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A tribute in craft and stamp: Honours Fourth Druk Gyalpo’s 70th Birth Anniversary

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.

Dec 31, 2025 3 mins read 1,895 views
Price slump and early harvests in India hit Bhutan’s potato exports

Bhutan’s potato sector, buoyed by last year’s price surge driven by shortages in India...

Dec 31, 2025 3 mins read 1,837 views
Thimphu schools turn away 628 students for 2026 PP intake

For the 2026 Class pre-primary (PP) intake, 15 schools under Thimphu Thromde received about 1,888 applications. However, c...

Dec 31, 2025 1 mins read 2,491 views
Pay difference between Bhutanese and Indian nurses due to contract and housing allowance: MoH

The Ministry of Health clarified that Indian nurse...

Dec 31, 2025 3 mins read 4,480 views
Three diploma programmes to equip Class X students with practical skills

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.

Dec 31, 2025 1 mins read 2,107 views
PM rejects corruption claims, stands by finance minister over ESP

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay rejected the Opposition Party's demand for the finance minister’s r...

Dec 31, 2025 3 mins read 4,400 views
Bhutan Entrepreneurs Fund scaled down to USD 50M

The proposed USD 100 million Global Bhutan Entrepreneurship Corridor Fund has been scaled down to USD 50 million following an assessment of the utili...

Dec 31, 2025 1 mins read 1,768 views
Education ministry rolls out nationwide winter engagement plan

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development has rolled out a range of structured winter programmes to...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 1,765 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་སློབ་གྲྭའི་རྩེད་རིགས་འགྲན་བསྡུར་ ལོ་ལྔ་གི་རྒྱབ་ལས་ ལོག་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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།

Dec 31, 2025 9 mins read 598 views
Strengthening the third sector

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...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 8,754 views
CSOs drive positive change

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...

Dec 31, 2025 5 mins read 2,402 views
Lhak-Sam: Leading Bhutan’s community response to HIV

For more than a decade, Lhak-Sam has stood at the forefront of Bhutan’s response to HIV,  advocating for prevention, supporting peo...

Dec 31, 2025 5 mins read 2,440 views
CPA at frontline of fight against rising substance use and addiction

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.

Dec 31, 2025 3 mins read 3,357 views
Tarayana’s housing initiative brings stability and hope to rural families

When Ugyen Tshomo looks at the patch of land she owns in Tshogoenpa...

Dec 31, 2025 6 mins read 3,051 views
Disability policies exist, but access and mobility remain elusive

Despite national policies and guidelines designed to support persons with disabilities (PWDs), wea...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 2,178 views
YDF’s enduring role in transforming young lives

Over the past 25 years, the Youth Development Fund (YDF) has played a central role in shaping the lives of young Bhutanese, nurturing aspirations...

Dec 31, 2025 3 mins read 2,085 views
Royal Society for Senior Citizens bridges care gap as population ages

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.

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 2,595 views
RENEW: A quiet lifeline for women and children escaping violence

A few years ago, a young girl in Punakha, overwhelmed by emotional distress and strained relations at...

Dec 31, 2025 3 mins read 6,036 views
Animal welfare CSOs rescue and rehabilitate thousands

A transformation in animal welfare is underway in the country, driven by the work of registered Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). De...

Dec 31, 2025 5 mins read 2,298 views
Health CSOs support patients beyond hospitals

A growing network of civil society organisations has emerged as an indispensable partner in the country’s healthcare system, filling critical gaps in service...

Dec 31, 2025 4 mins read 1,888 views
Kuensel and BBS receive Jigme Singye Wangchuck Prestigious Journalism Award

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.

Dec 30, 2025 3 mins read 1,366 views
Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is shaped more by...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 7,902 views
RAA finds critical gaps in climate adaptation for water security

Bhutan’s status as a water-abundant country is under threat, revealing a mounting crisis driven by dr...

Dec 30, 2025 4 mins read 3,272 views
Harvard Business School delegates gather to explore Buddhist Capitalism

A two-day forum on “Buddhist Capitalism with the Spirit of GNH: Reimagining Capi...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 2,385 views
Audit finds misuse of Nu 4.55 million in public funds by accountant

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.

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 4,845 views
Man detained over relationship with underage girl

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...

Dec 30, 2025 1 mins read 9,698 views
Bhutan Cancer Society launches programme to reduce workplace cancer risks

Phuentsholing—The Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) has launched a year-long pro...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 2,431 views
CARLEP falls short of key production and market targets

The Commercial Agriculture and Resilient Livelihoods Enhancement Programme (CARLEP) failed to meet key targets for output, farme...

Dec 30, 2025 5 mins read 2,165 views
National School Games resume after five-year

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.

Dec 30, 2025 3 mins read 6,736 views
Agencies must be held accountable for financial irregularities

The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregular...

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 9,261 views
His Majesty the King graces closing session of the fourth Parliament

His Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of the Fourth Session of the Fourth Parl...

Dec 29, 2025 3 mins read 2,971 views
Shortage of extension officers pushes MoAL to reform rural services

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) continues to struggle with the recruitment...

Dec 29, 2025 3 mins read 4,236 views
GMC and Fourth Sector Group launch partnership to build world’s foremost for-benefit economic ecosystem

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.

