BHUTAN TODAY The New Perspective

By Staff Reporter Just days after a court in Thimphu implicated a former RBA colonel and a senior Supreme Court judge, including their alliances, in a mutiny and sedition case, the high court affirmed the Trongsa District Court’s judgment involving former Trongsa Dzongda Lhab Dorji and five other individuals in a land scam. The former Dzongda was sentenced to five …

Natural catastrophes largely triggered by climate factors are becoming a grave threat to the country every passing year. By Tshering Dema This year the country experienced one of its worst natural disasters as landslides claimed about 11 cordyceps’ collectors in the highlands. Further, heavy rainfall washed away three young school kids in Trashiyangtse dzongkhag just recently. Last year the Moa …

By Chimi Wangmo With climate change exacerbating the threat to this elusive Himalayan cat, researchers say study of snow leopards must be beefed-up and diversified to secure the health of Asia’s mountain ecosystems and save it from further extinction. According to a recent report by WWF, more than 70% of snow leopard habitat remains understudied by conservationists leaving conservation planning …

Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Compiled by Tandin Wangchuk The report confirms that the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, including heat waves, and heavy precipitation, as well as agricultural and ecological droughts, …

The Parliamentary Human Rights Committee (PHRC) will summon and interrogate all those involved in Penjore Penjore’s arrest and detention By Tashi Namgyal Thimphu The Parliamentary Human Rights Committee (PHRC) has completed four rounds of talks and also compiled a 39 page report as of last week in connection with Penjore Penjore, who lodged a complaint to the PHRC about violation …