10:45 a.m. (0500 GMT)
A week after the devastating earthquake, life is limping further back to normal in Nepal, with street cleaners back at work and vegetable vendors offering their wares in the capital.
“Most of us are out in the street cleaning up. Only a handful of workers had reported for work in the past few days,” Hari Nepali said Saturday as he swept the street in Kathmandu’s upscale Baluwatar neighborhood. “But today, we have a big force.”
Nepalese authorities have temporarily banned the slaughter of animals and sale of meat and fish in several parts of Kathmandu. The city’s chief administrator, Ek Narayan Aryal, said the measures were imposed over a fear that contaminated meat would increase the chances of disease breaking out.
Vegetable vendors were back Saturday, setting up their stalls in Kathmandu markets.