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Wildlife and forest-related offences recorded in the Forest Information Reporting and Monitoring System (FIRMS) dropped sharply in 2024, falling to 749 cases from 1,295 the previous year—a 42 percent decline. The drop extends a four-year slide since the pandemic peak of 1,917 cases in 2020.
Pemagatshel Dzongkhag Administration is preparing to host the country’s first-ever Bathing Carnival Bhutan (BCB) 2025, a new festiv...
The National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC...
Chukha—A batch of 115 officials from the National Land Commission Secretariat (NLCS) successfully completed an integrated training programme at the Roya...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ས་གནས་ རཱཇ་གིར་ཟེར་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁབ་ལུ་ འབྲུག་པའི་ལྷ་ཁང་གསར་བསྒྲུབས་མཛད་མིའི་ནང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༩ པའི་ཚེས་༦ ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
For years, cleaning campaigns in Bhutan have been little more than a ritual. People came together with gloves and sacks, streets looked tidy for a day or two, and social med...
His Holiness the Je Khenpo is presiding over a three-day Moenlam Chhenmo (great prayer ceremony...
In Lunana, where only the hardiest people and yaks endure the unforgiving cold, a mission begins this week, one that could decide the...
A 75-year-old man from Lungo village in Laya, Gasa was killed by a bear at a yak herder camp in Gangiten, Laya, on the morning of September 5.
Samtse—Farmers of Jangcholing chiwog in Samtse can finally secure their cr...
A key government pledge to improve inter-dzongkhag connectivity is moving forward, the topographic survey for the Nahi in Wangdue to Chamgang in Thimphu road begins today.
Samdrupjongkhar—The completion of a new water supply system on May 31, 2025 under the Dewathang water supply project helps en...
Sherab Gyeltshen, 31, from the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) is the champion of the men’s category of the sixth edition of the Dragon Fury Mountain Bike Race held on September 6.
In a cramped one-room home in Thimphu, 39-year-old Rinchen Dema is w...
Adani Power, India’s largest private power producer, and the Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) s...
The country’s national debt climbed to Nu 303.97 billion as of June this year, which is equivalent to 100.5 percent of the estimated gross domestic product (GDP), according to the fi...
Gelephu—The sun beats down on Gelephu, where temperatures hover around 33°C, yet the heat and humidity do not slow the steady rhythm of thousands of Bhutanese volunteers. Dressed in national attire, sun-caps, and boots, they swing knives and sickles, clearing bushes and undergrowth with tireless determination.
Electricity is finally on its way to Lunana, one of the highland frontiers of the country, which takes more than a week on fo...
The health ministry is finalising new rules for medical referrals abroad aiming to strengthen patient safety, ensure equitabl...
I complete exactly six years today since I started writing a weekly legal op-ed for Kuensel Publishing, over 2...
Trongsa—The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secured a victory in the Nubi-Tangsibji bye-election, a win that was driven by voters’ continued confidence in the ruling party’s ability to deliver on its commitments.
Bhutan and Vietnam are strikingly different in geography, economy, and politics, yet they...
From the border town of Phuentsholing to international bodybuilding stages, Bollywood film sets, and the forefront o...
A Bhutanese geologist has been awarded a prestigious grant to strengthen t...
Plans to relocate the Thimphu Dzongkhag Administration, a proposal that has been in the works for more than a decade, remain unfulfilled because of shifting urban development plans.
For years, some Thimphu residents slipped out under the cover of night—and sometimes at the break of dawn—to dump...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༧ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་ཞབས་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༧ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་ཞབས་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་...
༉ ད་རེས་འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ བསྒྲུབས་ཚར་མི་ རྒྱ་གར་རྡོ...
༉ ད་རིས་ལས་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱ་གར་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྫོང་ཁག་བདག་སྐྱོང་དེ་ ས་གནས་གཞན་ཁར་ སྤོ་...
༉ གྱང་བསིལ་ཆེ་བའི་ལ་མཐོ་ས་ དཔལ་ལི་ལ་བཟུམ་ཅིག་ནང་ སྦ་སྒོར་ཆུང་ཀུ་རེ་བཟོ་ཐོག་ལས་ ཚོང་བཙོང་སྡོད་མི་ ལས་སྐྱིད་སྒྲོལ་མ་གིས་ ལག་པའི་མཛུབ་མོ་དེ་ སྡོད་ནི་ར་མེད་པའི་སྒོ་ལས་ སྔར་སྲོལ་གྱི་སྐེ་རགས་ཅིག་འཐག་མི་དང་ ཁ་ལས་གླུ་གཞས་རེ་འཐེན་ཏེ་འབདཝ་ད་ ཚོང་མགྲོན་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཚོར་སྣང་ཅིག་ཡང་ འབྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The consecration of the Royal Bhutan Temple in Rajgir is not merely about architecture, artistry, or even religion. It is about Bhutan placing its spirit in foreign soil, a reminder that faith and diplomacy are not separa...
His Majesty the King joined 7,050 volunteers contributing zhabtog to develop public spaces and parks across...
Trongsa—The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Phuntsho Dendup, has won the Nubi-Tangsibji bye-election, securing the seat for his party for the fi...
His Holiness the Je Khenpo consecrated the Royal Bhutan Temple in Rajgir, India, called Druk Goen Wogmin Nyipa, yesterday, marking a milestone in Bhutan’s spiritual and diplomatic ties with India.
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) is working on an ambitious plan to recast the country’s bureaucracy into an “...
Trongsa—High on the windy Pelela Pass, huddled inside a small, makeshift stall, Leki Dema’s fingers are in constant motion. She quietly w...
