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The Third Session of the Fourth Parliament, scheduled from May 23 to July 3, will deliberate on 10 Bills—seven Government Bills, one Private Member’s Bill, and two Bills in a Joint Sitting.
The government has approved a new National Crop and Livestock Insurance Scheme (...
The Department of Local Governance and Disaster Management (DLGDM) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, in collaboration with the...
Gelephu— When Class 10 student Tshering peered through a solar telescope for the first time, she saw sunspots dancing across the sun’s surface—something she had never imagined. “I never knew the sun had dark spots,” she excl...
Launched in May 2020, the Wobthang Organic Wonders (WOW) farm in Bumthang was supposed to be a model of sustainable agriculture, innovation, and community empowerment. Today, the project is anything but that. The project has been abandoned. The 35-acres farm is overrun with weeds and overgrowth.
Bushes are growing wild, fences are falling apart, and machinery lies unused. Except for two greenhouses still in use by nearby cattle farm workers, the on...
གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་གནང་བ་མེད་པར་ སྒེ...
འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ དྲང་བདེན་དང་ ཐོབ་སྤྱོད་ དེ་ལས་ ལས་...
༉ བསམ་རྩེའི་ས་ཁོངས་དེ་ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ འབྱ་ཞིང་དང་ རྡོག་མ་ཤིང་འཛུགས་སྐྱོང་འབད་དེ་ སྡོད་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན་རུང་ ད་རེས་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཁང་དང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ཅིག་ལུ་འགྱུར་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ སོ་ནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ རྫོང་ཁག་ལྟེ་བ་སྦེ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཁང་དང་ གཞི་རྟེན་མཁོ་ཆས་རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་འགྱོ་མི་གིས་ སའི་ཆགས་ཚུལ་དང་ མི་ཚེའི་གནས་སྟངས་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་ལུ་ འགྱུར་བ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥...
In an age when many countries are content with meeting global benchmarks, Bhutan has chosen to raise the bar—not just for itself, but for how nations think ab...
His Majesty the King granted Royal Kashos (edicts) for the construction of eight major spiri...
Samtse—Once known for its lush paddy fields and sprawling areca nut plantations, Samtse is emerging as a vibrant industrial and economic zone. The shift from an agriculture-dominated district to a centre of manufacturing and infrastructure growth is reshaping both its landscape and livelihood.
Bhutan has launched an ambitious new roadmap to improve the health and survival of mothers and newborns. The Bhutan Eve...
The annual Bhutan Day, a key initiative of the German Bhutan Himalaya Society (DBHG), convened on May 17 at the Dharma Mati C...
For the second time in 16 years, Bhutan is once again racing to lower the waters of the most dangerous glacier lake, Thorthomi, in Lunana using centuries-old...
Trees have been around for a long time, and their rings, like pages of a book, tell stories that go back centuries.Each ring tells a story—of changing seasons, of the sunlight they have soaked in and the storms they have endured. They are living archives, silently chronicling the history of a changing world.
Bhutanese textile designer Chandrika Tamang, founder of CDK Gencha, is set to debut at Melbourne Design Week 2025, becoming the first Bhu...
༉ ལྡོག་ཕྱོགས་ཚོགས་པའི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ གཞུང་གིས་ སློབ་རིམ...
The 18MW Suchhu Hydropower Project in Sombaykha, Haa will be remembered as a monumental milestone not only for the people of Haa but for the entire nation. This ach...
The National Assembly’s Economic and Finance Committee (EFC) yesterday held its first public heari...
A Member of Parliament (MP) from the opposition party convicted of child molestation continues to hold office, igniting the debate over whether elected leaders c...
The state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the country are under pressure to restructure how they allocate profits, with the finance ministry calling for a sharp increase in the share going to labour, from under 50 percent to about 70 percent, mainly to revitalise productivity and drive economic growth.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued a public warning against individuals and entities operating private healthcare centres without official approval, warning...
Bhutan’s spice sector is showing promise, but entrepreneurs...
Bhutan has partnered with global cryptocurrency giant Binance and local Di...
