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Imagine drones airlifting steel bars, bricks, and cement bags from the commercial hub of Phuentsholing to remote parts of Bhutan. Too far-fetched? Then picture a drone transporting 500 litres of fresh yak milk from Laya to an organic dairy processing centre in Gasa, in just five minutes.
The reconstruction of the Damchu-Haa highway bridge, which collapsed in 2021, is expected to commence by September next year.
Gelephu—The Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority (GMCA) is undertaking a major renovation of the newly constructed...
The country’s grant inflows are projected to nearly double, rising to Nu 31.09 billion in fiscal year 2026-27 from Nu 15.59 billion in...
Despite Bhutan’s commendable strides in clean energy, household air pollution remains a persistent and overlooked threat, accounting for 32.8 percent of the country’s overall air pollution.
The long-awaited Sunkosh Hydropower Project is moving forward with key preparatory assessments, bringing renewed hope to the reside...
Audos is an “AI co-pilot for entrepreneurs”. Can you elaborate on what exactly that entails and what specific...
ORO Bank, Asia’s first full-reserve digital bank, has entered into a strategic partnership with Ni...
The SAARC Development Fund (SDF), in partnership with leading national institutions and technical government agencies of the five SAARC member countries, launched the AquaLivelihood Project in Colombo, Sri Lanka yesterday.
Football fans in Thimphu are in for a thrilling day as Bhutan’s Under (U)-20 Women’s National Team faces Nepal, while North Korea goes he...
འདས་པའི་ལོ་ཚུ་ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཌོག་ཊར་མ...
འབྲུག་གིས་ འཛམ་གླིང་དངུལ་ཁང་ནང་ལས་ ཡུ་ཨེསི་ཌོ་ལར་ས...
༉ གོ་ལ་ཚུ་དཀར་ཁྲ་ཅན་གྱི་སྒོ་ལས་ མེ་ཏོག་དང་ དར་ཤིང་ རྫོང་ དེ་ལས་ གངས་རི་ཚུ་ པར་རིས་བཀོད་ཐོག་ལས་འབདཝ་ད་ དེ་གིས་ སྒོ་ཁ་ལས་འཛུལཝ་ཅིག་ར་ དེ་གིས་དུས་ལས་ལྷག་པའི་ བརྡ་མཚོན་སྟོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ དྲན་ཚོར་ དེ་ལས་ དེ་གི་གོ་དོན་ཚུ་གསལ་སྟོན་བྱུངམ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ དུས་ཅི་གི་ དུས་མིན་བཙག་འཐུ་ཐེ...
The Prime Minister’s State of the Nation Report at the recently concluded Parliament session offers a portrait of remarkable progress. Poverty has plummeted from 31.7 percent in 2003 to 12.4 percent in 2022.
Over the past few years, Bhutan’s hospitals leaned on Bangladeshi specialists to plug critical gaps in services. At the...
A white cloth billowed in the summer wind, painted with flowers and prayer flags, dzongs and distant peaks. It marked the entrance to something more than an event—a threshold to language, memory, and meaning.
Bhutan is prepared for strengthened disaster preparedness, backed by a USD 40 million contingency...
Bhutan’s unique development philosophy, which prioritises well-being, environmental protection,...
Some lives unfold in silence, unnoticed even by those closest to them. Dr Sanga Dorji, Bhutan’s first physiotherapist and a man who happens to be blind, has long...
At the Bhutan Echoes Literary Festival yesterday, experts cautioned that the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) must not come at the expense of human values.
འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་འོག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མི་སྡེ་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྩིས་ཁྲའི་གནས་སྡུད་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་དང་འཁྲིལ་...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གནམ་ཐང་གི་ ལས་འགུལ་གྱི...
As Bhutan prepares for its seventh bye-election this year, this time in Trongsa’s Nubi-Tangsibji constituency, questions are being asked over the accountability of elected leaders and the growing financial burden repeated elections place on the state.
The government has finalised a draft National Social Protection Strategy with a Nu 2 billion budget under the 13th Plan...
The country’s national savings rebounded strongly in 2024, reaching a five-year high of Nu 70.47 billion, according to the National Accounts Statistic 2025.
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) clarified that arts subjects will continue to be a core...
Bhutan’s national disease surveillance system, National Early Warning Alert and Response Surveillance (NEWARS), recorded significant progress in 2024, with stronger reporting rates, fewer outbreaks, and clearer patterns in disease incidence—marking a critical step forward in the country’s effort to detect, respond to, and prevent public health threats.
In Bhutan, alcohol is not just a beverage, it is custom, comfort, and ceremony. From pouring ara to appease deities to toasting guests at festivals, drinking has long enjoyed a place of honour in our cul...
With traffic congestion and pedestrian safety emer...
In a bid to enhance Bhutan’s capacity for producing and distributing high-quality temperate fruit see...
The maiden presence of four National Basketball Association (NBA) stars, currently in the capital, has further ignited the love for basketball among Bhutanese, especially the youth.
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ གློག་མེ་ནུས་ཤུགས་མ་འདྲཝ་སྦེ་ མདུན་སྐྱོ...
༉ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་༤༧ གྱིས་...
༉ གཟུགས་ཁ་ལུ་ གོ་ལ་ཧོནམ་གྱོན་མི་ འབྲུག་གི་ནགས་ཚལ་གླིང་འཛིན་པ་ཚུ་ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་ས་གནས་ཚུ་ནང་ལས་ཕར་ ལཱ་འབད་བའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ འཛིམ་གླིང་ ནགས་ཚལ་གླིང་འཛིན་གྱི་ཉིནམ་ བརྩི་སྲུང་དང་འབྲེལ་ ཁོང་ཆ་ཁྱབ་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་སྤེལ་ཁང་ནང་ འཛོམས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ རྒྱ་གར་དང་- འབྲུག་གི་ས་མཚམས་ཁར་ དེང་སང་གི་ཞིབ་དཔ...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ རང་དབང་རང་བཙན་གྱི་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཅི...
As Bhutan navigates the intensifying challenges of climate change, characterised by flash floods, erratic weather, water scarcity and landslides, it is inc...
Gelephu—About two months after the relocation for the Gelephu International Airport project was initiated, affected residents received monetary compensation for their standing properties.
The country’s economy recorded a growth of 7.5 percent in 2024, the highest in the last five...
As Bhutan prepares to participate in the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30)...
While Bhutan’s national literacy rate stands at over 70 percent, the literacy rate among children with disabilities lags far behind at just 26....
The health ministry is intensifying its efforts to address the impact of excessive screen time on children’s development. This growing concern was highlighted by a discussion on virtual autism at a Meet-the-Press session yesterday.
The airstrip in Mongar will be at Pemacholing. The Department of Air Transport, with support from...
Haa—A major infrastructure milestone was marked yesterday with the inauguration of the upgraded 50.9-kilometre stretch of road from Wanakha to Haa, now...
Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) has appointed Dasho Dr Tandi Dorji as the interim president of the party. Dasho Dr Tandi Dorji, one of t...
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) has announced a major urban development programme worth Nu 847 million for the fiscal year 2025–2026.
This week, despite the lack of evidence and concerns from many, including specialised NGOs, the government went ahead to launch the Yarabling Higher Secondary School in Trashigang as a special institution for students recovering from substance use disorder.
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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...
The fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing total participation beyond 22,500, must be celebrated as a national moment. The overwhelming number of volunteer...
The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...
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 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...
Bhutan’s clean air is becoming a comforting myth—pleasant to repeat, dangerous to believe. For years, we have worn the r...
We love to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. In fact, we use these words in excess in policy d...
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