Vehicles carry people returning to Kathmandu after the Dashain break, while others travel to visit relatives after receiving tika and blessings.

Six months after losing their homes, families from Kathmandu’s Thapathali and Shankhamul settlements remain in holding centres, struggling without jobs or a clear path to permanent housing.

Families flock to traditional bazaars for flowers, sugarcane, ginger plants and other offerings used in the Dashain ritual.

Photographs taken on Monday morning show the extent of the flood’s destruction.

CAN is upgrading facilities at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in a bid to improve crowd management and the experience for players, media and spectators.

Teachers and students are shovelling out classrooms after four days of rain, and flooding left the school covered in thick silt, with outside help yet to arrive.

Relatives plastered hospital walls in Kathmandu with notices searching for loved ones swept away by the Bhotekoshi floods. With thousands still unaccounted for, many families have turned to symbolic last rites.

The footbridge is being built along the busy Maitighar–New Baneshwar section to make road crossings safer for pedestrians.

Farmers spend weeks cutting, retting, stripping and drying jute before taking the fibre to market.

The trial operation began on Monday, allowing cars, jeeps, and vans to use the tunnel from 9 am to 6 pm.