KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Maghe Sankranti is being celebrated with a fanfare in Kathmandu’s Tundikhel area on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Maghe Sankranti or Makar Sankranti is being celebrated throughout the country today. It is observed by taking holy dips in rivers and ponds, worshiping at various temples and savoring delicacies like ghee, yam, khichadi and sweets like Chaku and sweets made of sesame and molasses.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: Tokha, a town in Kathmandu famed for producing Chaku, a special cultural cuisine, is going to see Chaku Day and Grand Cultural Day and Felicitation programme taking place simultaneously.

KATHMANDU, Jan 11: As the Maghe Sankranti festival approaches, the traders in Tokha, the northern region of Kathmandu, are busy making Chaku (a sweet made from hardened molasses). The molasses is cooked down until it is a solid form, and then pulled on a hook in a manner similar to making taffy and then cut into small rolls.

KATHMANDU, Jan 5: The Kumal community has prepared to mark the Maghe Sankranti festival with much fanfare this year. The Kumal community observes the Maghe Sankranti as its greatest festival.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Maghe Sankranti has been celebrated across the country and in Tundikhel today. It is celebrated especially by the Tharu and Magar communities.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Maghe Sankranti or Makar Sankranti is being celebrated throughout the country today. It is observed by taking holy dips in rivers and ponds, worshiping at various temples and savoring delicacies like ghee, yam, khichadi and sweets like Chaku and sweets made of sesame and molasses.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: As Maghe Sankranti is just two days away, a large number of people are seen thronging to vegetable markets in Kathmandu Valley to buy Sakharkhand, yams, potatoes, and other goods in vegetable markets.

CHITWAN, Jan 8: The Narayanghat-Mugling road section that is closed every day for four days for construction-related work will remain open throughout the day for two days, targeting the Maghe Sankranti fair at Devghat Dham.

GANDAKI, Jan 15: Gandaki Province Chief, Prithvi Man Gurung, has extended best wishes on the occasion of Maghe Sankranti or Maghi festival celebrated by different communities in Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: CPN (Maoist Center) Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that unique festivals of different communities stand as a symbol of unity of Nepali society. He also mentioned that such festivals would promote social harmony and community spirit.

DAMAULI, Jan 15: More than 300,000 devotees visited Devghat, a religious site at the confluence of the Trishuli and Kaligandaki rivers on the occasion of the Maghe Sankranti festival on Thursday. They took holy dips in the river.

KATHMANDU, Jan 14: The Maghe/ Makar Sankranti or Maghi, which is celebrated on the first day of the month of Magh every year, is being observed throughout the country today.

PALPA, Jan 15: Thousands of devotees have thronged Ruru Kshetra (also known as Ridi) to take a holy dip in the Kaligandaki River which is considered to be a holy river and has been mentioned in various scriptures of Hindu religion for ages.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Maghe or Makar Sankranti is being observed throughout the country today.

KATHMANDU, Jan 12: The Rasuwa-Nuwakot Tourism Society has shared information that as many as 65 pairs of oxen were going to fight this year on the occasion of Maghe Sankranti.