The Bhutanese Leading the way.
The two and half sacks of semi-dried Pipla, worth approximately Nu 37,500 confiscated on April 22 from an Indian driver was surrendered to the Department of forest in Samtse after months of storage with the customs office. Any forestry products seized by any agencies are supposed to be handed-over to …
Read More »Office goers’ after-office passion to achieve vegetable self-sufficiency
More than 20 office goers living in and around Hejo area have set out to grow their own vegetables and achieve ‘self sufficiency’ by not resorting to buying imported vegetables in the market. This motley crew has already started operations on the Dratshang Lhentshog (monastic body) land which remained fallow …
Read More »Bhutan’s bird diversity rich by one more bird
Bhutan will add one more feather to its bird diversity, and that’s a literal. The discovery of the lone Barn Owl (Tyto Alba) has increased the number to 685 species. The lone Barn Owl was spotted at Zomlithang plantation area in Punakha in the Jigme Dorji National Park. The sighting …
Read More »Government yet to close accounts with DCAL for mitigation works
The Dungsam Cement Authority Ltd (DCAL) which has spent more than Nu 16mn to mitigate damages caused by an artificial lake expects more disturbances at the site. This means more works to contain the situation. The amount spent to contain live-threats from the artificial lake was to be refunded by …
Read More »Graduates collect waste thrown on the way to Taktshang
About 50 graduates who have recently graduated from India participated in a cleaning campaign organized by Druk Waste collection along the way to Paro Taktshang on 4th of June. Kezang Choden the organizer chose the day since it is Her Majesty Ashi Jetsun Pema Wangchuk’s birth day and the Lord …
Read More »A strategy for carbon-neutrality
The pedestrian day took birth within a strategy that would guide the country to remain carbon neutral. The National Environment Commission (NEC) launched the National Strategy and Action Plan for Low Carbon Development- a document on carbon neutral strategy coinciding with the National Environment Day on June 5. The strategy …
Read More »Town runs-short on planners
The Thimphu Thromde is perennially positioned on the receiving end of real-estate owners and people with new constructions, mainly for delays in approving drawing-charts for the construction of new buildings. In the recent hullabaloo of Rupee shortage, housing loans for 33 individuals were suspended because they didn’t have approved drawings, …
Read More »And the Award goes to…
Coinciding with the World Environment Day celebration, two of the most deserving Environmentalists of Bhutan were conferred the second Jigme Singye Wangchuck Outstanding Environmental Stewardship award for policy and field leadership yesterday, at the Clock Tower inThimphu. Her Royal Highness Ashi Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck, the Patron of the Bhutan Ecological …
Read More »The whole nine storeys
The Lhakhang ‘Sangay Mingyur Ling, Sekhar Gu–Thog’, will be constructed in the mold of the legendary tower, ‘nine-storey son’s house’ in Tibet which Marpa Lotsawa (11th century Buddhist saint) ordered Jetsun Milarepa to build for his son in Lhodrak district of southern Tibet. The location of the Lhakhang is at …
Read More »Outbreak of ‘Gastroenteritis’ in Zhemgang
It would seem that the east is been beleaguered by prequels to unforeseen outbreaks, which in the end always seem to have been avoidable. This time ‘round, it’s an outbreak of ‘Gastroenteritis’ in Zhemgang Higher Secondary School (ZHSS), where 72 cases have been reported at Zhemgang’s basic health facility, the …
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