Forty-seven days after 25-year-old Pradip Sapkota went missing, his family has yet to recover his body and is struggling to pay for his funeral rites.

Authorities have begun verifying the status of those missing since the August 26 Bhotekoshi floods under a special government procedure, with local units required to collect applications and check claims.

With no bridge over the Lothar Khola, students and residents of four wards in Makwanpur’s Raksirang rural municipality face dangerous crossings and months of disrupted transport every monsoon.

Province to provide Rs25 million to 12 affected local units as preliminary assessment puts damage to roads, bridges and government buildings at Rs5.69 billion.

Residents shelter in a school as experts call for relocation from the risk-prone settlements.

The first consignment of components for a 70-metre bridge has reached Hetauda, with the structures to be deployed in flood-hit Nuwakot.

Thousands of vehicles diverted from the blocked Prithvi Highway are overwhelming the narrow, winding road, turning routine journeys into gruelling ordeals.

National power generation has lost over 400 megawatts following the August 26 floods.

Authorities race to restore Kathmandu’s main supply route as a 70-metre stretch plunged into the Trishuli river on Sunday. Engineers are also exploring long-term alternatives.

A 70-metre section has fallen into the Trishuli river, and another 120 metres is severely cracked.

Blocked roads and rising traffic force authorities to split routes for vehicles travelling between Hetauda and Kathmandu, with journey times on the shorter alternative route increasing to nearly five hours.

Relatives travel hundreds of kilometres across Nepal, moving between morgues, rescue camps and social media in search of any sign of those swept away or trapped by the Bhotekoshi flood.

They ran for higher ground, fled through forests and raced ahead of the torrent as homes and communities vanished.

Women in Ghale Gaun have tripled commercial production of the traditional fermented food in three years, but demand from markets at home and abroad continues to outstrip supply.

High court judge among six travelling in jeep that plunged 50 metres after hitting a road divider.