Teachers and students are shovelling out classrooms after four days of rain, and flooding left the school covered in thick silt, with outside help yet to arrive.

Relatives plastered hospital walls in Kathmandu with notices searching for loved ones swept away by the Bhotekoshi floods. With thousands still unaccounted for, many families have turned to symbolic last rites.

The footbridge is being built along the busy Maitighar–New Baneshwar section to make road crossings safer for pedestrians.

Farmers spend weeks cutting, retting, stripping and drying jute before taking the fibre to market.

The trial operation began on Monday, allowing cars, jeeps, and vans to use the tunnel from 9 am to 6 pm.