His government is seeking to turn the country’s growing exposure to Himalayan disasters into a diplomatic campaign for greater international support and compensation.

Prime minister tells parliament the disaster in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading is a shared national tragedy as the government details its search, rescue and relief efforts.

Search crews are clearing debris, draining flooded tunnels and blasting through rock as operations continue at several projects in flood-hit Rasuwa and Nuwakot.

The debris includes collapsed buildings, household belongings, vegetation, rocks and sediment, with more than 84,000 people affected across 17 municipalities.

The reopening of the G216 highway allows heavy equipment to reach the devastated Gyirong border area as Chinese and Nepali rescuers continue searching for hundreds of people missing after floods and landslides.

Traffic halted after a three-metre-wide section of the highway sank at Pataleban, with small vehicles diverted through the Nagdhunga tunnel.

Some Nepalis survived the Bhotekoshi and Rasuwa flood by luck, not by warning. Their story, and interviews with the officials who built Nepal’s flood alert system, exposes their limits and shows how a knowable risk went unmonitored for years.

Twenty-three workers from Bardiya, who narrowly escaped the flood in Rasuwa, returned home on Sunday after spending days stranded in the disaster zone.

Sood Charity Foundation brings food and blankets to flood-hit areas, with the actor saying assistance will continue in the coming months.

Families are demanding answers as mud and debris block access to hydropower plants where dozens of workers are feared trapped after the Bhotekoshi flood.

US airstrikes on Iranian military targets trigger retaliatory attacks across the Gulf, raising fears of a broader conflict and renewed disruption to global oil supplies.

Death toll from the August 26 flash flood continues to climb as search teams recover bodies downstream.

This year’s procession honoured victims of the Bhotekoshi floods while continuing a tradition of using music, performance and satire to reflect on society.

Customs officials seek additional manpower and equipment as traders divert stranded containers to the border point in upper Mustang.

Raj Kumar Shrestha’s relatives say a body resembling him was photographed after the August 26 disaster but they were unable to locate it after they were told it had been transferred to TU Teaching Hospital from Nuwakot.

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

Once deployed mainly by international rescue teams after the 2015 earthquake, Nepal’s drone expertise is now helping deliver supplies, search for survivors and even airlift bodies from areas rescuers cannot safely reach.

Government’s first situation report puts the death toll at 1,050, with nearly 4,000 missing and more than 21,000 security personnel involved in a vast rescue operation alongside international teams.

An estimated 157,050 women and girls in Rasuwa and Nuwakot have been directly or indirectly affected, with food, safe water and protection emerging as urgent concerns.

Requests climate funds for recovery, along with tunnel rescue teams, forensic expertise and critical equipment.

When the flood washed away the roads, helicopters were the only way out. So why were politicians and camera crews hogging them?

Is it unreasonable to ask our neighbours to engage in meaningful climate action through a regional legal arrangement?

Bharatpur Hospital struggled to manage 321 bodies recovered in Chitwan before 199 were buried over two days, easing pressure on its morgue and allowing regular services to resume.

Six-party committees have been formed in Rasuwa and Nuwakot to coordinate relief distribution as the government faces criticism over its initial reliance on security agencies.

Tehran has repeatedly said it will allow free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital ​waterway for global ​oil supplies, only if Washington implements the terms of the agreement.

The incident indicates that the risks Nepal face in the Himalayan region are increasing alongside climate change.

Rescue teams have located tunnel entrances and advanced hundreds of metres into several hydropower projects along the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli corridor as the search for missing workers continues.

From a Rasuwa holding centre, survivors recount desperate escapes, relatives swept away and the loss of homes, villages and entire families in the Bhotekoshi disaster.

The latest toll comes as search teams recover bodies from Rasuwa and downstream districts, while hundreds of workers at hydropower projects remain unaccounted for.

Government asks global loss-and-damage fund for immediate support, saying the scale of destruction exceeds the country’s capacity to respond.

Traders, drivers and customs workers remain unaccounted for six days after the flood swept through the Rasuwa border area, while officials struggle to determine how many cargo containers and how much merchandise were lost.

As specialised multi-national rescue teams battle shifting topographies to reach buried hydropower tunnels, Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal explains why Nepal is demanding legal climate compensation for a catastrophic “Himalayan Tsunami” it did not create.

A frantic warning from a school accountant, relayed by relatives in flood-hit Rasuwa, gave teachers just minutes to evacuate Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School before a wall of mud and water tore through Bidur, destroying the school and sweeping away homes and bridges.

Hundreds of hydropower workers and staff remain missing across projects in Rasuwa and Nuwakot after the August 26 Bhotekoshi flood.

The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner leaves as Argentina’s most-capped player and leading scorer after winning the 2022 World Cup and two Copa América titles.

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.

Renewed missile strikes between the US and Iran threaten to unravel a month-long shift towards economic pressure, though both sides say they do not seek a return to full-scale war.

Retail prices have climbed to Rs110-140 per kilo. Nepal gets almost all its onions from India.

A week into the country’s deadliest disaster in a decade, mental health teams are only beginning to reach survivors and the deeper trauma may still be ahead.

14-year-old Akash Tamang says he survived the floods, but his younger brother and sister are missing. 17,000 children have been directly affected by floods in Bhotekoshi and Trishuli corridors, says UNICEF.

Under international law, a state does not automatically become responsible just because something goes wrong within its national jurisdiction.

Nepal, India and China share a mountain ecosystem and face increasing effects of climate change.

Bridges and roads washed away, communications disrupted, officials appeal for food, fuel, medicines, transport.

With thousands missing in central Nepal after last week’s catastrophic floods, families are tracking the final mobile signals of loved ones to narrow the search for survivors.

Lamichhane also met Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Monday to take stock of the government’s search, rescue and relief efforts.

Assistance ranges from tunnel rescue and forensic expertise to relief materials and specialised equipment. Nepal seeks more help for recovery and reconstruction.

Medicines are running short, health services remain disrupted, and crowded shelters are raising fears of disease outbreaks among displaced families.

With Tatopani closed and Rasuwagadhi destroyed by floods, Nepal’s traders are now left with Korala as the only functioning overland trade route with China ahead of the festive season.