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The government has decided to revoke its earlier decision not to allow foreign nationals to travel to third countries from Nepal except for transit at the airport. The Cabinet meeting held on Monday made 16 decisions including the same. The meeting also decided to form a salary commission under the headship of former Chief Secretary Lilamani Paudel. Information and Communications Minister Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, who is also the government spokesperson, made public the decisions by organizing a press conference at the Communication Ministry.  

The government has decided to form a Facilitation and Monitoring Committee to facilitate the waste management of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. A meeting held on Monday under the coordination of Urban Development Minister Metmani Chaudhary decided to form the committee. The committee will comprise the members of the House of Representatives of Kathmandu, Nuwakot and Dhading. Informing about forming the committee, Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa said that the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has started collecting garbage and sought help of all the people for the long-term management of the waste. Writing a status on Facebook, he said that continuous facilitation and monitoring are necessary for the waste management of Kathmandu Valley. He was of the opinion that the Kathmandu Metropolitan City is working at its best to manage the waste.

The meeting of the Legislature-Parliament has been postponed till August 29. The meeting was postponed after tabling the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Enforced Disappearance Commission (Third Amendment) Bill, 2079 in the Parliament. Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Govinda Prasad Sharma presented the Bill in the Parliament today.  

CPN (Unified Socialist) senior leader Jhalanath Khanal has announced that his party and the CPN (Maoist Center) would be unified soon after the elections. Senior leader Khanal said this during a program organized by his party at Tansen on Monday. For now, the party was for a work alliance till elections and then got unified with the CPN (Maoist Center), he reiterated. He further argued that his party was close to the Maoist Center in terms of policy, principles and thoughts, which was paving way for the unification. He also underscored the need for unification among all communist parties for building a strong communist party in Nepal. According to him, a task force was formed by the ruling alliance to decide on the seat sharing for the coming November 20 elections, which would give a final decision within some days. Present five-party alliance would continue till the election, he said, reminding that the communist party was given nearly two-thirds of total votes in the last general election, but the unification among communist parties failed due to internal strife.