Lalitpur Metropolis gives Rs. 1m to Central Zoo

Lalitpur Metropolitan City has provided financial assistance of Rs. 1 million to the Central Zoo. Calling the zoo an integral part of the city, Mayor Chiribabu Maharjan handed over a cheque of the amount to Dr. Chiranjibi Pokharel, the zoo’s project manager, amidst a programme on Thursday. “This is a small token to support the zoo in these difficult times,” Maharjan said, adding, “I hope this encourages other organisations to donate and help the only zoo of the country feed animals.” Gorkhapatra,...

Jhijhiya adds festive colour to Dashain in central Terai

With the arrival of Dashain and Navaratri, children and young girls have started celebrating Jhijhiya in central parts of Terai. Jhijhiya is a cultural dance performed for by women and adolescent girls by placing earthen pots with lit butter lamps on their heads. They also go around people’s houses singing folk songs like “Khaibe ta kho daini kotra machariya na khaibe kotra chibaibe apan bhatara” and “Chalchal gay dania kadam ta, taura betake khevau brahm tar,” which are insults to witches...

Leaders celebrating this Dashain in different mode

Dashain, the biggest festival celebrated across Nepal, used to bring numerous festive offers by business enterprises, great cheers and a big opportunity for long holidays, among others, for the people of every walk of life. Not this time around. There is no excitement in the air, thanks to the ever-rising COVID-19 cases throughout the country. In all likelihood, this is the first time people are marking their festival with subdued fervour and gaiety. Celebrations such as kite flying competitions,...

Fulpati today

Hindus across Nepal are observing Fulpati, the seventh day of the Dashain festival, on Friday. On the occasion, Fulpati is received into houses as per the age-old tradition. Fulpati, an assortment of flowers, banana leaves, ginger plant, sugarcane plant and fruits considered auspicious, is anointed at Dashainghar of the Hanumandhoka Palace in Basantapur. It is brought to Kathmandu from Gorkha following the Vedic rituals to be anointed at Dashainghar.

Clean feed comes into effect from today: Minister Gurung

Minister for Communication and Information Technology Parbat Gurung Thursday said the clean feed policy would come into effect compulsorily from October 23. “On the eve of Dashain festival, the government is going to implement clean feed as provisioned in Section 6 (1) of the Advertisement (Regulation) Act 2019, and this is a happy and proud moment for all of us that we will now be able to watch television programmes without dubbed advertisement in foreign TV channels,” Minister Gurung said. The...

CNN investigation finds Bannon behind conspiracy theory against China

CNN said it spoke with six scientists and experts who found the China-bashing study's methodology to be "flawed," adding that the group described the study as "junk science," "leaps of logic" and "window dressing."

RAW Chief Goyal pays a courtesy call on PM Oli

Samanta Kumar Goyal, chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), a foreign intelligence agency of India, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Thursday at the Prime Minister's residence, Baluwatar.

Kathmandu Valley logs 1,552 new cases of COVID-19

In 15,255 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done across the nation in the last 24 hours, as many as 1,552 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection in the Valley itself, said Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the ministry in the daily press briefing today.

COVID-19 update: 3,637 new cases, 3,215 recoveries, tally hits 148,509

In 15,255 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 3,637 persons were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Only 600,000 people exit valley for Dashain (Photo Feature)

With the starting of the Dashain festival, a total of 152,638 public vehicles have exited the Kathmandu Valley from September 17 to October 20, the data of Traffic Police revealed.