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The CPN (Maoist Centre) has decided to endorse the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with interpretative declaration in the disputed points. 

An expanded meeting of the party held at party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s residence in Khumaltar made the decision to this effect. 

The Maoist leaders have agreed to ratify the $500 million grant agreement with the interpretative declaration in the dispute points despite the heated debate within the party over whether to pass the MCC.

Maoist Centre leader Shakti Basnet said that the party has decided to endorse the MCC with the interpretative declaration.

A meeting of the second-rung leaders of the ruling Nepali Congress and the main opposition CPN-UML ended inconclusively on Saturday.

The meeting held at UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli's residence in Balkot ended inconclusively after the leaders refused to budge from their stance.

Talking to journalists after the meeting, government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki said that the NC leaders urged the UML leaders to lift the House obstruction and to help endorse the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

In response, the UML leaders said that the door to the Parliament is still closed for them and urged the NC leaders to open it.

The UML leaders said that they would not allow the House to proceed with its business until the Speaker is removed or he takes action against the 14 lawmakers.

Russian troops pressed toward Ukraine’s capital Saturday, after a night of explosions and street fighting that sent Kyiv residents seeking shelter underground, Associated Press reported. The country’s president refused an American offer to evacuate, insisting that he would stay. “The fight is here,” he said.

It was not immediately clear how far Russian troops had advanced. Ukrainian officials reported some success in fending off assaults, but fighting persisted near the capital. Skirmishes reported on the edge of the city suggested that small Russian units were probing Ukrainian defenses to clear a path for the main forces.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitchsko said a missile hit a high-rise building on the city’s southwestern outskirts. He posted an image showing a gaping hold in one side of the building that ravaged apartments on several floors. There was no immediate word on casualties.

The swift movement of the troops after less than three days of fighting further imperiled a country clinging to independence in the face of a broad Russian assault, which threatened to topple Ukraine’s democratic government and scramble the post-Cold War world order.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered renewed assurance Saturday that the country’s military would stand up to the Russian invasion. In a video recorded on a downtown Kyiv street, he said he remained in the city and that claims the Ukrainian military would put down arms were false.

We aren’t going to lay down weapons. We will protect the country,” the Ukrainian president said. “Our weapon is our truth, and our truth is that it’s our land, our country, our children. And we will defend all of that.”

U.S. officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to overthrow Ukraine’s government and replace it with a regime of his own. The invasion represented Putin’s boldest effort yet to redraw the map of Europe and revive Moscow’s Cold War-era influence. It triggered new international efforts to end the invasion, including direct sanctions on Putin.

Nepali Congress and the main opposition CPN-UML have agreed to move ahead together to safeguard democracy.

During a meeting held at the UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli's residence in Balkot on Friday night, the two parties agreed to move ahead together to protect democracy.

But the two parties failed to forge consensus on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

On the occasion, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba urged Oli to help endorse the $500 million grant compact.

In response, Oli said that the door to the Parliament is still closed for them and urged the Prime Minister to open it.

Government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki said that Oli urged Prime Minister Deuba to create a conducive environment to take part in the parliamentary proceedings.

He said that the Prime Minister is making a maximum effort to ratify the MCC. 

Similarly, UML spokesperson Pradeep Gyawali said that Prime Minister Deuba urged Chairman Oli to participate in the Parliamentary proceedings by lifting the House obstructions to ratify the MCC compact.

But Oli said that they would not allow the House to proceed with its business until the Speaker is removed or he takes action against the 14 lawmakers.