DHANGADI, Nov 18: An electrical short circuit triggered a fire in Dhangadhi, causing damage to multiple businesses, including Sarathi Hospital.

KATHMANDU, Oct 22: The bodies of four students who died in the Hamas attack in Israel have been brought to Dhangadi.

KAILALI, Sept 8: The District Traffic Police Office, Dhangadhi, has taken initiatives to place reflective belts around the necks and horns of stray cattle in response to a rising number of road accidents. The reflective belts will glow from a distance at night, so the number of road accidents will be reduced.

Four arrested with 1.3 kg of hashish

September 5, 2023 11:06 am

DHANGADI, Sep 5: In a joint operation conducted by the Sudurpaschim Province Investigation Team and the local police office in Sukhad, four individuals were apprehended in possession of approximately 1.3 kilograms of hashish. The arrests took place in Deukaliya of Ghodaghodi Municipality-5.

DHANGADHI, Aug 28: A patient lost his life after his kidney was removed during a kidney stone operation at Swastik Cardio and Multispecialty Hospital in Dhangadhi.

DHANGADI, July 28: The Ministry of Social Development, in collaboration with the District Police Office, conducted a joint investigation leading to the arrest of four people engaged in illegal medical operations within Dhangadhi sub-metropolitan city-2 and 3 on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, June 25: An aircraft of Shree Airlines, which was en route from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) to Dhangadhi, had to return to Kathmandu on Sunday morning due to an issue on board.

KATHMANDU, June 24: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a case at the special court against the former office Chief of the Transport Management Office in Dhangadhi.

Dhangadhi, a city in Sudurpaschim Province, is the only sub-metropolitan city in the region. It serves as the primary commercial, industrial, and educational hub for Sudurpaschim, which comprises seven hill districts and two Terai districts. The progress achieved in Dhangadhi Sub-metropolitan City is a testament to how visible development can be accomplished with appropriate policies, strong willpower, and honest implementation.

SUDURPASCHIM, May 4: A patient diagnosed with COVID-19 and dengue infections at the Seti Province Hospital, Dhangadi, died last night. The 30-year-old male had been on ventilator support since May 2. Before this, he underwent a nerve surgery on April 7, according to the hospital’s Information Officer Mekhraj Upadhyay.

DHANGADI, May 22: Independent candidate Gopal Hamal has been elected the mayor of Dhangadhi Sub-metropolis. He won with 26,865 votes while his closest rival, the common candidate of ruling alliance, Nrip Bahadur Oda of the Nepali Congress, received 14,817 votes.

DHANGADI, May 17: Independent candidate Gopal Hamal, who has been leading the mayoral race in Dhangadhi, the only sub-metropolitan city in the far west, has taken the lead with more than 3,000 votes. He is being followed by Nepali Congress (NC) candidate Nrip Bahadur Wad on behalf of the alliance.

DHADING, July 20: Transport entrepreneurs in Dhading have stopped providing public transport services after they were fined by the administration for increasing the fare by 28 percent. Although the central government had increased the fares of long distance public transport from one province to another, the decision was not meant for vehicles operating within the same province.

Missing child found dead

July 8, 2021 15:22 pm

DHANGADI, July 8: A  minor who had been missing from Tikapur Municipality-9 in Kailali since July 5 was found dead on Wednesday. According to police investigation, the death of the minor has been suspected to be a murder case.

KATHMANDU, Jan 30: Following a vertical split within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) after the dissolution of the House of Representatives(HoR), the two rival factions – one led by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and other led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal – are busy in showing their strength in different parts of the country.

DHANGADI, April 21:  COVID-19 infected Amrit Shahi of Dhangadi sub-metropolitan city has been discharged from Seti Provincial Hospital on Tuesday 29 days after he had tested positive for this deadly virus.

DHANGADHI, March 29: The novel coronavirus infected man from Dhangadi who is undergoing treatment at Seti Regional Hospital has been found to have met dozens of people after coming to Nepal from Dubai. Talking to Republica, he said that a friend from Biratnagar was in the same Delhi – Kathmandu flight on 20 March. "At that time, we were a total of 19 people from Nepal from Dubai to Delhi, and then I was with a friend from Biratnagar for the flight to Kathmandu from Delhi," he said.

