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Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay alerted the 20 dzon...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept. It is rapidly becoming a key component of organisational life, transforming how businesses operate, governments function, and societies...
The Passing Out Parade (POP) for the Second Cohort of the 2025 batch of Gyalsung was held yesterday, with simulta...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) launched the “Accelerate Bhutan’s Job Transformation through Renewable Natural Resource (RNR) Value Chains Project” in partnership with the World Bank yesterday to make farming and rural livelihoods more attractive, profitable, and sustainable, particularly for youth and women.
Phuentsholing—The 4th India-Bhutan Youth Summit concluded yesterday with renewed optimism...
The Thimphu Dzongkhag Court sentenced Lekden D. Dorji, 29, to life imprisonment for the m...
Laya - At 12, Dorji Zangmo thought nothing of toss...
Paro — A four-day national workshop concluded yesterday, advancing integrating Bhutan’s livestock production with environmental conservation and human health.
South Thimphu Police have detained Sandeep Rai Chamli...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙ...
༉ འབྲུག་གོང་འཕེལ་དངུལ་ཁང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷ...
༉ དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྨན་ཁང་ནང་ མོ་ནད་མཁས་མཆོག་མེད་པ...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་༩.༡༥ གནས་པའི་ ཕྱག...
The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is beginning to take shape in tangible ways, creating opportunities and opening new career pathways. The recently held GMC Career Fair...
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen are in Thailand to pay respects to Her Late Majesty Queen S...
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has clarified that the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) does not have the legal authority to disclose the names and detailed loan information of borrowers under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP).
For mothers in remote Sakteng Gewog in Trashigang, monthly pre-natal check-ups were once a major challenge. Expectant mothers had to endure long journeys o...
Trashigang —The soft rhythm of a chisel against wood fills the quiet room as 28-year-old Tenzin Wangchuk rolls hi...
A recent survey by the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) and the GovTech Agency has revealed a significant gap in Arti...
Paro—The soft drizzle and chill in the air did not stop Bhutanese designers and models from transforming the main street in Paro into a vibrant runway at the inaugural Bhutan Fashion Week (BFW) yesterday.
The Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) and Japan’s Nippon Sport Science University (NSSU) launched a Coach Deve...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གནམ་ཐང་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་གྱི་ལཱ་...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ ངན་ལྷད་བཀག་སྡ...
The goal of the Economic Stimulus Programme’s (ESP) education loan is, at its core, both forward-looking and noble. It has been initiated to provide opportunities for children from poor, low-income families to pursue higher or technical education.
His Majesty the King granted Dhar to appoint the Chairperson and members of the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Chief Election Commissioner and Commissioners of the Elect...
Gelephu—Even as construction at Gelephu International Airport progresses rapidly on schedule, the Rigsar-Vajra Joint Venture, carrying out the earth-filling works, has moved to ro...
Thimphu Dzongkhag Administration’s two garbage compac...
Phuentsholing — A multi-sectoral initiative to scientifically grade timber was launched at the College of Science and Technology (CST) in Phuentsholing recently.
The Bhutan Fashion Week will welcome one of the most...
Paro — As the golden paddy fields of Paro turn a mellow hue under the crisp autumn sun, f...
Despite their best efforts, nearly all Bhutanese athletes at the ongoing Asian Youth Games (AYG) 2025 in...
Bhutan and the European Union celebrate 40 years of friendship Bhutan celebrated 40 years of diplomatic relations with the European Union (EU), Denmark, and the Netherlands. To celebrate, a special two-hour musical concert was held at the Chang Yul Park in Thimphu on October 17.
༉ དཔལ་སྲུང་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་འབད་མི་༣༢༥ དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཐོ་ར...
༉ ས་ཐོག་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ ཇ་པཱན་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་...
The golden fields of Laphuna in Punakha sway gentl...
It is not often that a Bhutanese citizen receives a prestigious award from abroad. Yet, a teacher from Samtse, Chimi Dema, became Bhutan’s first recipient of the Princess Maha Chakri Award in Thailand, one of the most respected recognitions in the region for exceptional teachers.
Gelephu — Some 325 Pelsups, including 18 with master’s degrees and a PhD, begin the Innovation and Gelephu Mindfulness...
Bank of Bhutan (BoB) has disbursed around Nu 49 million in education loans under the Economic Stimulus Programme’s (...
At the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) Career Fair held at the Royal University of Bhutan auditorium yesterd...
A decline in women’s participation in local government and politics is raising concerns over gender equality in decision making roles, even as their representation in the civil service remains stable.
Soe, Thimphu — Earlier this month, during the 11th Jomolhari Mountain Festival, a small yak-hair tent pitched at 4,100 metres above sea level came alive with the...
Unlike some parts of the country witnessing goongtong (empty or abandoned rural households), Laya in Gasa is bucking the trend with a consistent annual increase in household numbers. The gewo...
There are journeys that test strength, and there are those that reveal the heart. Ani Pema Deki’s 400-kilometre walk across the Trans-Bhutan Trail is both.
His Majesty the King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, and Her Majesty Gyalyum Tshering Yangdoen Wangchuck offered prayers and lit one thousand butterlamps on October 25 at the Grand Kuenrey of Tashichhodzong in memory of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother of Thailand.
By the time I caught up with Ani Pema Deki at Dochula, it was nearly 11 am. The mountain air was crisp and sharp, cutting through the quiet.
Soe, Thimphu—A women’s self-support group in Soe has started weaving plastic waste into practical products...
Wangdue Hospital has been without a gynaecologist for over five months, a critical shortage that is severely impacting maternal health se...
The Department of Surface Transport (DoST) will build two permanent bridges at Namling and Durdari in Mongar under a Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Grant Aid Project.
The education ministry will roll out the revised and Cambridge-aligned curriculum starting from the 2026 academic year, a key achievement in the country’s efforts to transform education system.
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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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