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CPN (Maoist Center) General Secretary Dev Gurung left for China on Thursday.

He has left for the northern neighbor to arrange Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s China visit.

According to a source, Prime Minister Dahal sent him to China to discuss possible agendas.

Foreign Minister NP Saud has been saying that Prime Minister Dahal will leave for China in the third week of September.

The Prime Minister will leave for New York to take part in the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Earlier, Maoist Center Vice-Chairman Agni Prasad Sapkota had visited China.  

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has called the party’s Parliamentary Party meeting.

Congress President Deuba summoned the Parliamentary Party meeting for Friday to discuss ongoing House deadlock and contemporary political issues, Deuba’s PA Bhanu Deuba said.

The main opposition CPN-UML has been obstructing the Parliament proceedings demanding an investigation, alleging that the CPN (Maoist Center) leaders are also involved in the 100-kg gold smuggling case.

The UML and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) have been demanding the formation of a high-level probe committee or Judicial Commission to investigate the gold smuggling case.

The lawmakers of the ruling parties also have their differing views about the formation of a high-level probe committee.

Speaking at the Parliament on August 8, UML lawmaker Yogesh Bhattarai had demanded voting for the formation of a probe committee.

Earlier on Wednesday, Janata Samajbadi Party Chairman Upendra Yadav had warned Deuba of quitting the government, expressing dissatisfaction over the five-point agreement made by the government with the victims of the Gaur massacre.

Contractors have staged a demonstration in the Capital on Thursday demanding that the government make payments for their completed works.

The contractors staged the demonstration in Bijulibazaar area of Kathmandu this afternoon under the leadership of Federation of Contractors’ Association of Nepal (FCAN) as part of the second phase of the protest.

The contractors have been staging the protest for the past 11 days demanding a formation of a high-level talks team to address the demands of contractors, extension of the contracts, overdue payments and adjustment of price among others.

The contractors from all over the country have  come to the Capital at the direction of the FCAN to make the protest successful.

The second-phase of protest will continue till Friday, the federation said.

Transport entrepreneurs and drivers on Thursday staged a protest in the Capital putting forth nine-point demand.

The taxi drivers have staged the protest in front of the New Baneshwor-based Transport Management Department at the call of the Majdoor Driver Independent Struggle Committee.

The have demanded that Indian vehicles operating in Nepali territory be banned, the work of snatching keys and abusing drivers be stopped by managing taxi stands in the Kathmandu Valley, embossed number written in English be replaced with Nepali and international policy be implemented by maintaining the same taxi fare across the country among others.

Similarly, they have also demanded that the government bear all the treatment costs of the people injured in the accident from third party insurance and provide Rs 2.5 million to the families of those who died in the road mishap.

They have also demanded that the vehicles with white, yellow, green, blue, red and black number plates be treated equally.

The price of gold has dropped by Rs 700 per tola in the domestic market on Thursday.

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, the yellow bullion is being traded at Rs 111, 300 per tola today. It was traded at Rs 112, 000 per tola on Wednesday

Meanwhile, tejabi gold is being traded at Rs 110, 750 per tola.

Similarly, the price of silver has dropped by Rs 10 and is being traded at Rs 1,380 per tola today.  

With the onset of monsoon since June 14, the water-induced disaster has so far affected 50 districts of the country.

According to the Home Ministry, as many as 41 people have so far died and 31 disappeared in the monsoon-induced disaster, including floods and landslides.

Home Ministry's Disaster and Conflict Management Division Chief, Joint-Secretary Mahadev Pantha, said that at least 55 people were injured in the incidents of natural calamities in the districts.

According to him, loss of lives has been reported in 20 out of 50 disaster-hit districts. Those losing lives are from 20 districts.

Likewise, people from six districts, including Sankhuwasabha, Taplejung, Panchthar, Dolakha, Makawanpur and Mahottari, went missing in the water-related disaster, Panthi said.

As per the data provided by the Ministry, 55 people from 28 districts have sustained injuries.

In the incidents, a total of 130 houses were completely damaged while 193 houses partially

A huge loss of lives and properties was reported in the eastern districts of Nepal, including Panchthar, Sankhuwasabha and Taplejung.

The incidents of intermittent downpours during the monsoon triggered floods and landslides in different districts. Some districts have yet to witness rainfall in the monsoon.

The Madhes Province government on Wednesday decided to provide Rs 1 million to carry out relief and rescue operations in eight districts of the province.

A meeting of the Province Disaster Management Executive Committee presided over by Province Minister for Home, Communications and Law Mohammad Samim decided to provide the money to distribute relief to the flood survivors.

Minister Samim said that the province took the decision to immediately send the relief amount to the district administration office in all eight districts to purchase relief and rescue materials.

"There is a problem of flooding and inundation in all eight districts of the province. Keeping this in mind, a decision has been made to immediately provide the relief amount to the disaster management committees headed by chief district officers,” he said.

"Besides, the provincial mechanism has also decided to collect and distribute relief through one door system", Minister Samim shared.

The meeting also discussed the measures to make relief and rescue works effective and establish good coordination among security agencies and stakeholders.

The incessant rain for the past couple of days has affected normal life in Madhes. 

Police have recovered six home-made guns in Baglung.

A team deployed from the Hatiya Police Post seized five home-made guns while another team from the Narethanti Police Post recovered one on Wednesday.

Information Officer at the District Police Office, DSP Madan KC said that a patrol police team recovered a gun from Janaekata Community Forest at Galkot Municipality-1 and five unaccounted guns in a den at Bhagawatisthan-3.

Police said that they are looking into the case.