RICBL and dzongkhag officials study windstorm damage at Siligang village in Kabjisa gewog, Punakha

Mining: The mineral development policy, which is expected to be out early next year, will bring about an extensive overhaul in the way mining is done in the country.

With 92 houses suffering damage from the December 15 windstorm, Dogar gewog in Paro was the worst affected gewog. All 92 houses had their roofs blown away by the storm.

One of the many houses left roofless by yesterday’s windstorm in Haa

The health and agriculture ministers assured commitment to strengthen ‘one health’ approach in Bhutan and in the region at the South Asia regional ‘one health’ symposium that ended yesterday in Par

NC: Almost exactly two years after the legislation was re-done, that too a year after its enactment, the Tobacco Control Act is up for amendment once more.

That takes the country’s total cases to 346 of which 173 are men and 173 female

Dog bites: Dewathang military hospital received five dog bite cases within three hours on a single day last week.

To determine if earthquake damaged schools need relocation or renovation, a team of engineers from the education ministry will leave, November end, to assess the earthquake vulnerability of schools

Campaigning along: Forest officials with desuups discuss forest fire prevention measures with Thimphu residents as they did with may others between Kuenselphodrang and Namseling