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The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has issued a stern directive to all government agencies, warning against the misuse of pool vehicles and reinforcing strict accountability measures.
Bhutan aims to achieve developed-economy by 2050 by increasing its real GDP tenfold, following His Majesty’s vision outlined on the 112th National Day.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) officially launched the One-Child, One-Egg initiative at Zunglen Primary School in Drepong gewog, Mongar yesterd...
A four-month initiative to improve waste management and promote sustainable practices in Thimphu and Par...
The vigilance of customs officials at Paro International Airport have once again proven instrumental in busting a series of drug smuggling attempts. In a span of just three months—December, January, and February—three major heroin smuggling attempts were foiled, leading to the seizure of 31.5 kilogrammes (kg) of the illicit drug.
As we celebrate His Majesty’s 45th Birth Anniversary, Bhutan’s commitment to the Diamond Strategy’s “one country, two systems” framework marks a pivotal moment in our nation’s developme...
The Trashigang police have arrested two men from Radhi Gewog in connection with fraudulent activities related to census regis...
The Royal Centre for Infectious Diseases (RCID), a facility dedicated to combating infectious diseases, is steadily taking shape with the support of the Gover...
Sixteen-year-old Khenrab Norbu Tobgden, a Class XII Science student at Ugyen Academy in Punakha, will represent Bhutan at the Asian Youth International Model United Nations (AYIMUN), which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from May 2 to 5.
Bhutan launched a USD 20 million project to boost climate resilience...
Phuentsholing—The winding road leading to Phuentsholing gewog offers breathtaking views of the Amochu township development project below. A roadside wat...
Bhutan and the Asia-Pacific region’s progress towards Su...
In an effort to enhance digital literacy and bridge the technological gap in the education system, the Volunteers-Teachers of Bhutan (V-TOB) foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Skill Development (MoESD), has been working to equip primary school teachers with the necessary skills and tools to integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
༉ ན་ཧིང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡༢ པ་ལས་ དུས་ཅི་ ཟླ་༢ པ་ཚུན་ ཟླཝ་...
༉ ད་རེས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ མི་མང་བདག་སྐྱོང་ནང་ ཨམ་ས...
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༢ ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༣....
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...
In a major crackdown on drug trafficking, customs officials at Paro International Airport have intercepted three heroin smuggling attempts in r...
Bhutan aims to increase women’s representation in decision-making roles within the civil service to 30 percent by 2029, according to a recen...
The rapid rise of vaping in the country, particularly among the youth, has reached an alarming level. Despite increasing global awareness of its severe health risks, Bhutan is yet to implement stringent regulations to curb the sale and use of e-cigarettes, which are widely available across the country.
Today, the people of Bhutan celebrate the 45th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King. This is not just an occasion for festivity but a moment for deep reflection and gratitude for a leader who...
Together with the Royal Government of Bhutan, UNICEF has made significant strides in e...
Trongsa—For the first time in more than a decade, Trongsa Dzongkhag has recorded a sharp decline in sexually transmitted i...
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མངའ་སྡེ་ ཨ་སམ་ལུ་ བར་མ་པུ་ཏ་ར་གཙང་ཆུའི་ མཐའ་མར་ཡོད་པའི་ ཇོ་གི་གོ་པ་ ཆུ་ལམ་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་ས་ཁོངས་(ཨའེ་ཌབ་ལུ་ཊི་) འགོ་འབྱེད་འབདཝ་དང་འབྲེལ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༩༡ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ གཙང་ཆུའི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ལྟེ་བ་དེ་དང་ མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Assam, India—Bhutan has now access to its closest riverine trade hub with the inaugura...
Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) has received 3,969 loan applications across its 35 branches natio...
Punakha—Two men were killed and another critically injured in a head-on collision between an Alto car and a tipper truck at Lamperi yesterday.
Bhutan’s international payment systems showed mixed trends in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2024, recording a sharp increase in transaction value despite a decline in overall payment volume, according to the latest report from the Royal Monetary Authority.
The country’s total hydropower generation increased by 11 percent, reaching 11, 699.68 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity in 2024, up from 10,...
Bhutan’s growing dependence on imported rice is a pressing concern that demands urgent attention. With rice imports soaring to Nu 3.6 billion in 2022 and continuing to rise, the nati...
Lepchakha village, situated within the Buxa Tiger Reserve in the foothills south of the border, ov...
༉ ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་འགྲུལ་སྐྱེལ་ཞབས་ཏོག་གིས་ ལོ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་རྒྱབ་ལས་ ད་རུང་ དགའ་སྐྱིད་ར་ཡེཌ་Gakyid Ride ཟེར་མི་མཉེན་ཆས་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༡༤ ལུ་ ལོག་འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ འགྲོ་འགྲུལ་ཚུ་ དུས་མཐུན་ཐོག་ལུ་ ལེགས་ལྡན་སྦེ་ འབད་ཚུགས་ཐབས་ལུ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་འཆར་སྣང་འགྲུབ་...
༉ ནང་འཁོད་ལས་ཐོན་མི་ རེད་ཀྱི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་གི་ ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་གློག་ཤུགས་བཱསི་དེ་ འཕྲུལ་...
ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ སུ་ད་ཀར་ ད་ལི་ལ་གིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་ལས་རིམ་གྱི་ ཆ་ཤས་༣ པ་སྦེ་ དངུལ་རྩིས་བློན་པོ་ ལས་སྐྱིད་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༢.༥ གི་ དངུལ་འཛིན་ཅེག་ རྩིས་སྤྲོད་འབད་ཡོད་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
Thimphu’s only electric city bus has been out of service for months now due to technical issues and lack of capacity within the country to fix the problem.
The National Council (NC) is gearing towards ensuring effective laws and regulations in the country to realise the national vision and also to ali...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay’s highly anticipated book, “Enlightened Leadership: Ins...
In a bid to revitalise rice production and reduce dependence on imports, the Farm Machinery Corporation Limited (FMCL) has launched a nationwide initiative, working with farmers in 20 dzongkhags to cultivate 20 different rice varieties.
In Bhutan where artistic tradition is deeply woven into its cultural fabric, Art United is redefining the country’s creative landscape. This collective of 13 Bhutanese artists is pioneering a movement that fuses centuries-old artistic heritage with contemporary e...
After a two-year hiatus, the City Bus Services (CBS) relaunched i...
Bhutan’s foreign exchange reserves surged by 15.39 percent year-over-year, reaching USD 700.51 million by December 2024, according to the National Statistics Bureau’s (NSB) socioeconomic fourth-quarter update.
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མི་སྡེ་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ བཞི་དཔྱ་༤ པའི་ ད...
༉ ཇ་པཱན་གཞུང་གིས་ གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་གྱི་དོ...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཀརྨ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ སྲ་ཆས་ཚོང་འབ...
Gelephu—For nearly a year, Karma Tshetem’s once-thriving hardware business in Gelephu has been in freefa...
The country’s foreign exchange reserves grew by 15.39 percent year-over-year, reaching USD 700.51 million as of December 2024, an increase of USD 93.48 million, according to the National Statistics Bureau’s socio-economic fourth-quarter update.
The number of black-necked cranes (BNC) wintering in the country has nearly doubled since the first survey in 1987, reaching a record 709 birds in the 2024–2025 count—up from 370 nearly four decades 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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