Flash floods, sediment deposits and low river levels could make trouble for the Himalayan country’s dam plans – the bedrock of its green economy. Bhutan hopes its dam building programme can fuel a ...

Bhutan is pushing aside its happiness philosophy in a rush to exploit hydropower, with little regard for the environmental and social costs. Bhutan fires the imagination of an ideal mountain country ...

The construction of the Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project or PHPA-I dam remains delayed, despite earlier plans to resume ...

A hydropower dam in Bhutan has been registered as the first cross-border project in a United Nations program to encourage developing nations to invest in reducing carbon emissions, the Asian ...

BIG has unveiled its masterplan for the 1,000-square-kilometre Mindfulness City in Bhutan that will include an airport and dam incorporating a temple.

Bhutan’s current hydropower capacity is 1,480 MW, and it plans additional projects to generate 10,000 MW of power by 2020, almost entirely for export to India, which provides all the financing.

Bhutan opens dam, flood alert in Assam. India. manoj anand. 26 July 2019 7:35 AM IST. About 56 rivers, both big and small flow into India's Assam from Bhutan. x.

Guwahati, June 18: A dam bigger than Kurichu in Bhutan could endanger Manas, which had shed its in-danger tag only a year ago. The World Heritage Committee has asked the Bhutan government to submit a ...

GUWAHATI: Not China, but unannounced release of water from a dam by Bhutan on Wednesday inundated large tracts of land in two districts of Assam bordering the Himalayan nation, affecting more than ...

Guwahati: The Central Water Commission has issued an alert to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority over the release of water from Kurichu dam in Bhutan on Friday after continuous rainfall, ...