As a part of the preparations, devotees organised a procession to pull the wooden ceremonial pole from Bhotahiti to Hanuman Dhoka.

The protest was organised against the city’s failure to collect garbage from the Capital for the last two weeks.

Each year on Janai Purnima, thousands of pilgrims head to the abode of the gods -- Gosainkunda, the holy lake. The pandemic didn’t deter the devotees.

The Jatra is observed a day after the Gaijatra and marks the end of the plantation season.

The annual festival is observed to commemorate those who have passed away in the past year.

From replacing of sacred thread to preparing a hearty nine-bean soup, Janai Purnima marks the beginning of the festive season in Nepal.

The vaccination drive that started on Friday will be carried out on Saturday and Tuesday.

Leaders from the Tharuhat Tharuwan Rashtriya Morcha staged demonstrations at Maitighar Mandala on Wednesday.

Several teachers were arrested following the protest.

Special pujas are being observed in Nagpokhari and Taudaha in Kathmandu, Siddhapokhari in Bhaktapur and other ponds and shrines in the country today.

Valley authorities have decided to put a nighttime ban on vehicles ‘to check the coronavirus spread’.

The protesters gathered at Maitighar Mandala and also demanded scrapping the recent appointment of the new minister of state for health.

The government had started administering J&J’s Janssen vaccine to migrant workers after major labour destinations made it mandatory for incoming migrant workers to be vaccinated.

The protest, organised to put pressure on the authorities to fulfil the entrepreneurs’ demands, prompted long traffic jams along the Ring Road on Thursday.

Photojournalist Club members gathered at Boudha to honour the celebrated photographer who was killed while covering clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban last week.

The United States provided a little over 1.5 million vaccines through COVAX on July 12.

The Brihat Nagarik Andolan group were demonstrating against irregularities in the medical education sector in front of Singhadurbar.

Kathmandu Metropolitan City on June 30 had whitewashed the mural painted in Ratnapark in appreciation of health workers, security personnel among other pandemic frontline workers.

Airlines companies told to reduce their daily flight numbers by half for now.

Public vehicles with a seating capacity of 25 are allowed to operate inside the valley from Tuesday onwards.