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སྤྲོ་བ་ཅན་གྱི་ འབྲུག་པིར་མི་ཡར་ལིག་༢༠༢༥ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི།

༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་རྩེད་འགྲན་སྦོམ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིན་མི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ བི་ཨོ་བི་འབྲུག་པིར་མི་ཡར་ལིག་རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ལུ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིནམ་ད་ དེ་ནང་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་དང་ ཨམ་སྲུའི་སྡེ་ཚན་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གནས་ཚད་གྱི་ རྩེད་འགྲན་གྲངས་སུ་ཚུདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 17, 2025 8 mins read 1,660 views
ཀིའུ་ནེཊ་གི་ཉམས་རྒུདཔ་ཚུ་གིས་ གཡོ་སྒྱུ་འཐབ་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ ངོས་ལེན་དམ་དམ་འབད་དགོ་པའི་ རེ་འདོད།

༉ ཀིའུ་ནེཊ་ལས་རིམ་གྱི་ ཉམས་རྒུདཔ་ཚུ་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ མ་...

Apr 17, 2025 6 mins read 2,145 views
School in tents

At over 4,000 metres above sea level, in one of Bhutan’s most remote and fragile regions, children are attending school in tents, braving the cold, huddled in makeshift classrooms,  amid the looming threat of a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF).

Apr 17, 2025 3 mins read 5,096 views
QNET victims demand stronger action against fraudsters

Punakha—Despite growing reports of financial ruin and emotional distress among victims of the QNET scheme, many are questioning whe...

Apr 17, 2025 3 mins read 9,347 views
Bhutan among four nations in Asia-Pacific push to end mother-to-child infections

Bhutan, along with Cambodia, China and Mongolia, is making solid progress in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B, according to a new regional roadmap launched for Asia and the Pacific.

Apr 17, 2025 2 mins read 4,662 views
Kidney transplant recipients report lower quality of life

Bhutanese kidney transplant recipients are experiencing an alarmingly poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL), with un...

Apr 17, 2025 2 mins read 5,317 views
Inflation may be easing, but the pain still lingers

The Asian Development Bank forecasts that inflation in Bhutan will cool to 4.2 percent this year. That is welcome news. After years of high...

Apr 17, 2025 2 mins read 7,286 views
Education – a little boy played by politics

Bhutan’s journey in modern secular education has been marked by remarkable progress within  a relatively brief developmental period, despite the challenges an...

Apr 17, 2025 8 mins read 4,030 views
New vegetable market under construction in Samtse

Samtse—For many years, farmers in Samtse have sold vegetables from under makeshift tents, battling monsoon rains and blazing heat. Now, that chapter is finally closing.

Apr 17, 2025 2 mins read 19,869 views
Excitement builds as Bhutan Premier League 2025 kicks off in two days

The BoB Bhutan Premier League (BPL) 2025, the country’s top football tournament, retur...

Apr 17, 2025 2 mins read 8,533 views
གླངམོ་ཆེ་༡༡ འབད་མི་ ཁྱུ་ཅིག་གིས་ ཏིང་ཏི་སྦིས་ལུ་ ཆུ་དུང་ཚུ་མེདཔ་བཏང་ཡོདཔ།

གླངམོ་ཆེ་༡༡ འབད་མི་ ཁྱུ་ཅིག་གིས་ གཞལམ་སྒང་ ཏིང་ཏི་...

Apr 16, 2025 5 mins read 2,980 views
བསམ་རྩེ་ཀོ་ཅིན་གྱི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ ཚོད་བསྲེ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ མི་ཚེའི་གནས་སྟངས་ལེགས་འགྱུར་སོང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ བཀྲིས་ཆོས་གླིང་ བསྟན་འབྲུ་ཀོ་ཅིན་ལས་ སྐ...

Apr 16, 2025 7 mins read 1,571 views
མུག་ཝོརཊ་ཐབས་ཤེས།

༉ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེ་ནང་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ ཕྱག་ཞུ་བའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ལས་སྐྱིད་དབང་མོ་གིས་ མོ་རའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ མཛེས་ཆ་ཚུ་ གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་ནི་ལས་ སྔོན་...

Apr 16, 2025 5 mins read 1,919 views
Jumbos move up to Zhemgang for food

Zhemgang—A herd of 11 elephants has, for the first time, moved from Sarpang to Zhemgang, leaving Tingtibi residents without water for two days after destroying the water pipes.

Apr 16, 2025 2 mins read 6,120 views
ADB projects inflation to moderate at 4.2 percent in 2025

The cost of goods and services in the country is projected to ease to 4.2 percent this year, according to the latest forecast from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Apr 16, 2025 2 mins read 5,287 views
ITPL launches training to curb rising workplace accidents

To address workplace accidents, the Institute of Technology and Professional Learning (ITPL) began a five-day training pro...

