HIT BY BOTH SIDES : Students of Patan Campus vandalising the Lalitpur District Post Office on Sunday to protest fuel price hikes. On Wednesday suspected Maoists placed a pressure cooker bomb in the post office, which the army's bomb squad needed three hours to defuse.

AMBHIYAN MEANS BUSINESS: Suresh Acharya, editor of the new Nepali language business weekly Aajako Abhiyaan, at the newspaper's launch at the Soaltee Crown Plaza on Sunday.

THAT'S ME UP THERE: Rajesh Hamal, te brand ambassador for Samsung's new Samurai television set, speaking at the launch ceremony in the Radisson Hotel last week.

DUST TO DUST: A sidewalk roast-corn seller douses a fire set by students protesting the fuel price hike at Putali Sadak on Wednesday so she can use the charcoal for her work.

GAY JATRA: More than 5,000 people took part in the annual Gay Pride parade for Gai Jatra on 20 September organised by the Blue Diamond Society. Traditionally used to remember the deceased, Gai Jatra has become an important occasion for Kathmandu's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities.