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Members of a trade union, families of missing workers and well-wishers gather in memory of the hundreds killed and thousands still missing after last month’s flooding in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The death toll from last month’s devastating flash floods in Nepal crossed 1,450 on Sunday (September 20,…
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Nepal Army personnel interact with school children at an army rescue camp, in Trishuli Battar, Nuwakot district, Nepal. File | Photo Credit: PTI Around 600 children remain unaccounted for in Nepal’s Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts after the devastating flash floods, as the death toll rose to 1,282 on Friday (September 4, 2026) with more than…
Retired Madras High Court judge V. Sivagnanam, who has been reported missing in Nepal amid the flash floods | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Madras Bar Association (MBA) has written to the Chief Justice of India, the Prime Minister, and the Ministry of External Affairs to intensify efforts to trace retired Madras High Court judge…
In one Nepal district, flood catastrophe is measured in bodies and burial trenches The devastating flash floods in the Himalayan region swept so many people downstream that authorities in one Nepalese district have begun burying bodies in temporary graves before they can be identified, prompting accusations that Hindu funeral traditions are being ignored. In south-central…
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India had on Friday, August 28, 2026 sent a recce team for tunnel rescue operations that are urgently required to help people who are trapped in multiple under-construction hydropower project sites. Photo credit: X/DrSJaishankar A tunnel rescue team from India has reached Nepal on Saturday (August 29, 2026) to help the ongoing search-and-rescue operations in…
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A Nepal Army official conduct a search and rescue operation along side a river area at Charaudi, in Dhading district, Nepal, on August 28, 2026 | Photo Credit: PTI Nepal needs foreign help in specialised and technical areas in which it does not have expertise in the aftermath of the devastating flood that hit its…
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10 killed as Nepal’s Gen Z hit the streets to protest social media ban, corruption At least 10 people have been reported killed as police fired at protesters, mostly Nepal’s tech-savvy Generation Z, on Monday (September 8, 2025) who took over the streets of Kathmandu and other major cities to protest against corruption and the…
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Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall on June 29 killed at least nine people including an entire family while they were sleeping in Nepal’s mountainous districts, officials said. The landslides buried houses in three separate areas in the country’s mountainous region, about 250 kilometers (156 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu, according to Nepal’s National Disaster…
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