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The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a short-term interim order directing the government not to implement the decision to suspend Nepal Airlines Corporation Chairman Yuvaraj Adhikari.

A single bench of Justice Til Prasad Shrestha issued the order today.

The apex court directed the defendants to furnish written clarification within 15 days.

According to the demand of the petitioner, both the parties have been called for discussion on July 12.

The government had decided to suspend Adhikari on June 20. Similarly, Capitan Dipuraj Jwarchan was appointed as the Chairman of the NAC on June 23.

International Liaison Department head of the Chinese Communist Party Liu Jianchao is scheduled to visit Nepal on Sunday.

According to a source at the Foreign Ministry, he is arriving on a four-day visit to Nepal.

During his visit, Liu Jianchao will hold meetings with President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli among other leaders, the source said.

Earlier in the last week of June, he held separate virtual meetings with Dahal and Oli.

He held a video conversation with Foreign Minister and Nepali Congress leader Narayan Khadka last week.

Liu Jianchao is a senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

The political report presented by CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the Central Committee meeting has been endorsed unanimously on Thursday.

A Central Committee meeting held this afternoon endorsed a brief political report presented by Dahal.

The report incorporated various issues like recently concluded local level elections, upcoming parliamentary and provincial elections, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and State Partnership Program (SPP) among others.

Dahal had presented the report on Sunday.

Tension ran high at the Trishakti Higher Secondary School voting center in Budhiganga Municipality-9 of Bajura on Thursday.

Police fired into the air after a dispute arose between cadres of the CPN-UML and the ruling coalition.

Chief District Officer Prakash Chandra Adhikari said that police opened fire to take the situation under control.

"Police opened fire to take the situation under control. The situation is normal now. The voting has been resumed," he said.

The voting was halted for some following the dispute between the cadres of the UML and ruling alliance.

The election, which was deferred on May 14, has resumed from 7 am today.

Ranga Bahadur Khati of the Nepali Congress and Ram Bahadur Baniya of the UML have filed candidacy for the post of mayor.