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Members of the Nepal Army search and rescue team use wooden sticks to look for survivors beneath mud in an area hit by deadly flash floods and mudslides in Nuwakot, Nepal, on September 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Even as they grieve the loss of loved ones and search for missing family members, several…
Around 600 children missing in Nepal’s Rasuwa, Nuwakot after flash floods; toll rises to 1,282 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 2) with more than 4,700 missing. So far, 359 bodies have been recovered…
India on Wednesday (September 2) delivered a fifth tranche of over five tonnes of essential medicines to flood-ravaged Nepal, alongside an 11-member rescue team. The death toll from last week’s flash floods in Nepal has risen to over 1,000 after rescue workers recovered more bodies from affected areas, according to Nepalese authorities. While emergency teams…
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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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…
Former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A commission set up to investigate Nepal’s Gen Z protests in September last year — and the subsequent violence — has recommended action against then-Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and other senior officials. The report of the commission, led by former Judge Gauri Bahadur…
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Kathmandu: Lawmakers in both houses of the federal parliament in Nepal on Tuesday raised concerns over the death of Prakriti Lamsal, a Nepalese student in KIIT, Odisha, demanding diplomatic efforts for proper security. Addressing house sessions of both assemblies, lawmakers drew the attention of the government to immediately start diplomatic and political initiatives to ensure…
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Representational Image. File | Photo Credit: REUTERS Five Russian mountaineers were killed while climbing in Nepal, a tourism official said on Tuesday (October 8, 2024), two days after the team lost contact while on the world’s seventh-highest mountain, Dhaulagiri. Rakesh Gurung, from Nepal’s tourism department, said the team went missing late on the evening of…
Kathmandu Plane Crash: The plane was a Bombardier jet. New Delhi: A frightening new video has emerged of the Bombardier CRJ 200 jet that crashed at the Nepal’s Kathmandu airport at 11.15 am (local time). The video captures the final few seconds of the crash. The clip begins shortly after take-off, with the plane already…
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Newly elected Prime Minister K.P. Oli is being sworn in by President Ram Prasad Poudel, unseen, at the Presidential residence in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Newly-appointed Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli on July 18 said that Nepal’s future is “bright”, but its current scenario needs to be changed, amidst…
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