Where are the condoms?
10 March 2010
One of the common sights in public places like hospitals, basic health units (BHU), outreach clinics, gewog offices and hotels is the distinctive daechong or condom boxes placed in prominent locations. What is common everywhere is also that these aptly named ‘blissful utility’ boxes remain empty most of the time everywhere. Some are gathering dust and some are used to contain books and pens. It... Read the story »
First elephant awareness workshop
7 March 2010
Elephants and humans are in constant conflict in the southern Bhutan. To ease this tension and create awareness among the stakeholders, the Nature Conservation Division under Ministry of Agriculture and Forests is organising the first human-elephant co-existence workshop in Lobesa, Wangdue. The workshop started yesterday. Titled “Getting Along with Asian Elephants”, the workshop will focus... Read the story »
Chorten vandal nabbed
5 March 2010
Sonam Jamtsho from Zongthung in Trashigang has been arrested and is under trial in Trashigang dzongkhag court for vandalizing a Jangchub chorten on October 15, 2009, in Lamamani village in Trashigang. Sonam Jamtsho is a former gomchen from Bartsham working in a dance club in Bumthang. The police traced the vandal through a deserted bike found on the crime scene with the number plate removed. Upon... Read the story »
When art meets wants
24 February 2010
Weaving has helped Radhipas cultivate their fields. The tradition of weaving buray (silk) clothes and growing rice has become mutually supportive activities in Radhi Gewog in Trashigang. The two have become interdependent. Farmers from Khudumpang village said weaving buray clothes is not only an alternative source of income, but also indispensable without which paddy cultivation is not possible. According... Read the story »
Road first, say Lauri and Serthi
23 February 2010
The people of Lauri and Serti gewogs in Jomotsangkha Dungkhag, Samdrup Jongkhar, say that development in their gewogs should start with a farm road. Once road reaches the remote gewogs, other development activities will naturally follow. However, the suspension of construction of Gyelongkhar-Minjiwoong farm road last year had worried the farmers. The new Jomotsangkha dungpa, Rinchen, who... Read the story »
This side of ICT age, Jomotsangkha
19 February 2010
It is 8 pm. Pem Tshering is eating dinner with his family in Samdrupcholing. He receives a call from an Indian mobile number. It is from a student in Jomotsangkha. “There is no other means of communication so they (students) use an Indian mobile phone service,” he explains. Among the eight dungkhags along the southern belt, Jomotsangkha is the least developed in terms of ICT and access... Read the story »
Puran for the King, country and people
18 February 2010
An 11-day Shiva Mahapuran conducted at Bhairabkunda Shiva Mandir in Jomotsangkha, Samdrup Jongkhar, concludes today, coinciding with Maha Shivaratri. The puran is being performed for the peace and prosperity of the country, and wellbeing of His Majesty the King and people of Bhutan. The puran is presided over by Pandit Vidyapati Bhandari and Pandit Man Narayan Nirola. Hundreds of devotees... Read the story »
Farmers grudge free labour for bridge construction
17 February 2010
The construction of a 220-metre suspension bridge over Sunkosh river to connect Nichula Gewog to other villages in Dagana Dzongkhag is progressing at a snail’s pace. The slow progress, according to villagers, is because of labour shortage. Some 120 households are expected to benefit from the bridge but only 60 households contribute labour, said the villagers. “The people from other gewogs... Read the story »
Radhi’s special rice comes to Thimphu
12 February 2010
Radhi’s special rice, locally known as sorbang khu, will now be available at Centenary Farmers’ Market in Thimphu for the first time. Radhi Gewog in Trashigang, popularly known as the rice bowl of the east, has packaged around seven tonnes of sorbang rice from 13 households to be sold in Thimphu. According to dzongkhag officials, the rice that is sold at Nu 45 a kg in the local... Read the story »
Humans retreat from marauding animals
11 February 2010
In the ever-intensifying conflict between humans and wild animals in Nichula Gewog in Panbang Dungkhag, the humans are beginning to retreat. So far, some 19 families have abandoned their ancestral land to work as labourers. Singhbir Tamang from Manglabare came to Alay village with his family of 10. Now he does menial work for other farmers to support his family. He said because of elephants,... Read the story »
Loading ...Zakar for Friday March 12 2010
27th Day of the 01st Month - Iron Male Tiger Year
Auspicious for: Propitiating gods and deities, conducting chagu-yanglen, entering new houses, handing and taking over anything, holding discussions, starting construction of houses, sowing seeds and planting flowers. But it is she-zha (unfavourable day) for people who are born in the year of Mouse and Pig.
Inauspicious for: Arranging marriage, paying grain debts and conducting lue-cho.
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