KATHMANDU, July 5 -- A meeting between the two chairmen of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ended a while ago.

In the meeting termed as the 'decisive one' amid the elevating intra-party rift within the NCP, the two chairmen sat for the talks for an hour, each having two aides. The party's General Secretary Bishnu Poudel and Province 5 Chief Minister Shankar Pokharel accompanied Oli while Barshaman Pun and Janardan Sharma were present in the meeting with the other chairman Dahal.

Amid growing intra-party rift within the NCP, top leaders of the rival factions held a meeting with President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday morning.

Earlier, Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior leaders Madhav Kumar ...