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).
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༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ རྡོ་ཕུག་ཅན་རྒེད་འོག་ འཇིགས་མེད་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་ ཨེཕ་ཨེམ་༩༡.༡ འབད་མི་ ལྷོཔ་མི་སྡེ་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ འཕྲུལ་ཁང་དེ་ འཕྲུལ་ཆས་མེདཔ་ཐལ་མི་དང་ དེ་ཁར་ལཱ་འབད་མི་ ཏན་ཏན་ཅིག་མེད་མི་་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ལོ་༥ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མ་ཚུགས་པར་ ལུས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ དེང་སང་ སྐུད་པའི་ཚོས་གཞི་སྣ་ཚོགས་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རང་ལུ...
༉ དུས་ཡུན་རིངམོ་སྦེ་ར་ གནམ་གཤིས་ཐན་སྐམ་སྦེ་སྡོད་པའ...
As a collective, humanity has never been richer, more connected, more informed, and more protected from all cause disease and mortality. Yet it is very clear that this new reality has not translated into a happier existence. More is not the answer.
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is reviewing a high-profile fraud case involving a call centre in Thimphu that allegedly impersonated major foreign telecommunications companies to scam unsuspecting victims, mostly elderly, across the globe.
Sarpang—The Nasdaq-listed blockchain and high-performance computing company, Bitdeer, has launc...
Punakha—An alarming number of Bhutanese citizens, many of them students, and workers in Australia, say they have lost their savings to a scheme marketed as a business opportunity with global e-comm...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) will collaborate with financial institutions (FIs) to explore options such as loan res...
In recent months, Kuensel and other media outlets have raised critical questions about the government’s Nu 15 billion Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP). These inquiries focus on who benefits from the fund, how much has been disbursed to specific sectors, and where and how this substantial sum is being utilised.
The Guidelines on Generative AI Use for Civil Servants, developed by the Royal Civil Service Commission and GovTe...
It is unfortunate that the media has to engage in clarifying each other’s stand when we are tasked to inform and educate the readers. However, when others are deliberately e...
In a remote monastery masked warriors resurrect a Vajrayana epic, where every arrow’s strike is a prayer, and a skeptic finds faith in the footfalls of a mythic king
That night, as I settled into bed, I was certain the Gesar Lingdro had crowned my pilgrimage to Chumey. Ready to depart the next morning, I felt the quiet triumph of a wanderer who’d unearthed an uncharted spring. Yet when Drungchen Sonam appeared at dawn asking if I wished to accompany the monks to a Tara nye that Tang Rinpoche was consecrating the following day, I heard myself reply: “Sure, why
‘Eco-Pet’, a team of undergraduate students from Bhutan, secured the th...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and the Association of Bhutanese Cottage, Small and Medium Indust...
The Bhutan Medical Relief Team (BMRT) in Myanmar has seen thousands of patients, mostly f...
Kuensel reporter Jigmi Wangdi speaks with Executive Director of the Bhutan Cancer Society, Karma Tobgay and a bereaved parent, Tshering Yuden, about the Phamai Doonghing initiative
Punakha—The Trongsa Dzongkhag Court convicted opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Tashi Dorji from Nubi-Tangsibji constituency in Trongsa, for child molestat...
His Majesty the King is on a Royal Tour of the eastern dzongkhags, meeting with the people and dzongkhag officials across the region. On April 9, His Majesty visit...
༉ བཀྲིས་ལྷ་མོ་དེ་ བཀྲིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་སྨན་ཁང་ནང་ སྨན...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་དང་ བར་སྦིས་སའི་མགྱོགས་ལམ་ ཉམས་བཅོས་འབད་...
༉ དགའ་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ ལོ་བསྟར་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་༧...
Until she began receiving psychosocial counselling, Tashi Lhamo’s life was marked by torment and confusion. Sleep eluded her, food lost i...
After a prolonged dry spell, a timely rainfall swept across the country yesterday, offering the much-needed relief to both...
Dorokha, Samtse—The 91.1 FM Lhop Community Radio station in Jigme, Dopuchen gewog has been off-air for more than five years now due to damaged equipment and the absence of dedicated staff to operate it.
