This Report of the Standing Committee on Water Resources (2021-22) deals with the action taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in their Twelfth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on ‘Flood Management in the Country including International Water Treaties in the field of Water Resource Management with particular Reference to …
An earthquake of moderate intensity, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, rocked the city around 10.31 pm this evening. Central Seismological Observatory sources in Shillong said that the epicentre of the tremor was found to be on lattitude 27.3 degree north and on longitude 91.4 degree east in neighbouring Bhutan.
Deep in the Himalayas, the disappearance of glaciers is threatening the kingdom of Bhutan. Anjali Nayar trekked through the mountains to see how the country is adapting to a warming world.
Areas bordering Bhutan in Udalguri district now resemble a battle zone amidst an escalating man-elephant conflict, with disturbing consequences for both. A spurt in the conflict has claimed the lives of six elephants this year, with the past one month alone witnessing the death of three elephants. Equally damaging has …
In 2008, four countries of South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Nepal) held significant elections. The paper highlights various pertinent issues in the political economy of these four countries and maps out the broad contours of the reforms they need to embark on. For one, and in the short …
More than 1,100 homes have been damaged in the six eastern dzongkhags by the September 21 earthquake, according to latest reports, compelling thousands of people to spend another night out in the open. Two additional houses collapsed in Narang gewog in Mongar with the last tremor at 3 pm yesterday. …
The Indian institute of technology in Rourkee, India, has done a seismic hazard map of Bhutan showing, for the first time, hazard zones in the event of an earthquake. According to the map (see image), Thimphu, Paro, Punakha, Bumthang and Trongsa valleys fall in low and moderate hazard areas, while …
Thousands of people in the eastern dzongkhags spent the night out in the open after a powerful earthquake, which hit yesterday afternoon, damaged homes, government offices, historical monuments, blocked roads and reportedly killed at least 12 people as of 9:30 pm last night. The first tremor of the earthquake measuring …
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake has killed at least seven people in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, officials have said. Ugyen Tenzing, the country's director of disaster management, said rescuers were searching for survivors under the debris of collapsed buildings in the eastern districts of Munggar and Trashigang. "We now have five …
A medium-intensity earthquake shook Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Bhutan and north Bangladesh on Monday afternoon and killed atleast 10 persons, including three Indians, in Bhutan. The tremor made people, scared by reports that a major earthquake would hit the region in near future, run out of homes and offices. Bhutan …
Records with the gup of Lumang gewog in Trashigang show that 128 households from four of its villages have abandoned their homes for resettlement elsewhere in the country.
Drying streams, lesser snowfall, and dengue fever cases in Thimphu, the March 26 rain and storm. All these are indication that climate change is happening here in Bhutan, said the deputy minister of national environment commission, Dasho Nado Rinchen. Introducing climate change to a half-filled hall on a symposium titled
The global swine flu pandemic will expose the failure of the international community to invest in health protection in poor countries, the world's top health official warned here yesterday. World Health Organisation director general Margaret Chan said the pandemic would "test the world on the issue of fairness," as she …
With the rains gone, farmers in Dagana are estimating the damage caused by heavy and continuous rain last month, which include cultivated paddy fields, maize crops, irrigation channels and citrus mandarin (orange) trees. Six of the dzongkhag
Climate change threatens to bring food and water shortages to 1.6 billion people in South Asia, with the region's poorest likely to be worst hit, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said here Wednesday. New research commissioned by the ADB shows that if current climate trends persist until 2050, maize yields …
The health ministry has introduced an additional vaccine to protect infants against pneumonia, one of the leading causes of death in children under 15 years in Bhutan, and meningitis.
The Himalaya is one of the fastest changing regions of the world due to global warming. The mountains mighty glaciers, the source of large and important rivers such as the Ganga, Indus and Brahmaputra, are melting. In February 2009, Chinese scientists warned that glaciers on the Tibetan plateau are melting …
South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the Himalayas and to the 1.3 billion people dependent on water flowing from the mountains. Experts say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and with months to go …
Oil in the Bangtar area under Samdrupjongkhar dzongkhag, copper, gold and silver in the black mountain area of central Bhutan and tungsten in Sarpang are the potential minerals an American businessman J Matthew Fifield has offered to prospect for and, if found viable, then extract them. He has also proposed …
