Applicants at the selection examinations for the temporary election police on Tuesday. Nepal Police received 293,216 applications for 100,000 positions.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hands over the key of the new airport in Pokhara to his Nepali counterpart Narayan Khadka on Saturday. The much-delayed $217 million project was built with a loan from China’s Exim Bank and will start operating later this year.

Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi meets his Nepali counterpart Narayan Khadka in Singha Darbar on Saturday. Yi, is visiting Nepal from 25-27 March at the invitation of Khadka.

Rescue group RNA16 along with firefighters from Bhaktapur and members of the Nepal Army perform a fire safety drill in front of the Nyatapola Temple.

Tourists enjoy a boat ride on the Rapti river, Chitwan on Monday.

Temporary police hopefuls queue up to submit applications in Kathmandu on Sunday. The government has announced vacancy for 100,000 temporary police for the upcoming elections.

Professional stunt riders from Bhaktapur and Kathmandu perform during an event held on the occasion of Holi on Thursday.

After two years of muted celebration, Kathmandu observes the festival of colours in all its glory.

The farewell ceremony of the U-18 national women's football team who will be flying to India for the SAFF U-18 Women's Championship. The games will take place in Jamshedpur with #Nepal competing with Bangladesh and India.

Spring is in the air. The 'chir' pole is put up in Basantapur Darbar Square on Thursday, a week before the holi festival.

Athletes compete on the second day of the Bir Ganeshman Singh National Fencing Championship in Kathmandu.

Nineteen newly elected National Assembly members took the oath of office and secrecy on Saturday amidst a special function organized at the Federal Parliament Secretariat, Singhadarbar.

Sherpa, Tamang and Tibetan communities celebrate Gyalpo Lhosar, also known as the Tibetan New Year in Boudhanath, Kathmandu on Thursday.

Children celebrate Maha Shivaratri on Tuesday in the alleys of Bhaktapur by stopping vehicles for money in exchange for letting them pass.

Devotees throng the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu on the eve of Maha Shivaratri festival.

A Nepal Army bomb disposal team defused a suspicious object found outside the Parliament building on Monday. The object was a pressure cooker wrapped in wires with 'No MCC' written on it was found outside the building this morning.

Five years after Nepal signed the US-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact in 2017, Parliament on Sunday finally ratified the $500 million grant.

Protestors once again clashed with the police in Baneshwor as Nepal’s Parliament started deliberations on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) on Sunday.

Kathmandu experienced a night time thunderstorm on Sunday and the Valley rim got its third snowfall of the season. Pokhara, 200km west of Kathmandu, also received unprecedented hailstorm Sunday afternoon.

The police and protesters clashed in Baneshwor as the MCC was tabled in the Parliament on Sunday.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba during a program organised to celebrate National Democracy Day in Tundikhel on Saturday.

Women in Bhaktapur weave threads used in making traditional Newa dress, Haku Patasi on Saturday.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli at the latter's residence in Balkot, immediately after the meeting of the ruling coalition over the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) ended inconclusively on Thursday.

Youth Force of CPN-UML demonstrate in Kathmandu demanding the resignation of Renu Yadav, the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation, who had previously threatened opponents of targeted killing during a political event in Gaur.