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Indra Jatra has formally begun in Kathmandu Valley.

The biggest festival of the Valley began with the installation of a wooden pole (lingo) in the premises of Hanumandhoka, Basantapur Durbar Square on Tuesday.

The festival dedicated to Indra, the god of rain and king of heaven, is celebrated for eight days.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has banned vehicles in the area where the Indra Jatra procession will take place.

The metropolis has restricted the movement of all types of vehicles in Basantapur, Maru, Chingamukal, Jaisidewal, Lagan, Brahmatole, Kohiti, Bhimsensthan on Thursday.

The movement of vehicles has been restricted in Basantapur, Pyafal, Yatkha, Naradevi, Tengal, Nyukha, Nhektala, Machhindrabahal, Indrachowk, Makhan and Hanumandhoka on Friday and Basantapur, Pyafal, Yatkha, Naradevi, Kilagh, Bhedasingh, Indrachowk and Makhan on Saturday.

On this occasion, Lakhe dance are performed on the streets of Kathmandu.

Meanwhile, the lingo, brought to Hanumandhoka from a jungle in Bhaktapur, was erected with the help of locals and Nepal Army personnel.

The lingo-erection procession was marked with fanfare.

Two rhinos of Chitwan National Park have been shifted to the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve.

Four-year-old Pushpa and two-year-old Anjali have been taken to the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve from the Chitwan National Park this morning.

Before being transferred to the Koshi Tappu, they were kept in the cage for the  past one week.

Wildlife technician Lal Bahadur Mahatara had monitored them.

Born in Tamaspur of Nawalpur under the Chitwan National Park in 2019, Pushpa was rescued from the muddy swamp.

Anjali was rescued from Dibyapuri area of Nawalpur, Chitwan National Park on April 5, 2021 during the rhino count when she was just one week old.

According to the data, there are no one-horned rhinos in Koshi Tappu. They are being transferred to Koshi Tappu for the first time.

Haribhadra Acharya, Acting Director General of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Department, said that a technical committee had carried out a study on keeping the rhinos in Koshi two years ago.

The committee had concluded that the Koshi Tappu would be an appropriate habitat for rhinos.

Three persons died of dengue infection in Tanahun in the past two months. All three fatalities are from Byas Municipality.

They died from July 1 to September 25. 

Health section Chief of Byas Municipality Pramod Soti informed that dengue infection has been spreading in Damauli for the past few months. The municipality alone has 1,350 dengue patients now.

The municipality is preparing to mobilize its health workers at Damauli Hospital in the wake of a rapid rise in dengue patients. Even the hospital was complaining of shortage of human resources to provide smooth service. A doctor, two lab technicians and two others in the emergency section would be provided to the hospital, he added.

Meanwhile, the municipality has launched a public awareness campaign in every village. Search and destroy campaign would be in place to control the dengue spread.

Now, every ward is running a public health awareness campaign.

Similarly, Chief of Health Office in Tanahun, Shankar Babu Adhikari, urged one and all to maintain further alertness against dengue infection.

He expressed worry over shortage of beds in health facilities with the rise of dengue patients.

Most of patients at Damauli Hospital have dengue fever.

Two persons have died of viral fever at Matesagu in Khaptad Chededaha Rural Municipality-2 of Bajura.

The deceased have been identified as Sauradevi Budha (49) and Kul Bahadur Shahi (62).

Budha died four days ago and Shahi on Sunday night.

Local Ganesh Bahadur Shahi said that both of them died due to viral fever.

Almost all the people in the village have fallen sick.

It has already been a week since the viral fever spread in the village.

Locals have lamented that no health workers have come to the village yet to provide medical treatment.

They said that the patients have the symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath.

Mahesh Chand, Acting Chief of the Health Office, Bajura, said that they are preparing to send a medical team to the village.

He said that two health workers have been sent to the village from Khaptad Chededaha Rural Municipality and preparations are underway to send a team along with medicines from the District Health Office.

Khaptad Chededaha Rural Municipality Chairman Dil Bahadur Raut said that a team of health workers has already been sent to the affected area.