February of 2026

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Extreme rainfall, not design flaw, caused Takti Bridge road collapse: DANTAK

Chukha—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.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 160 views
RCSC’s three-month notice rule for EOL resignation sparks fairness concerns

A Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) rule requiring civil s...

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 125 views
ESP creates over 11,130 jobs, supports 329 new businesses

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) has generated more than 11,130 jobs and supported the creation of 329 new businesses...

Feb 11, 2026 1 mins read 117 views
ESP Secretariat reports tangible impact across key sectors

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) continues to deliver support across the country’s economy, driving growth in agri...

Feb 11, 2026 4 mins read 117 views
CCAA reviews consumer law amid surge in e-commerce fraud

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) plans to submit a modernised Consumer Protection Bill to the Cabinet in June in a bid to update the 14-year-old legislation to address digital commerce, online transactions, scams, and increasingly complex service sectors.

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins read 135 views
Nu 245 million ESP funds drive growth in creative sector

A targeted fund injection of Nu 245.03 million under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) has fueled a surge in the country’...

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 121 views
Builders or buyers?

The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 67 views
Advance payments leave mandarin suppliers facing losses

Mandarin suppliers across the country are facing financial risks as advance-payment-based orchard booking arrangements collide w...

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins read 112 views
Criminal convictions drop sharply in 2025

Bhutan recorded a sharp decline in criminal convictions in 2025, with the number of individuals found guilty falling by nearly a quarter compared with the previous year.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 117 views
Top hazelnut growers honoured for productivity gains

Trashignag-Hazelnut growers from across the country were recognised in the agricultural sector at the National Growers’ Awards held in Tr...

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 125 views
Teacher who stayed

Punakha—In Lunana, one of Bhutan’s most remote and physically exacting regions, education is less a public service than a tenuous lifeline. Snowbound passes sever the valley for months at a time. Reaching the village can still mean weeks of trekking across unforgiving terrain. Winter arrives early and stays late. Life here is measured by endurance.

Feb 11, 2026 4 mins read 135 views
Climate losses drain nearly 7 percent of Bhutan’s GDP each year, new study finds

Climate-induced loss and damage are costing Bhutan...

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins read 126 views
Black-necked Crane Farewell Festival celebrates tradition and conservation

Trashiyangtse—In the quiet wetlands of Bumdeling, where winter mornings...

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 126 views
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༠ དང་༢༠༢༤ གི་བར་ན་ མེ་རྐྱེན་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ནགས་ཚལ་ཨེ་ཀར་༧༠,༦༩༦ འཚིགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༠ དང་༢༠༢༤ གི་བར་ན་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ མེ་རྐྱ...

Feb 10, 2026 5 mins read 105 views
བྱ་སྟབས་མ་བདེཝ་ཐོན་མི་དེ་ བསལ་ཐབས་ནམ་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་ན?

༉ ཁྲོམ་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ ད་རུང་ཚར་ཅི...

Feb 10, 2026 6 mins read 116 views
Best Class X results of the past three years

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 f...

Feb 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,594 views
Majority of industries in Dhamdara have not begun relocation despite approaching deadline

Majority of industries in Dhamdara have not begun...

Feb 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,376 views
གཞུང་གིས་ ཐོན་ཤུགས་ཅན་གྱི་འབྱ་ཞིང་ཚུ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རང་འཚོ་རང་ལྡང་བཟོ་ནི།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆུམ་གྱི་རིགས་ རང་འཚོ་རང་ལྡང་མེད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ ཆུ་ཞིང་གི་རིགས་ཚུ་ སྒྲིང་སྒྲི་བཟོ་ཐབས་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ནང་ བྱ་སྟབས་མ་བདེཝ་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་ བསལ་ནིའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་ བཏོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Feb 09, 2026 8 mins read 144 views
ཉམས་ཉེན་ཅན་གྱི་གཡུས་ནོར་དང་ གཡུས་བྱའི་རིགས་ ཉམས་སྲུང་འབད་ནིའི་ལས་འཆར།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྒོ་ནོར་སེམས་ཅན་ དང་ཕུ་ལས་དར་ཁྱབ་སོང...

Feb 09, 2026 7 mins read 152 views
The burden of cancer

Feb 07, 2026 2 mins read 1,020 views
Making corruption a losing choice in GMC

Feb 07, 2026 4 mins read 3,557 views
Organic project boosts yield and income in Chanachen

Feb 07, 2026 2 mins read 2,317 views
Reviving monastic discipline through foundational training

Feb 07, 2026 3 mins read 2,160 views
Soaring egg prices push govt. to allow limited imports

Feb 07, 2026 4 mins read 2,058 views
SOEs target higher revenue under new performance compacts

Feb 07, 2026 3 mins read 1,919 views
Gelephu–Tareythang highway enters design phase

Feb 07, 2026 3 mins read 4,357 views
PES - A major conservation tool

Feb 07, 2026 3 mins read 1,864 views
Bhutan sees sharp drop in convictions in 2025, says Home Minister

While Home Minister Tshering declined to reveal the exact conviction rate at present in the countr...

Feb 07, 2026 3 mins read 911 views
Mandarin exports hit Nu 679.88 million

Feb 06, 2026 1 mins read 1,130 views
ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་བསྐྱར་བཟོ་འབད་མི་གིས་ ཕན་ཐོགས་སྦོམ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ས་ཆ་གང་འགྱོ་མི་དང་ ཕྱགས་སྙི...

Feb 05, 2026 5 mins read 166 views
Bhutan observes World Cancer Day

Feb 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,844 views
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Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 7,738 views
Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...

Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 3,463 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 3,073 views
New FDI regime offers wider access to foreign investors in agriculture

The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...

Jan 03, 2026 3 mins read 4,138 views
BCCI submits 35 business ideas to govt. for private sector engagement

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Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

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Dec 20, 2025 3 mins read 3,214 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

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Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 3,485 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,160 views
Fitness is not defined by body size or age

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 1,174 views
Movie Review: Lights, Camera, Action!

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 2,006 views
The Hamptons, born from the love of cooking

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 1,531 views
Yarn roses, tiny dolls, and business of careful hands

Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...

Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,394 views
Turning bridal hairstyling into a trend

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Birbi and the art of taking your time

Jan 26, 2026 1 mins read 1,986 views
Jangchub Puen Nye

Jan 26, 2026 1 mins read 2,078 views
Builders or buyers?

The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 67 views
The burden of cancer

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Inconvenience caused is highly not appreciated

The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 1,743 views
The tourism paradox

Jan 28, 2026 2 mins read 1,672 views
A relief for the hotel industry

Jan 24, 2026 2 mins read 2,038 views
High-value tourism, low-value jobs?

Jan 21, 2026 2 mins read 2,362 views
Tying the loose ends of GST reform

Jan 17, 2026 2 mins read 2,608 views
GST transition pains need urgent fixes

Jan 14, 2026 2 mins read 2,540 views
Making GST work past early hiccups

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...

Jan 10, 2026 2 mins read 2,733 views
The cost of delay

Jan 07, 2026 2 mins read 3,441 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 4,993 views
Train Smart, Not Hard

Jan 26, 2026 1 mins read 1,587 views
Punishment is not prevention

Jan 26, 2026 4 mins read 2,098 views
A new chapter for Kuensel

Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct r...

Jan 03, 2026 2 mins read 2,946 views
Strengthening the third sector

Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referr...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 3,212 views
Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 3,600 views
Agencies must be held accountable for financial irregularities

The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 5,088 views
What about moral and ethical accountability?

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle...

Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 3,674 views

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