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Chhukha—Two remote chiwogs in Getana gewog, Chukha—Daga and Tashigang—are witnessing a rising number of goongtong (empty households), as families abandon their homes due to the lack of basic services, especially a school.
Bhutan is expected to experience a normal monsoon season from June through September, accompanied by slightly above-normal tempe...
ORO Bank, in collaboration with Finastra, has been...
The bedrock of our democratic constitutional monarchy rests upon the fundamental principle enshrined in Article 1(13) of our Constitution, which unequivoca...
If the claims of the National Resources and Environmental Committee of the Na...
We often point to our cultural pride and our status as a clean, s...
Being a Buddhist in a Buddhist country, I joined hundreds of devotees at Kuenselphodrang to receive the wang-lung (empowerment and transmiss...
Druk Green Power Corporation Limited (DGPC) and PTC India Limited (PTC) yesterday signed a Memorandum of...
At 30, Pema Wangmo is not just an artisan, she is a quiet force of change. At the Bhutan TSHAR Institute in Kalapang, Mongar, she has emerged as a master craftswoman whose work is as much a story of resilience as it is of refined artistry.
The government has spent Nu 7.936 million to develop 39 gov...
ལས་རིམ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལུ་ལཱ་འབད་མི་དང་ ཤེས་ཡ...
ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་ ...
Bhutan’s media landscape is facing a serious problem that strikes at the core of its democratic ideals. Once seen as a promising pillar of democratic transition, the Bhutanese press is now navigating a slow, painful decline—one marked by financial hardship, diminishing independence, and shrinking space for public discourse.
Germany has rapidly emerged as a popular education...
More than 160 overseas returnees who had registered with the National Reintegration Programme (NRP) are...
Phuentsholing—Communities along the southern border, particularly in Samtse and Phuentsholing, are urging the government t...
Punakha-An 89-year-old woman died from injuries sustained when the Bolero she was traveling in veered off the road on the afternoon of May 21. The accident occurred in Saycochen, Khatoed Gewog, approximately 22 kilometers from Gasa.
The Pema Secretariat is ramping up efforts to address pressing issues related to mental health and ch...
Heli Bhutan Private Limited, the country’s first private helicopter service, has completed f...
Bhutanese archer Kinley Tshering advanced to the third round of the Incheo...
༉ མངོན་མཐོ་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ ཆེ་མཐོའི་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལས་བཏོན་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༣༨ ལང་མི་ ཕ་ཇོ་དངོས་གྲུབ ཀྱི་ རྩོད་གཞིའི་འཁྲུན་ཆོད་དེ་ དུམ་གྲ་ཅིག་ བསྒྱུར་བཅོས་འབད་དེ་ ཉེས་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ གནད་དོན་ཚུ་ལུ་ བཙོན་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ཚབ་སྦེ་ ཁྲིམས་འཐུན་བཏབ་ཆོགཔ་ བཟོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
འབྲུག་པའི་ གསར་ཐོན་གྱོན་ཆས་བཟོ་བཀོདཔ་དང་ རིས་མོ་མཁ...
༉ ངན་ལྷད་བཀག་སྡོམ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་མགུ་འབྱིད་རྐྱབ་མིའི་གྱངས་...
His Majesty the King, accompanied by Her Royal Highness Ashi Dechhen Wangmo Wangchuck,...
Bhutan’s rising youth unemployment is no longer a “ticking time bomb”—it is a full-blown crisis. Beneath the surface of growi...
Alarmed by an increasing number of financial scams in the country, authorities are engaging in discussions to...
A two-day regional conference on labour mobility in South Asia concluded yesterday in Thimphu, spotlighting a major shift in how policymakers, expert...
In light of the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Germany on November 25, 2020, and the history of German assistance dating back to the early 1970s, what are your perspectives on the growth and current state of this bilateral partnership?
Punakha—The Supreme Court yesterday partially overturned the High Co...
Bhutanese fashion designer, artist, and photographer, Karma Tshering Wangchuk, widely known as Lhari,...
Recently, a close friend insisted we go to Kuenselphodrang to receive blessings from His Eminence Namkhai Nyingpo Rinpoche. At the break of dawn, we took a taxi to help ease traffic...
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) latest report on “Assessment of Corruption Vulnerabilities and Integrity in the Media Sector” highlights the media’s increasing vulnerability to corruption, undermining its role as a pillar of democracy.
༉ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ཚོང་ལམ་ནང་ སྤུས་ཚད་ཅན་དང་ རང་བཞིན་ཐོན་ས...
སྒེར་སྡེ་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་དང་ ལཱ་གཡོག་གི་གོ་སྐབས་ཡར་...
༉ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ སྤུ་ན་ཁའི་གཡུས་ཚན་དེ་ ལུང་གཤོང་སྐྱིད་ཉམས་ཅན་ཅིག་དང་ ཆོས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ཅིག་སྦེ་ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ད་རེས་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ལས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ས་ཁོངས་ལྟེ་བ་ཅིག་ལུ་ འགྱུར་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཁང་གླ་མཐོ་དྲགས་སྦེ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ...
The government’s approval of the National Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme—a long-awaited initiative to shield farmers from losses caused by climate change and wildlife depredation—marks a critical step...
Gelephu—With rents in Gelephu now at a record high, rising faster than overall inflation, low-income ten...
The upcoming 35th session of the National Council (NC), scheduled from May 23 to July 2, will feature the presentation of a review report on youth and substance abuse—an issue the House regards as a national concern. Gasa MP Tshering, chairperson of the Social and Cultural Affairs Committee, said youth are the backbone of the country and must not fall prey to alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse.
Bhutan aims to transform its honey sector into an inclusive, sustainable, and globally recognised apiculture industry by 2030, prod...
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the Royal Government have unveiled a new five-year developmen...
Punakha—Once known for its tranquil valleys and spiritual allure, Punakha is now at the heart of a real est...
Beskop Tshechu began in 2011 with the goal of creating an alternative platform—for both filmmakers and audiences. At that time, there were few spaces for the kind of creative, non-commercial films the founding group was interested in. TV stations and cinema halls catered to different content, leaving a gap for short, experimental works. Short films, by nature, have limited budgets and no commercia
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ ཚོགས་ཐེངས་༣༥ པ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ གནམ་གཤིས་འགྱུར་བགྲོད་དང་ ར...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༢༣ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ སྤྱི...
༉ ནང་སྲིད་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་འོག་ལུ་ ས་གནས་གཞུང་སྐྱོང་དང་ རྐྱེན་ངན་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལས་ཁུངས་དང་ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་སྡེ་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༧ ཚུན་ལུ་འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་ གཞི་རྟེན་འཚོལ་ཞིབ་དང་ སྲོག་སྐྱབས་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ལས་རིམ་ཐེངས་༨ པ་དེ་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་ཅན་སྦེ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བུམ་ཐང་ལུ་ འོབ་ཐང་རང་བཞིན་སོ་ནམ་ལས་འགུལ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་དེ་ནང་ སྔོ་ཚལ་གྱི་ཆུ་ཤོག་ཁྱིམ་༢ མ་གཏོགས་ མཐུན་རྐྱེན་གཞན་ཚུ་ ལག་ལེན་ཐོག་ལུ་མེདཔ་ལས་ ཚལ་མ་གིས་གང་བའི་ཁར་ རཝ་ཚུ་འགྱལ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སོ་ནམ་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ཚུ་ཡང་ ལག་ལེན་མེད་པར་ལུས་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ རེ་འདོད་ཅན་གྱི་ ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་དེ་ སྐྱོ་དྲགས་སྦེ་ ཡོདཔ་་ཨིན་པས།
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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