SURRENDER: Deputy Prime Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari gives up answering reporter's questions about the UML's inability to make progress on peace.

SHATTERED: Windows on the newly-built facade of the
Employee's Provident Fund Building at Sundhara were shattered by a powerful pressure cooker bomb that went off on its first floor on Tuesday afternoon. More than 30 passersby were injured.

THIS IS THE BBC IN KATHMANDU: The BBC's business development manager, Michel Lobelle, with the executive director of Radio Nepal, Shailendra Kumar Sharma, at a ceremony to launch the 24-hour news channel, BBC 103 FM.

TOGETHER FOR A CAUSE: International delegates at the Fourth Asian Spinal Cord Conference after its inaugural ceremony at the Hyatt Regency on Tuesday.

AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS: A participant at a conch shell blowing contest in Kathmandu on Sunday.