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With Dashain parties and visitors coming over all throughout the day, our kitchens might have seen better days. It’s a small price to pay for reconnecting with loved ones but now it’s time to get rid of the grime and we’re sure you aren’t looking forward to it just like us. The thing with cleaning hacks is that sometimes they don’t work and leave you with a bigger mess than you started out with. Which is why we are sharing some of our tried and tested ones with you today. 

Baking soda to the rescue

You can clean all kinds of messes and stains with baking soda. Clean your sink with baking soda and lemon. Sprinkle some baking soda on your kitchen sink and let it sit for a few minutes. Use half a lemon to scrub the sink after that and wash with water. Your stainless steel sink will look brand new as you will easily be able to get rid of water marks and stains with this easy cleaning trick. You can also make a paste of baking soda with water and apply it to cookware, ovens, and stovetops and let that sit for 15 to 30 minutes before scrubbing it clean. Baking soda with dish soap or vinegar is also a great cleaning agent. Baking soda also helps get rid of bad odor.

Use a toothbrush to get to difficult places

Oven racks, blender blades, kitchen tile joints—there are some places in the kitchen that are hard to reach and thus usually a little dirty. But they don’t need to be. All you need is an old toothbrush and some cleaning solution and you can have these difficult areas shiny and new in no time. To clean the oven rack and blender blades, tie two toothbrushes together with the bristles facing each other. This way the bristles will cover the wire from all sides and it will be easier to scrub. You can also run a toothbrush over the tile joints in your kitchen and give them a thorough scrub to get rid of the grit and grime.

Make things sparkle with lemon and vinegar

You don’t need strong chemical agents to clean anything in your kitchen. All of us have lemon and vinegar in our pantries and just these two ingredients are enough to get rid of the strongest stains and odors. Microwave lemon in a bowl of water to clean your oven. Let it run for three minutes and then keep the oven door closed for an additional five minutes. The steam will help loosen the gunk attached to the walls as well as make it smell fresh. Give it a good wipe down when done and your oven will look brand new. Use lemon and salt to clean your cutting boards. Simply sprinkle some salt on the board and scrub it with half a lemon. Place lemon peels on the fridge door to get rid of odor. Mix equal parts of white vinegar and water to create an all purpose spray for the kitchen. This solution can be used to clean countertops and cabinets.

At least 16 persons were injured when a microbus and a motorbike collided with each other at HaramiChowk- 4, Bagmati Rural Municipality, Makwanpur, along the Madan Bhandari Highway on Tuesday.  

The bus (M.P. 02-001 Ja 0072) was heading towards Hetauda from Sindhuli when it collided head-on with the motorcycle (Na 5 Pa 5558).

The microbus lost control following the collision and fell some 15 feet down the road.

Police said that 16 persons including the bike rider were injured in the incident. The injured have been taken to the local Sambhi Polyclinic and Cooperative Hospital for medical treatment, said Inspector Thakur Sapkota of the District Police Office, Makwanpur.

Indian climber Shradha Gupta successfully summited Mount Manaslu at 8: 06 am on September 26, 2025.

She was accompanied by her guide Tenji Sherpa with Nirmal Purja’s Elite Exped company to climb the world’s eight highest mountain (8163 meters).

Manaslu is one of the famed peaks which are above an altitude of 8000m in what climbers called the death zone.

Gupta, a resident of Dubai, UAE and heads the corporate business for Singaporean Bank - DBS Bank for the Middle East, started climbing only three years ago after rediscovering her love for hiking post pandemic.

Gupta summited three of the seven summits - Kilimanjaro, Elbrus and Aconcagua since then, as well as undertook the trek to the Everest Base Camp. This is her first 8000m peak.

The work to construct a temporary road along the BP Highway, which was demanded following the floods and landslides caused by the Roshi river on October 4 and 5, has begun.

As the water flow in the Roshi river subsided after the two-day flood, the diversion work commenced on Sunday.

The Division Road Office, Bhaktapur, in collaboration with Roshi Rural Municipality and Namobuddha Municipality, has initiated the reconstruction of the diversion by redirecting the river to one side.

Last year in October, approximately eight kilometers of road in various affected areas of the region were temporarily diverted and put into operation. The same section of road in the area suffered further damage and was washed away by floods and landslides this time as well.

Engineer Bindhu Adhikari, Information Officer, reported that temporary road construction will begin at one site in Chaukidanda, Kavrepalanchok, and at three or four additional locations towards Sindhuli. He noted that since the road along the banks of the Roshi river must be maintained and no remnants of the road remain, the diversion will be reconstructed above the water level.

Due to the destruction caused by the floods and landslides, efforts to rebuild the diversion from Sindhuli on the BP Highway also commenced on Monday. Superintendent of Police Lal Dhwaj Subedi, head of the Sindhuli District Police Office, shared that a diversion from Nepalthok, Sindhuli is currently under construction. He mentioned that the Division Road Office in Khalsite, Sindhuli has begun constructing a diversion towards Nepalthok on the BP Highway using two excavators.

Various sections of the road from Sindhuli to Namobuddha's Chaukidanda towards Kavrepalanchok were washed away, and after sustaining damage, the highway became completely blocked.

At present, vehicles are using alternative routes via Khurkot–Manthali through the Araniko Highway.