NEPAL RULING PARTY’S MEET POSTPONED

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday once again deferred the crucial meeting of its powerful Standing Committee as the top leaders intensified efforts to negotiate a power-sharing deal between embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and former premier Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’. This is for the seventh time that the ruling party has postponed its Standing Committee meeting.the 45-member powerful Standing Committee’s meeting was first called for June 24 after

Prime Minister Oli alleged that some of the party leaders are trying to remove him from power.