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Climate change is real. What we are experiencing today, like unseasonal rainfall, deadly storms and floods, melting glaciers and prolonged heatwaves are the beginning of the end of the earth. Ahead of the Global Climate Summit, COP26, the UNDP launched a campaign- “Don’t Choose Extinction” to warn where we're headed to.

Once the construction of Sarpang Dzong completes, it would house the dzongkhag administration and become the summer residence of Sarpang Rabdey. Stating that the Sarpangtar town, which is nearby the dzong would be unsuitable, the Dzongkhag Business Development Committee is proposing the relocation of the town. And people who operate businesses in the town welcomed the initiative.

It was another blow to the country’s already expensive commodities. The fuel price rose to a new high on Monday. The International Energy Agency, a Paris-based organization forecasts the price for natural oil to continue to grow this year. In Bhutan, the price of petrol increased by almost Nu 5 and diesel, by almost Nu 3.

For almost three months, Phuentshogling hasn’t seen a single case of COVID-19. However, the risk still looms large. Sharing a long porous border with the neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal, the surge in COVID cases in the state has always kept the residents on their toes.  

The National Immunization Technical Advisory Group  (NI-TAG) extended the vaccination deadline for children aged between 12 and 17 years until Thursday. This is to make up for the lost time during the government holidays and the weekend. However, there is an exception for those unvaccinated people coming from abroad. Similarly, those who have received the first dose will also be provided with the second dose.

The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) extended the postal ballot registration deadline for the Local Government Elections until the 10th of this month. The registration which was supposed to end yesterday was extended in view of the COVID-19 situation in the country.

A group of women came together to turn fallow land into a successful commercial farm at Chhubar in Tsakaling Gewog of Monggar. They are now harvesting Adzuki beans, a bushy non-climbing bean species, from three acres of revived land that remained fallow until July this year. 

The country completed the five-day second dose vaccination campaign for children aged between 12 and 17 years yesterday. However, the country failed to achieve the 80 per cent full vaccination coverage of the total population which health experts say is needed to achieve herd immunity. Only 76 per cent of the total population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of n

Burning wastes is a poor waste management option as it pollutes the air and contaminates the water and soil. But residents of Jomotshangkha in Samdrup Jongkhar have no other choice. The place does not have a proper disposal site where people can dispose of their wastes properly.

Nanong Primary Health Centre in Pema Gatshel has been without an ambulance for more than a year. And in the absence of the facility, it has been a struggle for the residents of Nanong Gewog during medical emergency referrals. They want a replacement at the earliest.