Bamdev Gautam announcing new party today

Nepal Communist Party Ekta Rastriya Abhiyan Coordinator Bamdev Gautam has decided to form a new political party. 

Gautam is organizing a press conference in the Reporters’ Club at 3 pm today for the same. 

Ekta Rastriya Abhiyan Publicity Department Chief Nimkanta Pandey said that a new party will be announced today.

PM Deuba calls Cabinet meeting for 3 pm today

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has called a meeting of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday.

The Prime Minister’s Secretariat said that the meeting will be held in Baluwatar at 3 pm today.

It has been learnt that the meeting will discuss contemporary issues and daily administrative works.

Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Deuba had reconstituted the Cabinet by four ministers and one state minister of the CPN (Unified Socialist).

This will be the first Cabinet meeting of the new ministers representing CPN (Unified Socialist) in the government.

Similarly, the Janata Samajbadi Party has also decided to recall all the ministers from the government.

A meeting of the Upendra Yadav faction held on Monday evening made the decision to his effect.

Janata Samajbadi Party decides to recall ministers

The Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) has decided to recall all the ministers representing the party in the government.

A meeting of the Upendra Yadav faction held on Monday evening made the decision to this effect.

The executive members of the Upendra Yadav faction were only present in the meeting.

The executive members of the Baburam Bhattarai faction were not called in the meeting.

The meeting has decided to give rights to Yadav to select the new ministers.

Claiming that they have a majority in the executive committee, the Yadav faction leaders have also decided to give rights to Yadav to take action against Bhattarai and Mahendra Yadav among other leaders.

The Janata Samajbadi Party has been divided into two factions lately.

Sri Lanka stops fuel supply to non-essential services as crisis worsens

Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to deal with a severe shortage, CNN reported.

The country is suffering its worst economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves at a record low and the island of 22 million struggling to pay for essential imports of food, medicine and, most critically, fuel.

Industries like garments, a big dollar earner in the Indian Ocean nation, are left with fuel for only about a week to 10 days. Current stocks of the country will exhaust in just under a week based on regular demand, Reuters calculations show.

medical services and vehicles that transport food starting Tuesday until July 10, Bandula Gunewardena, the spokesman for the government cabinet, told reporters.

Schools in urban areas will be shut and everyone is urged to work from home, he said. Inter-provincial bus service will be limited.

"Sri Lanka has never faced such a severe economic crisis in its history," Gunewardena said.

Autorickshaw driver W. D. Shelton, 67, said he had waited in line for four days for fuel, according to CNN.

"I haven't slept or eaten properly during this time," he said. "We can't earn, we can't feed our families."