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I have known about the existence of Dharma Kings in ancient India, ancient Tibet and beyond, when society was characterised by virtue and Dharm, and spirituality was at the core of humankind. Unfortunately, today we may not be able to say the same.
The growing number of corruption reports in the past year forces the nation to confront a hard truth: something in our systems is not working a...
While many hoteliers continue to report low occupancy and seve...
Gelephu—Despite decades of cross-border trade between Bhutan and India, most transactions along the bord...
The Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) is preparing to impose penalties on retailers and suppliers who raised prices on cigarettes, pan masala, and beer without justification, following a nationwide inspection prompted by growing public unease over sudden price spikes.
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan scheme has largely benefited smallholder farmers, with 1,864 loa...
The recent Teacher Requirement Exercise conducted by the Ministry of Education and...
The National Council’s Good Governance Committee r...
The health ministry launched three landmark initiatives for traditional medicine yesterday, marked by the inauguration of the National Center for Traditional Medicine Services (NCTMS), the launch of the National Traditional Medicine Strategy and Action Plan (NTMSAP 2025–2034), and the signing of a Nu 44 million grant agreement with the Bhutan Foundation.
This year’s National Day is headed for a major digital upgrade...
The recent tragic incident in Samtse, involving the death of a five-year-old and the death of a pe...
Introduction: When peace becomes strategy In Novem...
Yesterday morning, I came across an anonymous Facebook post that read: “It is either abroad or Chamgang (jail) for youth in Bhutan. Laws are draconian, especially towards poor and humble ones.”
The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Gem Tshering, introduced a framework agreement to the National Assembly yesterday for Bhutan t...
The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT), Chandra Bdr Gurung, confirmed that no documentation exists regarding th...
Kolkata, India—In the bustling corridors of Kolkata’s private hospitals, a community moves almost invisibly. They do not appear on rosters, yet their presence is indispensable. They arrive quietly, blending into the long lines of...
Punakha—Her Majesty Gyalyum Tshering Yangdoen Wangchuck graced the Tashi Rabney (consecration) and Sertog (Golden Pinnacle) installation ceremony for the Utse (central tower) of Pelri Dorji Din (Wongma) and Zimchu (Gongma) in Nobgang, Punakha, yesterday. The ceremony was presided over by Dorji Lopen.
Under a clear November sky, the first batch of Pelsups lined up behind a Celestron CPC800 telescope and waited their turn. When their eyes met the eyepiece, Saturn rose into view – pale, luminous, and ringed like a tiny, suspended jewel...
The government’s commitment to address regulatory barriers that have choked business growth deserves recognition and support. Fo...
His Majesty the King graced the opening ceremony of the Fourth Session of the Fourth Parliament yesterday. On behalf of the Parliament, Speaker Lungten Dorji expressed...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay inaugurated a 1,500 kilowatt (kW) rooftop solar power plant with a hybrid solar-battery system at Paro International Airport yesterday.
His Holiness the Je Khenpo consecrated the newly constructed Nyekhan...
Soe, Thimphu—Around 10 am on October 13, the sun at the Soe Gewog Centre was bright but not yet warm when a group of men gathered inside the garage where the red machine rested, small but loud enou...
Paro– Drukair welcomed the airline’s new Pilatus PC-24 aircraft at Paro International Airport yesterday with a traditional ceremonial reception.
༉ དུས་ཅི་གི་ལོ་ལུ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ཨམ་སྲུ་ཚུ་ལུ་ རྩུབ་སྤྱོད་རྩ་མེད་ཀྱི་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ཉིནམ་བརྩི་སྲུང་དེ་ཡང་ མི་དབང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་བཞི་པ་ དགུང་ལོ་༧༠ བཞེས་པའི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་གྱི་ཉིནམ་དང་བསྟུན་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ མི་དབང་མཆོག་གི་ དབུ་ཁྲིད་བཟང་པོའི་འོག་ལུ་ ཕོ་མོ་འདྲ་མཉམ་དང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་དང་ བུམོ་ཚུ་ལུ་གོ་སྐབས་ཟེར་བའི་ གཞི་འགྱམ་ཐོག་ལུ་ འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The price of an egg in the capital has soared to a staggering Nu 20, pushing a standard tray of 30 to Nu 520. While it feels like a crisis, there's no pandemic to blame this time and...
This year, Bhutan observed the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) with special significanc...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has approved the establishment of Tama Vocational Second...
Chukha—Restoration work on the Damchu–Chukha bypass is progressing after heavy rainfall in October damaged several sections of the road. The major damage was a collapse at the 19.9 kilometre point, which now requires realignment.
The 61st session of the Programming Committee of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) commenced yesterday. The me...
A government-led review has resolved more than half of the regula...
This year, Bhutan observes IDEVAW 2025 with special significance as the natio...
With the conclusion of COP30 in Brazil, the message emerging from global negotiations is unmistakable: the world has now slip...
Her Majesty Gyalyum Tseyring Pem Wangchuck, Co-Chair of the Bh...
༉ དུས་ཅི་ལོ་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྒོང་རྡོག་གི་གོང་ཚད་དེ...
The return of the Buddha’s sacred Piprahwa relics to India yesterday was more than a ceremonial farewell. It was a lesson in how nations should conduct themselves at a time when the world seems determ...
Sarpang—The country is facing the sharpest spike in egg prices in years, as a nationwide shortage and increasing demand push costs to record highs, squeezing both consumers and farmers.
His Majesty the King graced the special prayers at the kuenrey of the Tashichhodzong yesterd...
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) reports steady progress in implementing the ambitious 10-year...
Punakha—Not long ago, a retired civil servant from Phongmey, Trashigang, Dorji, invested his entire life savings into a dream. He founded “The Happiness Farm” in Paro...
The new Integrated Checkpost (ICP) at Gasharibaley in Nganglam was formally inaugurated yesterday and handed over to the Integrated Check Post Management Division under the Nganglam ICP Unit by the Department of Law and Order.
The third Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Science-Policy-Finance dialogue opened in Pa...
༉ ཧཱ་ དགའ་སྐྱིད་གླིང་གི་ ནགས་ཚལ་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་ རང་རྩེ...
Bhutan’s environmental stewardship, which has resulted in the country's rich biodiversity, is finally translating into concrete economic gains. The first-of-its-kind carbon credit ag...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is breaking new ground in urban planning by embedding wildlife corridors into its design, aiming to preserve ecological connectivity and foster safe coexistence between humans and wildlife.
The 36th Session of the National Council (NC) will commence from November 27 to December 26. During this period, the House will deliberate on and adopt...
The Respect, Educate, Nurture, and Empower Women (RENEW) has successfully reintegra...
Some 15 Bhutanese nationals are stranded in the severely flooded Thai city of Hat Yai, Thailand, facing...
When I began writing Democracy’s Heartland: Inside the Battle for Power in South Asia, I expected to find familiar stories: mass movements toppling rulers, constitutions drafted a...
Deep within the forests of Gakiling in Haa, the sacred Rangtse Tshechu is set to unfold once more, drawing devotees and visitors.
Farmers in remote Jaray Gewog are a step closer to gaining crucial market access, as work on the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Serpang–Autsho inter-dzongkhag road officially commenced yesterday in Yumchhey,Lhuentse.
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...
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 parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...
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...
Bumthang—For many Bhutanese living abroad, physical distance from home has only deepened their sense of belonging and their desire to give back.
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