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Gangsters charged with amassing properties illegally

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Accuses them of amassing Rs 633 million through illegal sources

KATHMANDU, May 19: The Department of Money Laundering Investigation (DoMLI) on Sunday filed cases against five notorious gangsters at the Special Court for amassing properties through illegal sources.

Those arrested are Ganesh Lama, Dipak Manange aka Rajib Gurung, Parshuram Basnet aka Krishna Basnet, Chakre Milan aka Milan Gurung and Abhishek Giri. DoMLI has accused them of amassing properties through extortions, illegal contracts and banking transactions, among other illegal activities. [More]

	BOOK REVIEW Difficult subjects: Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
	BY ABHA ELI PHOBOO
	It had been years since I’d read a Paulo Coelho book and when I saw Eleven Minutes, I picked it up because of the remembered aftertaste of The Alchemist and By the River Piedra, I Sat Down And Wept. Eleven Minutes started with an intriguing dedication to a stranger Coelho met in Lourdes, France. The stranger told him that Coelho’s books made him “dream.” Coelho states, “I felt really frightened, because I knew that my new novel, Eleven Minutes, dealt with a subject that was harsh, difficult, shocking.”

POLITICAL AFFAIRS

RPP-RJP unity convention elects Thapa as chairman
THIRA L BHUSAL

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Chand, Pashupati Shamsher JB Rana and Prakash Chandra Lohani -- with heading the party on a rotational basis was withdrawn following protest by delegates on Saturday.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

Utprerana school on the verge of shutting down
NIRJANA SHARMA

KATHMANDU, May 20: Gyani Karki was 50 when she enrolled in school for the first time. But Karki, who is now 60 and has appeared in the SLC exam of this year, is saddened to know that her school is hardly managing to sustain itself.

The Utprerana School that has been helping the housewives and uneducated woman laborers to study since 2004, is now on the verge of collapse due to lack of budget. The Tinkune-based school, established nine years ago, has currently 235 students from class one to 10. Like Karki, all the current students want to continue their study, which may not be possible if the school gets closed due to financial crunch. [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
ARJUN POUDEL

Textbook shortage in farwestern region
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LIFESTYLE

Children yearning for knowledge drawn to libraries
DILIP POUDEL

Baglung club and Room to Read set up libraries at 115 community schools

BAGLUNG, May 18: Students of a community school in Baglung have been displaying enhanced learning capacity since the establishment of a library in their school. Prior to the opening of the library, the students had nowhere to go to quench their thirst for more knowledge.

A class six student of Rudre Peepal Secondary School, Sujan Bhandari says that the library has been a great help in learning about new topics. “We can read reference books as well as others that are not part of the syllabus,” he says. [More]

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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

Pakistani politician gunned down in Karachi
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KARACHI, May 19: Gunmen have killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan´s party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial re-run of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings.

Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women´s wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province of Sindh, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her home in an upmarket part of the city late Saturday. [More]

Saudi woman climbs Everest in first
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