Drying up of natural sources and poor management of the only manmade pond inside the protected area have led to an increasing number of animals entering human settlements.

Officials say dispute in handover of the building modelled to accommodate a fully facilitated hospital has led to delay in its operation.

Police have arrested three Indian nationals along with 360 kg hashish from Gajuri, Dhading, on Sunday.

Farmers in Dhading district are bemoaning the difficulty in getting chemical fertiliser, with Agriculture Inputs Company (AIC) failing to supply adequate amount of the farm input.

Illegal mining of sand and other construction materials at locations around Trishuli River have become a common occurance as the authority’s monitoring have waned with the beginning of Dashain, the main festival of Hindus.

Alpine Livestock and Bio Trade, the company tasked to supply meat to Kathmandu, has been shut down.

Dinesh Ghale of Tipling in Dhading district spends most of his days attending to his herd of yaks. Yak farming has been his family profession and he has not been able to abandon it.

The compensation amount offered for the land needed for the Budhi Gandaki Hydroelectric Project has drawn mixed reactions from locals.

Nepal’s biggest raised flat-land of river deposition with human settlement, Salyantar, is now surrounded by more than 100 unchecked brick-manufacturing factories that discharge smoky haze adversely destroying the greenery and affecting human health.

Dhading, one of the largest vegetable producing districts in the country, has an annual output valued at Rs3 billion. Production soared after farmers started adopting commercial agricultural practices, officials said.

Two people were crushed to death as a brick kiln chimney collapsed at Thakre VDC-8 in Dhading district on Friday. Another person was injured after the inner wall of the chimney at Everest brick kiln buried them.

The local administration’s plan to set uniform prices of foods served by hotels and restaurants along the Prithvi Highway has landed in controversy.

Due to panic buying triggered by a shortage of cooking gas, a large number of households have been hoarding cylinders

Electronic data collection of earthquake victims has halted in Baseri VDC of Dhading after fake earthquake victims began pressuring the suveyers to list them as ‘A’ grade victims.

The earthquake victims from Kumpur VDC in Dhading picketed the District Administration Office on Wednesday demanding winter relief.