After celebrating the festival with loved ones, migrant workers head to the airport with tika and jamara on their foreheads, bound for jobs and opportunities overseas.
Crowds gather in the Kasthamandap area to buy bundles of jamara, placed on people’s heads as a blessing during Vijaya Dashami.
Open to the public only once a year, the temple in Kathmandu’s Hanuman Dhoka Durbar complex draws large crowds of worshippers during Dashain.
As families return to their villages for the festival, traditional swings draw crowds and add to the festive spirit.
Crowded markets, kite-filled skies and packed roads capture the excitement as families head home and communities prepare to celebrate. These pictures by Post photographers offer a glimpse of the sights and spirit of Dashain across Nepal.
Families flock to traditional bazaars for flowers, sugarcane, ginger plants and other offerings used in the Dashain ritual.
Photographs taken on Monday morning show the extent of the flood’s destruction.
CAN is upgrading facilities at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in a bid to improve crowd management and the experience for players, media and spectators.
Women pull the chariots of Kumari, Ganesh and Bhairav through Kathmandu's streets as the weeklong festival ends.
Teachers and students are shovelling out classrooms after four days of rain, and flooding left the school covered in thick silt, with outside help yet to arrive.
Relatives plastered hospital walls in Kathmandu with notices searching for loved ones swept away by the Bhotekoshi floods. With thousands still unaccounted for, many families have turned to symbolic last rites.
Young Newar girls aged 2 to 8 take part in a traditional worship ritual at Hanuman Dhoka, where devotees seek blessings for peace, prosperity and protection.
The eight-day festival began with the traditional erection of the Indra flagpole, marking the start of celebrations honouring the god of rain and prosperity.
The footbridge is being built along the busy Maitighar–New Baneshwar section to make road crossings safer for pedestrians.
Farmers spend weeks cutting, retting, stripping and drying jute before taking the fibre to market.
Repairs and reconstruction are underway on 53 footbridges damaged by the August 26 flood along the Trishuli corridor, restoring vital links to markets, schools, health services and jobs.
Devotees across Nepal marked the Hindu festival with offerings to their fathers and rituals to remember departed ancestors.
Much of the settlement was swept away by the flood, while damaged roads have hampered relief, rescue and the search for people still missing.
The flood swept through Timure, Syabrubesi and other downstream areas on Wednesday morning, leaving at least seven dead.
The six-day event brings together more than 150 brands and over 200 stalls, showcasing new vehicles, auto components and financial services while highlighting the industry’s role in creating jobs.
