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༉ ཡུན་རིང་བསྒུགས་སྡོད་མི་ ཅ་ཆས་དང་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཁྲལ་དེ་...
གཞུང་གིས་ ཤར་དང་ ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ མཁའ་འགྲུལ...
Even before the Economic and Finance Committee could review the Excise Tax Bill and Income Tax Bill 2025 presented by the finance minister on the first day of Parliament’s ongoing session, discussions—both online and offline—have erupted, lar...
The long-awaited goods and services tax (GST) will be implemented beginning next year as part of the move to modernise the country’s taxation system.
Despite a record wave of emigration, many Bhutanese living abroad are not closing the door on home. A new World Bank survey reveals that a majority o...
Although the 2,800-megawatt (MW) Kuri-Gongri hydropower project in Mongar, one of the lar...
With the loan deferment scheme for the hotel industry set to expire on June 30, the government has held two...
In keeping with the government’s pledge to explore air connectivity in east and south regions, Yoeseltse in Samtse and Samrang in Samdrupjongkhar have been identified as the most suitable sites for new airstrips.
As Bhutan accelerates its transition to electric vehicles (EV), the government has approved a nationwide rollout of...
The curtain on the sixth edition of Beskop Tshechu closed on May 26 with a clear message: Bhutanese cinema is evolving, and it is doing so with bold con...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday introduced the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi...
The Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025, tabled in the National Assembly on May 26, seeks to overhaul the country’s livestock sector by prioritising animal welfare, strengthening veterinary services, ensuring food safety, and aligning Bhutan’s biosecurity practices with both national and international standards.
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚེ་སྲོག་ཉེན་བཅ...
གཞུང་གིས་ ནུས་ཤུགས་མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༢,༨༠༠ ཐོན་སྐྱེད་འབད་ཚུ...
རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ ལུ་ཡང་ ལས་སྡེ་ཚུ་གི་གྲས་ལས་ མི་སྡེ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ དངུལ་རྩིས་བློན་པོ་ ལས་སྐྱིད་རྡོ་རྗེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ འི་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་ ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཁྲལ་གྱི་ལམ་ལུགས་གཞི་སྒྱུར་དེ་གིས་ གཞུང་ལུ་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༥.༥༧ གནས་ནི་ཨིནམ་ལས་ འོང་འབབ་ལུ་ ཐོ་ཕོག་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ཚོགས་བཞུགས་ཐེངས་༣༤...
The recent surge of Covid-19 sub-variants in India—LF.7 and NB.1.8—serves as a warning that the pandemic, while quieter, is far from over. We must resist the tempting lull o...
Bhutan’s 13th Plan’s second year gains serious traction as Nu 138.5 billion is allocated for the fiscal year 2025-26, accounting for 27 percent...
Finance Minister Lekey Dorji introduced the Income Tax Bill 2025 in the National Assembly yesterday, outlining a bold restructuring of the tax system that could cost the government up to Nu 5.57 billion annually in lost revenue.
The National Council (NC) will deliberate on the Rural Life Insurance Scheme (RLIS)...
National Council (NC) members yesterday expressed frustration over the poor implementation of resolutions passed during th...
As neighbouring India sees a rise in Covid-19 cases linked to two emerging variant—LF.7 and NB.1.8—the Ministry of Heal...
Most farmers in Bhutan still rely on traditional knowledge and signs from nature while making farming decisions, as access to accurate and localised weather forecasts is limited.
The Legislative Committee (LC) of the National Assembly (NA) will review and present the Alternative Disput...
In a move to elevate the country’s film industry onto the global stage, the governm...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ལྷོ་ཀོ་རི་ཡ་ ཨིན་ཅིཨཱོན་ལུ་ གི་ཡང་ཨོ་པཱན་མད...
དཔལ་འབྱོར་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ གསར་སྒྲུབ་འཆར་དངུལ་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༥༨.༨ ཡར་སེང་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ གསར་བཏོན་འབ...
༉ སྒེར་སྡེ་གཉིས་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ སྤྱི...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལོ་ཐོག་དང་སྒོ་ནོར་གྱི་ ཉེན་བ...
As traditional education destinations like Australia and Canada tighten student visa regulations, Germany and other European countries have rapidly emerged as an attractive alternative for Bhutanese students seeking higher education abroad. However, the reality may not be as rosy as it is packaged.
Bhutanese archer Kinley Tshering claimed gold medal in the foreign individual recurve cat...
The country’s national debt has reached Nu 298.18 billion, constituting 99.1 percent of the gross dom...
A collaborative public-private partnership has resulted in the inaugura...
Bhutan’s economic growth for 2025 is projected at 8.31 percent, according to the third quarter Macroeconomic Situation Report released by the Ministry of Finance.
Weavers of Yathra in Dorji Bi, Bumthang, and Kishu...
Gelephu—For the contractors working on the road di...
Her Royal Highness (HRH) Princess Eeuphelma Choden Wangchuck, President of the Bhut...
༉ ད་རིས་ དྲོ་པ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ འཛོམས་མི་རྒེད་འོག་ལུ་ཡོད་མ་ི་ ཚོགས་བདག་གླང་པོ་གནས་ཀྱི་ ལྷ་ཁང་དེ་ མེ་མཆོད་བཞེས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ སྤུ་ན་ཁའི་གཡུས་ཚན་དེ་ ལུང་གཤོང་ས...
༉ ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ས་མཚམས་ཀྱི་མི་སྡེ་ བསམ་རྩེ་དང་ ཕུན་ཚོག...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༡ གི་ ཉིན་དགུང་འཚམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་བོ་ལི་རོ་ཅིག་ རྦོབ་རིལ་མིའི་ནང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༨༩ ལང་མི་ ཨང་རྒས་ཅིག་ལུུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Finally, we are on the right path toward a lasting solution to keep our surroundings clean and green. If the Clean Thimphu City Initiative garners public supp...
Gelephu—Land prices in Sarpang are declining due to low demand, following the introduction of the new land ownership model, tokenisati...
His Majesty the King graced the opening ceremony of the third session of the fourth Parliament yester...
Punakha—Bhutan’s strict child protection laws, intended to shield minors from sexual abuse, are inadvertently imprisoning young men under statutory rape charges in cases where no coercion or abuse occurred.
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP), with a total allocation of Nu 9.6 billion distributed across nine implementing agencies, has recorded a utilisation of Nu 1.27 billion as of April 30 this year. These agencies span crucial sectors including tourism, creative industries, agriculture, and employment, aiming to revitalise the economy.
The Class X 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.
Majority of industries in Dhamdara have not begun relocation despite approaching deadline. With just four months remain...
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 latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.
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...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct r...
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 Invest Bhutan Summit has attracted strong international interest, drawing 71 foreign investors from 11 countries in sectors such as IT and digital infrastructure, agro-based industries, tourism and wellness ventures, and solar technologies.
Read MoreThe Invest Bhutan Summit has attracted strong international interest, drawing 71 foreign investors from 11 countries in sectors such as IT and digital infrastructure, agro-based industries, tourism and wellness ventures, and solar technologies.
Read MoreChukha—Restoration work on the 100-metre Takti Bridge in Chukha is underway, with Project DANTAK aiming to complete critical stabilisation and reopen the crossing to traffic by the first week of April.
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