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Kathmandu crashes out of Wai Wai Women's U-19

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KATHMANDU, May 20: Region No 3 (Kathmandu) crashed out of the Wai Wai Women´s U-19 National Cricket Tournament following a seven-wicket defeat to Region No 7 (Janakpur) at the TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur on Monday.

Kathmandu, which had lost to Region No 2 (Birgunj) on Sunday, elected to bat and put up 66/6 in 20 overs. The match was reduced to 20 overs per side from 25 overs due to rain. Janakpur reached the target in 18 overs losing only three wickets. The victory also kept alive defending champion Janakpur´s hopes of reaching the semifinals. Janakpur had lost to Nepalgunj on Sunday. [More]

	SOCIETY Fender bender: Experimenting with live-in relationships
	BY CILLA KHATRY
	Live-in relationship does provide a remedy for a carefree life free from the hassles of responsibility and commitment which is the very prerequisite of the institution of marriage. Amit Thapa, 28, and Ritu Shrestha*, 27, had been together for two years when their families decided to get them married off. But the two of them had other plans. They wanted to live together for some months before they tied the knot. “Our families were aghast. They couldn’t understand why we couldn’t get married right away,” says Ritu, a Masters-level student who had to convince her parents to let her spend some time with Amit before she decided to take the plunge.

POLITICAL AFFAIRS

RPP-RJP unity convention elects Thapa as chairman
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KATHMANDU, May 20: The ongoing unity convention of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) elected Surya Bahadur Thapa as the chairman of the unified party, which has been named RPP.

The convention which is under way in Kathmandu elected former RJP chairman Thapa as the head of the unified party on Sunday as the proposal to entrust top four leaders -- Thapa, Lokendra Bahadur Chand, Pashupati Shamsher JB Rana and Prakash Chandra Lohani -- with heading the party on a rotational basis was withdrawn following protest by delegates on Saturday. [More]

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BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Govt requests India to remove CVD
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KATHMANDU, May 20: The government has requested India for removal of Countervailing Tax (CVD) that the southern neighbor is levying on Nepali readymade garments (RMGs) for the past few weeks going against the spirit of bi-lateral trade treaty.

Responding to the request of Garment Association of Nepal (GAN), the Ministry of Commerce and Supplies (MoCS) requested India to remove CVD through Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [More]

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SOCIAL AFFAIRS

Live video call from Everest summit causes controversy
KOSH RAJ KOIRALA

KATHMANDU, May 20: "It´s a very proud moment to be here. It´s been two-and-a-half-years in the making," said a British explorer Daniel Thomas Hughes in the first ever video call from the top of the Mount Everest, Sunday morning.

The video call made via smartphone from the highest peak in the world was aired live by BBC World. As per the request made by the TV anchor, Hughes had briefly panned around his smartphone from the top of the Everest, showing BBC audience across the globe a spectacular view of the snow-clad mountains. [More]

Telemedicine services benefit remote area patients
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Utprerana school on the verge of shutting down
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LIFESTYLE

Yahoo! looks to Tumblr as elixir for revival
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NEW YORK, May 20: Yahoo! geared up for a major announcement Monday said to be a $1.1 billion deal to take over popular blogging platform Tumblr, a move that could bring a younger, hipper audience to the struggling Internet pioneer.

The deal, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, if confirmed would be the largest for Yahoo! since Marissa Mayer took over as chief executive last year. Neither Yahoo! nor Tumblr commented on the report. [More]

Children yearning for knowledge drawn to libraries
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SPORTS

Nepalgunj upsets Janakpur
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KATHMANDU, May 19: Region No 5 (Nepalgunj) defeated defending champion Region No 7 (Janakpur) by 45 runs on the first day of the Wai Wai Women´s U-19 National Cricket Tournament on Sunday.

Nepalgunj elected to bat and was all out for 99 runs in 24.4 overs at the TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur. In reply, Janakpur was all out for 54 runs in 15.1 overs. [More]

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INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan court grants Musharraf bail in Bhutto murder
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, May 20: A Pakistani court Monday granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the murder of Benazir Bhutto, an official said, but the retired general remains under house arrest.

Musharraf has been detained in his farmhouse on the edge of Islamabad since April 19 on charges of conspiracy to murder two-time prime minister Bhutto, who was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack in 2007 in Rawalpindi. [More]

India, China vow to end long-running border dispute
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Pakistani politician gunned down in Karachi
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