Dasera

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Dasera
दसेरा
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Dasera
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 28°45′N82°00′E / 28.75°N 82.00°E / 28.75; 82.00 Coordinates: 28°45′N82°00′E / 28.75°N 82.00°E / 28.75; 82.00
CountryFlag of Nepal.svg    Nepal
Zone Bheri Zone
District Jajarkot District
Population
 (1991)
  Total5,725
Time zone UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Dasera is a former village development committee in Jajarkot District in the Karnali Province of Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5725 living in 1049 individual households. [1]

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Dasera VDC lies western part of Jajarkot District in Nepal. Thalaha Bazar is the main market.thi stragic incident became popular in India.

Train Incident

On Friday evening 19 October 2018, the annual Dussehra festival ended in a tragedy in Amritsar, Punjab. Administrative negligence and public apathy towards safety took at least 60 lives and maimed many. Distracted revellers were standing on railway tracks watching the burning of Ravan's effigy in Punjab's Amritsar when the Jalandhar-Amritsar DMU train collided with them. Over 60 people were killed and 72 injured. [2]

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References

  1. "Nepal Census 2001", Nepal's Village Development Committees, Digital Himalaya, archived from the original on 12 October 2008, retrieved 15 November 2009.
  2. "60 dead in Amritsar train tragedy on Dussehra: Here is what exactly happened". India Today. 20 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2019.