Here are some of the photos taken by our photojournalists and reporters this week.A gilded Bhairav mask belonging to the Nakchhen Pradhan Family Guthi that has been repatriated to Nepal. The Department of Archaeology on Wednesday made public four idols—two Bhairavs, one Durga, and one Uma Maheshwar—that arrived from museums in the United States. Sanjog Manandhar/TKP
Children gesture as they play in fresh snow in the Sorukot area of Mugu district in western Nepal on Thursday. Raj Bahadur Shahi/TKPPeople look at posters of past protests pasted on a wall near the Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Once a hub for protests and demonstrations, Maitighar Mandala was declared a restricted zone by the government last year. Civil liberties advocates have been calling for lifting the ban. Sanjog Manandhar/TKPAn artist pictured painting thangka at his shop in Bhaktapur last week. Deepak KC/TKPA child plays on a swing tied to the scaffolds at a temple undergoing restoration in Bhaktapur, recently. Deepak KC/TKP A participant of a march demanding justice for the victims of exorbitant lending practices in Kakadvitta on Tuesday. Affected people from Tarai districts started the ‘March for Justice Against Usury’ from the eastern border point in Jhapa. Protesters united as ‘Peasants Workers Struggle Committee against Usury and Fraud’ set out for Kathmandu on foot from Kakadvitta and Gaddachauki, Nepal’s western border in Kanchanpur. Parbat Portel/TKPElderly people displaced by the November 3 earthquake sit by the fireplace under the tent in Rukum West on Thursday. MAHESH KC/TKPHollywood actor Jet Li (centre) in Lumbini on Friday. He arrived at the Buddha’s birthplace on Thursday. Manoj Paudel/TKPWomen lay newly made pots in the sun to dry at Pottery Square in Bhaktapur on Saturday. Deepak KC/TKPA shopkeeper of traditional cultural dresses waits for customers in Bhaktapur on Saturday. Deepak KC/TKPRemote-controlled robots clash inside a glass box during the ‘Bishwakarma Battle of Titans-2’ contest organised by Nepal Students’ Union at Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu on the final day of the event on Monday. A total of 18 teams from Nepal, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan had taken part in the three-day event. Hemanta Shrestha/TKPParticipants of an event organised at Lopre of Jaljala Rural Municipality in Parbat district on Friday to raise awareness of the need to conserve the endangered bird species of owl and Eurasian eagle owl. Amid reports of the birds being smuggled out of their habitats, villagers have been campaigning for 11 years to save them. Deepak KC/TKP A frozen waterfall at Nesyang Rural Municipality in Manang, pictured recently. Aash Gurung/TKP
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