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Students and teachers in Tenchoe, Lunana, who have been conducting classes in tents in the freezing cold, are eagerly anticipating to move into new classrooms, expected to be completed by September.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has cleared most of its long-standing backlog of cases, even as it struggles with one of the highest attrition rate...
A silent health crisis is affecting a significant portion of the country’s population, with nearly half of all children and women suff...
Yonten Jamtsho, who has low vision, shared his personal journey o...
Samtse—Two remote hospitals in Samtse Dzongkhag are struggling with severe doctor shortages, leaving residents in Dorokha and Gomtu struggling to access timely medical care.
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཚད་ནད་ཀྱི་གདོང་ལེན་འབད་དེ་ ལོ་...
༉ ང་བཅས་ར་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ གནས་སྟངས་དང་བསྟུན་ གོ...
༉ ཆོས་འབྲེལ་ནང་ མི་མང་སྤུངས་འཛོམས་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ གཙ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༡༦ ལུ་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༡.༤༤ འབད་མི་ གནམ་གཤིས་དང་མཐུན་པའི་ ཞིང་ཆུའི་གཡུར་བ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་བའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་ ཁ་སྨད་ཐང་གི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ད་ལས་ཕར་ ཞིང་ཆུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་དཀའ་ངལ་མི་འབྱུང་ནི་གི་ རེ་བ་བསྐྱེདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང...
༉ གསོ་བའི་ལས་ཁུངས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ གནད་དོན་ནང་ འཛམ་གླ...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་དང་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གཞུང་ལམ་བདའ་སྟེ་ དགེ་འ...
དེ་ཡང་ འབྲུག་དང་ རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་གི་བར་ན་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་གོང་ཚད་གུ་ མཐའ་བཅད་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ བདེ་སྒྲིག་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Lampelri Recreational Park has always been a place of beauty. Its rhododendrons, orchids, and bird calls have drawn visitors for years. But with the recent launch of UNESCO’s Intersectoral Programme in Bhutan, Lampelri has b...
The government anticipates that the levelised export tariff for electricity from the 1,020-megawatt Punatsangchhu Hydropower Projec...
On a serene Saturday morning, a few metres below Dochula Pass, the greener...
The government is making a concerted effort to ramp up its domestic meat production to address a growing trade deficit and reduce its reliance on imports.
The Journalists’ Association of Bhutan’s Media Perception Index (MPI) paints a b...
The Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS) has launched the country’s first-ever na...
Bhutan’s young judokas proved their dominance once again, securing 25 medals at the third Jita Kyoei Int...
Despite the health sector’s annual intake of new professionals, the country continues to have a low density of healthcare workers according to World Health Organisation (WHO) standards.
The Education and Skills Development Minister’s directive recommending procurement...
Small hydropower projects are emerging as a vital complement to the country’s large hydropower ambitions, offering faster returns, immediate benefits for communities, and reliable electricity supply to previou...
Phuentsholing—The tunneling project between Gedu and Ganglakha along the Thimphu–Phuentsholing highway has taken a s...
Bhutan has unveiled a 10-year conservation strategy to protect the golden langur (Trachypithecus geei), a rare primate revered as sacred in Bhutanese culture but now teetering on the edge of survival.
The government has discontinued the tourist airfare subsidy after six months, following the recommendation made by the Economic and Finance Committee of the National Assembly. The scheme, launch...
Democracy needs transparency across all government branches. Our transition to democracy in 2008 under our great monarchs marked a historic shift. His Majesty...
Starlink’s entry into the Bhutanese market has the potential to transform the nation’s...
Stroll through Bhutan’s markets today, and a striking contrast leaps out....
Nation building has always been understood through the lenses of governance, economics, and infrastructure. Roads, schools, hospitals, policies, and institutions are the common vocabulary we use when we...
Paro—At a time when social media and citizen journalism are reshapin...
This year’s cordyceps auction recorded the highest harvest in recent years, with 940.29 kilograms brought to auction. Of this, 292.93 kilograms were...
Sonam Penjor (PhD), who was recently elected as the Vice President of the Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation, speaks to Kuensel reporter Thinley Namgay. He is the first Bhutanese to ever be selected for this position. Earlier this year, he also became the first Bhutanese Vice President of the South Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation.
Alcohol use is no longer just a private choice—it is increasingly becoming a public problem. We have wrapped it too deeply in cultural accep...
Phuentsholing—Schools under Phuentsholing Thromde, in collaboration with the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) and parent...
Bhutan’s fight against malaria has been long and arduous, stretching back decades, but its recent achievements stand as a powerful example of determination and public health commitment.
The Central Monastic Body (CMB) is working with several key partners, including the World Health O...
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has announced a record-high pass mark of 55 percent for annual Preliminary Exami...
Bhutan’s National Digital Identity (NDI) programme has joined forces with...
Trashigang—Thirty-six-year-old Tenzin Wangda from Lungtenzampa, Trashigang, has invested Nu 850,000 that he secured from the Economic Stimulus Plan in upscaling his Samzang Gongphel Poultry Farm, located just below the highway.
Farmers in Khameythang, Samdrupjongkhar, can now l...
༉ ཡུ་ཨེ་ཨི་ དུ་བཱའེ་ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལག་ལེན་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ འདས་པ...
གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་སྐབས་ པཱནཆ་ཕ་ལེ་རོང་ཆུ་ བྲེས་མི་ལུ་བར...
༉ མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཐབས་བྱུས་གསར་པའི་དམིགས་དོན་དེ་ འབ...
ལྟ་བཤལཔ་ཚུ་ལུ་ གླ་ཆ་ཕབ་ཆག་འབད་མི་དེ་གིས་ ལྟ་བཤལཔ་༦...
Airlines have been instructed to discontinue the subsidised airfare scheme for tourists, following a...
A new investment strategy, aimed at achieving Bhut...
Tour operators from Dubai, the UAE, explored Bhutan last week as part of a familiarisation (FAM) trip. They were granted a Sustainable Development Fee (SDF) waiver.
Bhutan Insurance Limited (BIL), in partnership with Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT), has launched a FinTech Innovation Lab to support Bhutan’s digital transformation.
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...
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 fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing t...
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...
Interest in entrepreneurship among Bhutanese youth is rising sharply, but most young-led businesses remain small, short-lived, and necessity-driven, according to a new assessment of the country’s youth entrepreneurship landscape.
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