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Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has asked the ruling coalition parties for the written suggestions about the issues to be included in the policy and programs. During a 10-party meeting held in Singha Durbar on Tuesday, Prime Minister Dahal asked for the suggestions to improve the economic situation of the country. Senior leaders of the major political parties gave suggestions in the meeting, CPN (Maoist Center) Chief Whip Hitraj Pandey said. But all could not give the suggestions due to lack of time, Rastriya Janamorcha Party Chairman Chitra Bahadur KC said. “The written suggestions were asked from those leaders who could not get time to speak in the meeting today,” he said.      

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The prime minister’s Secretariat said that the meeting will be held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers in Singha Durbar at 4pm today. It has been learnt that the government’s policies and programs, budget, contemporary political issues among others will be discussed in the meeting.  

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Speaker Devraj Ghimire held a meeting in Baluwatar on Tuesday. During the meeting, Prime Minister Dahal informed Speaker Ghimire that the government is preparing to unveil its policies and programs on May 19. In response, Speaker Ghimire said that they are in a ready position to bring the policies and programs on May 19. On the occasion, they discussed bills under consideration in the Parliament, budget and policies and programs among other issues, Shekhar Adhikari, press advisor of Speaker Ghimire, said. The parliamentary committees under the House of Representatives have become active from today.    

Assistant Foreign Minister of Australia Tim Watts arrived on a two-day visit to Nepal. The centerpiece of Watts’ visit is going to be the handover of a 13th century wooden tunala (temple strut) from Ratneshwar Temple at Sulima Square to the local community in a ceremony organized at Patan Museum. The Art Gallery of New South Wales has returned this important artifact to Nepal, and will be represented at the handover by Director Dr Michael Brand, according to a statement issued by the Australian Embassy in Kathmandu this morning. During the visit, Assistant Minister Watts is scheduled to pay a courtesy call on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud. He will convey Australia’s appreciation of its close cooperation with Nepal over 63 years of diplomatic relations and thriving people-to-people linkages. The Nepali community is Australia’s fastest growing migrant population and currently numbers around 130,000, adds the release. The Australian Assistant Minister will also visit BioVac Nepal in Banepa, where academic and research cooperation and technology transfer from Australia has supported BioVac to become a state-of-the-art diagnostic and animal vaccine production facility. He will then visit the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology (TIO). In the past thirty years, the Australian Government and the Fred Hollows Foundation have supported TIO’s work to provide eye care services in Nepal, as well as the manufacture of intraocular lenses for national and global distribution. Likewise, Watts will hand over an Australian-made Portable Altitude Chamber to the Himalayan Rescue Association for its use at the Pheriche Medical Outpost and Everest ER Clinic at Everest Base Camp. It may be noted that Assistant Minister Watts’ visit to Nepal is part of a four-country program that includes his participation in the sixth Indian Ocean Conference in Bangladesh, and bilateral visits to Bhutan and India.