Al Dahab Exchange's Dashain-Tihar Dhamaka Returns to Dubai and Abu Dhabi With Cash and Smartphone Prizes
Season 3 of the remittance campaign runs September 13 to November 11 — NPR 10 lakh in cash prizes and 20 smartphones for Nepali customers sending money home dur
By Nepalese Events Australia Editorial
Published: 2026-09-30T05:30:00.000000Z
Category: community
The festival season's most concrete sign is already running in the UAE's exchange houses: Al Dahab Exchange has launched its Dashain Tihar Dhamaka – Season 3 campaign across Dubai and Abu Dhabi, running September 13 to November 11, 2026 — the full arc of the Dashain-Tihar remittance window.
What's on offer
Per the company's published announcement, eligible remittance transactions during the campaign period enter customers to win NPR 10 lakh in cash prizes and 20 smartphones. The structure is the standard remittance-season model — send money home during the festival window, get entered in the draw — but the timing is precise: September 13 catches the Ghatasthapana lead-up, and the November 11 close lands exactly on Bhai Tika, covering the entire gifting season when transfers home peak.
Why remittance campaigns matter to this audience
For readers outside the diaspora: Dashain-Tihar is when the UAE's Nepali workforce sends its biggest transfers of the year — dakshina for parents, gift money for the tika ceremonies, and the lump sums that fund family celebrations back home. Exchange houses time their promotional cycles to the festival for exactly this reason, which makes "Dhamaka" season a fixture of the UAE Nepali calendar in its own right — a parallel to the festivals themselves, running on the same dates for the same reason.
This year's campaign also lands in the flood-recovery context: transfers that in a normal year would be celebration money are, for many Dubai families, now also relief money — the same flows documented in our consulate memorial report. Sending home isn't optional this Dashain; it's urgent. Our AED–NPR exchange page s the rate daily for anyone timing a transfer.
Important distinction
A note on categorisation: despite the festive name, this is a business and remittance story, not a cultural festival listing — the campaign is a commercial promotion by an exchange house, reported as news about the community's financial ecosystem rather than as an event to attend. For the festival calendar itself, see our UAE Dashain guide and the UAE desk for community celebrations as they're announced.
Why Season 3 matters
The "Season 3" in the name tells you the campaign is now institutional — Al Dahab has run the Dashain-Tihar promotion for three consecutive years, which means it performs well enough to repeat and the community has learned to expect it. Gulf exchange houses compete hard for the Nepali corridor — the UAE is one of Nepal's largest remittance s — and festival-season promotions are where that competition becomes consumer-facing. The terms apply to transactions within the window; customers should read the draw's eligibility rules on the company's official channels before assuming a transaction counts — minimums and corridor restrictions are standard in these campaigns.
For the community it's also a useful marker of season rhythm: when the exchange houses start running festival campaigns, the diaspora's own preparations — ticket bookings, gift budgets, tika planning — are usually about two weeks behind.
We're noting the campaign as published on the company's own channels; for the community's actual festival calendar — the events worth attending rather than the promotions worth knowing about — the Dashain and Tihar guides are the reference pages.
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