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Rationalisation of schools is not about denying students access to education, but about improving quality and ensuring the efficient use of financial, human, and physical resources, according to the Minister for Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Yeezang De Thapa.
Dagana— With water sources rapidly drying up and threatening the livelihoods of ove...
Wangdue— For generations, the families of Drinchengang (formerly Rinchengang) in Thedtsho gewog, Wangdue, have lived in tightly clustered adobe ho...
Members of Parliament (MP) yesterday called on the health ministry to prioritise the d...
As climate change continues to reshape Bhutan’s mountainous terrain, entire communities are being displaced.
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་གསུམ་གྱི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ རྡོག་མ་གི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དེ་ རྒྱ་ཆེཝ་སྦེ་ར་ མར་བབས་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ རྡོག་མ་ཤིང་འཛུགས་སྐྱོང་འབད་མིའི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Her Majesty Gyalyum Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Patron of the Tarayana Foundation, graced the opening of a two-day...
As the armed confrontation between Iran and Israel enters its second week, the Ministry of Foreign Af...
The tax reform proposed in the Income Tax Bill 2025 is expected to cost the government up to Nu 5.57...
Samtse—The areca nut production in Bhutan has sharply declined over the past three years despite an increase in the number of trees planted.
Two spiritual events. Two vastly different outcomes. What separates the squalor left behind at the recent oral transmission from the orderly conclusion of the menlam chenmo gathering is not money, not manpower, but pla...
Jomotsangkha — In the quiet corners of Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary (JWS), a touching story of companionship and car...
The incident involving two Bhutanese individuals defacing a 30,000-year-old sacred Uluru rock in Australia in August last year has...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་ཆ་འཇོག་གནང་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ གཞི་སྒྱུར་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་འབད་མི་ དཔྱད་ཡིག་དེ་ ད་ལྟོ་ཡོད་པའི་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༠༡ ཅན་མ་དེ་ ཆ་མེད་འགྱོཝ་ཨིན་པས།
རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ གི་ འཆར་དངུལ་སྙན་ཞུ་ནང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གི་ གཙང་ཆུའི་མཐའམ་བདའ་སྟེ་ གཙང་ཆུ་ས...
In recent days, the National Assembly has passed some major tax reforms. From introducing a flat 5 percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) and increasing excise duties on harmful products to taxing high-value fixed deposi...
The National Assembly yesterday unanimously adopted the Income Tax Bill of Bhutan 2025, a comprehensive tax reform to replace the existing 2001 Income Tax Act, which now moves to the National Council for further deliberation.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Kingdom of Thailand is expected to be implemented by January 2026.
Gelephu—With the implementation of extensive flood control measures along major riverbanks in Gelephu, residents...
A majority of the Members of Parliament (MP) in National Council...
In a quiet yet powerful culmination, 35 young Bhutanese creatives came together to screen their short films at the closing event of “Art for People” programme, a two-week filmmaking course.
Samdrupjongkhar—Tshomo, a 60-year-old farmer from Tsangchil...
The Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) and the Bhutan Cricket Council Board (BCCB) have recently received recognition from international sports bodies for...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་ཁང་ནང་ དྲི་བ་དྲིས་ལན་གྱི་ ཚོགས་རི...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ཅ་ཆས་དང་ཞབས་ཏོག་(ཇི་ཨེསི་ཊི)ཁྲལ་གྱི་ འཕྲི་སྣོན་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་ ཆ་འཇོག་དང་ དཔྱད་ཡིག་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཚེས་གྲངས་ གྲོས་འདེབས་ཕུལ་མི་གི་ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་བཤད་ནུག།
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ན་གཞོན་ལཱ་གཡོག་མ་ཐོབ་པའི་...
Alcohol, tobacco, carbonated drinks, and other non-essential or harmful products will become more expensive starting January 2026, with the National Assembly...
The Members of Parliament (MPs) in National Council (NC) yesterday raised concerns on...
The government is accelerating efforts to address the pressing issue of rising youth unemployment in the country through a range of initiatives aimed at creating jobs and equipping young people with the skills needed for long-term careers.
During the National Assembly’s Question Hour yesterday, Menbi-...
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Lamgong-Wangchang called for a revision of the country’s building regulations after raising concerns about the inconsistent enf...
Concerned over the large-scale felling of trees for p...
At daybreak in Berti village, 65-year-old Wangpo walks the perimeter of his maize field, searching for signs of fresh damage. The evidence is unmistakable—flattened stalks and circular impressions pressed into the damp soil.
Chukha—After years of delays and repeated appeals from local comm...
What lingers in Kuenselphodrang these days isn’t j...
༉ དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ མཐའ་ཟུ...
༉ སྦོང་སྒོར་-སྐྱབས་ཆའི་འཐུས་མི་ སྤེན་པ་གིས་ གཞུང་ལ...
ཆུམ་དང་ བཟའ་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་མར་ཁུ་ ཚྭ་ གཙང་རས་ དེ་ལས་ གླ...
༉ སྤ་རོ་ཆུ་འཛོམས་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༦ དེ་ཅིག་ ལམ་འགྲུ...
༉ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དང་ ཕུ་ལ་ཧ་རི་གི་བར་ན་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༦ འབད་མི་ འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ ལེགས་བཅོས་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཆོས་འབྲེལ་ལས་འགུལ་སྦོམ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་རྫོང་(བཱཇ་ར་ཡ་ན་ལྟེ་བ་)དང་ དགེ་བསྙེན་གནས་ཁང་གཉིས་ནང་ འགྲོ་འགྲུལ་འབད་ཚུགསཔ་བཟོ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ཨིན་པས།
Bhutan’s fertility rate has dropped from over six children per woman in the 1980s t...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday adopted the Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, reducing the applicable GST rate to...
The National Assembly yesterday deliberated on the 207 sections of the Excise Tax Bill of Bh...
Limited pharmacy services in several remote districts, including Zhemgang, Gasa, and Samdrupjongkhar, are restricting access to essential medicines and pushing residents to obtain drugs from across the border, raising concerns about safety and regulatory compliance, according to the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA).
Bhutan has officially embarked on its second Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of core capacities under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), reaffirming its commitment to national and global health security.
Farmers in remote Jaray Gewog are a step closer to gaining crucial market access, as work on the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Serpang–Autsho inter-dzongkhag road officially commenced yesterday in Yumchhey,Lhuentse.
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...
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 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...
Bhutan’s clean air is becoming a comforting myth—pleasant to repeat, dangerous to believe. For years, we have worn the r...
Bumthang—For many Bhutanese living abroad, physical distance from home has only deepened their sense of belonging and their desire to give back.
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