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The sun is alone  But it always shine, It doesn't have any friends  But I can make it mine   All the planets rotates around the sun, It is beautiful View is exciting and fun   The sun will be white dwarf after its death It is medium sized star which is massive    The sun gets lost at the night Sunrise is beautiful at morning light   Fursang Tamang Class: Nine Balbalika English Secondary Boarding School, Thimi

A meeting of the top leaders of the main three political parties has agreed to end Parliament obstruction, according to the Secretariat of the Prime Minister. The meeting that took place at the initiatives of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers in Singha Durbar today was attended by PM Dahal, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli. The opposition parties have been obstructing meetings of both the Houses since last Wednesday. As a result, the ordinance relating to criminalizing loan sharking has been inactive, and other important bills have not advanced. Upon the request of the PM, Speaker Devraj Ghimire has rescheduled today's meeting of the House of Representatives for 3 pm today. The HoR meeting was actually scheduled for 1 pm.  

The main opposition CPN-UML obstructed the National Assembly (NA) meeting today also over the Prime Minister's recent public statement in a book launching ceremony on July 3. With the obstruction, the schedule about the deliberations on the budget allocations to various ministries under the Appropriation Bill, 2080 BS have been affected. Once the meeting convened, the UML lawmakers stood from their respective seats gesturing the continuity of their concerns over the Prime Minister's recent remarks in which he said leading truck entrepreneur Sardar Pritam Singh once made efforts before India to make him (Dahal) the Prime Minister of Nepal. UML lawmaker Bhagawati Neupane said the NA obstruction would continue until the Prime Minister stepped down from the post over his remarks. Following the protest, NA Chair Ganesh Prasad Timilsina said the continuous interruption in the NA business would not pave the way for a solution. He urged the opposition lawmakers to put their concerns and allow the House conduct the business. It may be noted that the party has been obstructing the NA session for the past four days over the same issue. Expressing his hope that top leaders would sort out the issue through talks, he urged for cooperation of the party to run the session. The today's NA session was scheduled to hold deliberations on the budget allocations to the Ministry of Health and Population, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Ministry of Water Supplies, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Labor and Social Security, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Home and the Ministry of Defense. Likewise, budget allocations to the National Planning Commission, Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the Office of the Vice President and the Office of the President were in the schedule of discussions. The NA session has been rescheduled for 11:01 am on Monday of July 10.  

Koshi Province Chief Parshuram Khapung administered the oath of office and secrecy to three newly-appointed ministers on Sunday. The Province Chief administered oath to Jeevan Acharya, Rajendra Karki and Ram Kumar Khatri at a ceremony held at the Province Chief's Office in Biratnagar. Acharya has been appointed as the Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning while Karki and Khatri would be assigned their ministerial portfolios later. The Province Chief's Office said that the portfolios of Kamal Prasad Jabegu and Pradip Kumar who were appointed ministers on Friday would be determined later.  

Eleven people have taken ill after consuming wild mushroom at Indrachowk in Dipayal Silgadhi Municipality-5 of Doti. The District Police Office, Doti said that they have been referred to Dadeldhura from the District Hospital, Doti. Superintendent of Police Rajendra Dhamala said that they are undergoing treatment in Dadeldhura.  

Vehicular movement along the Narayangarh-Mugling road section, which was obstructed following a landslide at Kalikhola in Ichchakamana Rural Municipality-6 from Saturday afternoon, has resumed from this morning. Police Inspector at Muglin area police office Bishal Tamang said that the vehicles and passengers stranded since the past nine hours are on their way to their respective destination. This road section has been obstructed due to frequent landslides for the past six months. Thousands of vehicles pass through this road daily.  

Relief support has been provided to the families displaced due to landslides after heavy rains in Madi Rural Municipality of Kaski district. Their houses were damaged in the natural disaster. Two houses were completely damaged and others were at risk in ward 6 and ward 2. The rural municipality and district administration office authorities visited the affected families on Saturday and provided relief in cash. Based on the damage incurred, the rural municipality has distributed Rs 25,000 and the district administration distributed Rs 100,000 as relief to the survivor family. Landslides triggered by heavy rains on July 4 destroyed six houses and sheds of five families at Bhedikharka Chowk. The families whose house was completely damaged by the landslide have now taken shelter in relatives' and community homes.  

While the government is struggling with revenue collection, it is also not able to get foreign assistance as expected. The commitments of foreign loans and grants to the government have declined by 24.09 percent in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year. With only two weeks left to end the fiscal year, the government has been able to receive foreign assistance commitments of Rs 170.51bn in this fiscal year. Bilateral and multilateral donors had given aid commitments of Rs 224.64bn during the first 11 months of the last fiscal year. The government in the current fiscal year budget has initially targeted to receive Rs 297.71bn in foreign grants and loans for this fiscal. However, it reduced the target to Rs 209bn during the mid-term review of the budget. According to the Finance Ministry, it has entered into an agreement with foreign donor agencies to take loans and grants for different 22 projects and programs till mid-June. Of the total assistance, Rs 129.84bn is the loan while Rs 40.67bn is grant. The statistics of the Finance Ministry show commitment to both loans and grants has declined in this fiscal. However, grant commitments have declined by 55 percent in this fiscal compared to the last fiscal. Of the total aid commitment received in this fiscal, the largest commitment is from the World Bank (43 percent), followed by ADB (25.3 percent, the United Kingdom (13 percent), and Japan (10 percent). The government has prioritized receiving foreign aid in the form of budget support which Nepal can utilize in its priority areas. The government’s International Development Cooperation Policy (DPC)-2019 has highlighted that budget support is the country’s most preferred official development assistance modality. According to the ministry, development policy credit (DPC) worth Rs 12bn has been received from the World Bank for Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development (GRID). In August last year, the two sides signed a  concessional financing agreement of $100m (equivalent to Rs. 12.7bn) for the GRID. The proposed budgetary support aims to support improvements in the enabling environment in Nepal toward green, climate-resilient, and inclusive development. This is the first in a programmatic series of three concessional loans on GRID, according to the World Bank. Likewise, the ministry said that the government also received Rs 3bn from the Asian Development Bank under its policy-based lending heading which is also budgetary support. The government and the World Bank in the last week of May signed a financing agreement for a $120m concessional loan from the International Development Association and a grant agreement for $19.7m from the Global Partnership for Education for the School Sector Transformation Program (SSTP) Operation, which support the implementation of the government's flagship School Education Sector Plan. The government also signed a $140m agreement with the World Bank for the Digital Nepal Acceleration (DNA) Project. The other multilateral lender, Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the last week of June approved a $50m loan to support the implementation of policy reforms by the government of Nepal to help improve its domestic and international trade. The ADB on May 17 approved a $300m loan to improve transport connectivity of the Kakarbhitta–Laukahi road in Nepal to international trade routes, particularly to India and Bangladesh. Amid declining revenue collection, the government has sought $200m from the Asian Development Bank in budgetary support to finance the resource gap. With the government struggling to maintain a balance on fiscal management, Finance Minister Prakash Saran Mahat on May 11 requested development partners for loans and substantial grants to Nepal. Mahat had made such a request during a discussion with the international development partners, saying that as Nepal has been affected by global climate change despite the country's negligible carbon emission, the aid should also be mobilized in the form of grants.