New Delhi: India Wednesday dispatched 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 have rescued more…
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh),August 31: The death toll from flash floods in Nepal rose to 903 on Monday, as rescuers continued recovering bodies and searching for nearly 4,250 people still missing six days after the disaster.Bodies have been recovered from all eight affected districts, with rescue teams racing against time to locate those missing and evacuate…
Nepal: Nine hundred and thirty-four people are known to have been trapped or were out of contact across the 11 hydropower projects and tunnels in theRasuw and Nuwakot districts of Nepal.Sources suggest the figure may actually exceed1,000 as a number of the projects are still under construction and have workers without proper registration.A total of…
Geneva: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World health Organisation (WHO), on Friday said that the organisation is scaling up its response to Nepal’s flood emergency further by releasing USD 150,000 in immediate funding.“WHO is scaling up its response to #Nepal’s flood emergency further, releasing USD150,000 in immediate funding, with additional resources expected to be…
Bhubaneswar: An Odisha-origin family living in the UK is among the British nationals reported missing following the devastating flash floods that struck the Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday.The family has been identified as Santosh Sahu, 46, his wife Surabhi Sahu, 44, and their children Spandan, 18, and Syna, 13. Reports said the family was on…
Kathmandu: The death toll from the flash floods reached 616 on Saturday morning, while hundreds remain missing, local media reported, citing officials.As of 6 a.m. on Saturday, police had recovered 233 bodies in Chitwan, 158 in Nawalparasi East, 48 in Gorkha, 47 in Nawalparasi West, 45 in Dhading, 41 in Nuwakot, 31 in Tanahun and…
Doctors of Nepali Army treating an injured woman at a field hospital in Battar, Nuwakot, after being rescued from Bhotekoshi flood in Nepal on August 28, 2026.The death toll in the Nepal flash floods touched 579 on Friday (August 28, 2026), even as the search for nearly 2,000 missing people continued for the third day…
Kathmandu: Nepal Police said they had arrested two men for allegedly stealing gold earrings from the body of a woman who was swept downstream into the Narayani River during devastating floods in the country.After a video showing the incident went viral on social media and sparked widespread outrage, police arrested the suspects after identifying them…
Two days after catastrophic flash floods and mudslides devastated Nepal and Tibet, claiming more than 460 lives, a 5.1‑magnitude earthquake struck China’s Sichuan region on Friday.The quake, reported by the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC), occurred at 1.13 pm local time at a depth of 13 km, with tremors felt in Longchang. Authorities confirmed no…
Kathmandu: The death toll from the devastating flood in Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River has reached 177, while more than 800 people remain out of contact, Nepali authorities said on Thursday.Nepal Police said in a notice that the bodies of 177 people had been recovered as of 10 a.m. Thursday, as the death toll from the…
