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Even as the Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) has banned the slaughter of animal and import and sale of meat, restaurants are in the fix as they say the one month ban will negatively impact their business. Irked with the decision that will not only affect meat traders …

The Phuentsholing police have apprehended three men in connection with the illicit trafficking of controlled substances into Bhutan from Jaigaon. Following a tip off, police apprehended a 32-year-old man from the Phuentsholing main gate at around 1:30 pm with 12,960 capsules of SP. The man from Balamnang, Haa, was carrying …

Three woman and two men are being held for further investigation by the Thimphu police in connection with the trafficking of illegal prescription drugs. Following a tip off, police arrested the 26 year old man on February 6 around noon from the vegetable market area. The man from Tendu, Samtse, had in …

Following a tip-off Phuentsholing police arrested a woman at Rinchendeng check post on 31 January with 5,341 capsules of SP and 200 tablets of N10. The woman was travelling to Thimphu in a taxi when she was arrested at the checkpost, four kilometres from Phuentsholing. She told police that she …

It is too early to say whether the Khengrig Namsum Cooperative (KNC) in the central district of Zhemgang has become a successful project but in the past two years of operations, it has not defaulted on loans and profits are being ploughed back into the project, according to the cooperative’s …

A new traffic diversion is in force in the border town of Phuentsholing to ease traffic congestion. Vehicles entering the city now have to exit via the STCBL area by passing YDF. Phuentsholing SP Wangchukla said there are pros and cons but their observation shows a smooth and systematic flow …

Cardamom prices have been falling continuously in Dagapela, Dagana, due to low demand. According to farmers, the prices are half of what they received earlier. “It started falling from the beginning of the harvest season and at present it is around Nu 700 a kg,” a cardamom farmer in Dagapela, …

Forty-one monks of the Chokyi Gyatso Buddhist Institute in Dewathang, Samdrupjongkhar, are taking part in organic gardening classes that aspires to teach sustainable nurturing of soil through practical activities. The Organic Gardening class is part of Lhomon Education’s curriculum to provide opportunity to learn the basics of livelihood and give …

Initially Karsang Dorji’s mushroom fruiting logs were rejected by the National Mushroom Centre (NMC), where he invested around Nu.130,000. Instead of loosing spirit and giving up, he studied the reason for rejection and came up with his own technique to grow mushrooms year round instead of the two season cultivation …

During the nationwide cleaning campaign on the 9th of December, some 87 people from various communities under Thimphu Dzongkhag volunteered as community representatives to keep the city clean on a daily basis. Thromde executives and community tshogpas under Thimphu Thromde had a discussion with with the Prime Minister and Thrompon …