Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday.

Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity. 

Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28, the person said.

The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years, the person said.

Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring "a very simple ruby," according to the person.

The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg´s backyard before fewer than 100 guests, including Facebook´s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

This photo provided by Facebook shows Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, May 19, 2012. Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday. (Photo courtesy: AP Photo/Facebook, Allyson Magda Photography)

The guests all thought they were coming to celebrate Chan´s graduation but were told after they arrived that the event was in fact a wedding.

"Everybody was shocked," the guest said.

Rather than his trademark hoodie, Zuckerberg wore a suit for the ceremony, while his bride wore a traditional wedding dress.

Food was served family-style and included dishes from the couple´s favorite Palo Alto sushi restaurant. The two had been planning the marriage for months but were waiting until Chan had graduated to hold the wedding, the guest said.

The timing wasn´t tied to the IPO, since the date the company planned to go public was a "moving target," the guest said.

Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook´s single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he controls the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.

The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago, has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people.

Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004.

He was selected as Time´s Person of the Year in 2010, at age 26.

Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

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Maoist CA members attacked

KATHMANDU, May 10: Banda enforcers on Thursday attacked Maoist lawmakers Sudan Rai and Laxmi Gurung in Koteshwor while they were on way to participate in CA meeting. 

Rai informed RSS that he sustained minor injuries. Meanwhile, UCPN (Maoist) condemned attack on its lawmakers and termed the attack a move to disrupt communal harmony. 

71 arrested in capital
Police arrested around 71 protestors from the capital enforcing banda on Thursday.

Govt invites banda enforcers for talks
The government has invited various agitating groups enforcing bandas in various parts of country for talks. Issuing letter to 12 agitating groups on Thursday, the government asked agitators to form a five-member talk team to hold talks with the government. 

The peace ministry has also informed that the government has made necessary arrangements to talk team of Far-west region stranded in Bardiya.

Strikers burn Republica, Nagarik dailies

BUTWAL: Supporters of Brahman Society, who are protesting the ethnic-based federalism have burnt Republica and Nagarik dailies on Thursday morning. They had seized the papers from newspaper delivery vehicles heading for Bhairahawa. 

According to Mahesh Sharma of the distribution section of the newspapers, 2,100 copies of Nagarik and 500 copies of Republica were burnt by the protestors. The society activists said they burnt the newspapers because they did not report their strike. 

Banda cripples normal life
Normal life has been affected all across the country including in the capital since early Thursday morning due to a banda enforced by the joint struggle committee comprised of various caste groups.

The committee includes the Chhetri Samaj Nepal, the Brahman Samaj Nepal, the Khas Kshetriya Ekata Samaj, the Thakuri Samaj Mahasangh, Nepal Dasnami Samaj, the Bibhed Mukti Pragatisheel Samaj and the Dalit Janajagaran Sewa Sangh. 

Public and private transportation have come to a grinding halt, giving commuters a tough time in the capital. Likewise, businesses and marketplaces have remained closed.

Banda enforcers have descended on the road, rallying and chanting slogans at various places in the valley including Satdobato, Kalanki and Gongabu. Security has been stepped in the streets. Reports say more than two dozens banda enforcers have been detained.

The agitators have called today’s banda opposing the idea of carving out federal states based on ethnicity and demanding recognition of their identity in the new constitution. They have maintained that such state restructuring will adversely affect communal harmony and poses a risk of territorial disintegration.

Our Baglung correspondent Dilip Poudel reported that the banda has crippled life in Daulagiri zone. Hundreds of passengers have been stranded as vehicles on all long and short routes from the district headquarters have stayed off the road.

Far-west talks team stranded

A talks team, with 50-odd members, from the far-western region has been stranded in Bardiya due to the strike. The team representing the people of the region, who have been enforcing strike in region for the past two weeks demanding an undivided far-west, were on their way to the capital to hold talks with the government. 



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Seti flood toll reaches 26

The death toll of Saturday´s Seti flood reached 26 with five more bodies recovered Tuesday. Around 600 security persons have been mobilized in search of the missing 43 persons.

District Police Office, Kaski, said 19 of the 26 recovered bodies have been identified and have been handed over to their concerned families for cremation. The seven unidentified bodies have been kept at the Western Region Hospital. 