DHANGADHI, July 20: On Thursday evening, Ram Singh and Laxman Serela, cadres of the outlawed Netra Bikram Chand's outfit, entered the Neelam Hotel, an eatery, near Sahidgate in Dhangadhi.

Five injured in Dhangadi explosion

July 18, 2019 20:45 pm

DHANGADI, July 18: Five people have sustained injuries in an explosion in Dhangadi on Thursday evening.

Dhangadi airport back to business

June 12, 2019 21:00 pm

DHANGADI, June 12: Regular flights to and from the Dhangadi airport began from today. The airport had been closed since May 5 for upgrading of the airstrip and parking zone.

KATHMANDU, Jan 18: The US government, in partnership with the Nepal government and Nepal Red Cross Society, is building the far-west region's first-ever blood bank in Dhangadhi of Kailali district.

KAILALI, Dec 12: Police and protestors demanding justice for Kanchanpur rape and murder victim Nirmala Panta clashed in Dhangadhi when the protestors tried to paste Nirmala's posters in front of the chief minister's office on Tuesday.

DHANGADHI, Dec 4: Dhangadhi Police has reached to the conclusion that Ashis Sethi, 28, murdered twenty-five-year-old Bijay Thapa after a heated argument over consumption of heroin in a hotel in Dhangadhi on November 16.

Nepathya’s tour ends in Dhangadi

December 2, 2018 09:52 am

KATHMANDU, Dec 2: Nepathya officially ended their nationwide tour at Dhangadi on Thursday. The band started the tour from Birtamode on November 20. The tour was a part of the band’s 25 years celebration.

POKHARA, Oct 27: Kathmandu Royals have won the toss and elected to bat first.

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DHANGADI, Sept 29: Cadres of Nepali Congress and Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) have shut down Dhangadi against a two-third majority decision to name and relocate Province 7's capital. The cadres have called for an indefinite strike against the provincial assembly's decision to name Province 7 as Far-West and make Godawari municipality-2 as the province's capital.

DHANGADI, Sept 25: Incessant rainfall has clogged parts of Dhangadi with around a feet of water. Areas of LN Chowk, Park Mod and road in front of provincial assembly has been flooded.

DHANGADI, Sept 6: Its been six years since the murder of Om Prakash Panta, and yet, his the killer is unknown. Father Sri Krishna, has been asking for justice since the death of his son Om Prakash.

DHANGADI, May 27: Nirmal Karki sustained injuries after two masked men shot him and looted 950,000 rupees from Chauraha of Dhangadi sub metropolitan-2, according to police.

DHANGADI, KATHMANDU, May 12: Bibeksheel Sajha Party, Dhangadi held a silent protest as they welcomed visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi but reechoed they were hadn’t forgotten the blockade.

DHANGADI, Oct 20: Property worth around five million rupees was gutted by fire at Traffic Chowk in Dhandadhi on Thursday night.

DHANGADHI, May 13: Nepal Army's bomb disposal squad today defused two bombs planted at two separate locations in Dhangadi Sub Metropolitan City.

DHANGADI, April 22: Dhangadi Team Chauraha has won the first Dhangadi Premier League title defeating Biratnagar Kings by 62 runs.

DHANGADI, April 22: Dhangadi Team Chauraha has set target of 160 runs to Biratnagar Kings in the final game of ongoing Dhangadi Premier League.

DHANGADI, April 20: With a surprise journey in the tournament, Dhangadi Team Chauraha has placed itself in the final of the ongoing Dhangadi Premier League (DPL).

KATHMANDU, April 13 : Machhapuchchhre Bank Ltd has relocated its Dhangadi branch office to a new location in Dhangadi Main Road.

DHANGADI, April 09: Nepal XI has defeated Dhangadi XI by 31 runs in the first game of Dhangadi Premier League that kicked off from Sunday.

DHANGADI, Dec 7: Cadres of CPN-UML and Rastriya Janamorcha are demonstrating at the major thoroughfares of the city on Wednesday to protest the arrival of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Band enforcers torch truck in Dhangadi

November 13, 2016 19:46 pm

DHANGADI, Nov 13: Band enforcers torched a truck, Se 1 Pa 437, at Geta along the Dhangadi Aatariya road section at around 7 am on Sunday morning.