KATHMANDU: The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index witnessed a significant decline today, falling by 35.09 points to settle at 2,725.71. This marks a drop of 1.27 percent.

A total of 211,002,540 shares of 321 companies were traded today in 72,601 transactions, amounting to a total turnover of NPR 8.17 billion.

Among the sectoral indices, only the Hydropower group showed a slight increase of 0.15 percent. All other sectors recorded a decline. The Banking sector experienced the largest drop of 2.46 percent, followed by Development Banks at 1.48 percent, Finance at 1.13 percent, Hotels and Tourism at 0.25 percent, Investment at 1.25 percent, Life Insurance at 1.36 percent, and Manufacturing & Processing at 0.78 percent.

Similarly, Microfinance declined by 1.23 percent, Mutual Funds by 0.17 percent, Non-life Insurance by 1.05 percent, Trading by 0.64 percent, and the others group by 1.24 percent.

Mai Khola Hydropower Ltd. saw the highest gain of the day, with its share price rising by 5.90 percent. On the losing end, Samudayik Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. recorded the biggest drop, with its share price falling by 4.46 percent.