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A growing chorus of Bhutan’s healthcare professionals is calling for private sector participation in healthcare delivery, as the country’s public health system shows increasing signs of strain.
Bhutan suffers an estimated economic loss of Nu 6.5 billion every year due to alcohol-related harm—an amount that...
With the fourth phase of the monetary relief measures set to end...
Phuentsholing—Although Samtse was declared the country’s fifth dzongkhag thromde by the previous Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) government, t...
To raise Bhutan’s standing in the global media landscape, experts suggest drawing lessons from countries that consistently rank at the top of the World Press Freedom Index.
With tensions escalating between India and Pakistan, the world is watching with a growing concern. The conflict is closest to our doors, the SAARC region, yet there seems to be some silence in c...
The advent of land tokenisation in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) marks a transformative moment in property rights and wealth preservation. By leveraging blockchain techn...
The government is planning to reduce Thimphu’s growing dependence...
In December 2023, Bhutan launched one of its most...
Oxford Professor Eric Beinhocker explained the Origin of Wealth as the combinat...
A regional conference aimed at promoting cross-bor...
All vacant Gewog Administrative Officer (GAO) positions across the country will be filled by...
Samtse—At 74, Madan Kumar Rai remembers a time when buffaloes were central to life in his village. Once a prominent buffalo farmer in Namgaychoeling, Rai now owns just seven animals. Across the village, numbers are decreasing. Buffalo rearing — once a way of life — is quietly fading.
The government has approved the import of beef from Brazil starting in February this year, following the co...
January 2025 brought me an extraordinary gift — a journey back to my second home, Tokushima. When my friend Teruh...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་ གནད་དོན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ལག་ལེན་ཚུ་ ཨང་ཅན་ཌི་ཇི་ཊལ་གྱི་ཐོག་ལུ་ སོར་སྒྱུར་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ གྲུབ་དབང་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མའི་ སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་སྦེ་ སྙིང་ཐིག་ཡ་བཞི་དང་...
༉ གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ལོ་བསྟར་ཁྱིམ་གུང་གསོ་བའི་ལྟ་རྟ...
༉ འབྲུག་ཉེན་སྒྲོལ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་(བི་ཨར་སི་ཨེསི) གཞི་བཙ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༨ ལུ་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ གློག་ཤུགས་མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་ཡོངས་བསྡོམས་༥,༠༠༠ རྐྱབ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འབྲུག་སླར་འབྱུང་གློག་མེ་ལས་འཛིན་དང་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཨ་ད་ནི་སྡེ་ཚན་༢ ཀྱི་བར་ན་ གོ་བརྡའི་ཆིངས་ཡིག་གུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་བཀོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The Ministry of Health’s launch of the Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS) programme marks a significant step in Bhutan’s journey toward strengthening primary healthcare. At a time when health systems around the world ar...
The Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) and India’s Adani Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Thimphu yesterday to jointly develop hydropower projects totalling 5,000 megawatts (MW).
The cost of goods and services in the country rose sharply in March this year, with the infl...
A 64-year-old man died after being electrocuted in Nobgang, Punakha, while replacing prayer flags near the Talo Gup’s office.According to police and eyewitness accounts, the incident occurred when the man was attemptin...
Thimphu Thromde is digitally transforming its operations to tackle the persistent issue of waste management. The city’s rapid urban growth has exacerbated sanitatio...
Marking its eighth foundation day, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) launched its Youth Forum and Youth Volunteer Policy yesterday, a strategic initiative aimed at unlocking the potential of Bhutan’s young population.
༉ ཌི་ཇི་ཊཱལ་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༩ འི་ནང་འཁོ...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ མ་འོངས་པའི་དོན་ལུ་ ག...
༉ གཞལམ་སྒང་ ཀྲོང་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ རི་དྭགས་གླངམོ་ཆེ་༡༣...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཞབས་དྲུང་སྐུ་མཆོད་ཀྱི་ ཉིནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ནང་ ཐུགས་སྨོན་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས...
Zhemgang—A herd of 13 wild elephants has been roaming Trong Gewog in Zhemgang for more than three weeks, causing...
The media’s role in voicing public aspirations and holding power to account is under increasing threat in South Asia, according to the Asia Press Freedo...
Phuentsholing—Phuentsholing has taken a bold step into the digital future, ending decades of informal and manual parking practices with the full implementation of Parking.bt—Bhutan’s first mobile parking application.
Bhutan’s digital economy is projected to contribute USD 300 million to its gross domestic product...
The GovTech Agency’s initiative to equip half of Bhutan’s population with essential digital skills—or at least enable them to safely navigate online services—is not just tim...
What should have been a joyous beginning to mother...
རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འགན་ལེན་བདོག་གཏད་བརྗེ་སོར་ཁང་ནང་ ལས་སྡེ་...
༉ ཇ་པཱན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ ཨོ་ས་ཀ་ ཡུ་མེ་ཤི་མ་ལུ་སྦེ་ འགོ...
༉ མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ཚུ་ནང་ སྨན་ཁབ་གྱི་ཁྱབ་ཚད་...
༉ འབྲུག་གིས་ འབྲུག་མི་༤༠༠,༠༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ལུ་ དགོས་མཁ...
In an era where institutions are stretched thin and community bonds often feel like relics of the past, the story of Dawakha Lower Secondary School is a quiet but ringing affirmation of what can still be possible when people remember that they belong to one another.
Out of 18 listed companies with the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan Limited (RSEBL), 10 have declared dividends and share offerings, while...
༉ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ལས་ཚོགས་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱལ...
Bhutan will roll out an ambitious digital literacy initiative this fiscal year to equip more than 400,000 Bhutane...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has launched the Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS) programme, a nationwide initiative to strengthen primary healthcare by bringing essential services directly to the doorsteps of communities.
The Bhutan Pavilion at the World Expo 2025 in Yumeshima, Osaka, Japan saw over 10, 000 visitors in the first weeks. Bhutan is taking part in the Expo at the invitation of the Government of Japan. The event brings together diverse perspectives, foster collaboration, and generate innovative solutions to address global challenges.
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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