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               Headline 
 
                         Madhesi militant groups are preparing for a showdown             
        PRASHANT JHA in NORTH BIHAR  
Nation 
 
                         Kathmandu's tourist ghetto is a snakes and ladders game             
        IRENE PERONI  
 
                             
 
                         Charismatic mammals get all the attention, but there is a separate thrill in finding rare plants below Kangchenjunga             
        SAMPREETHI AIPANJIGULY in PANCHTHAR  
 
                         Nepal's poor can't depend on foreign well-wishers or profit-minded doctors in the cities for much longer             
        NICK MEYNEN in HUMLA  
International 
 
                         An alternative to the World Bank and IMF              
        MICHAEL SHANK and AMI CARPENTER  
Review 
 
                         The first Nepali feature film to be shot digitally is being released all over Nepal, India and even in New York              
        MALLIKA ARYAL  
Update 
 
                         3.30PM NST | 9 January 2008             
 
                         2.45PM NST | 6 January 2008             
 
                         10.41AM NST | 4 January 2008             
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