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.