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In Land-Locked Bhutan, Five New Species Of Fish Have Been Discovered https://bhutantimes.com/article/in-land-locked-bhutan-five-new-species-of-fish-are-discovered-recently By Phurpa Lhamo | Kuensel Five new fish species – parachiloglanis drukyulensis, parachiloglanis benjii, parachiloglanis dangmechhuensis, exostoma mangdechhuensis and creteuchiloglanis bumdelingensis which belong to the torrent catfish group, were discovered through a study conducted by Ryan J Thoni, a PhD candidate from Saint Louis University, USA and DB Gurung (PhD) Professor at the College of Natural Resources. Although the new species are endemic to Bhutan today, since many northeast Indian states such as Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh share similar geophysical characteristics, it is possible that some of the species may also be found in the neighbouring states of India as well, DB Gurung said. Reasons behind the names of the five new fish species He said that to celebrate Bhutan’s commitment to nature conse...

For more than three decades, Tashi Wangdi has been fixing fractures and sprained joints in Trashigang. http://www.bhutanjournalist.com/journalist/     By Staff Reporter |Business Bhutan) Yeshi Tsheyang Zam is your typical 11-year-old. She likes to read, watch TV and play video games and basketball in her free time. Her favourite board game is monopoly and she collects currencies from different countries. Yet this young girl already has an achievement which very few can boast of at her age. Yeshi is the author of a charming little book ‘Khakey’. If the neighbour fails to stop the delivery or does not realise that a Khakey has been placed in their house before the child has run away, they owe the child’s family a meal made with the same ingredients as those in the snowball the next day.  However, if the neighbour realises what is happening in time or catches the child as he or she is running away, they smear soot on the child’s face, and the kid’s family then owes the...

https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/uric-acid-test-all-you-need-piece-paper-1646680 You may soon be able to check your blood's uric acid level while sitting in the comfort of your own home! One may no longer have go to a pathology laboratory or give a blood sample for the diagnosis. Just a piece of specialised paper is all that would be needed to gauge the level of uric acid in your body or even your kidney condition.  A team of researchers at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has invented such a paper, making checking uric acid levels much easier. All one needs to do is put a drop of urine on the specialised paper -- a simple, low-cost, instantaneous and user-friendly paper based analytical device (PAD) for the qualitative and quantitative detection of uric acid in urine -- and the colour of the paper will tell the rest. The invention is still in the early development phase but the inventors have already applied for a patent for it. Mohidus Samad Kha...

Workers are combing Fuvahmulah’s beach by hand in an effort to clean up several thousand tonnes of aggregate dumped on the island’s reef in a historic environmental disaster, as the EPA remains tightlipped on the extent of the damage. On the island of Fuvahmulah, along a stretch of pristine beach blackened by construction aggregate, workers are sifting through rocks and sand by hand in an effort to remove several thousands of tonnes of crushed rock dumped by a ship that ran aground on the island’s treacherous reef last August. Since the painstaking task began two weeks ago, some 30 workers have only managed to remove 16 bags of the rock pieces. Nearly 5000 tonnes of rock pieces and river sand were controversially dumped on the southern island’s reef in September with the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval in a desperate bid to save the sinking cargo ship, which had collided with the reef amid stormy weather. With the reef clean up yet to begin, reportedly because of c...

S. Gopikrishna Warrier , January 22, 2016 https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/2016/01/22/indian-scientists-develop-low-cost-arsenic-water-filter/ Visit  also,   http://goodnewspool.blogspot.com/2018/10/cleaning-poisonous-arsenic-in-drinking.html  --Using nanotechnology, scientists at IIT-M have developed an effective and affordable arsenic filter to combat the growing problem of groundwater pollution While historians continue to debate whether arsenic toxicity killed Napoleon Bonaparte,  65 million people in Asia  are facing day-to-day health risks due to arsenic contamination of their drinking water. Of this, an estimated 35 million people are in Bangladesh, five million in India and 550,000 in Nepal. Also emerging is a picture of increasing contamination in the Indus delta in Pakistan. Now, help could be at hand with a team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) developing Amrit, a low-cost arsenic filter using nano-f...

September 17, 2018, 12:00 pm It was wonderful for me to meet India’s Minister for Women and Child Development and internationally acclaimed animal rights activist, Maneka Gandhi, again at her Ministry at the Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi. I met her last in 1998 and travelled with her to her constituency in Pilibhit. A rare opportunity for a writer to see the inside of Indian politics. That too with a Gandhi of India. I lost touch with her thereafter and was able to make connections again thanks to the Editor of the Island, my friend Prabath Sahabandu. I wanted Maneka’s help to Free Bandula the Elephant chained at the Zoo in Dehiwela since he was just three years old. I knew Maneka would help Sri Lankan and other animal lovers all over the world, as an environmentalist and animal rights leader in India who has earned international awards and worldwide acclaim. Maneka started the organisation People for Animals in 1992. It is the largest organisation for anima...

http://www.dailynews.lk/ 2018/09/18/ local/ 162864/ boost-ornamental-fish-breeding An export-oriented countrywide programme to promote ornamental fish breeding will be launched soon. This is because ornamental fish has a big international demand, Fisheries, Aquatic Resources Development and Rural Economy State Minister Dilip Wedaarachchi said. It has also been planned to set up exporters' and ornamental fish export zones at district level to facilitate this programme, he said. The State Minister was addressing a workshop at the National Aquaculture Development Authority, recently, to prepare a strategic plan for the promotion of ornamental fish breeding industry. --