Two hundred fifteen Nepal Army (NA) soldiers, 190 Nepal Police personnel and 208 Armed Police Force (APF) personnel have been deployed in the search operation aided by excavators and bulldozers. Chief District Officer (CDO) Chet Nath Bhattarai said the security personnel along with technicians to operate the equipment have camped in the area for the search operation.

Chief of Kaski Police SP Shailsh Thapa said details about the human and material loss in the flashflood have not yet been ascertained and police are relying on the reports of missing filed by the relatives. “The local market, Tatopani springs and many laborers extracting sand and stones were swept away. We, therefore, don´t know exactly how many persons were there at the time of the flooding,” SP Thapa stated. 

“The actual number of persons killed could be much higher,” he added. He said identification of the bodies has become difficult as many bodies are not intact. 

Meanwhile, a 20-member team including officials from the District Administration Office and District Development Committee, and security personnel has been deployed to Sadal, Awang and Karuwa of Machhapuchchre Village Development Committee (VDC) to observe the plight of the villagers following complaints that government representatives have not reached to the victim families.


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Shristi Shrestha Miss Nepal 2012

Shristi Shrestha wins the most coveted beauty pageant title of Miss Nepal 2012 held today at Hotel de l’ Annapurna in Kathmandu. Competing with 15 other beauty with brains, Shristi Shrestha made it to the crown that was previously held by Malina Joshi just seven months ago in 2011. The new Pashupati Paints Luxuria – The Hidden Treasure Miss Nepal 2012 – Shristi Shrestha also garnered Miss Confident  to her name. Miss Earth title went to Nagma Shrestha being the first runner up and Subekshya Khadka being the second runner-up is our new Miss Nepal International.

In an event hosted by former Miss Nepal runner up Miss Nepal runner up Sahana Bajracharya and Hits FM RJ Biraz Singh Khadka, the 16 beauties with brain dazzled in a outdoor venue at the Hotel Annapurna. Shristi Shrestha was successful in being the name in everyone’s lip for the night with her impressive answer to the question “What will/can you do to make others remember you for a long time?”

Shristi Shrestha is already a Model by profession and has often participated in several Modelling events as British- Nepali Model. Being crowned with Miss Nepal will definitely take her modelling career to greater and much responsible heights. Here are some of her previous images as in modelling industry.

Shristi Shrestha – a New Hope

Shristi Shrestha is a new hope for Nepal in international beauty pageants, especially when the country has yet to see some notable achievements in crucial pageants like Miss World. Miss Nepal organizers also stepped forward to organize this event five months early than usual to ensure that the winners get sufficient time to be groomed for the international pageants.

Congratulations to Shristi – She deserved it! And best of luck for her bigger responsibilities in future! 

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Pokhara Flodding Live Videos

These Are some footage i have collected from youtube Live videos of Pokhara Avalanche by Seti River

Massive storm system weakens after 12 deaths

Weary residents may get some good news Thursday as the monster storm system that already battered many Midwestern states and caused a dozen deaths is expected to weaken.

The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center downgraded its outlook for severe weather from moderate to slight over the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. It said there was only a 5% probability of tornadoes through Thursday morning.

The death toll from the enormous storm system that plowed through the Midwest and spawned more tornadoes as it moved east was at 12 late Wednesday, authorities said.

Hardest hit was Harrisburg, Illinois, a town that was thrashed by a pre-dawn EF4 killer tornado that packed 170 mph winds. Six people were killed in the southern Illinois city, many were injured or left with harrowing stories like Justin Hicks.When we woke up half the roof was coming off the house," said Hicks. "We managed to get the small children in the closet, and about the time the small children were in the closet my wife and I noticed the walls separating from the house."

Hicks' home was destroyed but he says it could have been much worse"We're very lucky to be alive," he said. " It happened so fast. I woke up to a chaos, and I'm sure a lot of people woke up to chaos. I wasn't expecting it to be that bad."

The dead included four women and two men. The tornado had a preliminary rating of EF4, the second most powerful on the rating scale, according to the National Weather Service.

The twister appeared to have been on the ground for several miles, said Mayor Eric Gregg. The path of destruction was about three or four football fields wide, he said.

