<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">Nepal Calendar Determination Committee has made public the auspicious hour of tika for the coming Dashain festival.&nbsp;</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>As per the Committee, the auspicious hour of this Dashain tika is 11:45 am on Ashoj 14 (September 30, Saturday).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Committee Chairman Prof Dr Ramchandra Gautam said the navaratra begins on Ashoj 5 (September 21).</p><p>It is the first day of the Dashain, which is called the Ghatasthapana. The auspicious hour of the observing Ghatasthapana is 9:41 am.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">Lawmakers have called for using the Devanagari script in the electric (embossed) number plate system for automobiles launched by the Department of Transport in Bagmati Zone since August 21.&nbsp;</span></p><p>In a meeting of the Legislature-Parliament's Development Committee today, lawmakers said vehicles' number plates should be in the Nepali language so that general people can easily read about it particularly at time of accident.</p><p>The use of English language in such number plates has provided chance for vehicles responsible for accidents to escape arrests as eye witness and victim failed to notice/ read the number plate properly.</p><p><br></p><p>In replies to lawmakers' concerns, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Bir Bahadur Balayar pledged to make initiations for using the Devanagiri script in it.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">The accused in the murder of a woman due to gang rape a week ago were presented before media by the police today.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>At a press meet, Superintendent of Police, Sahadev Thapa, said preliminary investigations into the case showed the woman went into coma during the brutal rape and died before gaining consciousness. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The accused were arrested from different locations with the help of CCTV footages from Banepa area. &nbsp;All the accused have admitted to committing the crime, the District Police Office, Kavrepalanchowk stated.</p><p><br></p><p>The half-naked dead body of Nanu Alemagar, 57, was found in a maize field near a brick kiln in Banepa Municipality-8. Police believed that she had sexual relations with the accused in the past.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The accused will be tried under a murder case and a post-mortem report of the body is awaited.&nbsp;</p>