Tihar Festival

Bathurst Nepalese Community Celebrating Tihar Festival With Traditional Dance

The Bathurst Nepalese Community is continuing to celebrate the Tihar Festival of Lights with the Deusi Bhailo dances through the weekend and into this week.

The Hindu festival recognises animals and siblings and includes the lighting of oil lamps. 

Also on today’s Podcast

Police have established a strike force after a body was found in bushland at Newnes Plateu near Lithgow.

And, Orange Regional Museum is putting the finishing touches on a new-look permanent exhibition to open to visitors and locals on November 20.

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