The week in 13 photos

Here are some of the photos taken by our photojournalists this week.

A young woman is carried out of a flooded Bagmati riverside house at Teku, Kathmandu, on Tuesday. A spell of heavy rain inundated several areas of the Valley while fatalities and injuries were reported in floods and landslides from some other districts. Sanjog Manandhar/TKP

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Published at : August 12, 2023

Updated at : August 12, 2023 15:04

Here are the best shots from the week.

Youths enjoying a football game in the evening at Kagbeni in the mountain district of Mustang last month. The district’s distinctive barren hills are seen in the background. Angad Dhakal/TKP

Local residents rise in protest as the Kathmandu metropolis staff moves to unilaterally remove illegal structures built by encroaching on the brook that forms the border between Kathmandu-7 and Budhanilkantha-10 wards in the Capital on Thursday. Angad Dhakal/TKP

Taxi drivers park their vehicles in front of the Transport Management Office at Minbhawan in Kathmandu on Thursday, protesting the ride-hailing services provided by private vehicles. Angad Dhakal/TKP

People descend a path cut off by a landslide at Timurpata near the Khalanga-Tinker road that connects Darchula district headquarters with Byas Municipality. The way disrupted 10 days ago has yet to be repaired, forcing residents to make precarious journeys. Manoj Badu/TKP

Youths demonstrate against the government’s perceived indifference to solving the scourge of lumpy skin disease, issues of cooperative victims and probing the recent gold haul, at New Baneshwar in Kathmandu on Saturday. Deepak KC/TKP

Armed Police Force personnel accompany the accused as the Department of Revenue Investigation hands over the gold smuggling case to the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police on Sunday. Elite Joshi/TKP

Young women are seen making their way through the rain at Bhaktapur Durbar Square on Wednesday afternoon. Deepak KC/TKP

A man cleans a temple with a jet of water at Swayambhunath in Kathmandu on Friday. Volunteers, local residents, devotees and Swayambhu management and conservation officials jointly clean up the temple premises every year during Gunla Parva in the tenth month of Nepal Sambat. Sanjog Manandhar/TKP

Technicians install a transformer at the Bishnumati link road in Kathmandu on Sunday. Sanjog Manandhar/TKP

Dil Tamang, a local from Ramechhap, works on a Thanka painting at Kobahal, Patan on Friday. He has been doing this art for the past 18 years. Sales have failed to pick up even though the pandemic restrictions have been lifted and foreign tourists pour into the country. Keshav Thapa/TKP

Dal Kumari Sunuwar, a former lawmaker from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, in Sunuwar attire as various ethnic groups showcase their cultural heritage at a World Indigenous Day event in Kathmandu on Wednesday. Sanjog Manandhar/TKP