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In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating a mindset of gratitude is not only challenging but absolutely necessary for our well-being.
Not long ago, villagers-turned-landlords from Chang and Barp in South Thimphu returned to their ancestral lands in Punakha after urban expansion devoured their paddy fields. Some reclai...
Automobile dealers in the country have stopped accepting ne...
Gelephu—Rigsar-Vajra Joint Venture (RVJV) Private Limited, undertaking earth-filling works at Gelephu International Airport, rec...
Samtse—Local leaders in Samtse say the illegal import of meat from across the border is threatening consumer health, possibly contributing to livestock disease outbreaks, and destabilising the local market.
Bhutan and India are in advanced talks over the air traffic servi...
Amid a growing health crisis fueled by a rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the government is implementing a new taxation...
The government has set out a strengthened strategy to curb youth unemployment rate and reduce outmigration by enhancing job c...
Bhutan faces an escalating digital security crisis. The Royal Bhutan Police documented 56 cybercrime cases and 960 cyberbullying incidents in 2023 alone, with numbers continuing to climb.
Urbanisation increases impervious surfaces by tran...
This year’s graduating cohort comprised 24 students from the five-year LL.B/PGDNL programme and 11 from the one-year Post Graduate Diploma in National Law programme
The Ministry of Health is finalising new rules for medical referrals abroad, which is expected to strengthen p...
A nationwide digital health platform is being developed by the government in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), with the aim of improving healthcare services, promoting preventive care, and equipping policymakers with better data for decision-making.
When a mother in Punakha was denied a seat for her daughter at an Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) cen...
As your tenure as Ambassador of India to Bhutan comes to an end, how...
The finance ministry will soft launch the goods and services tax (GST) system on November 11...
The opening of the 9th International Conference on Medical and Health Sciences in Thimphu this week could not have come at a more crucial time.
A new report has warned that Bhutan’s social protection system is fragmented and underfunded, leaving...
The three-day 9th International Conference on Medical and Health Sciences (ICMH 2025) opened yesterday in Thimphu with...
The Paro District Court yesterday sentenced Indian national Aamir Rasul Shikalgar, 35,...
Bhutanese farmers are set to benefit from a new five-year agreement with India that promises support in improving productivity, expanding market access, and strengthening rural livelihoods.
The country’s rich forests are home to the musk deer, locally called Lachum, but its survival is under threat. Male Lachum ca...
The country’s first private cricket academy, founded by national cricket icon Ranjung Mikyo Dorji in the capital in 2023,...
༉ གསར་སྤང་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ཕ...
༉ གསོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ལེགས་ཤོམ་མེད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རྒྱལ་...
ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ཡང་ ཟད་འགྲོ་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༨༨.༥ བཏང་...
༉ སྒེར་གྱི་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཐོག་ལས་ རྒྱལ་...
༉ མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་མཆོག་ དགུང་ལོ་༧༠ བཞེས་པའ...
ལོ་ངོ་དག་པ་ཅིག་གི་ཧེ་མར་ ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་-༡༩ ལུ་བརྟེ...
The hotel industry is in deep trouble. Nearly three years since the pandemic, occupancy rates are at rock-bottom, while debts have piled up. The overall occupancy currently hovers around 20 p...
After nearly 14 years in the making, the Punatsangchhu–II Hydroelectric Project has been fully commissioned, with its final Unit-6 (170MW) successfully syn...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) is working under a comprehensive s...
Gelephu—Criminal activities, traffic violations, and other unlawful acts, including illegal waste dumping in Gelephu and Sarpang, are now being raided under real-time monitoring to encourage law-abiding residents in the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
Royal Thimphu College (RTC) celebrated its international partnerships yesterday, honouring its long-term...
Bhutan is preparing to host its first-ever Bhutan Fas...
In a joint effort to combat the growing impacts of...
Bhutan will be represented for the first time at the world’s most prestigious trail running event, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) World Series Finals, as Rigzin Chodra, 44, from Thimphu, and Jigme Tenzin, 38, from Samtse, take to the starting line today in Chamonix, France.
Bhutan’s greatest national achievement since the introduction of planned development has been the delivery of free healthcare for every citizen. It is a policy rooted in compassion and equity, and even today,...
To commemorate the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth King, Edith Cowan Univer...
The hotel industry in the country, battered by sluggish tourist arrivals and mounting debt, is preparing to...
The Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICB) has launched a special loan rebate scheme to help borrowers recover from the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Children in the country will soon have greater opportunities to learn through technology, programming...
Samtse—Residents of Dorokha in Samtse are struggling with frequent power fluctuations that have...
Punakha—Changyuel Galem’s house in Punakha, recognised as a heritage building for its cul...
གཞུང་གིས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ཁྱད་པར་བསུབ་ནི་དང་ ནང་འདྲ...
༉ ལུང་ནག་ན་ བསྟན་ཆོས་སློབ་གྲྭའི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་དང་ སློབ...
འདས་པའི་རྩིས་ལོ་ནང་ དགོངས་ཞུའི་ཚད་གཞི་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༨.༣...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་སྨན་ཁང་གཉིས་ནང་ ཌོག་ཊར་མེད་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ་ཐོན་ཡོདཔ་ད་ རྡོ་རོ་ཁ་དང་ སྒོམ་ཀྲུ་གི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་ གསོ་བའི་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་འཐོབ་ནི་ལུ་ ལཱ་ཁག་བཏང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Anaemia is not a distant health statistic. It is one of the most pressing health problems in the country today, and it is silently weakening the foundation of our society.
Electricity and improved roads have enabled residents of Merak to upgrade homes, switch from traditional fire stoves to wood-burning, gas, and electric heaters, install modern toilets and water heaters, and bring in construction materials more easily.
With Bhutan aiming for His Majesty’s Gelephu Mindfulness City and a tenfold GDP boost, the BOC says sports must evolve t...
The government has made a slew of pledges to reform the media sector, yet, little of it has been realised so far. The...
Punakha—The 74-kilometre Punakha–Gasa National Highway, the only motorable road linking Gasa Dzongkhag, is undergoing ma...
The government will upgrade a 28 km ring road from Sherubling to Nubi Gewog Centre in Trongsa Dzongkhag.
This year’s edition also introduces new features under a dedicated branding campaign, “Haa-Lay Mi Lay”, aimed at positio...
How long can policy silence justify poverty wages in a rising-cost Bhutan?
A third telecom operator may be introduced to lower data charges if existing providers fail to reduce prices, Prime Mini...
Despite a government allocation of Nu 800 million and a 50 percent subsidy, the National Crop and Livestock Insurance Sc...
Gelephu—Before deciding where buildings should rise, planners of Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) are being asked to answe...
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 r...
Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referr...
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...
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