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On the occasion of the Bada Dashain festival, the Fulpati is being taken into the homes as per tradition throughout the country today. 

Fulpati, an assortment of flowers, leaves and fruits of different plants considered auspicious, is anointed at the Dashain Ghar on the seventh day of the Bada Dashain festival. 

The Fulpati is brought to Kathmandu as per the Vedic rites to be anointed at the Dashain Ghar at the Hanuman Dhoka Durbar. 

A procession along with cultural pageantry leaves Hanuman Dhoka for Jamal with the Fulpati. 

Though the Dashain festival begins from Ghatasthapana, the festival sees special fervor from the day of Fulpati. 

All governments, as well as private offices, close down from today encouraging people to go back to their respective ancestral homes and take blessings from Durga Bhawani as well as their elders. 

Nine persons were injured when a passenger bus met with an accident at Khurkot in Sindhuli on Friday. 

The bus was heading towards Okhaldhunga from Kathmandu, according to the District Police Office, Sindhuli. 

Police said the incident occurred as the vehicle was reversing to pick up passengers.  

The Chitwan National Park has started an e-ticketing (electronic ticket) system that allows tourists to buy entry tickets online.

With this, tourists visiting the national park will be able to complete the entry process by buying tickets from home. 

In the first phase, arrangements have been made to buy tickets online from the Sauraha area. 

Depending on the results of this trial, it is said that the service will be expanded to other park entry points as well.

Earlier, tourists and tourism entrepreneurs had to be physically present and pay cash to get the entry tickets. Online services are expected to reduce the time and hassle of buying tickets.

On Thursday, the MP from Chitwan Constituency No. 1, Hari Dhakal, and the chairperson of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee, along with Dil Bahadur Purja Pun, the senior conservation officer of CNP, inaugurated the e-ticketing system.

Senior Conservation Officer of the National Park, Pun, said that the administration has been trying to launch e-ticketing services for a long time. 

He mentioned that after e-ticketing was started in Shivapuri National Park, the need for it has also been felt in Chitwan.

"About 70 to 75 percent of Chitwan National Park's revenue comes from the Sauraha area, and in the same proportion, tourists enter the park from this area, so e-ticketing service has been started from Sauraha area," he added.

He mentioned that with the new system in place, tourists will be able to complete the entry process by booking tickets from home. 

He also said that tutorials on how to use the system will be posted on the park's Facebook page and website.

MP Dhakal said that starting the e-ticketing system in Sauraha was possible thanks to the tourism entrepreneurs and his continuous efforts. 

He mentioned that he has been regularly pushing for this issue over the past six months since taking office for his second term.

The park office has stated that Nepali tourists have to pay Rs 150 per person per day for park entry, tourists from SAARC countries have to pay Rs 1,000, and other foreign tourists have to pay Rs 2,000.

Tourist jeeps have to pay a fee of Rs 5, 000 when entering the park for the first time.

The park has stated that once tourists fill in the necessary details and complete the process, a QR code will be generated, and one can enter the park by showing that code.

In the last fiscal year, 272, 923 tourists visited Chitwan National Park and the nearby community forests. 

The previous fiscal year, this number was 231,329. 

The park reported that it collected Rs 276. 63 million in revenue from tourism last year.

With the onset of Dashain, one of Nepal’s biggest festivals, the number of passengers leaving the Kathmandu Valley for their hometowns has begun to rise

People living in Kathmandu Valley for various purposes including study, employment and other professions have started returning to their hometowns to celebrate the festival. 

Short and long-route vehicles heading towards different districts of the country from different borders of the Kathmandu Valley are seen crowded with passengers. 

Deputy Superintendent of Police at the Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office, Rabindra Khanal, shared that 348,314 people have left Kathmandu from October 11 till this morning to celebrate the festival.

A total of 52, 827 people left Kathmandu on October 11, 56,809 people on October 12, 78,138 people on October 13, 74,979 people on October 14 and 85,561 people on October 15. 

Such a number of people departed from Kathmandu Valley via various check points—Pharping, Nagdhunga, Thankot, Bhimdhunga, Tinpiple and Sankhu of Kathmandu, Jagati of Bhaktapur and Bhattedanda of Lalitpur. 

Following the increasing number of passengers returning to their hometowns for Dashain festival, transport entrepreneurs have been facing problems managing vehicles for passengers. 

Treasurer of Federation of Nepalese National Transport Entrepreneurs and Chairperson of Nepal Microbus Company, Rajendra Acharya, mentioned, "Problems have surfaced for vehicles to reach destinations after different national highways are damaged during Dashain."

Similarly, 153,732 passengers have booked tickets in advance for Dashain so far, he added.

The Federation urged the passengers to travel only after purchasing tickets, to pay a determined fare, and to check the condition of vehicles before traveling.