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༉ ལྷུན་རྩེ་མཁོ་མང་ལུ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་སྐད་ཚུ་ག་ནི་ཡང་མེད་པར་ སྐྱིད་ཏོང་ཏོ་སྦེ་སྡོད་པའི་ ས་ཆ་ཅིག་ཨིན་རུང་ ད་རེས་འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ འུར་བྱེལ་ལང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ཁྲོམ་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་ ཡོངས་གྲགས་ཅན་གྱི་ མ...
If the concept of civic cleanliness is lacking in our culture, it becomes glaringly evident when the mass gathers for any event – festivals, sports and religi...
The Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH), Bhutan’s primary healthcare institu...
Financial institutions (FIs) have approved Nu 2.28 billion in loans under the economic stimulus programme’s (ESP) concessional credit lines (Window-I) and reinvigoration fund (Window-II).
In a thrilling display of wit, awareness, and cross-border camaraderie, Babesa Higher Secondary School (HSS) was victorious at the Inter School Invitational Indo-Bh...
Khoma in Lhuentse, usually calm and quiet, has become a busy stopover in recent days. Located on the route to Singye Dzong, the village is seei...
Phuentsholing—When a group of customers stepped into a popular momo restaurant in Phuentsholing’s town centre and asked for tea, the restaurant owner had to turn them dow...
The Bhutan Food and Drug Authority (BFDA) and the International Trade Center, World Trade Organisation (WTO), yesterday launched a new project initiative focused on facilitating safer and smoother cross-border trade in agricultural and food products for Bhutan.
Bhutan’s only—and the world’s first—captive breeding centre for the critically e...
After a 14-year break, Bhutan is once again stepping onto the international body...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཚུ་གིས་ ཡུན་རིང་ག...
ད་རེས་ནངས་པ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མའི་སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་ དད་ཅན་གྱི་མི་༣,༠༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ གནས་སྐབས་ཀྱི་སྦ་སྒོར་ཚུ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཐོག་ལས་ ཟླཝ་༡ གི་རིང་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ སྙིང་ཐིག་ཡ་བཞིའི་ དབང་ལུང་ཞུ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༠ ལུ་ ལྷོ་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་...
༉ རྒྱ་གར་ ཨ་རུ་ན་ཅཱལ་པར་དེཤ་གི་ ཡུ་པི་ཡ་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ གཱོལ་ཌེན་ཇུ་བི་ལི་རྩེད་ཐང་ནང་སྦེ་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོད་མི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་ ལྷོ་ཨེ་ཤི་ཡན་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་ཚོགས་པའི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༩ འོག་རྒྱུ་འབད་མིའི་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་ འགྲན་བསྡུར་ནང་ ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་གི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༩ འོག་རྒྱུ་འབད་མི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྐང་རྩེད་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་ མཱལ་དིབསི་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ རྩེད་འགྲན་འབདཝ་ད་ གཱོལ་༢-༢ འདྲན་འདྲ་སྦེ་ རྒྱལ་ཕམ་ཕྱེ་མ་ཚུགསཔ་ཨིན་པས།
For many decades, Bhutan has taken great pride in providing free healthcare to all its citizens. This noble mandate has ensured that no Bhutanese is...
More than 3,000 devotees are currently living in m...
Bhutan’s economy expanded to Nu 273.3 billion in 2024, marking a 6.06 percent growth for the year, driven largely by a strong fourth-quarter (October to...
The government has confirmed its review of a comprehensive proposal submitted by the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) outlining a strategic framework for private sectors’ involvement in the 13th Plan.
A new anthology chronicling the lives and contributions of Indian teachers in Bhuta...
Bhutan emerged as the top medal-winning nation at the first South Asia Youth Judo Development Tournament and Camp, held in...
Bhutan’s under (U)-19 men’s national football team played out a spirited 2...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་དྲོ་པར་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ དགེ་བསྙེན་ཁའི་གཞུང་ལམ་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༩ དེ་ཅིག་གི་ས་ཁར་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ཐུག་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མིའི་ནང་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༧༡ ལང་མི་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ཐུག་རྐྱེན་དེ་ཡང་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་བོ་ལི་རེ་ཊག་དེ་ དྲོ་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ཕྱེད་དང་༨ དེ་ཅིག་ཁར་ ལམ་འགྲུལ་འབདཝ་ད་ བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འཕྲལ་གྱི་ འབྲུག་པའི་བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་གནས་སྟངས་བརྟག་ཞིབ...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ནང་ མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ སྒེར་གྱི་ས...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ བསམ་རྩེ་འོད་གསལ་རྩེ་ རིན་ཆེན་སྡིངས་ལུ་...
