New agriculture minister approves previous govt.’s plan despite environmental concerns

Bhutan has diagnosed 24 new HIV positive cases between December 1, 2012 and June 30 this year, taking the country’s total number of detected cases to 321, almost two decades after it detected its f

At the town square: More than 3,000 people residing in and around Mongar town collected more than five tonnes of garbage on August 4

BPC: After being delayed by more than a year, the Bhutan Power Corporation (BPC) yesterday finally put in place the final link connecting the western and eastern transmission grids and making it on

More than 56 households of Tagkhambi chiwog under Tsakaling gewog in Mongar will soon live “brighter” days. The village will soon be connected with electricity.

More than thirty people from Bikhar and Wungkhar villages in Drametse gewog, and those from Narang gewog, have started attending hearings on water disputes between the two gewogs in Mongar district

Two years after the government requested Japan for their assistance to carry out a detailed design and rehabilitation of about three kilometres of the Taklai irrigation system in Sarpang, a grant a

The river is channelled through the 682m long and 8.5m wide diversion tunnel yesterday
This is the fifth such river diversions in the country

An outbreak of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in Lajab gewog’s community school, Dagana that was reported in the first week of June has now been brought under control, district health officials

Come July, students and teachers in 20 schools will get the opportunity to monitor climate change in the country using scientific instruments worth USD 150,000 donated by Karuna Foundation in the U