The funding was approved based on Nepal’s request made earlier this year. A separate emergency appeal filed after the August 26 disaster awaits approval.

Officials will decide within a week whether vehicles can resume using the existing road. If reopening is not feasible, authorities will seek a sustainable alternative.

Traders are using the southern border to bring in clothing, footwear, festival decorations and other goods ahead of Nepal’s main festival season.

The dispute centres on whether the party should support the provincial government, with rival factions now claiming authority over the party’s parliamentary wing.

Relatives of people missing after the Bhotekoshi floods are turning to DNA testing to identify recovered bodies, but labs are overloaded and under-resourced.

Sardinal is a hot town on the Nicoya Peninsula, one of the world’s five regions commonly known as Blue Zones, where people tend to live ​longer and healthier lives and are more likely to reach the age of 100.

Facial-recognition technology FaceTagr is helping families search for possible matches, but police say DNA testing remains the only reliable option for badly damaged remains.

The RSP chair says the Bhotekoshi floods should be declared a national climate-related disaster and calls for a special all-party parliamentary committee to oversee the response and long-term recovery.

European football’s elite competition will observe a moment of silence and display solidarity banners across all 18 opening-week matches following the late-August disaster in central Nepal.

Shelton ends Alcaraz’s US Open title defence in the tournament’s latest-finishing match, keeping alive American hopes of a first men’s Grand Slam champion since 2003.

Electricity has returned to more communities as the Nepali Army works to install a temporary bridge after floods destroyed key infrastructure.

Patients in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading will not have to pay co-payments or show physical insurance cards for three months.

The Kimrong Khola was temporarily blocked on Tuesday, prompting precautionary evacuations downstream, but the blockage began clearing overnight and the river has since returned to its normal flow.

More than a dozen members of the UN-backed Loss and Damage Fund are pushing for an emergency board meeting to consider Nepal’s request for support after the Bhotekoshi floods.