1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (419+ words) Nepal Airlines’ only operational widebody aircraft was grounded in Japan on Monday after an engine problem disrupted its return flight to Kathmandu, further straining the state-owned carrier’s international operations. The Airbus widebody had been due to leave Narita at 10:30am local…...

12+ hour, 44+ min ago   (394+ words) After nine days trapped in a hydropower tunnel and a week of hospital care following his dramatic rescue, Sanjay Sah, a rare survivor of last month’s devastating glacier collapse in Nepal, finally returned to his village and family on Sunday....

14+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1330+ words) Nepal has sought Chinese assistance to rebuild the road linking Syaphrubesi with the Rasuwagadhi border crossing, the key trade route in the north, which was severely damaged by the August 26 floods. China has responded positively to Nepal’s proposal and indicated…...

14+ hour, 55+ min ago   (503+ words) That reality goes beyond Bhotekoshi, to the heart of how Nepal should understand climate change and disaster risk. My experience in public health and infectious diseases has taught me an important lesson: many health risks do not appear suddenly. Small…...

23+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1622+ words) With ten days to go before Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, there is much curiosity around how the young leader will frame Nepal’s climate vulnerabilities. Amid mounting economic pressures and the…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (235+ words) India has provided Nepal with components for three Bailey bridges to help restore road connectivity in areas of Nuwakot and Rasuwa where bridges were washed away by the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli floods. The first consignment of components for a 70-metre Bailey bridge…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (556+ words) August is when Nepal’s paddy fields are at their most vibrant. After months of planting, weeding and caring for their crops, this season calls for farmers to grow hopeful of the harvest. Farmers in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and Dhading were no…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1458+ words) When Indian television crews arrived in Rasuwa to cover the devastation caused by the Bhotekoshi floods, their presence was initially welcomed as a natural consequence of a disaster that had attracted international attention. But within days, some of the crews…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1477+ words) When the flood hit ward 5 of Bidur Municipality in Nuwakot on August 26, 38-year-old Bharat Prasad Dahal knew something was wrong from the sound of people shouting and running for safety. Blind, Dahal could not flee on his own. Two or…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (342+ words) Eleven days after the devastating Bhotekoshi flood, a 64-year-old woman was rescued from her house that had been pushed entirely off its base and 100 metres up a hillside, nearly entirely buried in mud. Days earlier, her family had already performed…...