༉ བཟའ་འཐུང་ཉེན་སྲུང་ ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ད་རེས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༨༤.༩ གནས་པའི་ སྔོ་ཚལ་གྱི་ ཆུ་ཤོག་ཁྱིམ་ཆེ་བ་༡༥ གཞི་བཙུགས་ཀྱི་ལཱ་ཚུ་ འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
As the nation takes stock of its economic health, a troubling figure demands urgent attention. As of now, loans worth Nu 33 billion remain under deferment. Ne...
In a drive to bolster food security, works on establishing 15 mega greenhouses worth Nu 84.9 million are currently underwa...
Phuentsholing—The government’s plan to construct a domestic airstrip at Rinchenphu in Yoeseltse, Samtse, has entered the next phase with the compl...
A recent rapid assessment of Bhutan’s media landscape has raised concerns about financial instability, limited access to information, and a growing culture of self-censorship that impacts journalistic integrity and press freedom.
The Beskop Tshechu Film Festival returns this year with a renewed sense of purpose. For the first time in its history, all screenings will t...
Since the launch of the Environmental Deoxyribonucleic Acid (eDNA) laboratory at the College of Natural Resources (CNR), the country h...
རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ངོས་ལེན་ཟད་འགྲོ་དཔེ་རིས་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ཆང་ལུ་བརྟེན་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་གྱོང་རྒུད་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༦.༥ ཕོག་དོ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཚོད་རྩིས་བཏོན་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༩ ལུ་ བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་ཞལ་འཛོམས་འཚོག...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༠ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ཀྱི་ བརྡ་...
༉ སང་ཕོད་ཀྱི་ལོའི་ སྔ་ཆ་ལུ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ ག...
Gelephu—At least three international construction firms are expected to undertake the 13.6-kilometre Gelephu–Tareythang highway project in Sarpang, which is scheduled to begin early next year.
Eco-tourism in Bhutan is emerging as a powerful to...
Bhutan’s critical care services are steadily expanding as the government intensi...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has not yet reached a final decision on adopting the Cambridge curriculum by July this...
Let’s face it. Alcohol has become a national problem. The statistics speak for itself.
India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire across land, air and sea on May 10 starting 5:00 pm—after an intense war—halting the fight betwe...
College of Natural Resources (CNR), Lobesa—As discussions o...
The ongoing United States–China trade war is redrawing global supply chains, prompting companies to shift o...
The country’s journalism fraternity came together Saturday to celebrate the 9th Annual Journalism Awards (AJA) 2025, honouring exceptional work across print, broadcast, and digital media platforms.
In a world that first instills fear in us, only to sell us a product or service to eliminate that fear, we find ourselves trapped in a never ending cycle of anxiety and temporary relief. At a time when humanity is addicted to economic growth at all costs, it is easy to lose sight of the deeper question, the mother of why we do what we do: our pursuit of happiness.
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Green Digital Limited (GDL) and Clean Kinetics signed a Joint Venture (JV) Agreement to develop grid-connected ground-mounted solar photovoltaic projects in Bhutan on January 8.
Bhutan’s carefully cultivated image as a green success story needs journalism that is willing to look beyond slogans and...
Vehicle prices in Bhutan continue to be a point of contention, especially when compared with those in neighbouring India...
When the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into force on January 1, public attention largely centred on prices, complian...
The Ministry of Finance projects that revenue from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will reach Nu 14.18 billion in the f...
For Phuntsho Wangdi, a corporate employee, the impact of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is felt in the monthly househo...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) should prevent retailers from facing a cascading price effect by allowing them to claim...
The impact of Goods and Services Tax (GST) is being felt most immediately and viscerally in the agriculture and livestoc...
Prices in most shops have jumped five percent overnight. In Changzamtog, a couple sits at their tiny wooden table, counting what little money they have left. The husband, the sole breadwinner, earns Nu 17,0...
The new excise tax (ET) framework, effective from January 1, has led to price increases for alcohol, tobacco, carbonated...
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...
The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...
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 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...
We love to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. In fact, we use these words in excess in policy d...
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