Balloon Sunrise Nepal says that it hasn't been ordered to shut down by the palace or anyone else, contrary to a report that appeared in Janastha weekly recently. "April to October is off-season. We only operate flights after October," says Ratan Singh Pal an official with Balloon Sunrise, the only hot air balloon company operational in Nepal. "Early this year, when we flew over the palace area, there was an inquiry. But we were never ordered to shut down." The company recently had to send a clarification to a vernacular paper that published a news item about a balloon landing on a roof. "I don't recall us ever doing that", says a bemused Pal.