The cost of goods and services eased slightly in June this year, but prices remain higher compared to the same month last year,...
Samtse—More than 28,000 people in Tashicholing, Samtse, and nearby areas now have better access to healthcare following the inauguration of a new 20-bed hospital yesterday.
དེ་ཡང་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འགོ་འབྱེ...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ དགའ་བ་དུང་ཟེར་མི་ ཡོངས་གྲགས་ལུ་ སུག་རི་...
In 2017, a Royal Command set in motion an ambitious vision: the establishment of a cancer hospital in Bhutan. That vision is now taking shape—not only in the form of buildings, but also through pol...
Gelephu—In the spirit of nation-building, 5,357 Bhutanese from every corner of the country have converged in Gelephu to take part in the second phase of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) voluntary service (zhabtog).
The Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICB) launched two new products yesterday, the Deferred Annuity S...
Samtse—Residents of Gawadung, formerly known as Sukreti in Samtse, will no longer face isolation during the summer months....
Beginning this month, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, has rolled out an...
Phuentsholing-Phuentsholing's sewage treatment system, which has long relied on catfish in a lagoon to clean wastewater, will be soon connected to a modern sewage treatment plant.
At Khasadrapchu yesterday morning, the firewood pile refused to light. Even after petrol was poured, the flames would not catch. Some in the crowd murmured that the local deity of the area was suppressing the fire. Others grew restless—this was supposed to be a high-profile demonstration of a new fire suppression technology, and nothing seemed to be happening.
In an encouraging initiative for persons with disabilities (PwDs), the Bhutan Foundation and the Disabled People’s Organisation of Bhutan (DPOB) launched Dra=Nyam, the country’s first dedicated outlet for products made by PwDs, on December 3 in Paro.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a key tool in higher education, helping students and teachers enhance learning,...
Bhutan will host the 16th South Asian Bodybuilding Championship in the capital, Thimphu from June 30 to July 4 next year...
The National Assembly yesterday adopted the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 after three days of intense debate that expose...
The National Council (NC) endorsed three out of six recommendations on climate-resilient watershed management presented...
The National Council pressed the government on the country’s preparedness for natural disasters yesterday, questioning w...
Punakha—Punakha’s iconic suspension bridge, a favourite among locals and tourists, is closed to the tourists after 5pm....
When the Fifth Asian Youth Para Games open in Dubai this week, two young Bhutanese para-athletes will carry not only the...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has assured that budgets for central and non-central schools ar...
The Accelerating Maternal and Child Health Programme (AMCHP) or the 1,000 Golden Days Initiative has reached 7,520 pregn...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are calling for a flood protection system after recent floods caused extensive damage, with losses estimated in the billions.
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In passing the Livestock Bill of Bhutan, 2025, National Assembly members engaged in a good debate, a meaty one, even if it missed the core issue. The Bill was not about advocating slaughter houses in the country to meet the increasing demand, but on improving service delivery, setting standards and ensuring quality.
The National Council this week questioned the government on the country’s disaster preparedness. This is a pertinent issue, especially when extreme weather events are frequent and more intense. Preparedness is therefore the most effective stra...
During a recent Question Hour session in the National Assembly, Members of Parliament (MP) called for an open debate on education quality and budget allocation. And rightly so. Education is the foundation upon which every other...
Far from the bustling capital, the community of Genekha observed an important global day. December 1 was World AIDS Day. They chose to mark the occasion at what they called the “fi...
Youth unemployment has become one of Bhutan’s most persistent national challenges. And it endures despite successive gov...
In some schools, especially in urban centres, there are more teachers than timetables demand. In others, often remote schools, the absence of teachers in key subjects has become chronic.
The growing number of corruption reports in the past year forces the nation to confront a hard truth: something in our s...
The government’s commitment to address regulatory barriers that have choked business growth deserves recognition and sup...
The price of an egg in the capital has soared to a staggering Nu 20, pushing a standard tray of 30 to Nu 520. While it feels like a crisis, there's no pandemic to blame this time and despite common belief, the cold weather is not t...
The return of the Buddha’s sacred Piprahwa relics to India yesterday was more than a ceremonial farewell. It was a lesson in how nations should conduct themselves at a time when the world seems determined to spira...
Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...
In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...
Bhutan’s environmental stewardship, which has resulted in the country's rich biodiversity, is finally translating into c...
The exodus of qualified and seasoned health professionals and its impact on the quality of services is an issue of natio...
The potential is vast, the scope is immense, and the market is as monumental as the Himalayas. As Bhutan and India explo...
While we continue to prioritise sports development in the country, our presence in international competitions so far has...
We are producing what can be called our most educated generation, but are offering them some of the most limited and lea...
The death of 33-year-old Biren Kumar Kafley after he allegedly fell from a police van while trying to escape during a drug investigation has raised serious questions about police procedures, custodial safety, and whether the incident constitutes negligence or a custodial death.
Read MoreGelephu—After more than two years of surging prices, Sarpang’s land market has begun to cool, with prices falling sharply.
Read MoreSamtse—Gomtu is facing a severe housing shortage as a long-running construction freeze continues to restrict the number of rental units for a population that has grown around nearby industries and mining operations.
Read MoreThe country’s export, manufacturing, and trade sectors continue to face persistent structural and logistical hurdles that undermine the country’s economic competitiveness, according to a review of key economic sectors presented yesterday by the National Council’s Special Committee for Business Plus.
Read MoreThe Government of India (GoI) has released more than Nu 12 billion to Bhutan for projects under the 13th Plan, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Read MoreThe Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) and the Bhutan National Bank (BNB) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate the Bhutan Integrated Revenue Management System (BIRMS) with BNB’s mobile banking application, mPay.
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