The hushed reverence of the hall, punctuated by the gentle rustle of serthra silk gho, held a particular weight on the evening of May 10. As the minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoICE), Namgyal Dorji, stepped to the podium at the National Journalism Awards 2025, a palpable sense of anticipation filled the air.
The recent visit of His Majesty to Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) marks a pivotal moment in international financial cooperation. This partnership creates an unprecedented finan...
“I have been informed by the Government of India that one JCO and 25 soldiers of the Bhutan Army, who were attached to the Assam...
The fourth phase of the Million Fruit Trees Plantation (MFTP) initiative will introduce 1...
In an insightful session of Wisdom for the Future: A JSW Talk Series, Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay sat down to talk about his new book “Enlightened Leadership: Inside Bhutan’s Inspiring Transition from Monarchy to Democracy”.
Dagana Dzongkhag is fast becoming a model for disability inclusion in the country, demonstrating that community leadership, commitment, and innovation can drive...
Bhutan’s national women’s cricket team wrapped up their campaign at...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༥ ལུ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་འགོ་དང་པ་ ཕྱི་...
སྨྱོ་ཆང་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལུ་གྱོང་རྒུད། ༉ ལོ་བས...
༉ ད་རིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ སིངྒ་པོར་གྱི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ སའེ་མཱོན་ འུང་ ཝི་ཀའུན་གྱིས་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཕྱད་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན...
ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ལྷུང་ཚོ་ལུ་ དུར་ཁྲོད་གསརཔ་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་ ཁ་གས...
Our healthcare system stands at a dangerous crossroads. What was once held up as a model of free, accessible care for all has now begun to f...
Her Majesty the Royal Grandmother Gyalyum Kesang Choeden Wangchuck launched the third edition of the Zangdok Palri book, titled “Zangdok Palri of Kurjey: A Sublime Manifestation of the Lotus Light Palace of Guru Rinpoche in Bhutan” and “Path of Pure Devotion: Prayers, Practices, and Aspirations”.
In a milestone for Bhutan’s burgeoning capacity in hydropower development, th...
The Opposition Party has renewed its call for the...
Bhutan plans to register 205 local products under the Geographical Indication (GI) system by...
The preparation of detailed estimates, architectural drawings, and site development works for the new cremation ground in Hongtsho has been outsourced to Namas Design and Build. The construction is scheduled to begin by the end of this year, with the design and drawings expected to be completed by August 2025.
The recent defacing of Uluru’s sacred rock art by two Bhutanese individuals was not just a legal violation—it was a spirit...
In hospital wards across the country, a quiet revolution in neonatal care is unfolding, not with machines, but with human touch.
Torrential rain has upended the ICC Women’s T20 Wo...
འབྲུག་གི་ གསོ་བའི་གཙུག་སྡེ་ལྟེ་བ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་གཙོ་བསྟེན་སྨན་ཁང་དེ་ ད་རེས་ ཚབས་ཆེན་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ ལྷོད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
དངུལ་འབྲེལ་གཙུག་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་འཆར་དངུལ་ལས་རིམ་ཐོག་ལས་ སྐྱེད་ཆུང་(གོ་རིམ་དང་པ་) ཀོ་བིཌ་༡༩ ལུ་བརྟེན་ཐོ་ཕོག་མི་ཚུ་ ལོག་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནིའི་(གོ་རིམ་༢ པ་) དོན་ལུ་ སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༢.༢༨ ཆ་འཇོག་འབད་ནུག
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 government’s decision to lift the taxi registration moratorium has sparked fears among drivers of deeper income loss...
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 capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing water, electricity, cable and internet lines, and making roads narrower. The works are to improve our drainage system and other amenities. While improvements are most appreciated, the inconvenience caused is not.
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...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
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...
While Home Minister Tshering declined to reveal the exact conviction rate at present in the country, the minister said the number of individuals convicted for various offences in 2025 is 1,504, which has decreased by 23.88 per cent (a drop of 472 cases) compared to 1,976 individuals convicted in 2024.
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