The Department of Passports is printing roughly 4,000 passports every day now, compared to around 900 earlier, officials say.

Communities have discovered that putting up images of Hindu deities on public walls prevents garbage dumping, open defecation and public urination.

Division office writes to city office and the district administration to set criteria and monitor mushrooming banquet halls.

Department of Roads expects to clear road section of trees and electric poles within the next two months

In the past one week, 1,305 drunk drivers have been booked in Kathmandu Valley.

Indifference of Kathmandu Metropolitan City to managing the situation makes festive shopping harder.

Police have stepped up crackdown on drink driving in view of the festival

Every day 16,000 public vehicles are carrying passengers to different destinations from Kathmandu.

According to the Department of Livestock Services, this year 55,000 to 60,000 goats are expected to be consumed in Kathmandu Valley.

There is little space to accommodate hundreds of elderly people who come to take their allowances in just five days, according to the Nepal Bank.

The Metropolitan Traffic Division has adopted special surveillance measures to discourage frauds who have longe been fleecing the festival passengers.

The division, in coordination with the transport department and operators, have established 14 help desks in different parts of the Valley to help passengers.

Naya Bus Park counters sell around 33,000 tickets in three days.

Mobilising volunteers alone is not going to solve the problem of traffic jam in Kathmandu, says Nepal Police chief Sarbendra Khanal.

Kathmandu Valley has seen a steady rise in the number of vehicles even as effective measures of traffic management are lacking.