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Both the Houses of the Federal Parliament are scheduled to have their meetings today. 

The House of Representatives (HoR) session is scheduled to take place at 1 pm Sunday in the New Baneswor-based Federal Parliament building. 

In today's session, there is an agenda to pass the Civil Service Bill. 

There have been complaints galore over the complications evolving in the implementation of the administrative federalism despite the country usurping to federal structure. 

It may be noted that the agenda of endorsing the bill in the HoR session scheduled for last June 17 was put on hold in the eleventh hour. 

As per the agenda set for today, Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Rajkumar Gupta will present a proposal seeking deliberations on the Federal Civil Service Bill, 2080 along with the report of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee. 

The bill will be endorsed after the lawmakers put their views on the proposal. Once the bill is endorsed from the HoR, it will be sent to the National Assembly. 

According to the due process, the Speaker will certify the bill after the Upper House passes it and returns to the Lower House. The bill then will be presented to the President following certification from the Speaker and will come to effect after the authentication from the Head of the State. 

The Upper House is also scheduled to have a meeting today.

In the session set to take place at 12.15 pm, there is a scheduled agenda for a group discussion on different headings of 14 ministries under the Appropriation Bill, 2082. 

Saturday was a night of four headliners at Glastonbury, with fans facing the cruel choice between pop queen Charli XCX, rock legend Neil Young, disco scamps Scissor Sisters and Doechii - rap's hottest new voice, BBC reported.

Charli XCX won the biggest audience, closing down The Other Stage and turning it into a sweat-drenched, laser lit club night.

Young, topping the bill on the Pyramid Stage, also delivered an all-time hits set, with gnarly, ragged versions of hits like Cinnamon Girl and Like A Hurricane.

Doechii, who only played for 45 minutes, still managed to mark herself out as a future headliner; while Scissor Sisters brought out actual Gandalf Sir Ian McKellen to perform Invisible Light  according to BBC.

The G7 has reached an agreement that would exempt U.S. multinational companies from paying more corporate tax overseas, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the discussions, The Economic Times reported.

The deal, backed by Washington and other G7 members, would allow U.S. companies to avoid certain overseas taxes due to levies already paid in the United States, the report said.

The billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Muskon Saturday criticized the latest version of Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly insane and destructive, The Guardian reported.

“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote on Saturday as the Senate was scheduled to call a vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill.

“Utterly insane and destructive,” Musk added. “It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”

Passing the package, Musk said, would be “political suicide for the Republican Party.”

Musk’s comment reopens a recent fiery conflict between the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) and the administration he recently left. They also represent yet another headache for Republican Senate leaders who have spent the weekend working overtime to get the legislation through their chamber so it can pass by Trump’s Fourth of July deadline, according to Guardian.

The Senate is taking a key procedural vote that has dragged on for more than two hours during a rare Saturday evening session as Republicans struggled to advance President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline, Associated Press reported.

The proceedings came to a standstill and Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Capitol to break a potential tie. Tense scenes were playing out in the chamber as senators huddled in negotiations. Several Republican senators were registering their opposition to proceeding to open debate on the bill.

Republicans are using their majorities in Congress to push aside Democratic opposition, but they have run into a series of political and policy setbacks. Not all GOP lawmakers are on board with proposals to reduce spending on Medicaid, food stamps and other programs as a way to help cover the cost of extending some $3.8 trillion in Trump tax breaks.

“It’s time to get this legislation across the finish line,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., as the session was underway, according to Associated Press.

Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate change monitoring satellite on its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final flight before it is replaced by a new flagship designed to be more cost competitive in the global space market, Associated Press reported.

The H-2A rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, carrying the GOSAT-GW satellite as part of Tokyo’s effort to mitigate climate change. The satellite was released into a planned orbit about 16 minutes later.

The launch follows several days of delays because of malfunctioning of the rocket’s electrical systems. 

Sunday’s launch marked the 50th and final flight for the H-2A, which has served as Japan’s mainstay rocket to carry satellites and probes into space with a near-perfect record since its 2001 debut. After its retirement, it will be fully replaced by the H3, which is already in operation, as Japan’s new main flagship, according to Associated Press.

Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary’s history in an open rebuke of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government, Associated Press reported.

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and heavy fines to participate in the 30th annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed in March by Orbán’s right-wing populist governing party.

The march began at Budapest City Hall and wound through the city center before crossing the capital’s Erzsébet Bridge over the Danube River. Police diverted the crowd from its planned route to keep it separated from a small group of far-right counterprotesters, while members of Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community and masses of supporters danced to music and waved rainbow and anti-government flags.

One marcher, Blanka Molnár, said it was “a fantastic feeling” that more people had attended the Pride march than ever before despite it being outlawed. She said it was “increasingly important” for Hungarians, “even those who have never been to Pride before,” to push back against the government’s policies, according to Associated Press.

Israeli strikes killed at least 72 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, as ceasefire prospects were said to be improving after 21 months of war, Associated Press reported.

Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis. They were struck while sleeping, relatives said.

“What did these children do to them? What is their fault?” said the children’s grandmother, Suad Abu Teima, as others knelt to kiss their bloodied faces and wept. Some placed red flowers into the body bags.

Also among the dead were 12 people near the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, and eight more in apartments, according to staff at Shifa Hospital. More than 20 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital, according to health officials, according to Associated Press.