རི་དྭགས་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ས་ཁོངས་དྲུག་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་ལྟ་བཤལ་ལུ་ ལྷན་ཐབས་འབད་ཚུགས་ནི།

༉ སྐྱེ་ལྡན་རིགས་སྣ་གིས་ ཕྱུག་སྟེ་ཡོད་པའི་ འབྲུག་གི་ས་ཁོངས་དྲུག་དེ་ རང་བཞིན་ལྟ་བཤལ་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་སྦེ་ ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ ཡུན་རིང་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ས་གནས་མི་སྡེ་ཚུ་ལུ་ མི་ཚེའི་གོ་སྐབས་གསརཔ་བཟོཝ་དང་འབྲེལ་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་ཉམས་སྲུང་འབད་ནི་ཚུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

གློག་མེ་ནུས་ཤུགས་ཉེན་སྲུང་དོན་ལུ་ ཉི་དྲོད་ནུས་ཤུགས་ ཁྱབ་སྤེལ་གྱི་ལས་རིམ།

༉ གནམ་གཤིས་འགྱུར་བགྲོད་དང་བསྟུན་ ཆར་ཆུའི་གནས་སྟངས་...

འཆར་དངུལ་མེད་མི་གིས་ རྟ་སྡིངས་དང་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་དཔལ་རི་གི་འཁོར་ལམ་ གནས་སྟངས་སྐྱོ་སུ་སྦེ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྟ་སྡིངས་དང་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་དཔལ་རི་གྱི་འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ ལོ་...

ཐིམ་ཕུག་གི་སྤྲོ་སྟོན་ཁང་ཚུ་ནང་ ཉེན་སྲུང་དང་ གློ་བུར་གྱི་ཐོན་སྒོ་ཚུ་ ག་དེ་སྦེ་ར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན?

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྟེ་བ་བཟུམ་ཅིག་ནང་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རེས་...

Noise in the quietest democracy

What happened on the 19th August was not supposed to happen and should not have happened. But it did and shocked the mind out of logical thinking.

Electing a speaker tests constitutional duty, not party loyalty

With the appointment of a new Speaker, the ruling party has faced criticism over the loyalty of its memb...

From ore to opportunity: Ensuring natural wealth remains national wealth

Natural resources can provide an important opportunity to diversify an econom...

A cold reminder

Even as search and rescue efforts continue to locate hundreds of people missing after the devastating floods in Nepal, the images emerging from the disaster are as disturbing as the warnings from climate scientists about what may have caused it.

Nepal flood exposes gaps in Bhutan’s early warning systems

Nepal’s recent flood has demonstrated that rain need not fall where people live for floodwaters to reach their homes, a risk Bhutan must also prepare for.

“Mental health is a national responsibility, not The PEMA’s alone”

Our work covers the full continuum of prevention, early identification, crisi...

Can Samtse keep up with its growing workforce?

Rental housing in Samtse is becoming more expensive as industrial development brings more workers into the area, pushing up demand for homes alongside the...

How WBH conservation project brings clean water to rural homes

For years, every broken water source meant an eight-kilometre walk through the forest for Dema, 34, of Wang...

New Head Coach Gary Phillips aims to lay stronger foundation for Bhutanese football

Australian coach Gary Phillips has been appointed Head Coach of Bhutan national U-20 football team. He has been tasked with preparing the team for the AFC group stage, which will form an important part of the team’s development.

BoB’s top brass steps down following system migration fiasco

The Bank of Bhutan’s (BOB) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), IT Director, and Project Manager overseeing its c...

Govt. travel allowances lag behind rising costs

Public servants travelling on official duty are feeling the financial strain as government travel allowances no longer adequately cover actual expenses,...

Who’s accountable when vetted election pledges go undelivered?

With the government now halfway through its five-year term, questions are being raised over who shoul...

Their Majesties lead prayers for Nepal and China flood victims

His Majesty The King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Majesty The Queen, Their Majesties the Queen Mothers, and Members of the Royal Family lit a thousand butter lamps at the Grand Kuenrey of Tashichhodzong yesterday for the victims of the catastrophic flash floods in Nepal and China.

Shared climate risks, fragmented response challenge HKH countries

Parliamentarians from the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region have called for stronger cross-border c...

Many hands, one purpose in Gelephu

The sun beat down on Gelephu Public Ground yesterday morning, where volunteers from across the country had gathered before heading out to work. By the time they dispersed to their designated...

Bhutan runs short of engineers as megaprojects take off

Bhutan is facing a growing shortage of engineers as construction, hydropower, and other infrastructure projects expand, leaving...

High Court overturns acquittal, sentences doctor to 10 years for raping minor patient

The High Court overturned a judgment by the Trashigang Dzongkhag Court yesterday, sentencing Dr Tshering Norbu to 10 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old patient.

Makeathon puts persons with disabilities at the centre of assistive technology design

More than 70 participants across the country, incl...

གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

Bhutanese pilgrims in Tibet to take alternative route to Nepal

Bhutanese pilgrims travelling to and from Lhasa are safe despite massive flooding in northern Nepal that ha...

Buyer’s market, seller’s rules

Every day, roughly 38 Bhutanese walk into a car showroom or apply for an import letter, ready to spend on the second-largest purchase of their lives. That should be a buyer’s market. Instead, the rules governing it are written for sellers.

Parliamentary scrutiny: How Question Hour splits along party lines

The Question Hour in Parliament provides elected representatives the opportunity to keep check...

