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The 2024 Druk Wangyal National Archery Tournament at the Changlimithang Archery Range in Thimphu is off to a thrilling...
We are facing a pressing challenge that threatens the health and well-being of our people—non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These chronic illnesses, including heart disease, diabe...
Residents along the Haa-Samtse Secondary National Highway (SNH) are calling for long-t...
A programme ‘Scaling Up of Playful Parenting in Bhutan’ (SCPPB) highlights the significant impact of playful parenting on...
…exports grow by 13 percent
To support evidence based-nutrition practices, the Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan in collaboration with the Ministry...
Pemagatshel—With numerous places with potential for tourism, Pemagatshel dzongkhag administration is developing e...
When we talk about inclusivity or equality, the recent education policy to improve educational access for students with disabilities, creating alternative pathways for diverse learning needs stand out as an examp...
Punakha—As part of the Department of Culture and Dzongkha Development’s heritage co...
Students in five pilot Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools in the country will soon get to learn pottery as vocational skills.
A high-level Indonesian delegation, led by the ambassador of Indonesia to Bhutan, and business delegations based in India are in th...
National Cybersecurity Strategy 2024-2029 has been...
Avash Ghimire and Sherub Dorji highlight on their recent AFC assignment
As more and more Bhutanese look for employment opportunities overseas, particularly in the Middle East, we must be wary of the pitfalls. Unscrupulous recruitment agents often lure job seek...
In Laya, horses play an important role in supporting the community’s economy.
The evening was alive with the vibrant sounds of u...
The National Blood Lead Level Survey Fact Sheet 2024 has...
The restoration of the Wangduechholing Palace in Bumthang as a museum and cultural centre is an inspiring response to the needs of the times. As a museum, it preserves an important period of history, and as a cultural centre...
Hundreds gathered at the Clock Tower in Thimphu to immerse themselves in Japanese culture and traditions during t...
The gewog administration of Dechenling in Pemagatshel is taking a firm step towards healthier and more sustainable options by phasing out alcohol from funeral rites and religious cer...
The Class VIII classroom at Karma Leksheyling Middle Secondary School in Paro buzzes with...
FemTech Association Asia, the region’s first and largest specialist advisory and industry network focused on improving women’s health through technology solutions, has annou...
Early prevention is key to combating lead exposure say health experts
During a monitoring visit to the Middle East last year, it was found that many Bhut...
International tourists can now finally enter and exit fr...
The government took a bold move, at the expense of political backlash, in backtracking the decision to revive the constituency development grant, put up as the Priority Development Fund (PDF).
༉ རུལ་བཏུབ་པའི་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་ཚུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གདོང་ལེ...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ ཟླཝ་༨ ཀྱི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ འགོ་ཐོག་གི་ བཀོད...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཨམ་སྲུའི་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་རྩེད་མི་ བདེ་སྐྱིད་ལྷ་འཛོམས་ཀྱིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ གི་ ལྷོ་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་ལས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་རྩེད་འགྲན་ ནེ་པཱལ་ལུ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་༣༠ ལུ་མཇུག་བསྡུ་མི་ ཨམ་སྲུའི་རྒྱལ་རྟགས་རྩེད་འགྲན་ནང་ལས་ མོ་གིས་ གཱོལ་མངམ་བཙུགས་ཡོད་པའི་ ངོས་འཛིན་ལུ་ གསེར་གྱི་བུཊ་ཐོབ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ མིང་གཏམ་བཞག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ མི་དང་རི་དྭགས་སེམས་གྱི་བར་ན་ བྲེལ་ཟིང་ཡར་འཕར་འགྱ...
ད་རིས་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གི་ གསེར་ཁྲི་མངའ་གསོལ་དུས་སྟོན་ ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་དེ་ལུ་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་གཙོས་པའི་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་...
The Department of Media, Creative Industry, and In...
To address rising cases of human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) and protect crops from wild animals, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) has allocated a whopping Nu 5.1 billion to support chain-link fencing in the 13th Plan.
