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To accelerate economic growth, reduce dependence on imports, and create jobs, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE) has proposed a new set of new tax holidays and incentives for 10 high-potential industries in the country.
The National Assembly (NA) issued a clarification responding to a recent press release by the National Council concerning the removal of the Priority De...
The country’s healthcare system has made impressive progress, with major gains in maternal and child hea...
As the ginger season nears its end, prices have increased, reaching Nu 50 to Nu 55 per kilogram depending o...
The government, in partnership with Conservation International (CI), the Bhutan Ecological Society (BES), and the Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTF), has launched a landmark initiative to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded land.
A historic milestone was marked yesterday as 182 graduates of the Royal Institute of Management (RIM) received their awards during the 27th Convocation Ceremony, graced b...
Sarpang—The midday heat in Sarpang is scorching. Temperatures climb well above 30°C, forcing people to retreat indoors to the comfort of a fan. But t...
Bhutan’s Under-20 (U-20) Women’s national teamlost 2-1 to S...
༉ ནང་སྲིད་ལྷན་ཁག་འོག་ལུ་ ཞི་བའི་ཐོ་བཀོད་དང་ མི་རྩིས་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༧ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ས་ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ མི་རབས་བཞི་པའི་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ལག་ཁྱེར་(ཕོར་ཇི་) འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ དམ་དུམ་བཟོ་གྲྭ་གླིང་ག་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དེ...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆང་གི་རིགས་དེ་ སྤྱོད་ནི་རྐྱངམ་...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༥ ལུ་ བུམ་ཐང་ ཆུ་སྨད་རྒེད་འོག་...
The government’s ambitious 10-year Industrial Development Roadmap, launched yesterday, aims to create 65,000 jobs, attract Nu 300 billion in investments, and significantly diversify the economy by 2035.
The Cabinet has approved a series of structural re...
Gelephu—In the border towns, an unusual scene plays out daily: a growing number of Indian vehicles lining up at fuel stations, paying in Bhutanese Ngultrum (B...
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE) launched the new Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Rules...
Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Lyonpo D. N. Dhungyel, headed the country’s delegation at the recently concluded third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) in Awaza, Turkmenistan.
The 1,200 MW Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project Authority (PHPA-I) is expected to m...
The recent removal of six TikTok accounts for breaching piracy rules is what we can call the ‘reel’ of social media problems, especially with video content it provides and how co...
We have been positioning ourselves as a pioneer in adapting to digital innovation despite our small size and limited resources, with the government tirelessly promoting initiatives like the Nationa...
Wangdue—The use of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, has been completely banned across the country, including the potato-growing valleys of Gangtey and Phobji in Wangdue.
A new survey by the Nature Conservation Division under the Department of Forests and P...
Yes, Phuentsholing has long been the gateway to Bhutan’s economy, a vibrant trade hub where livelihoods...
Wangdue—The 1,020-megawatt (MW) Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project is on the final countdown to completion, with a new deadline of August 27 set for the commissioning of its sixth and...
Druk Holding and Investments Limited (DHI) and the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed an agreement to launch Robotic Construction Programme, a venture that could redefine how buildings are designed and built in the country.
In a quiet corner of Motithang, Thimphu, a man sits with a brush in hand, his strokes guided not just by skill, but by deep faith. Fifty-two-year-old Khenpo Tsheltrim Dorji, from Gonpawong...
Lhuentse—In the remote villages of Minjey Gewog, Lhuentse, 35 farming households have turned 131 a...
In a major win for Bhutanese boxing, Dechen Dorji, a 19-year-old from Mongar, secured a bronze medal at the Asian Boxing Under (U)-19 and U-22 Championships i...
Samtse—More than a year after its establishment, the Startup Centre at Dhamdhum Industrial Park in Samtse continues to operate below intended capacity, with only five out of nine incubation units currently occupied.
Consumers in the country saw a 3.65 percent increase in the prices of goods and services in June, a slight cooling from 3.84 percent recorded in May, according to the National...
The Department of Civil Registration and Census (DCRC) under the Ministry of Home Affairs launched the Fourth Generation Citizenship Identity Card (4G CID) in Thimphu yesterday.
Every monsoon, the capital city, the nerve centre of Bhutan, turns into a case study of how not to build a city. Roads flood, drains overflow, footpaths vanish under filthy run-off, and cars...
To address one of the world’s most lucrative and destructive criminal industries, the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS) has launched the National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025–2029 to eliminate wildlife poaching and illegal trade within its borders.
OTT platform Samuh Mediatech, in collaboration with the Bhutan Information and Media Authority (BICMA) and the TikTok head office, has su...
དེ་ཡང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ བཤདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སོ་ནམ་དང་ སྒོ་ནོར་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་འོག་ལུ་ གནས་གོང་བགོ་...
ཨིན་རུང་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁེ་ཕན་ཐོབ་...
We are not just dreaming of the future—we are building it. The Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority’s (GMCA) renovation of the Bhutan Post building in Gelephu may see...
The government has monetised vehicle import quotas fo...
With businesses reporting fewer customers, consumer spending in the country experienced a 2.14 percent drop...
The National Council (NC) has raised grave constitutional concerns over the Priority Development Fund (PDF), a Nu 94 million annual allocation embedded in the Budget Appropriation Bill for the Fiscal Year 2025-26, warning that it risks eroding parliamentary oversight, decentralisation, and the foundation of Bhutan’s constitutional democracy.
As Bhutan’s elderly population steadily rises, the Royal Society for Senior Citizens (RSSC) is leading efforts to ensure t...
The government’s revised Cost Sharing Mechanism (CSM 2025) under the Ministry of Agricult...
Bhutanese filmmaker Chand RC’s latest short film, “Zampa (The Bridge)”, wi...
In a move to strengthen the agricultural exports, the agriculture ministry inaugurated a Potato Trade Facilitation Centre (PTFC) in Gaytsa, Chhumig gewog, Bumthang, on August 5.
On a crisp morning at Dechen Phodrang Monastic School in Taba, Thimphu, a new sound echoed through the premise: the crack of cricket bats meeting balls. For the first time...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྐང་རྩེད་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་ལུ་དགའ་མི་...
ཧེ་མ་ལས་བསྒུགས་ཏེ་ ཡུན་རིངམོ་སོང་མི་ སཱུན་ཀོཤ་གློག...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ འབྲུག་འགྲེམ་ལས་འཛིན་གྱི་ སྒྲིང་ཁྱིམ་གསརཔ་དེ་ ཉམས་བཅོས་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་འབད་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༡ ལུ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་ དམ་ཆུ་དང་ ཧཱ་བར་ནའི་གཞུང་ལམ་གྱི་མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་ ཟམ་དེ་ རམ་སོང་པའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ ལོག་ཉམས་བཅོས་ཀྱི་ལཱ་འབད་ནི་དེ་ སང་ཕོད་སྤྱི་ཟླ་༩ པའི་ནང་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཚུགས་པའི་ རེ་བ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Bumthang—For many Bhutanese living abroad, physical distance from home has only deepened their sense of belonging and their desire to give back.
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...
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