Over-nutrition among adolescents a major problem: GSHS
June 27th, 2019
Although remarkable progress has been made in controlling the problem of underweight among adolescents in the country, over-nutrition is a major problem among adolescents with about 11.4 percent being overweight and two percent obese. This was according to the first Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS) conducted in 2016 among school children aged between 13 and 17 years in […]
Advisory on heavy rainfall
June 27th, 2019
Active monsoon conditions are likely to continue, the National Centre for...
23rd NC session concludes
June 27th, 2019
The last sitting of the National Council (NC) on June 25...
Documentation to strengthen species conservation
June 27th, 2019
The first-ever pictorial guide to faunal diversity of Jigme Dorji National...
More damages reported in Sarpang
June 27th, 2019
More damages to properties from the torrential rainfall on the eve...
13 officials switch to non-subsidised gas
June 27th, 2019
Eleven regional and sector heads exchanged their subsidised LPG for non-subsidised...
Omchhu river threatens to consume new bridge
June 27th, 2019
Phuentsholing thromde yesterday deployed 10 excavators to dredge the riverbed materials...
Heavy rains cause damage and claim two lives
June 26th, 2019
A 65-year-old woman and her grand daughter,11, in Damphuchen village, Dorokha were...
Stability of Thorthormi’s moraine dam uncertain
June 26th, 2019
The National Centre for Hydrology and Metereology (NCHM) called off the...
Picture story
June 26th, 2019
The 23rd session of the National Council concluded yesterday with a...
Three MPS turn up to buy non-subsidised LPG
June 26th, 2019
The trade department’s initiative to take non-subsidised LPG to the National...
Active monsoon to continue for next 48 hrs
June 26th, 2019
With South -West monsoon active over the country, heavy to very...
Loss of agricultural land, biggest risk to food self-sufficiency
June 26th, 2019
Bhutan is now self-sufficient in fruits and eggs, according to the...