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The Waling-Galyang section of the Siddharth Highway connecting Sunauli Pokhara has been blocked. A landslide fell from the road in Galang-8 Jholpe at around 4 am today. Coordination is being done to send a dozer to open the road. Due to the incessant rains and the landslides, people coming to visit their relatives for Dasain have been stopped in between. Similarly, the Siddharth Highway, which was blocked due to continuous rain, has been opened one-way at Kuvinde, on the border of Syangja and Kaski.

The Narayanghat-Mugling road has been blocked due to landslides from 8:30 this morning. DSP Narahari Adhikari of District Police Office Chitwan said that due to continuous rain, a landslide with mud fell in Satrakilo situated in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-29. He said that efforts are being made to open the road in coordination with the road department.

Cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane, accused of rape, will arrive in Nepal on Thursday. He will land at Tribhuvan International Airport at 10 am by Qatar Airlines. He mentioned that he will surrender to the police from the airport. "As I promised, I am surrendering to the authorities today. I am landing in Kathmandu at 10 am by Qatar Airlines. I have informed the police in writing about surrendering," he wrote on his social media. He has promised to help the police at every step. The Nepal Cricket Association suspended him from the captaincy after he was accused of extorting a minor. Sandeep, who reached the West Indies to play the CPL, had informed earlier that he was disturbed and was living in isolation.

The 10th day of the 15-day Dashain festival, Vijaya Dashami, is being celebrated across Nepal and other countries where Nepalis live on Wednesday. This is the most important day of the biggest festival of Nepali Hindus which they celebrate every year. Today, on this occasion, people receive tika on their foreheads and jamara on their heads from seniors in the family as blessings from goddess Durga. According to the Nepal Calendar Determination Committee (NCDC), the most auspicious time to receive tika and jamara today was 11:51 am. President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, and top political leaders among others have extended their greetings for Vijaya Dashami to the public. President Bhandari is also offering tika and jamara to the public from 3 to 5 pm at Sheetal Niwas. People also travel to their relatives’ places in the next five days, until the full moon day (Kojagrat Purnima) to receive tika, jamara and blessings. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted Dashain for the last two years, the infection rate has now significantly decreased. People hence are set to travel to their relatives. Two million people have already left Kathmandu valley for Dashain.