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Two Bhutanese feature films “Buelwa – An Offering”, produced by Bezya Pictures and Samuh, and “Gangnam Girls”, produced by Samuh, are now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video in 72 countries.
Bhutan’s academic and policy landscape reached a new milestone with the in...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ སའི་ཇོ་བདག་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁོང་རའི་...
༉ གསར་སྤང་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ནང་...
༉ སྤ་རོ་ལུ་ ཁུ་སིམ་སི་སྦེ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཟླ་བ་ཁ་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་ སངས་རྒྱས་སྒྲོལ་མ་གིས་ དྲོ་པ་ཧ་སག་ལས་ར་ མོ་རའི་དཀྱི་ར་ རྡིག་རྡིགམ་ཅིག་ གྱོན་ཞིནམ་ལས་ ཟླ་བ་ཁ་འབྲིང་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བའི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ སོང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ ཕམ་དང་སློབ་དཔོན་གྱི་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་པར་ མེནམ་མ་ཚད་ མོ་རའི་ སློབ་རིམ་༨ པའི་ནང་ དཔེ་ཆ་ལྷབ་མི་བུམོ་དེ་ བསྐྱལ་བར་ཡང་མེནམ་ད་ དོན་དག་ངོ་མ་ར་ མོ་ར་ ཞབས་ཁྲ་རྐྱབ་པར་འགྱོཝ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་དང་ འཚོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཡར་ད...
༉ འདས་པའི་ལོ་དང་ཕྱདཔ་ད་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་...
༉ ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མི་ ཚོང་བསྒྲགས་ལས...
༉ ད་ལས་ཕར་ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ཡང་ རྒ...
The latest figures from the Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) reveal a significant increase in income tax collection—Nu 16.87 billion as of April 18 this year, marking...
Dawakha, Paro—It is early morning in the quiet village of Dawakha in Paro. Sangay Dema wears her best kira and sets out toward Dawakha Lower Secondary School. She is not going to attend a parent-teacher...
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in Bhutan, Druk Nyo Foundation, a social and cultural organisation—has started working on a project to rediscover and document Buddhism’...
The Department of Employment and Entrepreneurship (DoEE) under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Employment launched Jabchor 2.0 on May 2 to support entrepreneurship, foster innovation, and attract both local and international investments.
The government’s push for digital modernisation is gaining momentum as the GovTech Agency implements the National Digital Strategy (NDS) launched in July 2024.
Bhutan has entered into a strategic partnership with Thailand to improve its agarwood farming sector and enhance the livelihoods...
In a move to improve urban hygiene and livability, Thimphu Thromde has outsourced its street sweeping and d...
Chimi Dema, a 28-year-old cyclist from Punakha, added another victory to her record yesterday by winning the female’s 100 km category of the Enduring Friendship Mountain Bike Challenge 2025 in Thimphu, her fifth title overall.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཏཱ་ར་ཡ་ན་གཞི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ གཞི་བཙུགས་གཙོ་འཛིན་...
༉ ད་ལས་ཕར་ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ཡང་ རྒ...
༉ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ དར་དཀར་ནང་ལུ་ ཨཱཕ་རི་ཀའི་ ཕག་ནད...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ བི་ཨོ་བི་ འབྲུག་ཨམ་སྲུའི་རྒྱལ་ཡ...
It is not often that media institutions introspect on their own standing. Yet, the annual release of global press freedom rankings invariably sparks reflection among journalists, policymakers, and citizens who view a free press as the bedrock of democ...
Bhutan’s press freedom ranking has plunged to its lowest level in decades, according to the 2025 World Press Freedom Index released yesterday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The country is now ranked 152nd out of 180 countries and territories, a five-place drop from its 147th position last year, and a staggering fall from 33rd place just four years ago.
In a glimmer of hope for one of the most endangered bird species in the world, Bhutan has recorded a modest but meaningful rise...
Tax revenue from personal income tax (PIT), business income tax (BIT), and corporate income tax (CIT) has surged by 16.81 percent for the income year 2024 as of April 18 compared to the sa...
The 10-year Gelephu Mindfulness City’s Nation Building Bond (GNBB) has seen a robust start, attractin...
The digital marketplace in Bhutan has undergone rapid transformation, with thousands of consumers shifting to online platform...
When a 50-year-old woman walked into the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) last month for a rou...
To strengthen immunisation coverage in remote regions, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Gasa dzongkhag administration, UNICE...
Wangdue-Spanning 437 acres in Hebisa village in Gasetsho Wom, Wangdue, the Yarju Open-Air...
For days, Paro was under a blanket of haze, which is normal for this time of the year. The dust from the long dry winter plus the smoke from the recent wildfires, which had hit several places in and around Paro, had made the air thick and the visibility to a couple of kilometres. It caused several flight disruptions too.
History and culture are related, and shared history and culture help shape relationships...
The journey of many Bhutanese students studying abroad often leads to deep introspection about nation...
Gender, as a deeply ingrained social construct, restricts human identity through a male-female binary historically designed to consolidate power and systematical...
The 19th Tarayana Annual Fair opened yesterday at the Centenary Park in Thimphu, commemorating Tarayana Foundation’s 22 years of service to rural communities of the country.
Samtse—Several landowners in Samtse are facing delays in building homes as their applications to construct on...
Sarpang—Residents of Sarpang and Gelephu can expect a major uplift of their existing road networks as major infrastructure work...
Policymakers have reiterated the mantra that the private sector is the “engine of growth”. This phrase has adorned national plans, speeches, and policy statements for decades, to the poin...
The wait is over. Bhutanese living in the country can now directly invest in one of the country’s most ambitious infrastructure projects—the Gelephu International Airport.
Despite being declared an illegal scheme in 2022, QNET, an online marketing company, has once again drawn the attention of the Competition and Consum...
Access to clean and reliable water remains a basic neces...
The children’s book “Bumpa”, originally written in English and based on true stories from Bhutan’s blind community, has found a new home in Sri Lanka with a Sinh...
The BoB Bhutan Women’s National League 2025 is shaping up to be the most competitive and exciting season yet, drawing attention from football enthusiasts across the country.
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ གཞི་རིམ་ལས་གཡོགཔ་(ཨི་ཨེསི་པི་)དང་ སྤྱི...
༉ སོ་ནམ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་དང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་མགྱོགས་དྲ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༩ ལུ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་གར་གྱི་...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ལྟ་བཤལཔ་འོང་མིའི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་མི་དང་བསྟུན་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ཉེ་འདབས་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཨ་མོ་ཆུ་ཟམ་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ གསང་སྤྱོད་དང་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་བཀོག་སའི་ཧོད་ ལགཔ་འཁྱུ་ས་ ཉེན་སྲུང་ དེ་ལས་ ས་ཁོངས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་ཚ་གྱང་ཚུ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Not long after the government raised the maximum contract term for Elementary Support Personnel (ESP) and General Support Personnel (GSP) to five years, a new issue has surfaced—inconsistent and uneven application of contract extensions, leaving many workers frustrated and uncertain.
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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