Cover photo: A Buddhist woman offering a ritual kora in Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. (Photo: Bijay Gajmer/Republica)

April 1: Devotees carrying the chariot of Goddess Tundaldevi in the Gahana pokhari during the Gahana Khojne Jatra festival at Gahana Pokhari, Naxal, Kathmandu on Sunday, April 1, 2018. The festival commences every year on the lunar calendar’s Chaitra Shukla Ashtami. (Photo: Rajib Khatri/Republica)

April 2: People participate in a walkathon organized to mark the 11th World Autism Awareness Day at Baluwatar, Kathmandu on Monday, April 2, 2018. (Photo: Bijay Gajmer/Republica) 

April 3: Yaman Shrestha, son of the actor and comedian Mr. Madan Krishna Shrestha, paying the final tribute to his mother, Yasodha Shrestha in Pasupati Arayaghat, Kathmandu on March 3, 2018. Yashoda Shrestha died on Monday at around 11 PM at Nepal Cancer Hospital, Harisiddhi. (Photo-Dipendra Rokka/Republica)

April 4: Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli held consultation with former prime ministers and the members of Eminent Persons Group (EPG) ahead of his state visit to India, at Baluwtar Kathmandu on Wednesday, April 4, 2018. (Photo: Keshab Thoker/Republica)

April 5: Vehicle passing the waterlogged road after the rains started on Thursday morning in Balkumari, Lalitpur on April 5,2018.  (Photo-Dipendra Rokka/Republica)  April 6: Prime Minister KP Oli inspects a guard of honour before leaving for India at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Friday, April 6, 2018. In his first foreign visit after assuming office, PM Oli left for India, entourage includes his spouse Radhika Shakya, Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Matrika Prasad Yadav and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Raghubir Mahaseth on a three-day state visit, Friday. (Photo: Keshab Thoker/Republica)

April 7: People watching construction workers working to lay the pipes of Melamchi water supply project in Mangal Bazar, Patan on April 7,2018. (Photo-Dipendra Rokka/Republica)

 
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