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Phuentsholing—A farmer from Mongar recently sold 2,082 kilograms (kg) of cardamom for Nu 1,585 per kg, netting over Nu 3.29 million. But had market conditions been fair, he could have earned nearly Nu 864,000 more.
The Royal Bhutan Police arrested three individuals, including two former monks, for stealing a gold butter lamp worth Nu 12 mill...
The 10-year Gelephu Mindfulness City’s Nation Building Bond (GNBB) drew strong interest from Bhutanese residents, surpassing Nu 2 billion bond value in subscriptions by yesterday afternoon.
Although forests cover nearly 70 percent of the country’s land area, the forestry sector’s share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is disp...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development has no authority to revise the pay structure or entitlements of national contract teachers, according to Minister Yeezang De Thapa.
In response to concerns raised by Lingmukha-Toedwang MP Namgay Wangchuk regarding the scarcity of reliable...
Beginning this June, a team of urban planners will travel across all 20 dzongkhags to...
There is a growing consensus among elected leaders to undo the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) initiative—planned, discussed, and implemented for the greater good of the bureaucracy. Both ruling and opposition members are demand...
Many people assume that every official foreign trip by public servants boosts their personal finances. However, these trips often drain their savings, as the allowances for foreign travel have not been substantially revised in over two decades and fail to cover even basic expenses.
In 2003, as part of the U.S. government’s economic sanctions against Myanmar (Burma) funds belonging to Bhutan’s...
The 2025 Rapid Assessment of Bhutan’s media landscape, conducted by the Journalists’ Association of Bhutan (JAB), presents a sobering yet nuanced portra...
In another key step toward full commissioning, Unit 4 (170 MW) of the 1,020MW Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project (HEP) was successfully synchronised with the national po...
Punakha—A complex investigation into the paternity of a newborn in Punakha has taken a significant turn after DNA analysis exonerated the initially accused stepfather of a 17-year-old girl.
Following a recent intervention by the Competition and Consumer Affairs...
Health Minister Tandin Wangchuk highlighted the comprehensive roadmap for supporting pers...
Namchella, Dagana, May 25—In the wild, green heart of Namchella, a footpath winds through...
The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Yeezang Dee Thapa, yesterday defended the ministry’s recent notification addressing the continued use of corporal punishment by teaching staff, which specifically mentioned Dzongkha teachers during the National Assembly’s question and answer session.
Bhutan’s senior women’s national football team is determined to beat Malaysia on June 3 in their final match o...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ལྟ་བཤལ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་གུ་...
༉ ནད་ཡམས་ཀོ་བིཌ་-༡༩ ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ...
གཞུང་གིས་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་གི་ གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་ངལ་གསོ་དེ་...
The sharp rise in Bhutanese outmigration since the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer just a trend; it has become a full-blown national crisis. Prime Minister Tsheri...
Bhutan’s national poverty fell from 28 percent in 2017 to 11.6 percent in 2022. The World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Assessmen...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday instructed its Good Governance Committee (GGC) to present a detailed action-taken report on the resolutions concerning the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) Annual Report for the Financial Year 2023–2024.
Bhutanese farmers may begin benefiting from the long-anticipated Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme (CLIS) as early...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) handed over advanced drone equipment to the D...
The Opposition Party today issued a strong statement, expressing its firm support f...
Global progress on the Human Development Index (HDI) has stalled, with the 2025 report showing the slowest growth since its inception excluding the pandemic year.
The National Council (NC) yesterday supported five key tourism reform recommendations from its Economic Affairs C...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་་སློབ་གྲྭ་དང་ ཨ་ནེམ་ཚུ་གི་ གཙ...
༉ ་ར་་ ས་ང་ནང་ད་དེ་ཡོད་པ་ ག་་ཀཝ་དང་ ག་ཐག...
ཨིན་རུང་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་ གནད་དོན་དེའི་སྐོར་ལས་ གྲོས་ཐག་གཅད་ནི་དེ་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཞི་གཡོག་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ལུ་ བཞག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ལྡན་ཚོགས་ཆུང...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཁག་འབགཔ་དང་ བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཡུན་རིང...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལས་དོན་ཚོགས...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༧ ལུ་ ཇ་པཱན་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཅི་བ་འཕྲུལ་རིག་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་གིས་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལུ་ མཁས་དབང་སྐུ་ཡོན་གྱི་ གཟེངས་བསྟོད་ལག་ཁྱེར་ ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan conferred an Honorary Doctorate on His Ma...
In a rare public rebuke, National Assembly Speaker Lungten Dorji expressed dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR) for its continu...
The National Council’s Good Governance Committee (GGC) has proposed key changes to the Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS), recommending a...
The National Council’s Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) yesterday presented a comprehensive set of eight recommendations to the government aimed at revitalising Bhutan’s tourism sector and ensuring its equitable and sustainable growth.
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay’s assertion that the government has no authority to amend the Royal Civil Service Commis...
Our global brand—Gross National Happiness—is envied and admired. Yet our ranking in the Human Development Index (HDI) tells a different story. At...
The National Assembly introduced the Co-operatives and Farmer Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 yester...
Gelephu—All schools and nunneries across the country will have sanitary pad disposal bins, bringing the government closer to its commitment to making all schools and nunneries period-friendly by 2029.
Bhutan achieved a significant milestone in 2023 by climbing to the 125th position out of 193 countries in the Global Human Development Index (HDI), accordi...
The finance ministry is undertaking a significant overhaul of its Procurement Rules and Regulations (PRR) 2023 and Standard Bidding Documents (SBDs) 2023 to address long-standing issues faced...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༦ ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་སྒོ་ནོར་དཔྱད་ཡ...
༉ ཟ་ཁང་དང་ བཟོ་གྲྭའི་སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་གྱི་ སྐྱིན་ཚབ་བཏབ...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ བེང་གཱལ་མཚོ་ཁུག་སྣ་མང་ལས་སྡེའི་ འཕྲུལ་རིག་དཔལ་འབྱོར་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐབས་རིག་(བིམསི་ཊེག)གི་ ཕན་ཚུན་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་གྲོགས་རམ་དང་ མཚོ་འགྲུལ་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་གན་ཡིག་གུ་ གསུང་གྲོས་དང་ ཆ་འཇོག་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ངོ་སྤྲོད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
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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