Apr 16, 2025 2 mins read 8,112 views
Organic vegetables provide new livelihoods for Kochin farmers

Tashichoeling, Samtse — For 78-year-old Kamala Tamang of Kochin in Tendruk, saving money in a bank had been un...

Apr 16, 2025 2 mins read 19,676 views
A knockout triumph

Bhutanese boxers, over the weekend, not only excited spectators at the clock tower square, but also made the country proud by dominating the Four Nations Boxing Championship. In what was an achievement worth noting, all 16 Bhutanese boxers...

Apr 16, 2025 2 mins read 6,869 views
The Mugwort Solution

After more than a decade in the tourism industry, Leki Wangmo made a dramatic career pivot, from showcasing her country’s beauty to preserving its ancient healing wisdom.

Apr 16, 2025 2 mins read 4,575 views
ལྟ་བཤལ་ཐབས་བྱུས་ཀྱིས་ གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་དང་ མི་སྡེ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་འཆར་སྣང་ལུ་ གཙོ་བོར་བཏོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་-༡༩ ཐོན་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ འབྲུག་གིས་ ལོག...

Apr 15, 2025 7 mins read 2,088 views
འབྲུག་གི་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ མཛོག་ཁྱད་འགྲན་བསྡུར་ནང་ལས་ དྲག་ཤོས་ཐོན་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མཛོག་ཁྱད་འགྲན་བསྡུར་༢༠༢༥ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༡༡ ལས་༡༣ ཚུན་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མིའི་ནང་ འབྲུག་གི་མཛོག་ཁྱད་བརྗེ་མི་༡༦ ཡོད་པའི་གྲས་ལས་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་༨ དང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་༨ ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་རྟགས་ཚུ་ ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 15, 2025 7 mins read 1,434 views
དགོན་ཤར་རིའི་ རྒཔོ་གསརཔ་དེ་ ལོ་ན་གཞོན་ཤོས་ཅིག་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ དགོན་ཤར་རི་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ རེས་གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ལུ...

Apr 15, 2025 4 mins read 1,499 views
དགའ་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ ལོ་བསྟར་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ ཁ་ཙ་གྲོལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ དགའ་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ ལོ་བསྟར་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་༧...

Apr 15, 2025 1 mins read 1,149 views
བསམ་རྩེ་གིས་ ཁྲོམ་གོང་འཕེལ་གྱི་མ་དངུལ་དོན་ལུ་ ཞུ་བ་ཕུལ་ནི།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ མདུན་སྐྱོད་འབད་མ...

Apr 15, 2025 5 mins read 2,010 views
Samtse to appeal to PMO for town development funds

Samtse—After years of stalled progress and mounting frustration among residents, local leaders in Samtse have decided to escalate their call for urgent development funding.

Apr 15, 2025 2 mins read 7,416 views
Government scales up quinoa diet to tackle rising NCDs

Students of Wangbama in Thimphu and Bartsham Central School in Trashigang, will now receive, quinoa supplement in food diet along w...

Apr 15, 2025 4 mins read 9,926 views
Tourism strategy champions integrity, community, and national vision

As Bhutan reimagines its tourism strategy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Depar...

Apr 15, 2025 2 mins read 6,646 views
Young farmer elected gup of Goenshari gewog

Punakha—Ugyen Dorji, a 34-year-old farmer from Zhelngosa village, has been elected the new gup of Goenshari gewog in Punakha following a closely contested bye-elect...

Apr 15, 2025 1 mins read 4,194 views
Strengthening ties on steel rails: New chapter in Bhutan-India friendship

The decision to integrate the Gelephu-Kokrajhar cross-border railway into the development of the Gelephu Mindfulness City marks more than just an infrastructure milestone. It reflects the growing depth and maturity of Bhutan-India relations which is anchored in trust, shared vision, and long-term co-operation.

Apr 15, 2025 2 mins read 6,920 views
Bhutanese boxers dominate Four Nations Boxing Championship

All 16 Bhutanese boxers, comprising eight women and eight men, bagged medals at the 2025 Four Nations Boxing Championsh...

Apr 15, 2025 2 mins read 7,753 views
དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་ ཆ་མེད་བཏང་མི་གིས་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ གནོད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་དམ་དུམ་དང་ ནོར་བུ་སྒང་བཟོ་གྲྭའི་ས་ཁོངས་ན...

