The sub-metropolis has been encouraging citizens to participate in its tree plantation campaign launched with the aim of greening the city.

Agriculture Inputs Company in Dhangadhi starts distributing chemical fertiliser to farmers.

Authorities in Kailali have expressed concerns over the fight against various vector-borne diseases like malaria, kala-azar (black fever) and dengue in the district.

Twenty-three HIV infected people died in Kailali district in 2018, according to the record of the Seti Zonal Hospital.

The Indian border security force, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), has dug a trench near the no-man’s-land between Nepal and India, at Shivaratnapur area in Kailari Rural Municipality-3, Kailali.

An investigation team from the District Police Office, Kailali, arrested a man in possession of a rhino horn from Dhangadhi Sub-metropolis on Tuesday.

Family and relatives of Pradeep Rawal and Bishal Chaudhari, the latest suspects in the teenage murder mystery, protested on the streets of Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur, on Tuesday stating the government tried to frame innocent people in the crime.

Members of Nepali Congress aligned Nepal Student Union (NSU) and Nepal Women’sAssociation (NWA) staged a demonstration in front of the office of Province 7 Chief Minister and Council of Ministers in Dhangadi, Kailali on Tuesday demanding the government identify and punish the perpetrators involved in the rape and murder of 13-year-old Nirmala Pant.

Senior Orthopedic Surgeon at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital Dr Govinda KC said his battle to reform the health and education sectors in remote Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces was still on.

The number of tuberculosis cases has been increasing by 3,500 every year in Sudurpaschim Province.

Construction of 62-kilometre segment of the Postal Highway’s western section has stopped because the authorities’ inability to remove trees within 2kms area of Basanta region in Kailali district.

Land prices in Teghari of Kailali district has risen following the provincial assembly’s designation of Godawari as the capital of Province 7.

The parliamentary committee’s proposal to designate Godawari in Kailali as capital of Province 7 has sparked protests in the region, with local people of Dhangadhi, the temporary provincial capital, taking to the streets.

Nepalis living along the border with India have been thronging nearby Indian towns to do their festival shopping with the country’s biggest religious celebration Dashain approaching. The bordering markets in India receive crowds of Nepali shoppers throughout the year, but during Dashain, the crowds swell into hordes.

The government has created 74 posts for medical specialists in Province 7, but has managed to fill only 12 of these posts.