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Kathmandu: Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister for Home Affairs, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, returned home from China on Wednesday.

DPM Shrestha, who was on an official visit to the People's Republic of China, returned home today after undergoing treatment in Beijing, the capital of China, as he suffered a mild cardiac arrest in the course of the visit.

He suffered from the mild heart attack on Oct 18 after participating in the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation organized in Beijing on Oct 17 and 18. The DPM was admitted at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, where he underwent medical treatment for five days.

Kathmandu: People continue to visit the homes of their senior relatives for receiving the Dashain tika, jamara and blessing from them even on the second day of the Bada Dashain festival today. 

This trend continues until the day of Kojagrat Purnima, the fifth day from the day of Bijaya Dashami. This year the Kojagrat Purnima falls on Oct 28 as per the lunar calendar. People observed the Bijaya Dashami yesterday. On the occasion of Bijaya Dashami, people receive tika, jamara, Prasad and blessings from their parents and seniors in their family. 

Tike is a mixture of red vermillion powder, curd and rice grains that the family seniors put on the forehead of the junior members of the family. Jamara are the barley or maize shoots that are germinated on the day of Ghatasthapana of the 10-day Dashain festivities which are put behind the ears while Prasad are the fruits, sweets, dry fruits, cookies and other delicacies that are offered to the Goddess Nawa Durga. 

Tika symbolizes victory and good omen, jamara is considered auspicious and prasad is taken as the sanctified edibles gifted by the goddess. The people eat the Prasad after receiving the tika and jamara along with blessings from the elders in the family.

People who could not make it yesterday on the day of Bada Dashain visit the homes of their senior relatives today until the Kojagrat Purnima.

The federal capital, which saw very little movement of people and activity for some days during the Dashain festival period as many people left for their ancestral homes in outside districts, will see somewhat increased movement of people from today onwards.

New Delhi: Cyclonic Storm ‘Hamoon’ over coastal Bangladesh has commenced the landfall process and is set to weaken into a deep depression during the next six hours, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

“The Cyclonic Storm Hamoon over coastal Bangladesh lay centered at 0530 hours IST of 25th Oct about 40 km east-southeast of Chittagong (Bangladesh),” the weather department said today adding that it was proceeding with “a wind speed of 80 to 90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph,” the IMD posted on X.

It is predicted to move north eastwards and weaken into a deep depression during next six hours and further into a depression during subsequent six hours, it said.

On Tuesday a ‘storm warning cage number 2’ was mounted at Pamban Port in Rameswaram to warn fishermen about the Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Hamoon’ over the Bay of Bengal, port officials say.

The Odisha administration had on Monday put all Urban Local Bodies (ULB) on alert in view of the formation of cyclonic storm ‘Hamoon’ in the Bay of Bengal.

Meanwhile, the Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘TEJ’ over coastal Yemen weakened into a cyclonic storm at 1130 IST on Oct 24, the MeT Department stated on Tuesday that it will move further west-northwestwards and weaken into a depression during next six hours.

Also, Light to moderate rainfall is very likely at many places with isolated heavy rainfall over Mizoram on Oct 25.

Light to moderate rainfall is likely at many places over Mizoram and Tripura for Thursday. Light to moderate rainfall is very likely at many places over Nagaland, Manipur and east Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday and Thursday.

Fishermen are advised not to venture into the Northeast Bay of Bengal and along and off Bangladesh and north Myanmar coasts till Oct 25 and adjoining areas of northwest Bay of Bengal and Eastcentral Bay of Bengal till Wednesday afternoon, according to a bulletin by the India MeT department. 

ANI

A man died after a motorbike he was riding on hit a stray buffalo at Harpur Tole in Jagarnathpur Rural Municipality-4, Parsa.

The deceased has been identified as Dhanesh Mahato of Jirabhawani Rural Municipality-5, Parsa.

Mahato and his wife Sangita Devi were injured when a motorbike with Indian registration number plate BR 30 Y 6030 hit a stray buffalo at Harpur Tole in Jagarnathpur Rural Municipality, Parsa on Tuesday, the District Police Office, Parsa said.

Both of them were admitted to the Narayani Hospital in Birgunj.

Mahato, however, was referred to the Nautan-based SL Neuro Hospital from the Narayani Hospital but he breathed his last during the course of treatment, police said.