Monthly Archives: December, 0

Rinchen Kuenphen Primary School celebrated the World Environment Day in Thimphu today. It is celebrated every year on June 5with different themes. This year the theme is, ‘Think, Eat and Save’.

Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen turned 23 yesterday. Her Majesty was born on June 4, 1990.

About three acres of chili and paddy fields have been damaged by a flash flood in Bitekha and Wakuna villages of Kabesa Gewog in Punakha.

People visiting Gasa Tsachu no longer have to pitch tents. Around four guesthouses in Jangothang have already been completed. Jangothang is less than a kilometre away from the hot spring.

“The Cost of Climate Change”, a documentary by Producer Tshering Penjor of BBS 2, has won the award for the best documentary film at the 3rd SAARC film festival.

Gasa dzongkhag was cut off from the rest of the nation for about a week following a major roadblock in Gathana. The road was, however, cleared at around 6:30 pm yesterday and is now open to traffic.

Housing shortage has become a major problem for the staff of Dagachhu Hydropower Corporation. The construction of quarters, which started in September 2010, is still not ready.

A three-day regional workshop on Promoting Access to Affordable Land and Housing is underway in the capital. The participants from South Asia, in next two days, will look into policy challenges in the region while trying to address the issue of house and land in the cities. The workshop is organised jointly by the Works and Human Settlement Ministry and the World Bank.

More than 900 athletes from Bumthang, Wangdue Phodrang, Trongsa and Thimphu took part in the sixth annual coronation marathon was held in Bumthang, yesterday.

The poultry cooperatives of Tsirang and Sarpang have come together to form the first Regional Poultry Federation in the country, at a three day workshop, that began in Gelephu, today.