The Bhutan Media Foundation (BMF) has launched two free apps that will bring local print and radio into in the palm of the user and boost online presence of the Bhutanese media. The Bhutan News app will allow subscribers to download the digital edition of each day’s newspaper and the …
Read More »BAFRA to investigate social media claims of ‘plastic’ egg, vegetables and rice
The Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) have ordered an investigation into whether plastic rice and cabbage has arrived in the Bhutanese market as publicized through videos and pictures on social media. BAFRA Director General Namgay Wangchuk said that though a video on Bhutanese coming across plastic cabbage had …
Read More »SOTN highlights significant changes in the agricultural sector
The agriculture sector has witnessed a significant transformation from subsistence to commercial farming prompted by the government’s focus on food self-sufficiency. This, according to the Prime Minister, Lyonchhen Dasho Tshering Tobgay, is apparent from the vegetables and cereals for sale at the centenary farmer’s market in Thimphu and along the …
Read More »Assam truck burning question and road safety discussed in Parliament
Citing the recent incident of two Bhutanese trucks set on fire by an agitated mob in Assam after one truck ran over a student, the Bomdeling Jamkhar MP questioned the government on what it was doing to work out a long term solution to the persistent problems faced by Bhutanese …
Read More »Cordyceps Collection areas troubled with waste management issues
With the increasing number of cordyceps collectors in the highlands and the associated waste, concerns are being raised that if proper management of such garbage is not done, it will lead to pollution of pristine mountain environment. Environmentalists fear that the mountains will be strewn with all sorts of trash. …
Read More »Land development to commercialize agriculture in six Eastern Dzongkhags
To optimise use of land the agriculture ministry has started a major land development program in the six eastern dzongkhags to terrace dry lands and expand small terraces for irrigated paddy fields. According to the Gender and Knowledge Management Officer with Commercial Agriculture and Resilient Livelihoods Enhancement Program (CARLEP), Karma …
Read More »Establishment of Thromde and Yenlag Thromde questioned
At the NA’s question hour this week the works and human settlement minister was asked when the government would establish the 20 Yenlag Thromdes and Thromdes and how it would be institutionalized in alignment with the Constitution. Works and human settlement minister Lyonpo Dorji Choden said “It is the responsibility …
Read More »Ministry working on proposal to address SMU degree certificates issue
The government is very concerned and has a formed a committee to look into the issue of Bhutanese students graduating from Sikkim Manipal University (SMU) the education minister said during the NA’s question hour session on Friday. Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk said the ministry is working on a proposal to be …
Read More »Bus services to all gewogs?
Opposition members questioned the government on its pledge to provide bus services in all gewogs with road access. Dremetse Ngatshang MP Ugyen Wangdi said 200 gewogs now have road access and are in need of public transport, as private operators have not stepped in. “Four years of the government’s term …
Read More »A female common leopard rescued
A female common leopard weighing about 30 kilograms and measuring100 centimetres in length was rescued from a snare it had entangled itself into near the Phobjikha Central School in Wangdue district on May 23. The snare had been set up by the caretaker of the school to guard his potato …
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