Farmer Kinley Pem will have nothing to harvest from her two langdo (area ploughed by an ox in a day) of paddy fields this season.

Of the 127,942 households in Bhutan 11,049 are poor and 2,322 extremely poor the poverty assessment report (PAR) 2012 states.

Plant and flower enthusiasts have two more names to add to their list.

Samples exceeded the US FDA provisional total tolerable intake levels

The largely ADB-funded project will possibly be floated some time later this year

Should that work, it will bring in an additional USD 250,000 for other landslide-prone areas across the country

More than 900 trees have been felled so far for the re-construction of Wangdue Dzong, a national treasure, which went up in flames on June 24 last year.

Besides this Norwegian support, ADB will help with USD 25-30M

Its preliminary findings show dramatic improvement in living standards

Kingathang, Phobjikha, Wangduephodrang Despite more than 300 people fighting the forest fire at Kingathang in Phobjikha, Wangduephodrang that started on January 29, it showed no sign of stopping as