The August 26 catastrophe, a tsunami-like flood that began on the China-Nepal border, killed more than 1,400 people and left some 5,600 missing

Rescuers pulled two survivors from a tunnel linked to a hydropower station on Nepal’s Trishuli River yesterday, nine days after a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through its valley, killing at least 1,325 people and leaving over 5,500 missing.

In the first four months of early recovery, the estimated cost to build roads and temporary shelters, provide drinking water and restore power would be around $52.6 million

The messaging group, set up by engineers before the flood, has become a valuable tool alongside helicopters and heavy machinery in the race to find survivors

Myanmar yesterday pledged “safe and dignified” returns for its citizens displaced abroad, after the United Nations and rights groups raised concerns about the upcoming repatriation of 1,500 people from Malaysia.

In November 2025, Nepal and Bangladesh agreed to increase electricity exports by 20 MW under their existing 40 MW deal

Anti-narcotics agents from the United States and Sri Lanka seized almost half a tonne of crystal methamphetamine following a joint operation targeting a Pakistani drug network, police said yesterday.

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left nearly 4,000 missing.

Pakistan’s prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country’s capital.

Rescuers in Nepal and China yesterday battled through leg-sucking mud and the threat of rain, rising rivers and a newly formed lake to search for thousands missing after a glacier collapse unleashed a catastrophic mudslide across the Himalayas.

Pakistan's prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country's capital

Rescuers in Nepal and China were racing against time yesterday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing entire villages.

The number of people missing in Nepal and China leaped to more than 2,400 Friday, underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept away villages and killed hundreds.

Two days after the catastrophic flood tore through Nepal, the numbers tell only part of the story.

Wednesday's catastrophic flood caused by a glacier collapse killed 489 people in Nepal and five in China's Tibet

'Something’s happened to Sole Bazaar and Betrawati — people are saying there’s nothing left. Everyone’s out on the road. There are videos of them panicking.'

Rescue teams waded through mud yesterday searching for more than 1,400 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck the Nepal-Tibet border, as the death toll rose sharply to at least 392, with entire villages swept away.

China’s Ministry of Water Resources estimated the lake’s volume at about 2 mn cubic metres as of this morning

"I started running. Then a wall of water came thundering down as if ​it was an earthquake," the worker said

Nepal said that 468 tourists and travellers, including 393 foreigners, remained out of contact