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Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and party leader Shekhar Koirala held a meeting on Tuesday. 

During the meeting held at Deuba residence, they discussed the issues related to the party's upcoming 15th general convention, said Koirala's personal secretary, Dinesh Chandra Thapaliya. 

On the occasion, Koirala said the forms without any number sent by the Active Membership Distribution Committee at districts have created problems in the party. He also drew Deuba's attention to send new forms. 

Similarly, leader Koirala also urged President Deuba to lift the punishment of leaders facing within the party and deploy them for upcoming general convention and election. 

NC leader and former Minister Dr Minendra Rijal had also accompanied Koirala in the meeting.

The government has decided to accept a soft loan of Rs 14.38 billion to be provided by the Asian Development Bank for the public finance management and fiscal transfer.

The Cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to hand over the building and 115 bighas of land under the joint registration of Pavan Kumar Sharda and Murali Lal Murarka to Ramkumar Sharad Uma Prasad Murarka Provincial Hospital at Lahan Municipality of Siraha district. The gain tax on it would be excised.

Government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Jagadish Kharel informed that a delegation would be formed under the coordination of joint secretary at Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development to attend a meeting of the Nepal-India Joint Agriculture Taskforce to be held in Kathmandu from December 27 to 29.

The Cabinet also made a decision on promotion and installment of some security officials.

Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy, BBC reported. 

The footprints - some of which are up to 40cm (15in) in diameter - are aligned in parallel rows, and many show clear traces of toes and claws. 

It is thought the dinosaurs were prosauropods - herbivores with long necks, small heads and sharp claws, according to BBC. 

US President Donald Trump has filed a $5bn (£3.7bn) lawsuit against the BBC over an edit of his 6 January 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary, BBC reported. 

Trump accused the broadcaster of defamation and of violating a trade practices law, according to court documents filed in Florida. 

The BBC apologised to Trump last month, but rejected his demands for compensation and disagreed there was any "basis for a defamation claim".