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Headlines

- Former Pakistani dictator Musharraf granted bail
  
  Musharraf became the first former army chief to be arrested, breaking an unwritten rule that the top ranks of the military are untouchable, even after they have retired.
- Heavy rainfall disrupts Intl, domestic flights at TIA
  
  International and domestic flights were disrupted for a brief period of time at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Monday following inclement weather.
- ANFA fined $ 6,000 for crowd misbehavior
  
  The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has slapped a fine of $ 6,000 on All Nepal Football Association for the lax security arrangement during a match played at Dasrath Stadium.
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Photo Features

Chelsea's Fernando Torres (Left) celebrates with team mate Frank Lampard after scoring against Everton during their English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge in London on Sunday.

Photographer: REUTERS /Stefan Wermuth
Actress Aishwarya Rai poses for photographers as she arrives for the screening of the film Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday.

Photographer: AP /Francois Mori
A woman wearing a traditional Korean Hanbok costume gets her jokduri, a traditional coronet, adjusted during a traditional coming-of-age day ceremony at Namsangol Hanok Village in Seoul on Monday.

Photographer: REUTERS /Kim Hong-Ji
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as he leaves the Indian Presidential Palace after his ceremonial reception in New Delhi, India, on Monday.

Photographer: AP /Saurabh Das
Cambodian students re-enact torture executed by the Khmer Rouge during their reign of terror in the 1970s to mark the annual "Day of Anger" at Choeung Ek, a former Khmer Rouge "Killing Field" dotted with mass graves, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Monday.

Photographer: AP /Heng Sinith
Workers engrossed in the maintenance work of an over-head bridge at New Road gate in the Capital on Sunday.

Photographer: Bhavesh Adhikari /eKantipur
Chief Secretary Lila Mani Poudel (3rd from left) and actor Rajesh Hamal (2nd from left) cleaning wastes during the Bagmati Cleaning Campaign at Guheswori in Kathmandu on Sunday.

Photographer: Kaushal Adhikari /eKantipur
Special Court Registrar Dhir Bahadur Chand looks at the charge-sheet file registered against five 'dons' at the Court on Sunday. The Department of Money Laundering Investigation moved the court on Sunday charging the dons of amassing illegal property.

Photographer: Shreedhar Poudel /eKantipur
Students take counsel on the last day of Kantipur-HISSAN Educational Fair at Bhrikutimandap in Kathmandu on Sunday.

Photographer: Prakash Timilsena /eKantipur
Players of region no. 7 (Janakpur) celebrate upon taking a wicket against region no. 5 (Nepalgunj) during the U-19 National Women's Cricket Tournament at TU cricket ground in Kirtipur on Sunday.

Photographer: Kaushal Adhikari /eKantipur

Editorial

Wasted on the young

Given the hope invested in youth, the recent conduct of student leaders is disappointing

Opinion

The other red line
KAMAL DEV BHATTARAI
Postponing elections to bring the CPN-Maoist on board is meaningless

New Eicher bus hits Nepal market
Eastern Motors, a subsidiary of Batas Group and the sole authorised distributor of Eicher trucks and buses in Nepal, has introduced a new passenger bus in the domestic market

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National

Ailing dad, son commit suicide in Kanchanpur
By CHITRANG THAPA

MAHENDRANAGAR, MAY 20 - A 48-year-old father and his 18-year-old son from an impoverished Dalit family committed suicide at Bhimdutta Municipality-11 on Saturday night.

Capital

‘Fire big blow to tourism in Thamel’
By POST REPORT

KATHMANDU, MAY 20 - Tourism entrepreneurs have said Thursday’s fire outbreak in the Pilgrims Book House in Thamel, Kathmandu, is a setback to tourism.

Editor's Pick

Five ‘dons’ hauled to Special Court
By BHADRA SHARMA

KATHMANDU, MAY 20 - The Department of Money Laundering Investigation on Sunday filed separate cases against five ‘notorious dons’ at the Special Court on the charge of amassing millions of rupees

World

23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria
By AP

BEIRUT, MAY 20 - Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, Syrian state-media said Monday.

Sports

Arsenal into Champions League, Ferguson bows out
By AP

MAY 20 - Arsenal qualified for the Champions League for the 16th straight season, edging Tottenham for fourth place in the Premier League on Sunday

Interview

We will not accept federalism without identity

MAY 20 - Newly elected Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (Nefin) President Nagendra Kumal, 37, is the youngest person to lead the Janajati umbrella organisation

Fiction Park »

System, routine and pocket money

Development »

Quest to drive down energy consumption

Entertainment »

Dhanush impresses Farah Khan

Video »

Plane catches fire on landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport

Poetic License
MAY 17

in the affirmative no i will not touch what can i say

READING & WRITING
MAY 17

Thriller novelist Lee Child is the man behind the adventures of Jack Reacher. Killing Floor, published in 1997, was first among these, and won Child an Anthony Award, launching a series that has spanned 17 volumes so far.