Kathmandu [Nepal], September 1 : The death toll from the devastating flash flood in Nepal has reached 1,003, according to an official update released by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) as of 1 PM on Tuesday. The recovered bodies, which include unidentified human remains, have been found across eight districts: 321 … Read more
Kathmandu [Nepal], September 1 : Mass burial has started in the capital, Kathmandu, as well, after the morgue ran out of space after one week of the devastating flood in Nepal. Security forces donned in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) carried the body bags and buried them in the Gorkarna forest area on the outskirts of … Read more
Five days after the flash floods that struck the Rasuwa and Nuwakot regions of Nepal, the number of dead and missing people is growing consistently. The death toll has reached 1,010 while 4,000 people remain missing, with 11,800 rescued. People are angry, blaming the Nepalese government and China. According to the Nepalese army, roughly 9,200 … Read more
Search and rescue teams are working against time to locate thousands of people missing after the devastating August 26 , the death toll in which is nearing a thousand. The sheer horror of the calamity came to the fore once again after 23 bodies were recovered from a single house buried under flood debris in … Read more
Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah has called on the international community to take urgent steps against climate change, calling last week’s floods “not an ordinary” event. In a late-night post on Monday, he wrote, “The flood in the Bhote Koshi River in Rasuwa was not an ordinary flood. It was one of the region’s major … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation that the grouping must speak with one voice against terrorism and that conflicts cannot be settled on the battlefield. Addressing the 26th SCO summit in Bishkek, as the organisation marked 25 years since its founding, Indian PM set out India’s approach around three … Read more
Donald Trump threatened to hit Iran “hard” after the two foes traded fire for the first time in over a month, while Iran’s president warned that more fighting with the US was not in his country’s interest. After six months of war, the foes remain at an impasse, with Iran keeping the strategic Strait of … Read more
India is firm: The Indus Waters Treaty’s suspension remains in force and the Hague-based Permanent Court Of Arbitration “has no jurisdiction on India’s sovereign decisions” after it urged New Delhi to uphold the water-sharing treaty with Pakistan. The Court of Arbitration, the world’s oldest permanent forum for international dispute, further said that India had no … Read more
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday visited the Nepal embassy in New Delhi and conveyed condolences to the families affected by the devastating flash floods in Nepal, reaffirming India’s support to the neighbouring country during this difficult time. Singh also wrote a message in the condolence book at the embassy, expressing grief over the loss … Read more
New Delhi: Is it the jinx of 26? The catastrophic flash floods that tore through Nepal on August 26 are the latest addition to a grim history of disasters that struck on the 26th – right from the 1939 earthquake in Turkey that killed more than 32,700 people to the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in … Read more