The Revenue and Custom officials in Samtse confiscated two and half sacks of semi-dried Pipla, worth approximately Nu 37,500 at fair market value on April 22 from an Indian driver. Officials usually do not inspect Indian vehicles passing through the border gates when they return after a Sunday market. But, …

In what could be the most inimical event toward the government’s Rupee-retentive measures, the majority of Gewogs in the southern dzongkhags are in the midst of an imminent famine situation. This, in the face of the live-Rupee crunch could be a huge setback in the government’s recent immediate move to …

To contain illegal trades in the northern and southern ends of the country is a most challenging task for Bhutanese law enforcement authorities. As a result, illegal trading of medicinal plants is up and on the rise. Trans-boundary illegal collection of medicinal plants is rampant in Bhutan although enforcement officials …

The announcement, of the Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB) as the wholesale agent for all the vegetable vendors was a cause for concern among the vendors who are already worried over the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)’s decision to stop issuing Indian Rupee from June first week. Lyonchen Jigmi Y. Thinley, …

Delegates from eight Asian Countries came together in a three-day Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) regional workshop last week to discuss about ensuring legal, sustainable and traceable trade in medicinal plants. Speaking to some 30  representatives of scientific and management authorities from …

“We can produce our own vegetables!” said Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley last week to 92 vegetable vendors who gathered in the capital from all over Bhutan. And that is not a tall-order from the nation’s premier, for he justified with conviction, stats and instances, that Bhutan can do it. Lyonchhen …

Bhutan wants to stay green, and promote green. Naturally Afforestation and plantation programs figure into the to-do list. An incongruous collection of Norms and Standards or a frequent inadequacy of budget to-do it was not, part of the plan. The element of budget shortage has paradoxically always contradicted Bhutan’s otherwise …

Being rendered handicapped with the resignation of the chairman, Tashi Yangyel Community Forests (CF) of Wangbama village under Genyen gewog is currently on the hunt for a new chairman who could manage their chunk of forests. A series of CF management groups meetings to elect the new chairman had concluded …

In the back drop of the rupee crunch which limits vegetables import and in sync with the agriculture ministry’s initiative to enhance local agricultural production to meet the goal of self-reliance, farmers around the country are now aiming to produce fruits and vegetables, in bigger quantities. Tawchum, 22 year old, …

A 26-year-old man was killed while a 28-year-old and a 29-year-old accomplice escaped with multiple stab wounds from a bar brawl which continued near the expressway between the Fly-over Bridge and Changjiji Bridge during the late hours of Monday on May 21 in Thimphu. The four accused involved in the …