A boy is tossed on the mud during the Asar Pandhra festival in Pokhara valley, west of Nepal's capital Kathmandu, Indonesian rescuers search for victims of the crashed military airplane in Medan, ...

Nepalese farmers play with sludge as they plant paddy saplings in a field on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Nepalese farmers are celebrating "asar pandhra" Tuesday, the day ...

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The government started celebrating the 15th day of Asar (popularly called ‘Asar Pandhra’) as the National Paddy Day or National Rice Plantation Day since 2005 in a bid to increase the country’s paddy ...

Farmers across the country have celebrated Dhan Diwas (paddy day) with folk songs, dance, mud-splashing, a traditional feast of dahi-chiura (curd and beaten rice) and by planting rice saplings. Nepal ...

In this photo by Niranjan Shrestha, farmers play with sludge as they plant paddy saplings in a field outside Kathmandu, Nepal, on Asar Pandhra day. Nepalese farmers consider the day to be auspicious ...