The annual festival of Sindoor Jatra paints the town with vermillion. It is observed on the 2nd of Baisakh, the first month ...

As the end of the academic year approaches, most student organizations and clubs are set on having their final send offs or big bashes as a way to have students relax before they are occupied with ...

Believed to have started from the Malla Dynasty, Biska Jatra formally starts four days before the start of the Nepali New Year. Biska, in the Newari language, means killing snakes. As a part of ...

People celebrate the Sindoor Jatra Festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, April 15, 2025. The festival is celebrated to welcome the Nepalese New Year and the beginning of the spring season in Nepal.

symbolising prosperity and considered sacred in the age-old tradition as it celebrated the Sindoor Jatra, or Vermillion Festival, to mark the arrival of the Nepali New Year. The streets were ...