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A child died after consuming wild mushrooms in Chitwan district today. 

The deceased has been identified as six-year-old Namuna Chepang. 

Namuna and her family members had eaten a curry made of wild mushroom on Tuesday evening. 

She was a Grade II student at the Rastriya Secondary School, Hattibang. 

Sajan Chepang and Manita Chepang were also taken ill after consuming the wild mushroom. 

Namuna's body has been brought to Bharatpur Hospital for postmortem. 

After the villagers got information about the tragic incident on Friday morning, they brought Sajan and Manita to the hospital for treatment, said School Principal, Lok Bahadur Magar.  

Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Maeda Toru paid a courtesy call on Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal today. 

During the meeting held at the Speaker's Office in Singha Durbar, discussion featured the topics like long-term friendly relations between Nepal and Japan, mutual cooperation and bilateral interest.          

In the meeting, Speaker Aryal reminded that he would play a role to make Nepal-Japan ties stronger, deeper and result-oriented during his term. 

He appreciated Japan's support to Nepal in sectors of infrastructure, education and technology and hoped such cooperation would continue further in the coming days. 

Information on the meeting was shared by the Speaker Aryal's personal secretariat.

Ambassador Toru reciprocated that Japan values its relations with Nepal and pledged strengthening of mutual cooperation between the two countries in the days ahead.

The United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator for Nepal Lila Pieters Yahia paid a courtesy call on President Ram Chandra Paudel on Friday. 

According to the President's Office, during the meeting held at the President's Office Sheetal Niwas, they discussed issues including increasing mutual cooperation between Nepal and the United Nations.

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) surged by 1. 77 points to close at 2, 731. 94 points on Friday.  

Similarly, the sensitive index dropped by 0. 34 points to close at 467. 55 points.

A total of 7,934,444-unit shares of 338 companies were traded for Rs 1. 55 billion.

Meanwhile, 7% Nabil Debenture 2089 (NABILD2089) was the top gainer today with its price surging by 7. 71  percent.

Similarly, Union Hydropower Limited (UNHPL) was the top loser as its price fell by 14. 71 points. 

At the end of the day, the total market capitalization stood at Rs 4. 65 trillion.

The annual report of the Auditor General for the fiscal year 2081/82 (2024/25) has been submitted to President Ram Chandra Paudel. 

Auditor General Toyam Raya presented the report to the President at a special ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. 

On the occasion, President Paudel expressed concern over the increasing arrears and stressed the need for public bodies to maintain accountability, transparency and fiscal discipline. 

"The officials of the public bodies should be more accountable to move towards maintaining financial discipline by eliminating arrears," he said. 

President Paudel expressed his confidence that the country's aspirations for stability, peace, good governance, development and prosperity would be fulfilled if economic discipline is maintained by discouraging wasteful expenditure. 

The Head of the State also expressed confidence that the contents of the report would inspire the relevant bodies and stakeholders to be more accountable. 

President Paudel emphasized that while the role of the Office of the Auditor General will be important in maintaining fiscal discipline, accountability, transparency while reducing financial irregularities, the office should be more active towards enhancing institutional capacity, professional interest and maintaining internal governance in the future.

Bankers and directors of financial institution have said that they are living in fear following the arrest of Nepal Investment Mega Bank CEO Jyoti Prakash Pandey. 

Speaking at a press conference organized by Confederation of Banks and Financial Institutions Nepal on Thursday, CBIFIN President Prachanda Bahadur Shrestha said the arrest of bankers has created fear across the financial sector.

"Who is not afraid when bankers are being arrested everyday?" Shresrha said. 

Saying that the banks have first right over loan collateral, Shrestha said that the current arrests have created serious psychological fear among bankers. 

Also speaking at the program, senior Vice President of the CBIFIN Rajesh Upadhyay said that everyone is now in a state of fear, affecting the credit investment. 

Although loans are currently available at low interest rates, credit investment is not expanding due to the migration of young people abroad and low confidence of the businessmen. 

Similarly, CBIFIN General Secretary Manoj Kumar Goyal said that poor market management has created a problem in direct lending, including agriculture.  

A team of Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police arrested Pandey on Tuesday on allegations that NIMB illegally auctioned assets pledged by Smart Telecom with the intention of depriving the government of its claim. 

The bank, however, has insisted that it merely exercised its legal right to recover loans backed by collateral.

U.S. President Donald Trump departed China on Friday touting business deals that gave markets little to cheer, while Beijing warned Washington ​about mishandling Taiwan and said its war with Iran should never have started, Reuters reported. 

Trump's visit to America's main strategic and economic rival, the first by a U.S. president since his last trip in 2017, had aimed for tangible results to beef up his dented approval ratings ahead of crucial midterm elections.

Five Italians have died in a scuba diving accident in the Maldives, the foreign ministry in Rome has said, BBC reported. 

"The divers are believed to have died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 metres (164ft)," the ministry said, adding that this happened in Vaavu Atoll.

The Maldives' military said one body had been found in a cave about 60 metres underwater, and the other four divers were believed to be also there.