་རྙིང་པོ་ འབྲུག་མི་འགྱུར་ལྷུན་པོའི་ དགོན་འཛིན་གྲྭ་ཚང་ནང་ དགེ་འདུན་པ་ཞལ་གྲངས་༡༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་གནང་སྲོལ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་རིམ་ རྒྱལ་བ་བྱམས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་འབུམ་ཐེར་ཐེངས་༦ པ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
ས་གནས་ཀྱི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་གིས་ གནད་དོན་སེལ་ཐབས་དོན་ལུ་ འ...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༡༢ པ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་བའི་སྐབས་ འབྲུག་...
༉ ནང་འཁོད་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཡོངས་འབོར་ལུ་ ས་གཏེར་དང་ རྡོ་ག...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ སྤ་རོ་དང་ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ལུ་སྦེ་ རང་བཞིན་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་སྡེ་ཚན་དང་ འཛམ་གླིང་རི་དྭགས་མ་དངུལ་གྱིས་ གངས་གཟིག་དང་ ཨ་ཅོ་གདོང་དཀར་ཚུ་ སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ལས་འགུལ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སྤ་རོ་ལུ་ གངས་གཟིག་༡༡ ཡོད་མི་དེ་ གྱངས་ཁ་མཐོ་ཤོས་ཨིནམ་བཞིན་དུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཨ་ཅོ་གདོང་དཀར་༣༠༨ ཡོད་པའི་གྲས་ལས་ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ལུ་༢༦ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
Chukha-Residents of Bongo, Darla, and Getana gewogs in Chukha continue to face fuel crisis as the lone fuel depot in Gedu frequently runs dry, sometimes up to a...
Bhutan’s national debt climbed to Nu 292.74 billion by the end of December 2024, which is equivalent to 97.1 percent of the country’s estimated gross domestic product (GDP), according t...
Our glaciers are melting at an alarming rate—threatening not just the 700,000 and more people who depend on them, but also the 1.6 billion people downstream who rely on Himalayan water sources.
Bhutan, a country with one of the world’s richest freshwater resources, is paradoxically grappling with severe water shortages in many regions. Despite an estimated 80 billion cubic meters of available water, some communities face chronic scarcity.
The government aims to increase the mining and quarrying sector’s GDP contribution...
༉ གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༡ ལུ་ ཨ་ལུ་...
༉ ད་རེས་ཀྱི་ ཚལ་ལུའི་དུས་ཚོད་སྐབས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱིས་ ཚ...
༉ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གི་རྒྱབ་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༧༤ འབད་མི་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དང་ མགར་སའི་གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཞན་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རྟ་གུ་ཁུར་ཆ་བཀལ་ཏེ་ ཉིན་ལམ་༢ ཀྱི་རིང་ རྐང་འགྲུལ་འབད་དེ་ མགར་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་ནང་ འགྱོ་དགོཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༢ ལས་ གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ དུས་ཡུན་ཆུ་ཚོད་༣ གྱི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ནང་སྦེ་ ལྷོད་ཚུགསཔ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ལུ་ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ག...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ ཁྱེགས་རི་དང་ ཆུ་རྐ་ཚུ་ལུ་ གནམ་གཤིས་འགྱ...
Bhutan’s glaciers and water sources are under threat from climate change, endangering 240 million people in the Himalayas and 1.6 billion downstream, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay warned at...
The Ministry of Finance issued a directive on February 19 urging all government agencies to accelerate capital project implementation, citing serious concerns over slow budget utilisation in the 2024-25 fiscal year.
Mandarin exports recorded a strong recovery this season, with the country exporting 35,674.96 metric tonnes (MT) and earning Nu 1.43 billion in revenue.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) launched the ‘Accelerating Maternal and Child Health Programme’ (AMCHP) on February 21 to improve the health and well-being of mothers and child...
Punakha—For more than a decade, the 74-kilometre Punakha-Gasa highway has been the district’s vital link to the rest of the country. Once an arduous two-day trek by horseback, th...
After years of striving to build a skilled workforce through the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) initiative, the labour ministry this week unveiled the Community for Skilled Workers (C4SW) programme launched with a website, constitution and bylaws.
Two students from Jampeling Central School in Trashigang won the National Space Challenge 2025. The week-long competition, which st...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༢ ལུ་ འཇིགས་མེད་སེངྒེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་སློབ་གྲྭ་དང་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲིམས་དོན་སྤེལ་ཁང་ དེ་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱབ་མི་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ གཙོ་འཛིན་ཨིན་མི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་པོའི་སྲསམོ་ བསོད་ནམས་བདེ་ཆེན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤ་རོའི་གྲོས་འཛོམས་སྐབས་ དྲང་ཁྲིམས་དོན་ལུ་ ལྟེ་བ་གསརཔ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Fostering co-ordination among justice sectors and ensuring an agile, responsive, and effective legal system in the country has become more critical than ever.
Bhutan is set to witness a groundbreaking transformation in its healthcare system with the construction of a Multi-Disciplinary Super-Specialit...
Homeowners and builders can now hire local electricians and plumbers at affordable rates, with assured quality, reliability, and service guarantees under the Community for Skilled Workers (C4SW), according to its newly launched website, constitution, and bylaws released by the Department of Labour (DoL).
The government has set an ambitious target to increase real GDP tenfold by 2050, catapulting the country into the ranks of developed economies. The "21st Century Economic Roadmap–A 10X National Econom...
Phuentsholing—The Department of Immigration (DoI) launched the Automated Immigration Clearance System (AICS) at the Phuent...
Paro FC’s 41-year-old technical director, Puspalal Sharm...
Inspired by His Majesty the King’s vision, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) unveiled its Strategic Roadmap 2025-2035 on February 21 to transform the civil service into an Enlightened Entrepreneurial Bureaucracy (E²B) by 2035.
Trongsa—The Viewpoint Resort in Trongsa, once a star-rated luxury property, has been left in a state of disrepair, with no clear plans for redevelopment, even after the long legal dispute ended three years ago.
The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroeconomic signals and renewed optimism on paper.
The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.
The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are par...
Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct r...
Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referr...
The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following several years of gradual recovery.
Read MoreAs we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroeconomic signals and renewed optimism on paper.
Read MoreThe Wood Female Snake Year proved to be a significant one for the tourism sector. It reflected a year of cautious recovery, policy recalibration, and renewed efforts to reposition the country as a high-value destination, even as challenges persisted.
Read MoreThe hydropower sector recorded a year of cautious progress in 2025, marked by long-awaited commissioning, the launch of new projects, and a gradual shift in the country’s development strategy, even as challenges related to delays, rising costs, and geological risks persisted.
Read MoreThe Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 2025, the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax Act of Bhutan 2025, and major restructuring of corporate and business taxation.
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