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Forest fire wreaks havoc in T/gang
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| The fire below Drametse, Mongar as seen from Kanglung
Photo : Pankaj Thapa, Sherubtse College |
10 March, 2010 - A forest fire, which started yesterday afternoon from Chenari, near Chazam in Trashigang, has burnt down an automobile workshop, three cars and 25 two-wheelers kept for repair there, as the fire spread, fanned by fierce wind.
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A new look at an old threat
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Japanese project to develop a glacier and glacial lake inventory
GLOF Assessment Project 10 March, 2010 - There is a new twist in the story of the threats looming large high up in the mountains. Ten of the 25 glacial lakes, identified by ICIMOD as most dangerous, could be excluded from the category, according to Koji Fujita, who is on a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) assessment project in Bhutan’s Himalayas.
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Continuing education goes nationwide
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| Improved Prospects: More than 1,000 in-service Bhutanese can avail of the programme |
10 March, 2010 - The continuing education programme, for in-service Bhutanese to upgrade their qualification, has spread its wings across the country, creating opportunities for more than 1,000 civil servants, corporate and private employees this year.
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130 illegal workers repatriated
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Immigration Update 10 March, 2010 - Following a month-long raid on private homes, immigration officials have repatriated more than 130 illegal workers from the country and collected a fine of over Nu 500,000.
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The Wagon-R Saga 10 March, 2010 - While some cabinet ministers admitted that the Wagon-R had to be used for multiple purposes, given the volume of work they had at hand, others claimed that it was being used only for official purposes.
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Jamyang Norbu – yak herder to quality carpenter
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In the woodcraft trade for forty-plus years, he now runs his own successful business
10 March, 2010 - Sundays are agonisingly slow days for Jamyang Norbu. He actually dreads the approach of the holiday. He doesn’t know what to do with his free time. It bothers him when he can’t do what he loves most.
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McKinsey liberalisation policy reversed with tariff rise to USD 250
Tourism Tariff 10 March, 2010 - The country’s tour operators are doubly happy about the government’s decision to strike down the tariff liberalisation proposal and instead raise it to USD 250 a tourist a day.
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Phuentsholing – From gateway to dust-bowl
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Increased particulate matter in border town’s air from constant traffic and roadwork
10 March, 2010 - Travellers between the 180 km Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway, who endure the ordeal of driving along the long bumpy, dust-ridden highway, are further vexed on reaching a destination where clouds of dust await them.
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2 in operation by year-end
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Single operator of domestic air service to be decided on March 15
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| Bathpalathang Airport: The govt. owned land in Bumthang identified for the purpose
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Domestic airports 9 March, 2010 -
Work on the domestic airport at Bathpalathang in Bumthang will begin early next week to have it ready for use by the end of September this year.
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16 Class XII students explain to the PM how they practise the philosophy
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Feedback Session The prime minister interacts with participants of the Education For GNH workshop |
9 March, 2010 - A few students in the capital, who lived within walking distance from school, but would rather have their parents chauffeur them to school in a car, have now begun walking.
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The why’s and wherefore’s of the Wagon R’s
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The old controversy of misuse of official vehicles
9 March, 2010 - In addition to their designated Toyota Prado vehicle, the 10 cabinet ministers were issued with a Wagon R small car each in August 2009 for secretarial duties, like delivery of letters and documents during office hours.
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9 March, 2010 - (From left: Director of department of school education, Tshewang Tandin, and Proprietor of Yana Expeditions, Tashi Kelson Tobgay)
Yana Expeditions, a tour company based in Thimphu, and president of Unique Journeys International in Canada, Linda Sawyer, donated the first batch of around 3,000 English library books to the education ministry for rural students yesterday. The proprietor said that they would be donating more library books to the department this year.
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Ministry holds up allotment
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The Grass Is Growing For reasons unknown, a long awaited township is still awaited for |
Dekiling Town 9 March, 2010 -
The much-awaited new Dekiling town site in Bumthang is ready with 75 plots ready for development, but it is not clear when the plots will be allotted.
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Women still playing catch-up
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While female unemployment rose, they remain under-represented in governance
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| International Women’s Day Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck at the College of Business Studies in Gedu for the celebrations |
Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2010 9 March, 2010 -
Although Bhutanese men and women enjoy equal inheritance rights, men still continue to lead in the political sphere and labour force participation, states the Asia-Pacific human development report 2010, launched yesterday coinciding with the international women’s day.
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Crossed wires between lower courts and police have led to overcrowding of Thimphu detention centre
Thimphu Centre Box 8 March, 2010 - Miscommunication between the district courts and police is causing an unnecessarily high number of citizens to be arrested and detained at the detention centre (centre box) here in Thimphu, Kuensel has found.
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