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གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ འབྲུག་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་དང་ མཐུད་འབྲེལ་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ གཙོ་ཅན་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་བཞིན་དུ་ གསར་སྤང་དང་ ལྷ་མོའི་རྫིང་ཁ་བར་ན་ གཞུང་ལམ་བསལ་ནིའི་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༧ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིནམ་ལས་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་གི་ལཱ་ཚུ་འབད་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཚན་རིག་དང་འཕྲུལ་རིག་གི་གྲོས་འཛོམས...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ལས་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཨམ་སྲུ་ ཀི་རི་ཀེཊ་རྩེད་མི་ རྒན་རིམ་སྡེ...
༉ འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ བློན་ཆེན་ཡིག་ཚང་དང་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ལུ་ ལོ་ལྔའི་འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ནང་ སྒེར་སྡེའི་འབྲེལ་གཏོགས་དོན་ལུ་ ཐབས་བྱུས་གཞི་བཀོད་ཅིག་ གྲོས་འཆར་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Bhutan’s economic outlook for the next fiscal year appears positive. According to the World Bank’s latest South Asia Development Update, the economy is projected to grow by 6.6 percent in fiscal year 2024-25, a sign...
The lasting impact of Their Majesties King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida of Thailand’s state visit to Bhutan resonated deeply within both nations, marking a pinnacle in diplomatic relati...
Sarpang—A major highway that could reshape southern Bhutan’s economic and connectivity landscape has entered its preparatory stage, with construction...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that killed 26 people, including tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India on April 22.
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted a formal proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office and the cabinet, outlining a strategic...
When a Bhutanese woman returned to her home this March after two years in Australia, she was hoping to breathe in the crisp, clear mountain air she had missed...
An international conference on Science Engineering and Technology (ICSciEnTec) convened yesterday with the aim of bridging distances, inspiring minds...
The Senior Bhutan National Women’s Cricket Team is currently in Assam, India, for a 10-day training session in preparation for the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier, which will be held in Thailand next month.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལཔོ་མཆོག་དང་ རྒྱལ་བཙ...
༉ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༤-༢༥ ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་དཔལ་འབྱོར་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༦....
༉ དར་དཀར་ནང་ ལྷ་མོའི་རྫིང་ཁ་གི་ རྒེད་འོག་༢ ནང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༡༣ ལུ་ ཨར་ཊི་པི་སི་ཨར་གྱི་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཕག་ནད་ཨཕ་རི་ཀེན་ས་ཝའེན་ཕི་བར་ དར་ཁྱབ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The business landscape in the country is rapidly evolving with foreign investments seen as critical to national development and economic diversification. In wake...
After a four-day State Visit filled with various engagements a...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) will introduce land tokenisation as a new ownership model to allow affected landowner...
Bhutan’s economy is projected to grow to 6.6 percent in fiscal year 2024-25, up from 4.9 percent growth the previous year, driven by hydropower, mining, construction, and a resurgent tourism sector.
A lightning strike yesterday morning killed 15 cattle in Bamengang village (Mithun), located along the border between Norb...
Gelephu— In a show of national pride and unity, Bhutanese from across the country are stepping forward with contributions for the upcoming Gelephu International Air...
Phuentsholing—African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak confirmed through RT-PCR testing on April 13 continues...
Countries across the Asia-Pacific region have agreed to intensify co-operation to drive sustainable and resilient urban development, adopting a new resolution at the close of the 81st session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), held from April 21 to 25 in Bangkok.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) is partnering with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ལུ་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༨༧...
འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ ཆོག་ཐམ་འཆང་མ...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༦ ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱུ་རྩལ་ཉིནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་ འབྲུག་གསར་བཟོ་དང་བློ་རིག་རྒྱུ་དངོས་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ འགོ་དང་པ་ སྒྱུ་རྩལ་མཁནམ་ཚུ་ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་ནིའི་ལམ་ལུགས་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ནུག།
༉ ད་རེས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ རྒྱ་གར་སི་ཀིམ་ལུ་སྦེ་ ཕྱ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ནགས་ཚལ་མེ་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ སྤ...
Our forests, long a symbol of our environmental leadership, are going up in smoke. In just five months, fires have caused timber losses worth an estimated Nu 520 million. Behind this figure lies a more troubling reality: the...
The Department of Tourism’s (DoT) recent announcement requiring all licensed tours guides to undergo mandatory competency assessment has not gone down well with the guides, many of who argue that the move was introduced without sufficient research or consideration of existing national certification standards.
Punakha—An 81-year-old woman died while her 87-year-old husband was rescued after t...
The Bhutan Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre (BADRC) has stepped up efforts to enhance its services, training about...
The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Prope...
Bhutan’s reputation abroad is enduringly dominated by Gross National Happiness. When I mention Bhutan to my friends in Europe or the US, even those who know nothing else usu...
In a quiet corner of her home, amidst a vibrant collection of colourful yarn, 32-year-old Tshering Dema from Lhuentse, orchestrates a symphony of stitches. With nimble fingers and a heart full of passion, she is the driving force behind “Daza’s Toy”.
Bhutan is hosting the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Level 3 Coaching Course for the first time in Thimphu. Four master educato...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ བྱང་ཕྱོགས་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ མ...
In a special gesture of welcome, Their Majesties the Druk Gyalpo and Gyaltsuen personally received Their Majesties the King and Queen of Thailand at the Paro International A...
Four years after an ambitious initiative to streng...
Gelephu—With just two months remaining before the development of the Gelephu International Airport begins, 51-year-old Madhab Adhikari from Samtenthang is searching for a temporary home for his five-member family in Sarpang.
Bhutan is celebrating the state visit of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua and Her Majesty Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana, who arrived in the country...
Our judiciary today faces significant challenges, foremost among them being a persistent public perception of bias and inconsistency in the delivery of justice. This perception poten...
Recognising the potential of AI, the civil service has taken a major step into the...
Punakha—Punakha police are investigating a complaint filed by a 17-year-old girl alleging physical assault and sexual harassment by her stepfather at their Kapatapsa, Goenshari in Punakha home on April 17. The investigation also encompasses the circumstances of the girl’s recent pregnancy, which was reported to police as a potential case of child rape last year.
Forest fires in the country have resulted in an estimated Nu 520 million worth loss in timber over a five-month period spanning from November 2024 to March 25, 2025, according to a preliminary assessment by the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS).
Farmers in remote Jaray Gewog are a step closer to gaining crucial market access, as work on the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Serpang–Autsho inter-dzongkhag road officially commenced yesterday in Yumchhey,Lhuentse.
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct investment (FDI) policy that liberalised ownership rules and eased approvals.
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...
Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...
Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are part of a broader effort to modernise the country’s tax system to make taxation fairer, more efficient, a...
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...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act....
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...
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...
Bumthang—For many Bhutanese living abroad, physical distance from home has only deepened their sense of belonging and their desire to give back.
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