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People light candles during a memorial vigil at the Devghat burial site, in Chitwan district, Nepal, September 1, 2026. Residents gathered to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the recent devastating flash floods and landslides that hit the region. | Photo Credit: PTI A devastating glacial collapse in Nepal that unleashed deadly…
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Nepal’s Forestry and Environment Minister Gita Chaudhary. File | Photo Credit: facebook.com/gita.chaudhary.5 Nepal’s Forestry and Environment Minister Gita Chaudhary has called for climate change and environmental issues to be made a top national priority, local media reported on Tuesday (September 1, 2026). Follow the updates of the Nepal flash floods on September 1, 2026. Her…
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Nepal Army soldiers work during a search and rescue operation near the Hydropower Project sites, following deadly flash floods and mudslides, in Rasuwa district, Nepal, on September 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters India’s specialised tunnel rescue team made progress at two hydropower sites in flood-hitNepal, establishing a foothold inside a tunnel at Chilime and…
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“The flood in the Bhote Koshi River in Rasuwa was not an ordinary flood,” Prime Minister Balendra Shah said in a social media post late on Monday. “It was one of the region’s major disasters, triggered by an avalanche of snow and ice in the Himalayan region,” he said. “This incident indicates that the risks…
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…
A drone view shows members of the Nepal Army working to retrieve a body from the bank of Narayani River, in the aftermath of deadly flash floods and a mudslide, in Chitwan, Nepal on August 31, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Indian spiritual leader Sadhguru Jagadish Vasudev has called for the creation of a five-nation…
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The flash flood disaster in Nepal could serve as a reality check for governments that are driving a boom in dams, tunnels, highways, railways, and bridges across the Himalayas, warns C. P. Rajendran, geo-scientist and adjunct professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. “The region already suffers from unstable slopes and reduced river…
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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Armed Police Force (APF) officers work on transporting bodies to the pit at the Devghat mass burial site for victims of deadly flash floods and mudslides in Chitwan, Nepal. | Photo Credit: Reuters Four days after the flood in Nepal, the death toll in the disaster reached 788, and 2,502 people remained missing even as…
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The extraordinary velocity and scale of the flash flood in the Bhotekoshi River at around 8.40 a.m. on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) have left more than 600 dead and close to 2,500 missing, including foreign nationals, mostly from India. The Nepal government promptly got into action, mobilising personnel from the Nepal Army, Nepal Police and…