(Update) The Haap Community in Haa did not allow the site engineer and the labourers to continue with their work yesterday. The move comes after the people of the community met, to completely stop the mining feasibility study near the Thromde.
Residents of Haa Thromdey have appealed to their Dzongkhag office to stop the ongoing mining feasibility study at Wang Tsha near Haa town.
About 10,900 acres of forest cover was lost to fire in 2011 to 2012, a recent fire record states. Seven cases were recorded in Monggar, the highest among the dzongkhags, within the same span of time.
Monitoring the management of industrial waste is a major challenge the Environment Unit of the Department of Trade faces. In their effort to tackle the challenge, the department in collaboration with the National Environment Commission is carrying out sensitisation and awareness workshop in Waste Prevention and Management Regulation 2012 with reference to the industrial wastes.
Four Eastern Himalayan Countries have agreed to build six regional projects that will help over hundreds of millions of people adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Tsirang Dzongkha’s municipal has started implementing the Waste Prevention and Management Regulation 2012, from yesterday. And yesterday alone, the dzongkhag municipal collected Nu 16,500 as penalty from the businessmen in Damphu town for non-compliance of the regulation.
The ‘Framework for Energy+ Cooperation between Bhutan and Energy+ Partners’ Agreement was signed in India’s capital, New Delhi, today.
In an attempt to preserve the feeding ground for the Black Necked Cranes , the farmers of Bayuling and Bhimkhar under Trashiyantse were “pressured” to leave their fields fallow during winter.
Damphu town in Tsirang is grappling with waste management crisis. Mound of garbage choking every drainage system in the town clearly indicates the gravity of the situation and the need to implement waste regulation.
The Natural Resources Development Corporation Limited (NRDCL) was fined Nu. 1,55,000 for retrieving 500 metric tons of rolled-down-boulders from Dakpeychu. The boulders had rolled down from the new road NRDCL is constructing in Zhemgang.
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