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Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is scheduled to address the House of Representatives (HoR) under the federal Parliament today.

Prime Minister Oli will address the House meeting scheduled to be held at 11 am at the Parliament Building, New Baneshwor on Monday.

CPN-UML Chief Whip Mahesh Bartaula informed that PM Oli is scheduled to address the House at the beginning of the meeting.

It is believed that the parliamentary deadlock due to protest from the main opposition party will end with the PM's address.

Today's meeting is scheduled to pass five important replacement bills with discussion.

In the agenda of the HoR, PM Oli is scheduled to address the issues related to violent agitation of the royalists last Friday and the dismissal of Kulman Ghising from the executive director of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA).

The meeting is scheduled to table the 'Banking Offences and Punishment (Second Amendment) Bill-2080' with the message received from the National Assembly.

Similarly, President of the Infrastructure Development Committee of the HoR Deepak Bahadur Singh is scheduled to submit the committee's report on water resources bill-2081 BS.

President of the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee Ammar Bahadur Thapa is scheduled to present the committee's report on the 'Shaheed Dasharath Chand University of Health Sciences Bill-2081 BS'.

Likewise, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ajay Kumar Chaurasia will present a proposal in the National Assembly seeking consideration of the Nepal Council of Legal Practitioners (Second Amendment) Bill- 2081 BS.

Similarly, Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak is scheduled to present a proposal to send the Nepal Citizenship (Second Amendment) Bill-2081 to the concerned committee for clause-wise discussion.

The meeting of the Socialist Front is underway at the central office of the CPN (Maoist Center) in Parisdanda.

Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal, Communist Party of Nepal General Secretary Netra Bikram Chand and Nepal Samajbadi Party leader Mahendra Raya Yadav among others are present in the meeting.

It has been said that the meeting will also decide on future strategies.

The meeting will also review the demonstration held by the parties affiliated to the Socialist Front on Friday to counter the activities of pro-monarchists.

Similarly, the opposition parties have been protesting in the Parliament and on the streets against the government decision to dismiss Nepal Electricity Authority Managing Director Kulman Ghising.

Nepali Congress (NC) President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said the Muslim community's grand festival of Eid-ul-Fitr has been gradually promoting religious tolerance and harmony in Nepali society. 

Issuing a message of best wishes on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr today, President Deuba expressed the belief that the festival of Eid would inspire all to bring peace, harmony and prosperity in the country. 

Nepal is a beautiful country full of multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious characteristics and different ethnicities have their own unique traditions, religions, cultures, customs and festivals, Deuba said in the message. 

"Unity in diversity is the unique identity of Nepalis and we have our own tradition of respecting each of these festivals", the message reads. 

President Deuba has extended best wishes for happiness, peace and prosperity to all Muslim sisters and brothers at home and abroad on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, the holy festival of Islam.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program, Reuters reported.

In Trump's first remarks since Iran rejected direct negotiations with Washington last week, he told NBC News that U.S. and Iranian officials were talking, but did not elaborate.

"If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing," Trump said in a telephone interview. "It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before."

"There's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago," he added, according to Reuters.

Iran sent a response through Oman to a letter from Trump urging Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, saying its policy was to not engage in direct negotiations with the United States while under its maximum pressure campaign and military threats, Tehran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Thursday.