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The Jigme Dorji Wangchuk National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) currently faces a serious shortage of O-Positive blood and the hospital’s blood bank is left with just three units of the blood group. The hospital currently has managed the situation with the blood donation campaigns in Dodeydra Shedra, Motithang School, Bhutan Power …
Read More »Bhutan’s aromatic tree potential
Lack of resources had prevented Bhutan from earlier capitalizing on what could have been a lucrative plantation of Agarwood trees but the plantation still holds a lot of potential. During Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji’s tenure as the agriculture minister, scientists from University of Minnesota were invited to Bhutan to experiment on …
Read More »Dzongkha’s losing battle
If things went by the book, Dzongkha – the national language, would scale a whole new level of ‘weird’ with the average Bhutanese who is clueless about most words in the Dzongkha Dictionary. Ten in Ten Bhutanese don’t play ‘Gongdo Tetha’, they play Snooker and, people hit the discotheques on …
Read More »FAO support to strengthen food safety and standards in Bhutan
The Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) under Ministry of Agriculture and Forests received an amount of USD 152,000 in April from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to strengthen food safety and standards in the country. The project over a span of next two years, …
Read More »Husband arrested due to wife’s burglary charges
The police arrested a 59 year old man on suspicion of committing burglary in his wife’s house in Dhur, 15 kms away from Chamkhar town in Bumthang on 23 July. The incident occurred when the woman was with her friends and families offering butter lamps and visiting few monasteries around …
Read More »PM Congratulates the new president of India, Pranab Mukherjee
On behalf of the Royal Government and the people of Bhutan, the Prime Minister, Jigmi Y Thinley extended the warmest greetings and felicitations to Pranab Mukherjee who recently got elected as the 13th President of India. The Prime Ministers in his letter said that the culmination of Pranab Mukherjee’s most …
Read More »Changlimethang artificial-turf delayed, Fans disappointed and players settle for RBP grounds
The artificial turf in Changlimithang which was supposed to be ready by the end of this month is likely to be delayed by another month or perhaps more. Consequentially the much-awaited football league will be further delayed for eager fans. The national football league otherwise is live-and-kicking by June …
Read More »Heavy downpour causes loss of life and road blocks
An eight year old student of Jigme Losel Primary School was washed away while he was crossing a wooden bridge on a swollen stream. The boy while going back home from school had taken a short cut to his home but when he crossed the temporary wooden bridge near the …
Read More »His Majesty visits southern borders to review the security situation
His Majesty the King made an important visit to Gelephu and the southern border areas to review the security situation. His Majesty arrived in Gelephu on the 14th of July. On 15th July, His Majesty made detailed tours of all areas important to the security of the people. His Majesty …
Read More »‘Hello 112, my dog is in labor, please send Ambulance’
They say, nothing spells joy like the word ‘free’; and the sheer number of prank calls, missed calls and disconnected calls recorded at the Health Help Center (HHC) toll-free helpline is generous proof of it. A record 436,728 calls inclusive of missed calls, nuisance and abused calls, silence and disconnected …
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