In Trashigang, water sources are drying, rainfall is scanty if there is any, and forest fire is rampant.

Towards which, an ongoing STEPS nationwide survey is to be completed this month

Villages who put in a formal complaint in 2012 that blasting works at Punatshangchhu hydropower project site damaged their structures, are still awaiting word on compensation.

Windstorm: The recent windstorm in Zhemgang damaged 43 houses in three gewogs of Bardo, Phangkhar and Shingkhar.

EU officials said they are increasing assistance to countries where results were best

Having acquired skills to build clay brick stoves, non-formal education instructor Phuntsho Rabten aspires to impart his skills to those in his village in Lhuentse.

About 2,800 homes across the country will be using biogas energy source as an alternative to LPG and electricity by 2015.

The forest fire in Trashigang burnt at least eight houses in Bidung gewog as of yesterday evening, gewog officials said.

An inter-governmental agreement was signed yesterday between India and Bhutan on development of four hydropower projects yesterday.

The Nu 7.12M project will respond to immediate climate change adaptation needs
NAPA: The world’s largest climate change adaptation project will begin from this year in Bhutan.