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SEPARATE COLOURS: A woman does her laundry at the small yard below her house in Mangal Bazar on Monday. - Bikram Rai
HELPING HANDS: School is out for Dasain, so 12-year-old Ashok Sahi (centre) helps his grandmother at their fried-snack stall in Itumbahal, on Monday near Kilagal. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
WINNERS: Poet Ratna Shumsher Thapa addresses the audience after receiving 2069 Jagadamba Shree Puraskar on Sunday. Rajan Mukarung (third from left) won this year’s Madan Puraskar for his novel Damini Bhir. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
HAPPINESS IS BEING TOGETHER: A garments worker takes time out to chat with the children of his colleagues at Naya Bazar on Saturday. - Bikram Rai
EDUCATION FIRST: Urmila Chaudhary of Freed Kamlari Struggle Committee receives the Global Education´s Youth Courage Award for Education by the United Nations on Friday. - Bhrikuti Rai
SAY NO TO POLLS: CPN-M cadre stage a protest against 19 November's CA elections, at Ratnapark on Thursday. - Devaki Bista
HERE I AM: Padam Kunwar, who slapped UCPN(M) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal in 2012, registers himself as an independent candidate from Kathmandu-10 on Thursday. - Bikram Rai
TALKING MOVIES: Indian politician and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar speaks at the inauguration of Film South Asia 2013 on Thursday. - Devaki Bista
PICK A FEW: People browse through titles on sale at Sajha Prakashan's book exhibition on Wednesday. - Bikram Rai
FILLING IN: An artisan from Kolkata paints a Ganesh idol near Sanepa on Wednesday. - Bikram Rai
IT BEATS: Dancers at a programme organised for cardiac awareness at City Hall on Wednesday. - Bikram Rai
HEAVY DUTY: A year after it was marked for expansion, the road from Kalopul to Siphal Chaur is paved with concrete on Monday. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
NAMASTE: Newly appointed Indian ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae (left) interacts with Nepali politicians at Battisputali on Monday. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
PEDAL POWER: A cyclist on his way to participate in the World Tourism Day rally at Basantapur on Friday. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
SEE YA: Chairman of the Interim Electoral Council of Ministers Khil Raj Regmi departs for the UN General Assembly in New York, on Thursday. - Bikram Rai
NEW ISLAND: The 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Pakistan on Monday has killed 300 people, and it created this brand new island off the coast in the Arabian Sea. - ibtimes.com

SEPARATE COLOURS: A woman does her laundry at the small yard below her house in Mangal Bazar on Monday. - Bikram Rai
HELPING HANDS: School is out for Dasain, so 12-year-old Ashok Sahi (centre) helps his grandmother at their fried-snack stall in Itumbahal, on Monday near Kilagal. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
WINNERS: Poet Ratna Shumsher Thapa addresses the audience after receiving 2069 Jagadamba Shree Puraskar on Sunday. Rajan Mukarung (third from left) won this year’s Madan Puraskar for his novel Damini Bhir. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
HAPPINESS IS BEING TOGETHER: A garments worker takes time out to chat with the children of his colleagues at Naya Bazar on Saturday. - Bikram Rai
EDUCATION FIRST: Urmila Chaudhary of Freed Kamlari Struggle Committee receives the Global Education´s Youth Courage Award for Education by the United Nations on Friday. - Bhrikuti Rai
SAY NO TO POLLS: CPN-M cadre stage a protest against 19 November's CA elections, at Ratnapark on Thursday. - Devaki Bista
HERE I AM: Padam Kunwar, who slapped UCPN(M) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal in 2012, registers himself as an independent candidate from Kathmandu-10 on Thursday. - Bikram Rai
TALKING MOVIES: Indian politician and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar speaks at the inauguration of Film South Asia 2013 on Thursday. - Devaki Bista
PICK A FEW: People browse through titles on sale at Sajha Prakashan's book exhibition on Wednesday. - Bikram Rai
FILLING IN: An artisan from Kolkata paints a Ganesh idol near Sanepa on Wednesday. - Bikram Rai
IT BEATS: Dancers at a programme organised for cardiac awareness at City Hall on Wednesday. - Bikram Rai
HEAVY DUTY: A year after it was marked for expansion, the road from Kalopul to Siphal Chaur is paved with concrete on Monday. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
NAMASTE: Newly appointed Indian ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae (left) interacts with Nepali politicians at Battisputali on Monday. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
PEDAL POWER: A cyclist on his way to participate in the World Tourism Day rally at Basantapur on Friday. - Min Ratna Bajracharya
SEE YA: Chairman of the Interim Electoral Council of Ministers Khil Raj Regmi departs for the UN General Assembly in New York, on Thursday. - Bikram Rai
NEW ISLAND: The 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Pakistan on Monday has killed 300 people, and it created this brand new island off the coast in the Arabian Sea. - ibtimes.com

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