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As pledged during the election campaign, the ruling government is moving forward with its flagship “Rent-to-Own” housing programme, which will guarantee home ownership for civil servants, salaried private-sector employees, and low-income groups, who are increasingly burdened by rising rents and a limited housing stock.
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) has announced seven l...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday unanimously adopted the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic...
The government will not be able to construct the proposed Lauri to Merak gewog road in the 13th Plan, Minister of Infrastr...
Taxation is a cornerstone of societal welfare, particularly vital in a welfare state. It is our fundamental duty und...
The Social and Cultural Affairs Committee (SCAC) of the Nation...
14. Defending the Nation against Internal and External Threats During His Majesty’s reign, two major threats to the country’s security and sovereignty were encountered, namely the southern Bhutan insurrection in...
Chali, Mongar—Once gripped by water scarcity, the village of Wamakhar in Chali g...
To tackle the growing crisis of youth substance abuse, the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) will open the country’s first Recovery School in Yonphula, Trashigang, this July.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) has announced the commencement...
The Gelephu Nation Building Bond (GNBB) raised Nu 3.347 bil...
Phuentsholing—Following Kuensel’s investigative report on fronting and unfair practices in the cardamom business, the government reiterated tha...
Punakha—The Punakha Dzongkhag Court as sentenced Tshering Penjor, a 46-year-old open-air prisoner (OAP) from Trashigang, to an additional five years in prison for the criminal attempt of statutory rape on June 4.
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ བེང་གཱལ་མཚོ་ཁུག་སྣ་མང...
མི་སེར་དམངས་གཙོ་ཚོགས་པའི་གཞུང་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུའི་སྐབས་...
༉ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ ཨར་རྐུན་ནང་...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༥ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཨིསི་ཊོག་ཧོམ་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཕོ་བྲང་ནང་སྦེ་ སུའི་ཌེན་གྱི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལཔོ་ ཀཱརལ་༡༦ པ་ གཱསི་ཊཕ་མཆོག་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཇལ་ཕྲད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
More than 3,600 young people were arrested for drug-related offences between 2023 and 2024, accounting for over 50 percent of total drug arrests in the country. Most of those detaine...
The College of Language and Culture Studies (CLCS) in Trongsa will not be shut down but will instead undergo a major transformation to align...
The National Assembly (NA) will vote today on the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical...
Paro-The Department of Culture and Dzongkha Development (DCDD), in partnership with the GovTech Agency and Druk Holding and Investments (DHI), launched eight cultural non-fungible tokens (NFTs) at the National Museum in Paro on June 4, Wednesday.
To mark World Environment Day, the SAARC Development Fund (SDF) and the Bhutan Ecological Society (BES) launched the country’s first utility-scale...
Chukha—A group of women at the Tashigatshel Special Reserve Police Force (SRPF) camp is quietly stitching a success story—empowering themsel...
12. Environmental Conservation for a Sustainable Future From the very beginning of his reign, His Majesty foresaw the risk of environmental degradation and had the wisdom to recognize the critical need for timely...
The National Assembly (NA) endorsed a motion aimed at integrating courteous communication and respectful interaction into public service training programmes on June 4.
The Legislative Committee of the National Council (NC) yesterday, has proposed major changes to the Penal Code of Bhutan 2004, aiming to modernise the law and address inconsist...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དང་ ཀྲོང་གསར་གྱི་ གཞུང་ལམ་བར་ན་ གནམ...
བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ འབྲུག་གི་དོན་ལུ་...
༉ ཀྲོང་གསར་ ནུབ་སྦིས་སྟང་སི་སྦྱིས་འདེམས་ཁོངས་ཀྱི་...
༉ ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་འོག་གི་ དགེ་འདུ་ཁྲོམ་ཁར་ སྒོ་ནོར་སེ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཉེན་བཅ...
Even as we decry traffic jams, vehicular pollution, parking shortages and the fossil fuel import bill, elected leaders are championing, on behalf of the “common man”, to reduce tax on import of certain vehicles.
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has set an audacious economic target for Bhutan, declaring a tenfold increase in gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050 as an achievable goal.
The National Council (NC) referred two major recom...
In wake of increasing number of vehicle accidents across the country, the National Council raised serious concerns about road safety and questioned the Ministry of Inf...
As mentioned earlier, at the start of His Majesty’s reign, a major constraint was the very limited human resources available for administering the country and managing the development programs. As a result, there...
Mongar—If there were a grassroots definition of smart, automated farming using the Internet of Things (IoT), the Samsara Integrated Agricultural Farm in Kalapang, Saling gewog, Mongar would be a leading example.
Bhutan faces an escalating youth drug crisis, with 3,678 individuals under the age of 24 arrested for drug-related offences between 2023 and 2024, accou...
Chukha— A rising number of stray cattle roaming the streets of Gedu town, Chukha and its surrounding...
The Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) representing Trongsa’s Nubi-Tangsibji constituency—who was conv...
To commemorate the 35th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, Bhutan National Bank (BNB) launched its newly redesigned VISA cards.
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) yesterda...
To mark the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, Tashi Beverages L...
Sarpang—After decades of recurring blockages and travel disruptions, the infamous Boxcut section along the Gelephu–Trongsa highway will finally be bypas...
དུས་རབས་༢༡ པའི་ནང་ འགྱུར་བ་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ དགོས་མཁོ་གྲུབ་ཐབས་ལུ་ ཀྲོང་གསར་ སྟག་རྩེ་སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ ལས་རིམ་དང་ སྦྱོང་ཚན་ཚུ་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་ཐོག་ལས་ མཐོ་སློབ་གྲྭ་དེ་ གོ་མ་བསྡམ་པར་ ཨ་རྟག་ག་ཨིནམ་སྦེ་ བཞག་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ དྲི་བཀོད་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ དངུ...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་དང་དངུལ་རྩིས་ཚོགས་...
༉ ད་རིས་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་མཆོག་གི་ འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དུས་སྟོན་ བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ བློན་ཆེན་དང་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ཚོགས་ཀྱི་སླ...
༉ ཁག་འབག་ལས་བྱེདཔ་དང་ ཞི་བའི་མཉམ་སྡེབ་ཁག་འབགཔ་ཚུ་ག...
༉ ཤོམ་སྤང་ཁའི་འཐུས་མི་ ཌོག་ཊར་ ཊེག་བྷ་དུར་རའེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ ཆང་ཁང་གི་ཆོག་ཐམ་ལམ་ལུགས་དང་ ཆང་བཙོང་མི་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ལྟ་རྟོག་ཚུ་ དམ་དམ་འབད་དགོ་པའི་ གནད་དོན་སྐོར་ལས་ འཕྲལ་མགྱོགས་ར་ གཞི་སྒྱུར་འབད་དགོཔ་སྦེ་ ཞུ་བ་ཕུལ་མི་དེ་ཡང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆང་ཁང་གི་གྱངས་ཁ་ མགྱོགས་དྲགས་སྦེ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་མི་དེ་གིས་ གནོད་པ་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་ ཞུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Their Majesties The King , The Queen, The Gyalseys and Gyalsem graced the groundbreaking ceremony of Druk Ugyen Samye Ling at Dawathang in Chhuzergang Gewog
The five-day programme, running from April 10 to 14, will see volunteers working across several sites within GMC, cleari...
Bhutan’s economy is set for strong growth from hydropower, but youth unemployment, outward migration, rising fuel prices...
In what residents are describing as the worst hailstorm of their lifetimes, a violent downpour of hailstones swept acros...
“More than profit, our mission has always been to provide high-quality drinking water to our consumers,” he said. “This...
The project evolved from initial setup to diversified production, with Nu 10.596 million invested from multiple funding...
Students like 12-year-old Tandin Tshomo and her seven-year-old brother walk five kilometres daily to school because Bars...
The GMCA has opened a two-week public consultation on six draft corporate and commercial laws to refine policies in the...
The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has suspended the issuance of Audit Clearance Certificates (ACC) to enforce resolution o...
Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...
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 parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...
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