Doctors have advised the public to be careful of their food choices during this festive season. They prescribe for limiting the intake of meat products, beverages and sugary foods during the Dashain festival.
Bada Dashain has ritually begun in the Taleju Bhawani temple in Bhaktapur on Saptami, the seventh day of the Dashain festival. On the auspicious time of 8:24 am today, the idol of Taleju Bhawani has been taken into the Dashain Ghar from the Main Ghar after placing it in the main chowk, it has been said.
A motorcyclist was killed in an accident last night at Bagjhora of Bhainse-Hetauda section along the Tribhuvan Highway in Makwanpur.
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha is recuperating. Shrestha is receiving treatment at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing after suffering a mild heart attack on October 18.
A palanquin containing the Phulpati has been send from the Dashainghar in Gorkha Durbar to be carried all the way to Hanumandhoka Durbar in Kathmandu, according to the main priest of Gorkha Durbar Sharada Prasad Bhattarai.
A basic hospital with the capacity of 15 beds has been brought into operation in Kurintar of Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality-4, Chitwan. The rural municipality brought this hospital into operation after upgrading the then Darechowk Health Post there.
People returning home from Kathmandu Valley to celebrate festivals.
Chief of Livestock Section of the rural municipality, Ashish Banjara, said that total cost of the goat exported from the rural municipality is more than Rs 17.5 million calculating Rs 20,000 for each goat.
On the occasion of Bada Dashain festival, the Fulpati is being taken into the homes as per tradition throughout the country today.
Senior journalist Dharmendra Jha has come up with his new creation 'Bato Patrakaritako' which means the 'path to journalism' in English.
Minister for Health and Population Mohan Bahadur Basnet said the medical education act was on the amendment process.
A foreign tourist has been rescued by a helicopter from Thudam of Bhotkhola rural municipality in Sankhuwasabha district.
A person died and five others were injured in a jeep accident occurred on Friday at Khori of Chhabispathibhera rural municipality-7 in the district.
Nepali Congress central member Dr Shekhar Koirala said Kedar Karki was elected the Chief Minister of Koshi Province on the consent of party central President Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Bagmati Province chief minister, Shalikram Jammakattel, has proposed renaming the province as 'Newa-Tamsaling'.