A few hundred people carrying party flags marched through the nearby temple town of Bhaktapur, and students burnt tyres at Tribhuvan University, just outside the capital. "Gyanendra, thief, leave the country," they chanted. As the curfew took effect at 8 a.m., a bride dressed in a crimson red and gold-edged sari hurried home past a group of armed and helmeted policemen. A police van sped past carrying six activists arrested for staging a small protest. "Down with the autocratic monarchy," the arrested men shouted as they went by. "This curfew is wrong," said 35-year-old trader Umanath Gilal, on his way home minutes before the curfew went into force. "We can't do our business and earn a living. I won't be participating in the protests but I support the protesters." http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6399187&cKey=1137755130000