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Headlines

- Three Nepali envoys in trouble
  
  Three Nepali Ambassadors based in Qatar, France and Denmark have landed in trouble for their conduct, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) sought separate explanations from them.
- SC asks NPC not to publish scurrilous news
  
  The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Nepal Press Council (NPC) not to publish any news item that defames a person.
- NC, UML firm on downsizing CA size
  
  Top leaders of Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN- UML have suggested the Chairman of the Interim Council of Ministers Khil Raj Regmi to limit the size of the next CA to 491 members.
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Photo Features

A priest distributes 'Prasad' (religious offering) to the devotees during the festival of Rato Machhindranath at Lagankhel in the Capital on Wednesday.

Photographer: Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi /eKantipur
A Hindu priest cleans the statue of Lord Bishnu at Narayanthan, Budhanilkantha in the Capital on Wednesday.

Photographer: Munga Dhan Rai /eKantipur
Local men play carom board to kill time at a local shop in Namche Bazar, Solukhumbu district on Tuesday.

Photographer: Sanjog Manandhar /eKantipur
Members of local women's groups collect plants of hemp to destroy at Jamune of Tanahun district on Wednesday.

Photographer: Purna BK /eKantipur
Sabnam Rai of Region no 1 Biratnagar bowls against Region No.6 Baitadi during their match of the Wai-Wai U-19 Women's Cricket Tournament at Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground in the Capital on Wednesday.

Photographer: Kaushal Adhikari /eKantipur
Devotees try to touch a statue of Virgin of Candelaria, patron saint of Copacabana town, at the San Francisco church in La Paz on Tuesday.

Photographer: REUTERS /David Mercado
A man and two children exit a shelter after debris was cleared from on top, after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.

Photographer: REUTERS /Richard Rowe
A woman carries a dog as a fire blazes in the background at El Chorrillo neighborhood in Panama City on Tuesday.

Photographer: REUTERS /Carlos Jasso
Lyndriette Kristal Smith, right, and Tyrese Gibson arrive at the LA Premiere of the "Fast & Furious 6" at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Tuesday in Universal City, California.

Photographer: AP /Jordan Strauss
Palestinians sell fish at a fish market in Gaza City on Wednesday.

Photographer: REUTERS /Suhaib Salem

Editorial

Comfortably numb

The parties cannot hold the poor hostage in the name of transition

Opinion

Defending democracy
DHIRAJ POKHREL
Is the foundation of democracy so fragile that one needs to fear an individual like Karki?
Water, water everywhere
NABIN BHATTARAI
Biodiversity conservation and water security go hand in hand
May you always be safe
SALINA CHIPALU
I am tired of lying.

High airfare, seat crunch hit migrant workers
Foreign employment agencies are having a hard time to send migrant workers to major labour destinations amid air seat crunch and increased airfares

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National

Chinese envoy calls on Koirala

KATHMANDU, MAY 22 - Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Wu Chuntai called on Nepali Congress (NC) President Sushil Koirala at the latter's residence in Maharajgunj in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

Capital

Manpower agencies association likely to be dissolved
By POST REPORT

KATHMANDU, MAY 22 - The executive committee of the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA) is likely to be declared 'dissolved' on Wednesday

Editor's Pick

After secretary files, CIAA chief now eyes ministers
By POST REPORT

KATHMANDU, MAY 22 - Chief Commissioner of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Lokman Singh Karki, who has instructed secretaries to submit their decisions

World

Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai
By REUTERS

CAIRO, MAY 22 - Seven members of the Egyptian security forces kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were released on Wednesday.

Sports

Janakpur and Nepalgunj progress into semis
By POST REPORT

KATHMANDU, MAY 22 - Champions Janakpur made light work of Birgunj by eight wickets to qualify for the semi-finals as group ‘A’ winners in the Wai Wai U-19 Women National Cricket Tournament

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 »

State should end injustice and discrimination: Gurung

Entertainment »

Writing for the big screen

Video »

Plane catches fire on landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport

heads and tales: More cops, more problems
MAY 17

The Khilly government has decided to recruit 6,010 new cops. It would be nice to find out how our civil servants crunch numbers. Who gets to decide how many cops we really need? Did they ask an astrologer to come up with the magic number?

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.