Chitwan, Oct. 25 -- Laxmi Adhikari faces a difficult choice. If she harvests her one-bigha (about 6,773 square metres) paddy field now, rain could damage the crop. If she waits, wild elephants emergin... Read More
Chitwan, Oct. 16 -- The Dashain shopping rush is building, with markets filling up as families prepare for Nepal's biggest festival. For livestock traders, this is usually one of the busiest times of ... Read More
Chitwan, Oct. 5 -- A bird usually associated with coastal and marine habitats has been recorded for the first time in Nepal. A local bird enthusiast photographed a collared kingfisher in Dhanusha. An... Read More
Chitwan, Sept. 22 -- Agricultural scientists at the National Maize Research Programme in Rampur, Chitwan, have developed a new hybrid maize seed capable of withstanding extreme drought, erratic rainfa... Read More
Chitwan, Sept. 19 -- Ronaldo, a wild bull elephant that played a key role in breeding at Chitwan National Park's elephant breeding centre, was found dead on Saturday morning in the park's buffer zone.... Read More
Chitwan, Sept. 15 -- As Nepal's tiger population grows, so does the need to capture animals that enter settlements and attack people or livestock. But the country has too few facilities to house rescu... Read More
Chitwan, Sept. 11 -- A person was found dead inside a burned-out electric vehicle in Bharatpur on Friday morning, police said. The incident occurred around 6am in the Basanta Chowk-Gondrang area of B... Read More
Chitwan, Sept. 11 -- year-old man died after the electric car he was travelling in caught fire in Bharatpur early Friday morning, police said. The incident occurred at around 6 am near Basantachowk i... Read More
Chitwan, Sept. 1 -- After days of dealing with bodies instead of patients, Bharatpur Hospital has returned to its regular medical services after authorities began temporarily burying unidentified floo... Read More
Nepal, Aug. 29 -- On Friday morning, an anxious crowd gathered outside a temporary body-management centre near the Electricity Office Road in Bharatpur, Chitwan. Some relatives clutched faded photogra... Read More