Kathmandu, Sept 13 : Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Saturday intensified diplomatic and political parleys in the run-up to his visit to India.

Prime Minister Dahal met the outgoing Prime Minister and the opposition Nepali Congress (NC) President Girija Prasad Koirala later today. Dahal went to Koirala’s residence at Maharajgunj in the afternoon. This was the first time the duo met since Dahal was elected the Prime Minister.

Kathmandu, Sept 13: Nepal’s Constituent Assembly (CA) members criticised the programmes and policies of the government during the debate of the first day’s session on Friday.

Speaking at the Constituent Assembly meeting, Nepali Congress Vice President Ram Chandra Poudel said the government's programmes were unduly projecting long-term visions even though the current government is entrusted only for providing relief package to flood hit people, completing peace process and making a new Constitution for the republic of Nepal.

He said the current coalition government intended to put parliamentary system in danger and establish totalitarianism citing absence of words like parliamentary democracy and multi-party system in the programmes.

Kathmandu  - International human rights organisations have asked the new Nepalese government to prosecute those responsible for enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and torture during Nepal's decade-long Maoist insurgency.

The United States based Human Rights Watch and Nepal-based Advocacy Forum in a joint report, Waiting for Justice: Unpunished Crimes from Nepal's Armed Conflict, said not a single person had been prosecuted so far for crimes during the insurgency.

Kathmandu, Sept 11 : The Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) party of Nepal has officially demanded a new agreement with India to replace the 54-year-old Koshi Agreement.

UML General Secretary Jhala Nath Khanal said that a new agreement should be reached on an qual footing based on the principle of mutual benefit.

"The government of India should pay annual royalty to Nepal government for using the bridge built on Nepali territory, for making use of water from Nepal, and for using Nepali land, he said.

Kathmandu - Nepal's Maoist-led government has threatened deportation of Tibetan exiles staying in the country illegally, a media report said Thursday.

The government said it would investigate the status of Tibetans involved in anti-China protests and deport them if they were staying in the country illegally, Kantipur newspaper reported.

Police and the immigration department began investigating their status following a directive from Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam to stop activities by the Tibetan refugees, the newspaper said.

Kathmandu, Sept 10 : Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Wednesday expressed hope that the government’s policies and programmes reflected the aspirations of the people from all walks of life.

He said this while talking to journalists after the announcement of the government’s policies and programmes at the Constituent Assembly (CA) in Kathmandu, Dahal claimed that the government’s annual programmes would be implemented.