May 21, 2013
Workshop The region was home to a fifth of the global population, yet, it was one of the most disaster prone regions in the world.
As such, the need for the countries in the region to come together to respond to disasters was ever more crucial.
Highlighting the message, the five-day regional workshop on disaster management took off in Thimphu yesterday.
“South Asia has more seismic active mountain systems, more than 12,000km coastal line, many islands [... Read More]
May 21, 2013
Incidents of death from consumption of inedible varieties have been widespread
Health “Collect mushrooms that are consumed regularly and you are familiar with,” states the notification that the national mushroom centre issued yesterday.
The cautionary notification comes on the onset of mushroom season in Bhutan and on the heels of the death of four family members in Samtse, who succumbed to mushroom poisoning last week. It’s however not the first case reported this year. [... Read More]
May 21, 2013
Elect the best party: Dorji Choden with Menbi votersPrimaries More than 200 people of Menbi Tshenkhar constituency in the eastern district of Lhuentse, attended the campaign speech by Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa’s president, Dorji Choden, at the Menbi gewog centre yesterday.
President Dorji Choden said Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa was formed to give power to the people, not power to a few people.
She said the party’s 47 candidates are from different backgrounds who have had their share of struggles, and are in a position [... Read More]
May 21, 2013
National centre for animal health report 2011-2012 showed H5N1 was the major outbreaks in the two years
Livestock More than 2,500 domestic animals in the country have fallen ill or died in the past two years from notifiable diseases like rabies, anthrax, and foot and mouth diseases, among others.
Among notifiable diseases, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 commonly known as Bird Flu was the major disease outbreak in the past two years in [... Read More]
May 21, 2013
A farmer harvests areca nut (betel nut) in Samtse. The harvest season has begun and are auctioned off to a contractor or sold directly across the border.
A farmer harvests areca nut (betel nut) in Samtse. The harvest season has begun and are auctioned off to a contractor or sold directly across the border.
May 21, 2013
Some time towards the end of April, a 10-year-old girl in Samdrupjongkhar died after eating a dish of wild mushrooms.
The rest of the family members survived.
Alas, the same could not be said for a family of four in Samtse, where a dish of wild mushrooms claimed the lives of an entire family.
The last the country recorded of a similar incident where consumption of wild mushroom wiped out an entire family was back in 1995.
What makes [... Read More]
May 21, 2013
The constable responsible for the action in Assam has been removed from his posting
Border Claiming the blank firing at a Bhutanese truck on May 19 was a mistake, police in the neighbouring Chirang district of Assam, India, said the constable responsible had been detained in the battalion headquarter in Kokrajhar.
Superintendent of police in Chirang, Kumar Sanjit Krishna, said, as an action and punishment, the constable would be removed from the border area.
The firing [... Read More]
May 21, 2013
Yeedzin FC and Global FC (yellow) tussle for the ball (Photo Courtesy: Phuntsho Wangdi)Sports Thimphu Football Club champions of 2012 Yeedzin FC was kicked out of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president’s cup recently.
The team recently returned from Cebu, Philippines where the tournament was held.
Yeedzin FC was grouped together alongside Asian football heavy weights of Dordoi FC from Kyrgyzstan, Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) FC from Pakistan and Global FC from the host country under group B of AFC president cup’s qualifying round.
In the three games played [... Read More]
May 21, 2013
Strong turnout: Around 300 voters turned up to attend the meeting.Jigmi Y Thinley makes a strong defense of his govt.’s record
Primaries With four political parties participating in the primary round, Druk Phuensum Tshogpa president Jigmi Y Thinley reminded people to be cautious when choosing the right party.
“Remember all the political parties dream of taking previous ruling party’s seat,” he said. “So you’ll hear many allegations on the previous party on corruption and that the party isn’t good.”
This is how the DPT president, speaking in [... Read More]
May 21, 2013
After the session: Voters were skeptical about candidate pledgesToo many generalities spoken if and not enough specifics was one common gripe
Primaries Though the four party candidates spelled out what is there in their manifesto during the South Thimphu common forum held at Meawang gewog yesterday, voters said that pertinent issues concerning the gewog didn’t surface at all.
After the common forum, voters also remained quite skeptical as to whether the countless pledges made by the candidates would even materialise. And the worst [... Read More]