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 3,364 views
RAA exposes Nu 8.1 million financial fraud at Kaja Throm

The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified Kaja Throm under the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives (DA...

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 17,794 views
Zhung Dratshang honours Sasha Wakefield for over a decade of service

Sasha Wakefield from Sydney, Australia, was recently conferred the highest honour by the...

Dec 29, 2025 4 mins read 3,054 views
Tales from Soe

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.

Dec 29, 2025 4 mins read 11,605 views
A quiet eco-tourism experiment in Tading

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.

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 1,917 views
སོ་ནམ་སྡེ་ཚན་ནང་ ལས་མི་མ་ལང་པའི་དཀའ་ལང་ ཕྱིའི་ལས་མི་གིས་ བསལ་ཚུགས་ནི་བཟུམ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སོ་ནམ་གྱི་ལཱ་འབད་མི་མེད་པའི་ གདོང་ལེ...

Dec 28, 2025 6 mins read 1,077 views
བུམ་ཐང་གི་ གྲོང་གསེབ་མགྱོན་སྐྱོང་ཁང་གི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ ལོག་ཡར་རྒྱས་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ གྲོང་གསེབ་མགྲོན་སྐྱོ...

Dec 28, 2025 7 mins read 668 views
རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ན་གཞོན་ལཱ་གཡོག་མེད་པའི་ ཚད་གཞི་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༡༧.༨ ཡར་འཕར།

ལཱ་གཡོག་འཚོལ་མི་༣,༠༠༠ དེ་ཅིག་གིས་ ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ ཡོངས་...

Dec 28, 2025 7 mins read 657 views
བགོ་བཤའི་བདག་དབང་གིས་ དམིགས་གཏད་སེམས་ཤུགས་ལུ་ཁ་སྒྱུར།

༉ 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།

Dec 28, 2025 9 mins read 650 views
ལོ་ཊསི་བོརན་ཊེལ་ཟེར་མི་ལམ་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གི་གནས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ཆོས་འབྲེལ་ལ...

Dec 28, 2025 4 mins read 535 views
གསོ་བའི་གནད་དོན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་སྐོར་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ཞུ་བ་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གི་ ར...

Dec 28, 2025 5 mins read 589 views
ན་གཞོན་༣༡༩ གིས་ ལོ་བསྟར་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་བཙག་འཐུ་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཐོམ་ཕུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ འབྲུག་ཕུཌ་བཱོལ་ཨེ་ཀ་ཌ་མི་གིས...

Dec 28, 2025 6 mins read 516 views
What about moral and ethical accountability?

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.

Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 7,686 views
Deadlock over child rape provision derails Penal Code (amendment) Bill

The National Council (NC) failed to pass the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan...

Dec 27, 2025 3 mins read 4,124 views
Nationwide mineral mapping to be completed by June 2026

The country’s nationwide geological mapping and mineral prospecting programme is expected to be completed by June 2026, accordin...

Dec 27, 2025 4 mins read 3,299 views
National Council adopts healthcare reform recommendations

The National Council (NC) on Thursday adopted all seven recommendations proposed by its Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) o...

Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,434 views
TikToker Dorji Tshomo sentenced to prison for battery at Kuenselphodrang

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.

Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,819 views
MoAL ramps up irrigation investment to safeguard food security

Climate change has resulted in growing scarcity of irrigation water, increasingly affecting the agriculture sector and national food security.

Dec 27, 2025 3 mins read 2,257 views
Browse Archives
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graces inauguration of Her Expression Festival at VAST

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...

Jun 06, 2026 1 mins read 521 views
Lowland cordyceps discovery in India raises questions over Bhutan’s premium fungus economy

The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked c...

Jun 05, 2026 3 mins read 5,833 views
Riwo Exhibition Unites Himalayan artists in exploration of identity and continuity

Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...

Jun 05, 2026 2 mins read 3,680 views
NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Jun 04, 2026 3 mins read 1,790 views
National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,686 views
BRCS opens first Branch Emergency Operations Centre in Tsirang

Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,766 views
BTF opens office in GMC to strengthen support for southern region

Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,933 views
PM takes responsibility for fiscal deficit coordination failure

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay accepted responsibility for a communication gap between the Ministry of Finance and the E...

Jun 04, 2026 4 mins read 5,496 views
World Environment Day sees schools, businesses team up for recycling drive

What if waste was no longer viewed as rubbish, but as a resource waiting for a second life? That idea took centre stag...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,150 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 11,529 views
She Lives in the Mirror

Mar 16, 2026 2 mins read 6,438 views
When our pursuits for happiness become our chains

Mar 16, 2026 4 mins read 4,613 views
Pindarika: Myth, desire, and revenge on big screen

Mar 10, 2026 1 mins read 4,562 views
A night for silver screen in Punakha

For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of...

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 4,305 views
What’s our contingency plan?

Mar 14, 2026 2 mins read 5,330 views
What an entrepreneurial bureaucracy must do

Mar 11, 2026 2 mins read 5,982 views
Urgent call to skill our youth

The key barriers identified in the report  - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are no...

Mar 07, 2026 2 mins read 6,513 views
Bracing for impacts of distant wars

Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple...

Mar 04, 2026 2 mins read 5,511 views
Beyond the statistics

The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more...

Feb 28, 2026 2 mins read 5,572 views

Recents

Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).

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