The Week in Pictures

Cover Photo: Locals unroll ropes while making the chariot of Rato Machhindranath.

Cover Photo: Locals unroll ropes while making the chariot of Rato Machhindranath.

April 15: Devotees bring together the palanquins of over two dozen deities at a square in Thimi of Bhaktapur to mark the Sindure Jatra festival on Sunday. The festival takes place on the second day of the Nepali New Year. Sindure Jatra devotees beat drums and cymbals and smear vermillion powder on each other as they carry the palanquins around Thimi.Photo: Dipesh Shrestha/Republica

April 15: Buddha Krishna Baag Shrestha piercing his tongue for the sixth time during the annual Jibro Chhedne Jatra (tongue-piercing festival) at Bode of Bhaktapur on Sunday. Photo: Dipendra Rokka/Republica

April 16: Devotees throng the Matatirtha pilgrimage site on the south-western rim of the Kathmandu Valley on the occasion of Matateertha Aunsi or Mother’s Day on Monday. Sons and daughters offer food items and various gifts to their mother on this day. Those whose mothers have departed make religious offerings. Photo: Republica

April 17: The idol of Rato Machchindranath being ascended in the special chariot at Pulchwok in Lalitpur on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. Photo: Sujan Shrestha/Nagarik/Republica

April 18: Farmers transporting fodder walk across fields in Khopasi, Kavrepalanchowk on Wednesday. Photo: Rajib Khatri

April 19: Workers apply coal tar to pitch the road at Mangalbazar on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Photo: Pratik Rayamajhi/Republica

April 20: Malaysian Malindo Air’s Boeing 737 sits grounded beyond the TIA runway near Koteshwar as pictured on Friday morning. The plane with 132 passengers and seven crew members had skidded 40 meters from the southern end of the runway during takeoff at around 10:15 on Thursday night. No one was injured in the incident. The airport was closed for around 13 hours following the incident. The plane was towed to the hangar safely on Friday morning. Photo: Dipesh Shrestha/Republica