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Hamro Patro Listen ⓘ is a freemium Nepali calendar app for smartphones. [1] As of 2024, it had been downloaded more than ten million times. It provides additional features including news, horoscope, foreign exchange rates, podcasts and Nepali FM radio stations. The app is ad -supported so that it remains free, but an in-app subscription is ...
Gai Jatra ( Nepali: गाईजात्रा ), also known by its endonym Sa Paru ( Nepal Bhasa: सा पारु ), is a Nepalese festival celebrated mainly in the Kathmandu valley by the Newar people. [1] [2] The festival is celebrated in honour of their immediate relatives who have died during the previous year.
Tihar is the second biggest Nepali festival after Dashain, and is usually allocated a three-day-long national holiday. The festival is considered novel in that it shows reverence to not just the gods, but also to animals such as crows, cows, and dogs that have long-lived alongside humans. Kaag Tihar (Day 1)
Prithvi Jayanti ( Nepali: पृथ्वी जयन्ती, lit. 'Birthday of Prithvi Narayan Shah '; also known as the Nepal Ekikaran Diwas ( Nepali: नेपाल एकीकरण दिवस, lit. 'National Unification Day') or National Unity Day) is an observance annually celebrated on 11 January to commemorate the birth of King ...
Indra Jatra. Indra Jātrā, also known as Yenyā Punhi is the biggest religious street festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. " Ye" means the old Newari name for "Kathmandu", "Ya" means “Celebration”, and "Puhni" means full moon so together means the birthday of the old city of Kathmandu. [1] The celebrations consist of two events, Indra Jātrā and ...
Magh ( Nepali: माघ) is the tenth month in Bikram Sambat or B.S., the official and Hindu religious calendar of the Nepalese speaking people native to the Indian subcontinent of Hindu Nepalese nationality and ethnic Hindu Nepalis of Indian nationality. This month approximately coincides with January 15 to February 12 of the Gregorian ...
Mangsir. Mangsir ( Nepali: मङ्गसिर or मङ्सिर or मार्ग) is the eighth month in the Bikram Samwat, the official Nepali calendar. This month coincides with the mid-November to mid-December of the Gregorian calendar . Important events during this month include:
Bhai Teeka (Nepali: भाइटीका) in Nepal, where it is the most important festival after Dashain (Vijaya Dashmi / Dussehra). Observed on the fifth day of Tihar festival, it is widely celebrated by Maithils in Nepal as Bhardutiya Bhai Tika followed by the people of various other ethnic groups among Madhesis.