SLOW NEWS DAY: Journalists surround Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and UML's Madhab Nepal to grill them on the possibility of an extension of the Dasain truce.


BEING DIPLOMATIC: Madhab Kumar Nepal explains the finer points of the situation to diplomats from Britain, Bangladesh, China and Russia at the UML Dasain tea party on Monday.


FOUR WHEEL DRIVE: The damaged section of the Mugling-Narayan highway artery is still being repaired and trucks are allowed to pass one way.


NEPAL KO CHHORA: Tyrolean climber, Reinhold Messner, with his wife at the civic reception for mountaineers to mark the 50th anniversary of the first climb of Cho Oyu on Sunday.


REFLECTED GLORY: Sneh Rana puts pre-Dasain finishing touches on a client at her newly-opened make-up studio in Sanepa.