This Just In: Harrisburg's path of destruction

The scene in the southern part of Harrisburg, was one of debris and collapsed houses. Commercial and residential buildings were crushed. A tractor-trailer could be seen laying on its side, off the highway.

"When the sirens were going on this morning ... it was eerily quiet. I had a gut feeling something was wrong," Gregg told reporters.

"We will rebuild this city. This will make us stronger," Gregg said.

There were no reports Wednesday evening of anyone missing, the mayor said.

Harrisburg resident Caleb Cattivera said he rushed to his workplace early Wednesday only to find it gone. "I know a lot of people who live back near there."

Resident Les Winkeler said, "You just hoped your house didn't come down around you."According to the sheriff's office, some 100 people were injured and between 250 and 300 houses were damaged or destroyed.

Among the structures hit was the Harrisburg Medical Center. CEO Vince Ashley said the tornado took out 80 feet of exterior wall, exposing patient rooms, and a significant portion of the roof.

A smaller tornado caused significant damage in the music resort city of Branson, Missouri.

Nearly 200 people were hurt across the region, officials said.

Two twisters were reported Wednesday night near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Winds in excess of 100 mph were reported in northwestern Alabama.

Tourist town of Branson, Missouri, hit

At least six counties in Kentucky suffered storm damage. A shaken and bruised Steven Vaught of Greenville, Kentucky, recounted how he and his two dogs tumbled when his trailer rolled several times down the hill. They all survived.

"It's a joy to be here. I don't know how I'm here," Vaught told CNN Nashville affiliate WSMV. "The good Lord just didn't call me. It wasn't my time."

iReport: Branson Hilton windows blown out

An apparent tornado near Cassville, Missouri, left one person dead, the Barry County Sheriff's Office said. That person was thrown out of a mobile home, the sheriff's office said.

One death each has been reported in Buffalo and Puxico, Missouri officials said.

"I woke up this morning and looked outside and saw houses were destroyed," said Steven Scharmanzer in Branson. "I've never seen anything like this in the 20 years I've lived here."

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who declared a state of emergency, said the damage there was in at least the tens of millions, but there were no reported deaths. "We are confident that Branson will be back bigger and better than ever," Nixon said.

An EF2 tornado smashed at least seven miles of the city's commercial strip, leaving 33 people hurt, most with minor to moderate injuries.

The city's convention center and an attached Hilton were damaged, as was a portion of Branson Landing, a large shopping and entertainment complex.

City Administrator Dean Kruithof said about five or six of the city's roughly 40 theaters were damaged.

"We have so many people who want crews in here to clean up, who want to start rebuilding," Kruithof said.

There were also three deaths Wednesday evening in Tennessee, authorities said.

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Bomb explosion outside NOC office kills 3, injures 6

Three persons have been killed and six others injured in a bomb explosion in front of the Nepal Oil Corporation office at Babarmahal in the capital on Monday afternoon

Krishna Bahadur Tamang, apparently in his mid-thirties, of Baireni-9, Dhading was killed on the spot in the blast, SP Rajendra Shrestha, chief of Kathmandu police, said. The identities of the other two--one of whom also was killed on the spot and the other who died in Bir Hospital during treatment--are yet to be established, according to the police officer.

Among the injured were Som Bahadur Tamang of Bara, Raghunath Khadka of Bhaktapur, Lal Bahadur Tamang, of Dhading, Bishnu Pulara, an NOC employee, of Dhangadi, Basu Shrestha of Luvu, Lalitpur and Man Bahadur Kunwar and Bhim Bahadur Kunwar of Achham. All the injured are undergoing treatment at Bir Hospital.

Speaking to the media, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar, who visited the explosion site, said preliminary investigation suggested the involvement of Samyukta Jatiya Morcha, an armed outfit, in the blast that happened at around 1pm.

Kathmandu police chief Shrestha, however, declined to name any particular group behind the broad daylight explosion carried out in the capital´s one of the sensitive areas, only some 200 meters south of the country´s administrative hub Singha Durbar, poising grave question to the city´s security arrangement.

"We have identified who are behind the explosion. We will soon track them down and make arrests, " the police officer said. Security personnel have currently cordoned off the incident site.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has talked to chiefs of security agencies with regard to the incident and instructed them for improved security situation in the country. Likewise, a meeting of security chiefs, following the incident, is underway in Singha Durbar.

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