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Out of three clinically confirmed samples in Samtse, one sample confirmed the mosquito-borne disease Chikungunya after the laboratory test conducted in Bangkok. This is the first-ever confirmed case of the disease in the country. Public Health Laboratory’s (PHL) head Sonam Wangchuk said all the 14 samples received from Phuentsholing and …
Read More »Wild Deer chased by a dog pack dies near Norzin Lam
Yesterday, around 9 am, a mob gathered near the back gate of the Druk Punjab National Bank, to watch a deer lying in cold blood. The female barking deer, which was about the age of six, was suspected to have come from the Motithang area. The Head of Rescue and …
Read More »Policy intervention, much-required to resurrect dying languages
The 80s Saturday vegetable market in Phuentsholing, was a colorful mix of people, uniquely clad in a colorful array of costumes strictly personalized to their cultures, and the language they spoke was what set them a class apart. A group called the Lhops (people of Doya) their dress, mannerism, and …
Read More »Its ECB’s business not DPT’s, Opposition Party
The Opposition Leader (OL) has responded to the PM’s statement in the recent Meet the Press where he proclaimed the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as a party disqualified for 2013. Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley during the recent Meet the Press session said that the opposition party (PDP), should be disqualified …
Read More »A plan to end most municipal maladies
Samdrup Jongkhar will put-into-action a comprehensive urban developmental plan to end a most bitter phase of chronic water problems, housing problems, sewerage problems and other municipality facilities-related issues. Urban Specialist under Ministry of Work and Human Settlement (MoWHS) Meghraj Adhikari said that these issues would be reviewed through proper analysis …
Read More »An inventory to assess nationwide forest resources
The enumeration phase has finally kicked off from Paro on July 25 after exhaustive preparations to conduct nationwide forest inventory in Bhutan, by the Forest Resource Management Division (FRMD) of Forests and Park services department. Through systematic collection of the data and forest information for assessment and analysis, the National …
Read More »Dire shortage of O-positive blood at the national referral hospital
The Jigme Dorji Wangchuk National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) currently faces a serious shortage of O-Positive blood and the hospital’s blood bank is left with just three units of the blood group. The hospital currently has managed the situation with the blood donation campaigns in Dodeydra Shedra, Motithang School, Bhutan Power …
Read More »Bhutan’s aromatic tree potential
Lack of resources had prevented Bhutan from earlier capitalizing on what could have been a lucrative plantation of Agarwood trees but the plantation still holds a lot of potential. During Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji’s tenure as the agriculture minister, scientists from University of Minnesota were invited to Bhutan to experiment on …
Read More »Dzongkha’s losing battle
If things went by the book, Dzongkha – the national language, would scale a whole new level of ‘weird’ with the average Bhutanese who is clueless about most words in the Dzongkha Dictionary. Ten in Ten Bhutanese don’t play ‘Gongdo Tetha’, they play Snooker and, people hit the discotheques on …
Read More »FAO support to strengthen food safety and standards in Bhutan
The Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA) under Ministry of Agriculture and Forests received an amount of USD 152,000 in April from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to strengthen food safety and standards in the country. The project over a span of next two years, …
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