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The team from the National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM) has restored the Automated Water Level Station at Thorthormi lake. The system was...

Gender equality in the country is visibly uplifted, yet women in politics are marginally low compared to men. The trend is exhibited since the beginning, where democracy clubs in the schools, attract limited female participation.

A four-member technical team from the National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology who arrived at Lunana will reinstall and repair the sensor for Early Warning System that is reported to have been damaged. This was after the outburst of the subsidiary lake at the source of Phochhu river in Punakha recently.

Thimphu district court bench II sentenced the former Chang gup Kanjur to a concurrent judgement of two years in prison for illegal encroachment of government land, deception, forgery and official misconduct on June 14. Another person, the then land record officer Karma Jamtsho was also sentenced to a year in prison.

Within the past six months, the land price in Thimphu has doubled. The present land price in the core town area ranges between Nu 8 M to 10 M for a plot. The price in the outskirts like Olakha and Babesa is around Nu 1.2 M. This is attributed to the high demand and less supply of land due to more people interested to settle down in Thimphu.

With a limited number of beds at the Serzhong Lower Secondary School in Monggar, the boys' hostel is left overcrowded. In the heat of summer, the boys are having a hard time adjusting in the crowded rooms.

In our mentality, cancer is a synonym of death.  A normal person would usually enter into a state of trauma if they are diagnosed with cancer. The same happened to Yeewong Lhamo when she was just a thirteen year old. However, she mustered up her courage and fought the disease with all she could. 

Some people of Khamaedna and Changkha Chiwog under Gase Tshogongm Gewog in Wangdue Phodrang are facing acute shortage of irrigation water. They claim that unequal and improper water distribution system causes the problem in their community.

Forest officials in Samdrup Jongkhar has rescued a leopard yesterday from Wangphu gewog. The leopard was found stuck in one of the chicken coops in Singsiborang village.

A 48-year-old man succumbs to death this morning after his one-storey traditional Bhutanese home was razed to the ground by fire at Zhabjethang in Chhoekhor Gewog, Bumthang.