Hidden commissions and fake crafts endanger Bhutan’s tourism brand

Almost every craft retailer in Thimphu and Paro pays undisclosed commissions to tour guid...

Six wildlife sites to boost Bhutan tourism circuit

Rich in biodiversity, six areas across Bhutan are being positioned as flagship nature-based tourism destinations, with the potential to generat...

Bhutan races to harness solar power to bolster energy security

The government is turning increasingly to solar power to bolster the country’s energy security as climate change alters rainfall patterns, exposing the vulnerabilities of the hydropower sector.

“Behind every statistic is a person, a family and a life that matters”

Mental health is emerging as an increasingly important public health an...

Mongar Mother and Child Hospital to be handed over after 13-month delay

Mongar—The 65-bed Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Mother and Child Hospital (GJPMCH) in Mo...

Growing trade strains congested Samtse check post road

Samtse—Heavy vehicles are taking more than two hours to navigate a short two-kilometre stretch at the main Integrated Check Post in...

Miss Bhutan pageant pushed to 2027

After months without a confirmed timeline, Miss Bhutan 2026 will not represent the country at this year’s Miss World pageant. Organisers have now turned their attention to Miss World 2027.

Pongchula airport cancellation leaves Mongar residents disheartened

Mongar—Hopes for an airport at Pongchula in Mongar, fuelled by political pledges during the...

Preparing the sacred heart of 108 chortens

At two o’clock on the afternoon of August 20, the power failed inside Sarpang Dzong. Outside, the temperature had climbed to 32 degrees Celsius. Inside, without the...

Time to take a look at fire safety in our entertainment venues

The Kuensel’s recent report on entertainment centre safety in Thimphu raises questions that deserve far mor...

Naya Bharat, New Neighbourhood: What India’s transformation means for Bhutan and the Northeast

For decades, India-Bhutan relations have largely b...

ཟད་འགྲོ་ས་ཡའི་ཐོག་ལས་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་ བསྲེ་ཐབས་བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་ ལཱ་མ་འབད་བར་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ནད་ཡམས་ཐོན་པའི་སྐབས་ གཞུང་གིས་ ཡུ་ཨེསི་ཌོ་ལར་༣༧༤...

བཙག་འཐུའི་བྱ་རིམ་ནང་ རང་མོས་རྣམ་དག་དང་ དྲང་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་བརྡ་མཚོན་གསལ་སྟོན།

༉ ད་རེས་ཀྱི་དུས་སྐལ་དེ་ གཞན་དང་མ་འདྲ་བའི་ དུས་སྐལ་...

གསོ་བ་དང་ མི་མང་ལུ་བརྟེན་པའི་ གོང་འཕེལ་གྱི་ཁྱད་པར།

༉ གཞུང་གི་ཟད་འགྲོ་དང་ མི་རློབས་འཕེལ་ཚད་ གསོ་བའི་འཕ...

རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཉེན་བཅོལ་ལས་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ས་ཡོམ་གྱི་གནོད་པ་རྐྱབ་མི་ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༡༡ འཛིན་གྲོལ་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་གི་ཉེ་འདབས་ལུ་ ས་ཡོམ་ཤུགས་ཚད་མེག་ནི་ཅུཌ་༥.༥ འབད་མི་རྐྱབ་མི་གིས་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཉེན་བཅོལ་ལས་འཛིན་གྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཁྱིམ་གུང་༨༦༥ ལུ་ གནོད་པ་རྐྱབ་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཉེན་བཅོལ་འཐུས་དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༡༡.༨ སྤྲོད་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།

ཉི་དྲོད་ཐོག་གི་ཆུ་གཡུར་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ གྲོང་གསེབ་ཚུ་ནང་ ཁེ་ཕན་སྦོམ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིནམ།

༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ ཆུ་བུར་རྒེད་འོག་ གཡུས་ལྷུམ་པ་ཐང་ལས་ སྐྱ...

སྐྱེད་ཕབ་ཆག་གི་ལས་འཆར་ནང་ ཟ་ཁང་༢༡༨ ལུ་ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་དངུལ་ལས་དབང་འཛིན་གྱི་ གནས་ཐོ་དང་འཁྲིལ་...

ཇི་ཨེམ་སི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ རྩི་རང་ལུ་ ལྟ་བཤལ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ཐབས་ལམ་གསརཔ་སྒྲིག་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྩི་རང་རྫོང་ཁག་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་གྱ...

Mines and Minerals Bill: Deferred, not dead

More than five years after it vanished from the legislative agenda without a vote, the long-debated Mines and Minerals Management Bill is expected to return to Parliament during the winter session, trailing behind it an unresolved question about how, and under what constitutional authority, it was shelved in the first place.

How safe are Thimphu’s entertainment centres?

On weekends, Thimphu’s entertainment centres fill up quickly, with people packed into bars, clubs and pubs as the night progresses. As crowds grow, movi...

RAA directs DECC to operationalise Taba waste facility within three months

The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has directed the Department of Environm...

Beyond an 'Et Tu, Brute' case?

The recent election of the National Assembly Speaker, won by a member of the opposition party for the first time, has dominated public discourse, with many drawing their own conclusions and speculating a...

Greener pasture, emptier nation

he Royal Civil Service Commission's figures record 1,277 separations in six months, 891 voluntary resignations, up 40.5 percent year on year. They are an unarticulated verdict on the State's discharge of its constitutional obligations, delivered by a workforce that neither unionises nor petitions, but withdraws politely under the rubric of personal reasons and greener pastures.

Politics of dissent or betrayal?