Apr 14, 2025 8 mins read 1,314 views
སྒེར་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་མ་དངུལ་འཐོབ་ནི་ལུ་ བྱ་རིམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ཐོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་དང་ འབྲུག་ནང་བཟོ་ད...

Apr 14, 2025 8 mins read 1,395 views
ཨ་སཱམ་ལུ་ འབྲུག་མི་དེད་གཡོགཔ་ཅིག་ དམར་བསད་འབད་ཡོད་པའི་ དོགས་པ་ཅན་༢ འཛིན་བཟུང་།

༉ རྒྱ་གར་ ཨ་སཱམ་མངའ་སྡེ་ བོང་གའི་གའུན་གྱི་ ཁྲིམས་ས...

Apr 14, 2025 6 mins read 2,774 views
Gelephu-Kokrajhar railway link to align with GMC plans

Gelephu—The much anticipated 69.04-kilometre cross-border railway project connecting Gelephu to Kokrajhar station in Assam, India,...

Apr 14, 2025 2 mins read 11,363 views
Drukair airlifts eggs to remote Lunana schools free of charge

A Drukair helicopter will airlift dozens of trays of eggs to Lunana’s isolated schools tomorrow, ensuring that no child, regardless of geography, is left behind.

Apr 14, 2025 2 mins read 7,864 views
Major financial sector reforms crucial to realising 13th Plan goals

Sweeping reforms in the financial sector are essential for the country to achieve the ambiti...

Apr 14, 2025 3 mins read 19,041 views
US tariff on Bhutan’s exports likely to have minimal impact: ADB

Despite the United States (US) imposing a 10 percent export tariff on Bhutanese goods and commo...

Apr 14, 2025 3 mins read 8,580 views
National problem that demands urgent attention

Mental health is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Globally, it accounts for one in six years lived with disability, with people suffering from severe conditions dying 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population. Bhutan is no exception. There is a growing burden of emotional distress, anxiety, depression, and substance use—issues that are quietly taking root and t

Apr 14, 2025 2 mins read 6,587 views
Earth Economics: A moral and economic imperative we cannot delay any further

In an era defined by unprecedented environmental challenges, from...

Apr 14, 2025 4 mins read 1,422 views
ESP loan rejections impede livestock expansion in Norbugang

Samtse — The growing number of industries in Dhamdhum and Norbugang Industrial Parks in Samtse, along with the estab...

Apr 14, 2025 2 mins read 6,385 views
Two suspects arrested for murder of Bhutanese driver in Assam

Gelephu—The Bongaigaon Police in Assam, India, arrested two Bhutanese for the murder of a pickup truck driver...

Apr 14, 2025 2 mins read 12,140 views
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Apr 13, 2025 0 mins read 1,294 views
སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

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RENEW and UNICEF opens 15th community service center in Haa

The 15th RENEW Community Service Center (CSC) in Haa, strengthening Bhutan’s commitment to preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV).

Mar 09, 2026 2 mins read 677 views
Students speak on the power of information

Mar 09, 2026 3 mins read 1,769 views
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Mar 06, 2026 3 mins read 2,512 views
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Feb 16, 2026 1 mins read 1,872 views
A Café that kept it Simple

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When stillness stirs a nation

Feb 16, 2026 4 mins read 1,580 views
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Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,953 views
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Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 3,139 views
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Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 2,716 views
GST transition pains need urgent fixes

Jan 14, 2026 2 mins read 4,125 views
Making GST work past early hiccups

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...

Jan 10, 2026 2 mins read 4,230 views
The cost of delay

Jan 07, 2026 2 mins read 5,502 views
A new chapter for Kuensel

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...

Jan 03, 2026 2 mins read 4,413 views
Strengthening the third sector

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...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 5,172 views
Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 4,969 views
Yarn roses, tiny dolls, and business of careful hands

Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...

Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,479 views
Turning bridal hairstyling into a trend

Jan 26, 2026 2 mins read 3,516 views
Birbi and the art of taking your time

Jan 26, 2026 1 mins read 3,088 views
Jangchub Puen Nye

Jan 26, 2026 1 mins read 3,530 views
Train Smart, Not Hard

Jan 26, 2026 1 mins read 3,025 views
Agencies must be held accountable for financial irregularities

The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 6,429 views
What about moral and ethical accountability?

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle...

Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 4,834 views
Citizens building a nation’s future

The fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing t...

Dec 26, 2025 2 mins read 4,590 views
The promise of Bhutan-Thailand Free Trade Agreement

The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...

Dec 25, 2025 2 mins read 4,605 views
Time to open farms to foreign labour

The shortage of farm labour is a real problem faced by farming households across the country.  Over the years, this has...

Dec 24, 2025 2 mins read 3,592 views

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