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The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) plunged by 4. 28 points to close at 2, 645. 24 points on Monday. 

Similarly, the sensitive index dropped by 1. 72 points to close at 455. 26 points.

A total of 10,860,828-unit shares of 325 companies were traded for Rs 4. 71 billion.

Meanwhile, Sagar Distillery Limited (SAGAR) and Swastik Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited (SWASTIK) were the top gainers today with their price surging by 10. 00 percent.
Likewise,  Nifra Green Energy Debenture 6% - 2088/89 (NIFRAGED) was the top loser as its price fell by 9. 51 percent.

At the end of the day, the total market capitalization stood at Rs 1. 50 trillion.

Singapore hanged three people for drug offences last week, bringing the total number of executions to 17 this year - the highest since 2003, BBC reported.

These come a week before a constitutional challenge against the death penalty for drug offences is due to be heard. 

Singapore has some of the world's harshest anti-drug laws, which it says are a necessary deterrent to drug crime, a major issue elsewhere in South East Asia, according to BBC.

Labour MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh after being put on trial in her absence alongside 16 other people over corruption allegations, BBC reported. 

She was found guilty of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, a claim she strongly denies.

Siddiq, who is based in London and has rejected the charges, is unlikely to serve the sentence, according to BBC.

An artifact of archaeological importance stolen from the Kumari Ghar (Home of the Living Goddess) in Kathmandu has been brought back from the United Kingdom. 

The Department of Archaeology, in coordination with heritage activists both at home and abroad, succeeded in retrieving the Toran, a decorative craft, from the UK.

The object, dating back to the Malla era, was stolen from the Kumari Ghar in 2057 BS. It is now restored to its original location.

According to Department officer Sarita Subedi, international law provisions the return of cultural heritage items that remain in foreign countries once the necessary legal procedures are completed. 

When information was received that an artifact of archaeological value stolen from Nepal has been located elsewhere, the process to reclaim it was initiated. 

Importantly, the respective country bearing the artifact covers the transportation cost. 

The Nepali communities abroad and heritage activists also help to facilitate its transportation back home.

World AIDS is being observed around the world, including Nepal today under the theme "Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response". 

The theme this year calls for sustained political leadership, international cooperation, and human-rights-centered approaches to end AIDS by 2030.

Various programs are also being organized in the country today, under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Population, and the National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC).

Meanwhile, in Chitwan, the number of sexually transmitted diseases among HIV-AIDS infected people in the district is on the rise. 

Among them, 35 were found to have sexually transmitted diseases. 

According to Dr Pramod Poudel, senior physician at Bharatpur Hospital, during the tests conducted on 1,040 people in the past 10 months, 35 were found carrying sexually transmitted diseases. 

Likewise, tuberculosis has been found in seven of the AIDS infected people. 

This was found in the tests of 93 people. 

Currently, there are 1,243 AIDS infected people in the district. 

Of these, 34 people are taking ART from Baghauda Hospital in Madi, while 1,209 people are taking it from the ART Center in Bharatpur.

Poudel informed that 66 new infections were found during tests conducted at various places in the district in the past 10 months. 

According to Krishnahari Sapkota, program coordinator of the AIDS Health Foundation at Bharatpur Hospital, 65 patients who were taking ART have been transferred while 28 have stopped taking the ART. He said that 13 of the infected people here have died. 

Sapkota said that the perspective of looking at AIDS patients has not changed yet. 

Even ambulance drivers hesitate in bringing the infected to the hospital for treatment.

Napoli thwarted AS Roma's attempt to reclaim first place in the Serie A standings with a 1-0 win at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday, where David Neres' goal moved the defending champions level on points with AC Milan at the summit, Reuters reported.

Having already lost to both AC and Inter Milan this season, Roma were again found wanting against one of their main title rivals, and were undone by a Napoli counter nine minutes before the break.

"We were badly unbalanced in that situation," Roma manager Gian Piero Gasperini told DAZN, according to Reuters. 

Real Madrid's struggles continued on Sunday as they battled to a 1-1 draw at Girona in LaLiga, as Kylian Mbappe's second-half penalty cancelled out Azzedine Ounahi's opener, extending Real's winless run in Spain's top flight to three matches, Reuters reported.

The draw sees Real drop to second in the standings on 33 points, one behind leaders Barcelona, and follows previous stalemates at Rayo Vallecano and Elche.

Villarreal sit third with 32 points, while Atletico Madrid are fourth on 31, with only three points separating the top four teams, according to Reuters. 

Ten-man Chelsea held Arsenal to a 1-1 draw in a highly charged top-of-the-table London derby on Sunday, Mikel Merino cancelling out Trevoh Chalobah's Chelsea opener to spare the Premier League leaders' blushes, Reuters reported.

The result means Arsenal sit five points clear at the top of the table on 30 points ahead of Manchester City with Chelsea third on 24.

Chelsea were already a man down when defender Chalobah flicked a header into the net from a pinpoint corner by captain Reece James three minutes after the break.

Chelsea had been growing in confidence and were edging Arsenal going forward until Moises Caicedo was sent off in the 38th minute after a VAR check for landing a crunching tackle on Merino's ankle, according to Reuters.