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While the art of Tsarzo or bamboo weaving is dying in other parts of the country, it is flourishing in Bjoka Gewog under Zhemgang Dzongkhag. It, In fact, has become the main source of income.

Senior officials from the home ministry and police met to review the deteriorating security situation in Sarpang. This comes in the wake of several abduction and assault cases reported in the Dzongkhag.

The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has asked the two aspiring political parties, Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party and Druk Chirwang Tshogpa, to re-submit their application for registration.

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.

Even before the people in Samdrup Jongkhar could heave a sigh of relief for having endured a 72-hour-long strike in the Indian State of Assam, another 120-hours-long strike has been called.

The Supreme Court (SC) has directed the High Court and the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement to take administrative actions against the members of the tender committee involved in awarding the construction of the Supreme Court.

Several houses constructed on Chhuzing or wetland in Shongphu Gewog under Trashigang has become subject of a dispute. The issue was discussed during the Dzongkhag Tshogdu meeting but nothing fruitful has ever come out of such meetings.

About 50 truck drivers in Gelephu wrote a petition to the police saying they be allowed to move through Indian state Assam without an escort.

September’s windstorm has damaged maize field of about 115 households in Chimung Gewog under Pemagatshel. They are worried if they will have enough food to keep them going until the next harvest season.

(SJ strike update): Life and business activities are back to normal in Samdrup Jongkhar after the 72 hours strike in the Indian state of Assam came to an end.