Deputy Prime Ministers Bimalendra Nidhi and Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who recently returned home after the visits to two close neighbours, India and China respectively, briefed the Cabinet meeting about their visits.

In a meeting of the Council of Ministers Tuesday, they said both neighbours showed goodwill to the priorities of the incumbent government, according to Government Spokesperson and Minister for Information and Communications Surendra Kumar Karki.

DPMs Nidhi and Mahara completed their visits to India and China, respectively as the special representatives of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Besides, the meeting decided to send the bill on action framework on natural disaster response to the respective committee for further action.

The meeting decided to remand those traders found guilty of irregularities during the integrated market monitoring to the respective bodies for action.

The meeting also instructed the bodies concerned to crack down on black market, artificial price hike and shortage. RSS