Rural Electricity Scheme: Only 40 percent of Zhemgang is connected with electricity, making it the least covered in terms of power connectivity.

Depletion in, what is, the nation’s gushing resource today, would be the most likely scenario it could expect in not so distant future.

A total of 152 households in Samtse will now take care of 582.11 acres of forest land with the dzongkhag administration handing over four community forest ownership certificates and 15 private fore

The Pasakha industrial estate problem will be dealt with only in November

Oriental Bay Owl Bhutanese ornithologists recently confirmed the presence of a new species of bird in the southeastern part of Zhemgang, the oriental bay owl, scientifically known as Phodilus badiu

Second Asian Ministerial Conference: “This is not a pledge to save tigers, but a pledge to save humanity itself,” agriculture minister (Dr) Pema Gyamtsho said yesterday, at a follow up meet on the

Forest fire About 700 people in Yebilaptsa, Zhemgang are battling a forest fire, which has been raging for the last two days, and has burnt about ten acres of chirpine forest under the Royal Manas

Waste Management: With no “proper place” designated for the community to dump solid waste, some frustrated residents of Khasadrapchu dug a garbage pit by the riverside six years ago.

Autsho, Lhuentse: A forest fire that started from the banks of Kurichu at Autsho in Lhuentse has razed, over the weekend, more than 700 acres of pine forest, which is abundantly covered with lemon

Carbon Stored Value: With a forest cover of 72 percent, work is underway in the country, to have in place a mechanism that would help measure the financial value of carbon stored in the forests of