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A Folk Heritage Craft Village, aimed at revitalising the country’s traditional arts and crafts, was inaugurated at the Folk Heritage Museum today, alongside the launch of a commemorative postage stamp marking the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck.
Bhutan’s potato sector, buoyed by last year’s price surge driven by shortages in India...
For the 2026 Class pre-primary (PP) intake, 15 schools under Thimphu Thromde received about 1,888 applications. However, c...
The Ministry of Health clarified that Indian nurse...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development, in collaboration with the Gedu College of Business Studies, is exploring the introduction of three-year diploma programmes to provide vocational pathways within the school system.
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay rejected the Opposition Party's demand for the finance minister’s r...
The proposed USD 100 million Global Bhutan Entrepreneurship Corridor Fund has been scaled down to USD 50 million following an assessment of the utili...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development has rolled out a range of structured winter programmes to...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་རྡོ་རོ་ཁ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ལྟེ་བའི་སློབ་རིམ་༡༢ པའི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚེ་རིང་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས་ གསར་སྤང་ལུ་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབད་མི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་སློབ་གྲྭའི་རྩེད་རིགས་ནང་ ལག་རྩེད་བཱོལ་ལི་བཱོལ་གྱི་ སྡེ་ཚན་ནང་ལས་ རྒྱལ་རྟགས་ཚུ་ ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
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...
Bhutan’s 54 registered civil society organisations (CSOs) have, over the years, emerged as critical partners in national development, supplementing government efforts and delivering services to communities often bey...
For more than a decade, Lhak-Sam has stood at the forefront of Bhutan’s response to HIV, advocating for prevention, supporting peo...
For more than 15 years, the Chithuen Phendhey Association (CPA) has played a pivotal role in the country’s efforts to prevent substance use, provide rehabilitation, and help individuals reintegrate into their families and communities.
When Ugyen Tshomo looks at the patch of land she owns in Tshogoenpa...
Despite national policies and guidelines designed to support persons with disabilities (PWDs), wea...
Over the past 25 years, the Youth Development Fund (YDF) has played a central role in shaping the lives of young Bhutanese, nurturing aspirations...
As the country steadily transitions into an ageing society, the Royal Society for Senior Citizens (RSSC) has become a key institution advocating for the rights, dignity, and well-being of older persons while delivering targeted support to some of the country’s most vulnerable elderly.
A few years ago, a young girl in Punakha, overwhelmed by emotional distress and strained relations at...
A transformation in animal welfare is underway in the country, driven by the work of registered Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). De...
A growing network of civil society organisations has emerged as an indispensable partner in the country’s healthcare system, filling critical gaps in service...
Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) and Kuensel were jointly conferred the Jigme Singye Wangchuck Prestigious Journalism Award (JSWPA) today in recognition of their long-standing and nationally significant contribution to public service journalism in Bhutan.
The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is shaped more by...
Bhutan’s status as a water-abundant country is under threat, revealing a mounting crisis driven by dr...
A two-day forum on “Buddhist Capitalism with the Spirit of GNH: Reimagining Capi...
The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has uncovered the misuse of Nu 4.553 million in public funds by an accountant at the Regional Office of Industry, Commerce and Employment in Samdrupjongkhar, according to the Annual Audit Report for fiscal year 2024–2025.
Punakha—Punakha police have arrested and detained a 23-year-old man for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old girl, in a case where the relationship b...
Phuentsholing—The Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) has launched a year-long pro...
The Commercial Agriculture and Resilient Livelihoods Enhancement Programme (CARLEP) failed to meet key targets for output, farme...
Sarpang—Tshering Penjor, a Class XII graduate of Dorokha Central School in Samtse, makes his national debut as a member of the school boys volleyball team that secures the championship trophy at the National School Games in Sarpang.
The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregular...
His Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of the Fourth Session of the Fourth Parl...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) continues to struggle with the recruitment...
The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) yesterday announced the signing of a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Fourth Sector Group (4SG), a global platform advancing economic systems that prioritise human and planetary wellbeing.
The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified Kaja Throm under the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives (DA...
Sasha Wakefield from Sydney, Australia, was recently conferred the highest honour by the...
In Soe, Thimphu, one of Bhutan’s most remote highland gewogs, the air is thin, and the peaks are watched over by deities. Beneath Jichu Drakey and Jomolhari, cold winds move through yak pastures, carrying stories that cling to the land like frost.
Samtse—About a 15-minute drive from the Phuentsholing–Samtse highway towards the Tading gewog office, a modest eco-tourism site sits quietly along the banks of the Amochhu, reflecting both the promise and the constraints of community-based tourism in southern Bhutan.
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སོ་ནམ་གྱི་ལཱ་འབད་མི་མེད་པའི་ གདོང་ལེ...
༉ བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ གྲོང་གསེབ་མགྲོན་སྐྱོ...
ལཱ་གཡོག་འཚོལ་མི་༣,༠༠༠ དེ་ཅིག་གིས་ ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ ཡོངས་...
༉ གནམ་དགུན་ཐོན་པའི་བསྒང་ལས་ ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ རྒྱ་ཐང་ཚུ་ནང་ ཚ་དྲོད་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ཌི་གི་རི་སེལ་ཤི་ཡེསི་༢༥ གུ་ལུ་ མར་བབས་འགྱོ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཁས་བླངས་ཀྱི་ལཱ་འབད་མིའི་སེམས་ཤུགས་ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ ད་རེས་ཁས་བླངས་ལཱ་འབད་མི་ཐེངས་༤ པའི་ནང་ ཁས་བླངས་པ་༡༠,༠༠༠ གྱི་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ནང་ ཁས་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གི་གནས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ཆོས་འབྲེལ་ལ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གི་ ར...
༉ ཐོམ་ཕུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ འབྲུག་ཕུཌ་བཱོལ་ཨེ་ཀ་ཌ་མི་གིས...
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle a controversy that had raged on for months. In some narrow legal sense, it does. The ACC found no criminal intent, no bribery, no quid pro quo that meets legally defined thresholds for corruption.
The National Council (NC) failed to pass the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan...
The country’s nationwide geological mapping and mineral prospecting programme is expected to be completed by June 2026, accordin...
The National Council (NC) on Thursday adopted all seven recommendations proposed by its Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) o...
The Thimphu District Court on December 25 sentenced TikToker Dorji Tshomo to two years and eight months’ imprisonment after convicting her on two counts of battery under Section 158 of the Penal Code of Bhutan.
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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...
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...
Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...
The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...
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...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
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...
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 t...
The Class 10 results declared today are the best of the past five years. This is the first time in five years that the pass percentage of the Bhutan Council for School Examination and Assessment (BCSEA) has increased drastically compared to the previous year.
Read MoreMajority of industries in Dhamdara have not begun relocation despite approaching deadline. With just four months remaining until the June relocation deadline, only seven of the more than 20 industries in Dhamdara have begun relocating to Dhamdum Industrial Park in Samtse.
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