Hindu devotees across Nepal on Monday celebrated the ninth day of the major annual festival of Dashain by offering animal sacrifices to the Goddess Durga.
In a significant move that will save millions of animals, Nepal's Gadhimai temple trust on Tuesday announced a ban on animal sacrifice at the Gadhimai festival, the world's biggest animal sacrifice event held every five years.
Nepal has reopened most of the heritage sites that were damaged in a pair of strong earthquakes that devastated parts of the country recently, hoping to bring back foreign tourists.