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The Lalitpur Metropolitan City is providing Rs 10, 000 allowance to senior citizens. The metropolis is providing the allowance to the elders so that they would be able to celebrate the festivals with gaiety.

The allowance would be given to the senior citizens once a year during the Bada Dashain festival, Mayor Chiri Babu Maharjan said.

"The senior citizens who are the living history of society will be happy after getting this money. We are taking this initiative so that the elders will not have to depend on their children for festival expenses," he added.

The Lalitpur Metropolitan City used to provide festival allowance of Rs 5, 000 to the senior citizens of the designated age until last year. It has increased Rs 5, 000 to the allowance from this year.

It is said there are around 7,000 senior citizens in the metropolis eligible for this allowance.

The country is likely to see a partial to general cloudy sky with light to heavy rains and thundershowers in 24 hours.

Some parts in the hilly region are likely to receive light to moderate rains. Heavy rains are predicted in one or two parts in Province 1, Bagmati, Gandaki and Sudurpaschim Provinces, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. People at possible risks in the areas have been asked to stay alert.

The Kathmandu Valley has recorded minimum 20.5 degree and maximum 31.5-degree temperature, according to the Meteorological Forecasting Division.

Incessant rain since Tuesday night inundated over 800 houses at squatter settlements on the bank of Manohara river in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality-1.

Shree Bhakta Kasichhwa, member of the Province Sports Development Council, Bagmati Province and former chairman of the Bhaktapur District Sports Development Committee said that around 880 houses were inundated after flooded Manohara river entered into the settlements on Tuesday night.  

Nepal Police and Armed Police Force personnel have been deployed to carry out rescue operations.

DSP Raju Pandey, spokesperson at the Metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur said that the details of the damage destroyed in the water induced disaster are yet to be established.

He said that the swollen river swept away 80 houses.

Similarly, 20 houses at Duwakot Bensi in Changunarayan-1 were deluged and four persons were rescued, he said.

A massive fire broke out at a shoe factory in Balaju on Wednesday.

According to Dinesh Mainali, spokesperson at the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, police with the help of locals and fire engines are trying to douse the fire.

The reason behind the fire is yet to be established.