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Workers instal a cableway to cross Trishuli river at Indrayani Ghat in Bidur in Nuwakot district, Nepal, following deadly flash floods and mudslides, in this handout obtained by Reuters on September 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The death toll from the devastating flash floods in Nepal surged to 1,050 on Tuesday (September 1, 2026),…
“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…
Rescue workers searched for hundreds of people still missing on Thursday (August 27) after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet a day earlier, triggering catastrophic flooding that swept through mountain towns and valleys, killing scores of people. Officials at Nepal’s Tourism Ministry…