Academics and policymakers gathered yesterday in Thimphu to confront a complex and gro...
A quiet but powerful step is being taken to strengthen Bhutan’s national security. Fifteen police officers from across the country are undergoing specialised training to de...
The relationship between the Kingdom of Thailand a...
The 2025 Four Nations Boxing Championship will begin today at the Clock Tower in the capital, featuring proficient boxers from Bhutan, Sikkim (India), Nepal, and Bangladesh.
འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ གསར་བཏོན་འབད་མི་ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡཱན་གོང་འཕ...
༉ ཞི་གཡོགཔ་ཚུ་གིས་ སྤྱིར་སྙོམས་བཅོས་རིག་དེ་ བཟང་སྤ...
༉ གཞི་རིམ་ཞབས་ཏོག་ལས་མི་དང་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ཞབས་ཏོག་ལས་མ...
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ འཛམ་གླིང་གསོ་བའི་ཉིནམ་ བརྩི་སྲུ...
བཀྲིས་སྒང་ མེ་རག་རྒེད་འོག་ ཤི་ཏི་མི་ལུ་ ཨེ་ཏོ་མེ་ཏ...
༉ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་སྡེའི་འགོ་དཔོན་ཚུ་ ཡིག་ཆ་རྫུས་མ་བ...
Bhutan’s economy is expected to grow at a robust pace of 8.5 percent this year, before moderating to 6 percent in 2026, according to t...
His Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of Rhododendron Week, held at Sheytemi in Merak gewog, Trashigang, yesterday. The week-long Rhododendron Festival was the first-ever event held in Trashigang to showcase the unique culture of the highlanders (Brokpa), other cultures, and attract tourists to the east.
Around 6,500 support staff under the Elementary Service Person...
To promote ethical and effective use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) among civil servants, the Royal Civil Service Commission, in collaboration with the GovTech Agency, recen...
It is said that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Many Bhutanese who have fallen victims to the QNet scam are painfully realising the wisdom behind this old adage. After Kuensel’s...
To equip police officers with advanced skills in detecting forged documents and enhancing security measures, 15 police officers from across the country are undergoing “document security and examination training” in the capital.
To mark World Health Day 2025, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has placed maternal and child health at the forefront, highlighting progress made and cha...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ནང་ དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཅན་ཚུ་ལུ་ ལག...
བཙན་སྐྱོགས་དབང་འདུས། ༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༢...
༉ དེང་སང་ སྐུད་པའི་ཚོས་གཞི་སྣ་ཚོགས་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རང་ལུགས་ཀྱི་ སྔར་སྲོལ་བཟང་པོའི་ཚོས་གཞི་ཚུ་ ཚར་གཅིག་ ཉམས་སོ་རུང་ ད་རུང་ ལོག་སྟེ་ར་ མ་འོངས་པའི་མཐའ་དོན་ལུ་ རང་བཞིན་གྱི་ སྐུད་པའི་ཚོས་གཞི་འདི་ལུ་ར་ རྒྱུན་བརྟེན་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ རྡོ་རོ་ཁ་ལུ་ རེ་བ་བསྐྱེད་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་སོ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་མོ་བཱ་ཡལ་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ...
༉ ད་རིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ལས་ཚོགས་སློབ་དཔོན་གྱིས་ མ...
Dorokha, Samtse—After many years of anticipation, the construction of the Dorokha satellite town has finally begun, bringing hope and economic promise in a region that was largely isolated until recently.
Every week, mobile users across the country receive a barrage of SMS messages, marketing everything from sales and services to events and product launches—unsolicited and, for many, unwelcome.
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.
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...
The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...
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...
For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of an industry that is still young but steadily maturing.
The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacherous rivers, dense forests, and wildlife to reach school – an enduring testament to the value placed on learning.
I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything grand, just a humble little place t...
Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic. As the nation celebrated the 46th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty th...
The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder that Bhutan's capital sits on shaky grounds. Their warning that earthquakes do not kill people, unsafe buildings do, sh...
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...
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...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Charmi Chheda’s relationship with the stage began long before she understood what theatre could mean. At eight years old...
The 15th RENEW Community Service Center (CSC) in Haa, strengthening Bhutan’s commitment to preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV).
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