It was due to missing chainId in config.

Once I changed

const client = new dhive.Client(process.env.HIVE_NODES.split(','))

to

const client = new dhive.Client(process.env.HIVE_NODES.split(','), {
  chainId: '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000',
})

it worked!