Kathmandu, July 29 : The CPN (Maoist) with a view to form a new Government in Nepal has started its homework and sought support from parties represented in the Constituent Assembly (CA).

On Monday, Maoist leaders held a meeting at the parliament secretariat and sought support from all 25 parties represented in the Constituent Assembly, for forming a new government under Maoist leadership.

Kathmandu, July 29 : Nepal’s caretaker Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala today met former CPN (UML) General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal to discuss the current political situations in Nepal.

It was reported that Nepal had advised Koirala on letting President Dr Ram Baran Yadav lead the Nepali delegation to the 15th SAARC summit since the current government does not have legal authority to take important decisions.

Kathmandu, July 29 : The Constituent Assembly (CA) of Nepal has issued a directive to the Government, asking it to take immediate steps to maintain communal harmony in the wake of the ongoing protests against the Vice President Parmananda Jha for taking oath in Hindi language.

On Monday, the Constituent Assembly unanimously passed a ''proposal of public interest'' presented by Maoist Constituent Assembly member Chandra Prakash Gajurel.

The proposal expressed worry that agitations could harm communal harmony in the country.

Kathmandu, July 29 : Nihita Biswas, the girlfriend of master criminal Charles Sobraj, has said that she is receiving extortion calls on her cell phone.

Twenty-year-old Biswas claimed that she has been getting these calls soon after announcing her plans to marry Sobraj.

"Who is that reporter who dragged my name in the media following the attempt of my kidnapping and call for kidnapping and SMS through the telephone number 
9841798001. The SMS came two times through this very number," Biswas said.

A man also demanded ten million rupees, she added.

Kathmandu, July 28  At least 60 percent girls in Nepal get married before they are 18, and as a result the number of maternal deaths caused by child birth complications is on the higher side.

The maternal mortality rate in Nepal at present is 281 per every 100,000 live births and the child mortality rate is 48 per 1,000 live births.

According to a report in the local newspaper The Rising Nepal, the Gender Department of Family Planning Association of Nepal recently discussed a paper titled "Present Status of Child Marriage" by Professor Ram Sharan Pathak of Tribhuvan University.

Kathmandu, July 28 : Nepal political parties represented in the Constituent Assembly (CA) today advised the CPN (Maoist) to take initiative for the formation of a unity Government in Nepal.

At the all-party meeting here, the parties suggested that Maoist being the largest party in the Constituent Assembly should try to garner consensus to lead the next Government.

During the meeting organised by Maoists mainly to discuss the formation of new government, the issue of Nepal''s participation in the SAARC summit and the episode of Vice President taking oath in Hindi also cropped up.