Leki Lhadon, a 24-year-old from Sarpang, is a remarkable individual whose determination continues to inspire many.
The Bhutan National Bank (BNB) observed World Savings Day yesterday with a special event for 50 children, who were the lucky winners of Nu 1,00...
Sarpang—As the mandarin export season approaches in November, sawmillers in Sarpang are work...
Deki Lhazom, striker of the national senior women’s football team, made the country proud by winning the Golden Boot as the highest goal scorer at the 2024 SAFF Women’s Championship in Nepal, which concluded on October 30.
An astonishing 35 percent of the working-age population—209,299 individuals in substantial terms—are economically inact...
Amid the slow roll-out of the economic stimulus programme (ESP), which is hampering economic recovery, t...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (...
A recent report on the appraisal of vehicle spare parts supply system has revealed that government agencies are shelling out inflated prices for subpar or counterfeit vehicle spare parts.
The Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan Limited (RSEBL) has reported a staggering Nu 61.84 million in unclaimed dividends from 15 of the 18 listed companies in the countr...
Nganglam— For over a decade, residents of Nganglam have been holding onto hope for a new hospital, as politica...
Pemagatshel—Dechenling gewog administration in Pemagatshel is transforming long-standing local customs of serving alcohol, includin...
The Department of Agriculture (DoA) has allocated Nu 343.671 million for the fiscal year 2024-2025 to construct new water canals.
Laya-Despite ongoing efforts to promote education, Laya Central School in Gasa—one of Bhutan’s most remote school...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) has proposed a major change in the foreign direct investment (FDI) rules and regul...
In today’s rapidly evolving economic landscape, the age-old adage, “The early bird gets the worm,” often holds sway. But what about the late...
For over a decade, Bhutan has implemented Economic...
The COVID-19 pandemic’s forced transition to online education has inadvertently exposed Bhutan’s children to unprecedented digital risks, highlighting a critical gap in our legal framework.
Chukha—Nearly 40 years after its commissioning in 1988, the Bhutan Board Products Limited (BBPL) factory in Darla continues to be one of the region’s largest employers, driving the local economy and supporting community livelihoods.
Gelephu—His Majesty the King conferred the Druk Thuksey Medal on Thippaporn Ahriyavraromp and Dr Nathawat Ahriyavraromp...
The Department of Tourism (DoT) has identified signature attractions for each dzongkhag, introducing a nationwide calend...
The country’s food safety system rests on a single accredited laboratory, raising concerns over delays in food testing and clearance.
The government has intensified programmes to protect and promote yak-based livelihoods across the country’s highland com...
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has begun the process of outsourcing the design of a Nu 200-million governm...
Bhutan’s Himalayan glaciers are vanishing at an accelerating pace, with more than 500 small ice bodies disappearing acro...
Punakha—In a hospital room far from home, 32-year-old single mother Chungdu Lhamo from Zhemgang learned how swiftly a mo...
Thousands of Bhutanese undertake pilgrimages each year to sacred sites in India, Nepal, Tibet, and beyond, often investi...
Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...
Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct response to our readers’ growing needs and a conscious preparation for the n...
Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referred to as the third sector, CSOs have emerged as indispensable partners in Bhutan’s pursuit...
The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...
The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle...
The fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing total participation beyond 22,500, must be celebrated as a national moment. The overwhelming number of volunteer...
The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...
The shortage of farm labour is a real problem faced by farming households across the country. Over the years, this has...
For 15-year-old Nima Dema, a student from Tendruk Central School in Samtse, the opportunity to take part in the ongoing...
The resumption of works on the 1,200-megawatt Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project I offers a flicker of hope. After all, th...
Bhutan’s clean air is becoming a comforting myth—pleasant to repeat, dangerous to believe. For years, we have worn the r...
We love to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. In fact, we use these words in excess in policy d...
Bhutan received international recognition at the global travel trade show ITB Berlin in Germany, yesterday where the country was named “Destination of the Year – Earthly Experiences” for its commitment to authentic and regenerative tourism.
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