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The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index plunged by 45.59 points to close at 2,020. 23 points on Tuesday. 

Similarly, the sensitive index fell 11. 25 points to reach 389. 12 points.

A total of 3, 887, 748 units of shares of 234  companies were traded for Rs 1. 31 billion.

Likewise, all sub-indices saw red in today’s market. Non Life Insurance topped the table with 139. 78 points.

At the end of the day, total market civilization stands at Rs 2. 87 trillion.

A 21-year-old student, who had gone to do internship at Nepal House Restaurant in Kathmandu, has been raped.

She along with five other students, who have been studying management in Gate College, had gone to the Nepal House Restaurant on Friday.

According to a preliminary investigation, there was a marriage anniversay party at the restaurant where they were also invited to work as interns.

Restaurant staffer Jeevan KC raped the student while the party was going on. 

A permanent resident of Dolakha, KC, who had been working as a waiter at the restaurant for the past three months, took the student at the smoking zone and raped her at around 10 pm. 

Police said that KC offered a cold drink mixed with alcohol and raped her after she got intoxicated.

Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu Chief Sudeep Giri said that a team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Durbarmarg arrested KC on Friday itself. 

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Note

Earlier, it was mistakenly written that Kshitij Lamichhane had invited the students to celebrate his marriage anniversary

Police have arrested an Indian national in possession of a pistol and bullets from Harinagar Rural Municipality-4 of Sunsari.

SP Sanjay Singh Thapa of the District Police Office, Sunsari said that Om Prakash Pal of Arariya Babuwan Panchayat Ghorna Thana of India was nabbed with a pistol and three rounds of bullets.

He said that Pal was detained while he had come to his relative’s house in Harinagar Rural Municipality-4 of Sunsari.

A police team deployed from the District Police Office, Sunsari arrested Pal acting a tip-off, SP Thapa said.

Further investigation into the incident is underway, police said.

Police have arrested 14 persons for not allowing the garbage carrying vehicles to enter the dumping site in Sisdole, Nuwakot.

Police said that they apprehended the locals of Sisdole for creating obstructions in dumping the garbage.

Locals had been staging demonstrations since this morning saying that they would not allow the garbage of Kathmandu to dump in Sisdole landfill site until their demands are met.

DSP Gautam Mishra of the Metropolitan Police Circle, Balaju said that they have rounded up 14 persons who were trying to create obstructions in dumping the garbage.

Earlier on Tuesday, Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balen Shah had urged the locals to facilitate dumping the garbage.

An eighteen-year-old girl died when police opened fire at protesters in Orali Bazaar of Madhuban Municipality, Bardiya on Monday.

The deceased has been identified as Nabina Chaudhary of Madhuban Municipality-2.

The incident occurred when a clash broke out between the security personnel and the locals who were staging a demonstration demanding security from the wild animals after Asmita Tharu (41) was critically injured in a tiger attack while she was working at her home.

They had demanded that the tigers should be relocated and electric fences should be installed to prevent wild animals from entering the human settlements.

Inspector Hridayesh Sapkota of the District Police Office, Bardiya said that 12 Nepal Police and seven Armed Police personnel were injured in the clash.

Security personnel fired 20 rounds of tear gas canisters to take the situation under control.

Following the incident, the government formed a five-member committee to investigate the incident.

Meanwhile, speaking at the Parliament meeting on Tuesday, Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand said that the government had not given order to the security personnel to open fire at the protesters in Bardiya.

He said that action will be taken against those involved in the incident.

The Democratic Socialist Party submitted a memorandum of demands to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Tuesday.

Party Chairman Mahantha Thakur along with other leaders handed over an 11-point memorandum to Prime Minister Deuba this morning.

The leaders said that they submitted the memorandum to the Prime Minister to remind the commitment he made to address the demands of the party.

The party said in its memorandum that the children of the naturalized citizens should be given citizenship certificates immediately as per the constitution.

It also demanded withdrawal of false cases slapped against the party cadres during the Tharuhat and Madhesh movement and release of the arrested cadres including Resham Chaudhary in Mahottari and Kailali.

Similarly, the party has also demanded to amend the constitution, provide representation in local bodies, province assemblies and federal parliament on the basis of population, to implement the idea of distributing budget on the basis of population density and to make public the report of high-level probe commission led for former Supreme Court justice Girish Chandra Lal.

Likewise, the party has also demanded the government to arrange fertilizers to the farmers and control inflation and black marketing and provide land ownership certificates to those who have not received yet.

Locals have stopped the Kathmandu Metropolitan City from dumping garbage at Bancharedanda once again.

Earlier on Monday, the government and the representatives of the garbage dumping area had reached an agreement to resume collection of garbage from today.

Representatives of the Ministry of Urban Development, Kathmandu Metropolis, Kakani Nuwakot Rural Municipality and Dhunebesi Municipality of Dhading on Monday had reached an agreement to resume collection of garbage from Tuesday.

The locals, however, said that they would not allow the garbage carrying vehicles to enter the dumping site until their demands are met.

Project Director of the Ministry of Urban Development Rabindra Bohara, Chief Administrative Officer of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City Loknath Paudel, Chief Administrative Officer of Dhunebesi Municipality Haridutta Kandel and Chief Administrative Officer of Kakani Rural Municipality Geeta Kumari Sharma had signed the agreement in the meeting.

Titleholder France failed to rebound from its opening defeat in the Nations League after it was held by Croatia to 1-1 on Monday, Associated Press reported.

Midfielder Adrien Rabiot broke the deadlock after the break and substitute Andrej Kramarić equalized from the spot late for Croatia not to lose to France for the first time in 11 years. 

The draw did neither any favors: France was stunned by Denmark 2-1 in Paris on Friday, the first loss after 20 unbeaten matches, and Croatia started its campaign by losing at home to Austria 3-0.

France will next travel to Austria on Friday while Croatia will visit Denmark, which took sole lead of their League A group.

Denmark made it two from two after beating Austria 2-1 in Vienna. Defender Jens Stryger scored six minutes from the end for Denmark. Xaver Schlager equalized for the hosts after Pierre-Emile Højbjerg’s opener.

The match was delayed by 90 minutes due to a power failure.

Denmark tops the group with six points, followed by Austria with three. France and Croatia have a point each, according to Associated Press.

The four group winners in League A will qualify for the final four in June next year. The group winners in the lower leagues will gain promotion.

France coach Didier Deschamps called the draw “satisfying” after changing 10 of the side which started the loss against Denmark.

France missed star striker Kylian Mbappé, who picked up a knee injury against Denmark, and also absent were Karim Benzema and Antoine Griezmann, replaced by Wissam Ben Yedder and Christopher Nkunku up front.

“This is our chance to prepare for the World Cup and try all the possibilities we have,” Deschamps said. “We are using this competition the best we can.”

At the World Cup in Qatar, France is grouped with Denmark, Tunisia and a yet-to-be-determined team, Associated Press reported.

The sold-out crowd of some 30,000 cheered Croatia captain Luka Modrić in his 150th appearance.

“It was a phenomenal feeling, I am happy and proud of my 150th match for Croatia,” Modrić said.

The first defensive half resulted in only one chance on each side and Nkunku had a goal disallowed for offside.

Rabiot exchanged passes with Ben Yedder, who set him up to find the back of the net with a left-foot shot seven minutes into the second half to put the visitors ahead.

Kramarić calmly sent the goalkeeper the wrong way with a low right-foot penalty seven minutes from time, Associated Press reported.