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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.