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Visiting Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have sat for talks at the latter's office in Hyderabad House. In the beginning, the two Prime Ministers are scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting and it will be followed by the delegation-level meeting. Nepal and India will sign various agreements thereafter. The Prime Ministers of two nations will host a joint press conference. Similarly, the Indian Prime Minister will be hosting a luncheon at the Hyderabad House in honor of Prime Minister Dahal.  

Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is on a four-day official visit to India, is scheduled to hold important bilateral meetings today. The prime minister is slated to visit the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat, and lay a wreath at the memorial this morning. Shortly, he will hold a meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House. PM Dahal will address a joint press conference organized after the meeting. The meeting will also be followed by delegation-level talks focusing on mutual interests between the two countries. Other issues to be discussed are energy, electricity trade, commerce and air entry routes, and necessary agreements will take place, it has been said. He will attend a luncheon hosted today in his honor by the Prime Minister of India. The PM is scheduled to pay courtesy calls on the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. He will address the Nepal-India Business Summit in New Delhi co-organized by the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Confederation of Indian Industries this evening, and interact with business leaders of both the countries. PM Dahal is scheduled to visit Indore, and meet with Governor of Madhya Pradesh Mangubhai C. Patel. He is scheduled to return home at 4: 20 pm on June 3.

State Minister for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi welcomed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the New Delhi-based Indira Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday. Prime Minister Dahal had left for India on a four-day official visit at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi this afternoon. He will hold a bilateral meeting with Modi at the Hyderabad House on Thursday. The prime minister will call on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday and President Droupadi Murmu on Friday. Earlier, the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was welcomed by foreign secretary and Sher Bahadur Deuba by state minister for tourism.    

The Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) pulled out of the Koshi Province government on Wednesday. The party also withdrew the support extended to the government. Nirmala Limbu of the JSP was the Health Minister in the CPN-UML-led government. She was the only lawmaker to represent the JSP in the Province Assembly. Limbu participated in the government led by UML leader Hikmat Kumar Karki on January 9. Following the decision of the Province Committee meeting of the JSP, she lost her ministerial post. JSP leader Rakam Chemjong said that the meeting of the party held on Wednesday decided to recall its minister and also decided to withdraw the support extended to the government. In the 93-member Province Assembly of Koshi Province, UML has 40 lawmakers, Nepali Congress 29, CPN (Maoist Center) 13 (including speaker), Rastriya Prajatantra Party six, CPN (Unified Socialist) four and Janata Samajbadi Party has one lawmaker. Forty-seven lawmakers are needed to form the government in the province. But there are 46 lawmakers of the UML and the RPP in the province.