ROYAL OPENING: King Gyanendra speeds past Tri Chandra Campus on Thursday morning on his way to inaugurate the controversial Raj Parishad meeting at the BICC. Minutes earlier, stone-throwing students had been protesting here against the conference.

CHEEK TO JOWL: RPP president Pashupati Shamsher Rana snatches a quick word with Minister for Land Reform Jogmeher Shrestha at the RPP's second council meeting in the BICC on Wednesday.

BLAST: A powerful pressure cooker bomb destroyed a three-storey block of the Agriculture Inputs Company in Kuleswor on Thursday morning.

LOTSA RIBBONS: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari inaugurating a new branch of NIC at Kamaladi on Thursday.

EAT IT TOO : Chef Ayub Saleem of the Grand Hotel, Delhi shows off his concoctions to The Himalayan Times food columnist Dubby Bhagat on Tuesday. The Baker's Basket event at the Yak & Yeti is part of their run-up to Christmas.