The flood is over, the fear remains
Children who survived the August 26 flood are struggling with sleepless nights, panic, and memories of family members lost, while officials and aid workers race to address a quieter aftermath.
Children who survived the August 26 flood are struggling with sleepless nights, panic, and memories of family members lost, while officials and aid workers race to address a quieter aftermath.
The restoration is helping rescue and relief efforts. Solar units to reach settlements off-grid.
The former NEA chief discusses the damage to hydropower projects, lessons from the rescue operations and the design and safety reforms Nepal’s hydropower sector needs after the Bhotekoshi floods.
In Kanchanpur, wives, children and elderly parents are still waiting for relatives swept away or out of contact after the Bhotekoshi floods.
Consumers spend hours searching for cylinders as the closure of the Mugling-Naubise road disrupts supplies. Restaurants warn they may be forced to shut if the shortage persists.
Joshi is honoured for her book on Newa community’s traditional ‘Mukundonach’, while veteran lyricist Kharel is recognised for his decades-long contribution to songwriting.
Tasnim, the semi-official Iranian news agency, had reported that four US missiles hit a tanker in the area of Kharg’s anchorage.
Ministry of Finance’s Niraj Bhusal deployed an AI-driven web application to track casualties and streamline relief efforts, providing Nepal’s disaster management teams with a new tool for emergency coordination.
NC establishment side agrees to consider Shekhar Koirala’s five-point proposal as party seeks to hold its 15th general convention with all factions on board.
Saudi Arabia recovered from an early setback through Abdul Waheed before Nepal’s spinners triggered a late collapse; Gulshan Jha then sealed the chase with an unbeaten 44.
Nepal seeks continued South Korean support for flood recovery as the two countries call for greater international action on climate-related losses.
The Krishnabhir landslide has disrupted 150 tourist buses on the Pokhara-Kathmandu route, pushing daily air passenger numbers towards 3,500 and prompting tourism operators to explore an alternative route across the Trishuli.
Volcanic ash from Mount Anak Krakatau disrupts hundreds of flights around Jakarta, while schools suspend activities and fishermen stay ashore as authorities warn of continued hazards.
Waheed’s 77 anchors Saudi Arabia’s innings before Nepal’s spinners strike repeatedly; Nepal need 191 to secure a third straight win and a place in the semi-finals.
A decade after the 2015 earthquake, mobile banking and QR payments have made it possible to raise over Rs10 billion for flood victims in days.
Fourteen months after covering the first Lhende Khola flood, I returned to the same disaster zone. This time, roads and homes were gone, families were searching for their loved ones, and the places I remembered were barely recognisable.
A pre-dawn flood in remote Chumnubri Rural Municipality destroyed four houses and swept away a bridge, with no casualties reported.
Putin praised Trump’s efforts to end the war but offered no sign of a breakthrough as US envoys pressed Moscow on a possible settlement, with major differences over territory and Ukraine’s future security still unresolved.
Fuel, food and other essentials are reaching the Capital through alternative roads, but transport disruption is pushing up prices and limiting cooking gas supplies.
Risk assessment, early warning systems, outlet management and cautious building in the path of a potential flood matter just as much.
A Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment estimates damage caused by the August 26 flood at Rs400 billion.
Nepal ended load-shedding through better governance. Then the river came down.
Growth does not tell the full story of the economy unless it considers how it is generated and distributed.
A 64-year-old woman was rescued alive from beneath her buried home as her family performed her death rites, while three others—including a Chinese national—were pulled alive from hydropower tunnels in Rasuwa.
In crowded shelters, pregnant women and new mothers are struggling for privacy, adequate food and access to maternity care as damaged roads cut them off from hospitals.
Langtang airport sits at an elevation of 3,658 metres above sea level.
Workers were digging a road at the under-construction project in Kaski when a landslide struck the site on Saturday.
A hydropower boom backed by billions in financing is colliding with local communities who say they were never really asked.
With the entire settlement at the bordering town swept away by last week’s devastating floods, there was nothing that separated the Nepali territory from that of China in Rasuwagadhi.
A Chinese national was pulled from a hydropower tunnel in Rasuwa, while a 64-year-old woman was rescued from the upper floor of a house in Nuwakot.
Armed Police Force team pulls 64-year-old Chandika Kumari Shrestha from the upper floor of a four-storey building in Betrawati.
Two workers have been rescued, and bodies recovered, but teams are still searching flooded tunnels and damaged sites for hundreds of missing people.
Luhaitao was found about 225 metres inside the Upper Trishuli-1 tunnel as Nepali and foreign rescuers continued searching the site.
The index slips 0.57 percent in a four-session week, erasing about Rs30 billion in market value as thin trading and weak momentum keep the market near key support.
Police say 4,886 people remain missing and 1,030 bodies have been buried as search operations continue.
His first foreign trip since taking office comes as Nepal seeks international support after devastating floods.
Lawmakers call for US disaster response team, high-altitude search assets and faster assistance as thousands remain missing.
Abinash Bikram Shah’s Elephants in the Fog—'Tiniharu' in Nepali—puts a Kinnar family at the centre of a story about belonging, othering and the fragile boundaries of acceptance.
From charity runs to creative workshops, these events offer ways to support flood-affected communities.
Raj Kumar Diyali went missing with his wife and four-year-old son in Nepal’s Bhotekoshi flood. His family is now waiting for DNA confirmation.
Sudip Kumar Neupane watched a raging Trishuli swallow his younger brother and a close colleague, then came out of grief after two days.
The Bhotekoshi disaster highlights rising climate risks in the Himalayas, but experts say Nepal needs stronger evidence, sharper diplomacy and a clear strategy to secure international grants.
Rescuers pulled Sanjay Sah and Kabir Maharjan alive from the Trishuli 3A hydropower tunnel after more than 72 hours of painstaking search, but dozens of people remain unaccounted for.
The time has come for the ‘Global North’ to pay its historical ecological debts to Nepal with the reparations it is rightfully owed.
Climate change is not a future risk to our hydropower sector; it is a present and recurring one. The August disaster proved it at a scale no prior monsoon had.
Officials mull cholera vaccination for around 100,000 vulnerable people and measles vaccine for over 75,000 children.
The contribution, deposited into the Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund, was driven by more than 50 Nepali employees of the US technology giant.
A resilient mountain monitoring system must combine satellite observations, remote sensing, field investigation, weather information, river monitoring and local knowledge.
Authorities are widening a 50-metre temporary route around the Krishnabhir landslide on the highway.
Iranian state television on Thursday said that a 22-year-old woman had died in hospital following the strike that hit a home during a wedding, taking the total reported death toll to five.