Reporter's Diary: I went back to Rasuwa. The river had changed everything

Nepal, Sept. 6 -- When news came on July 8, 2025, that a flood had swept down the Lhende Khola above the Rasuwagadhi border crossing, 11 people had been killed, and 19 were missing. The Syafrubesi-Tim... Read More

They escaped the 2015 earthquake. They couldn't escape the Bhotekoshi flood

Uttargaya (rasuwa), Sept. 3 -- Kaman Singh Tamang of Satbise in Uttargaya Rural Municipality, Rasuwa, survived the 2015 earthquake that destroyed his house. After the calamity, he and other residents ... Read More

Prithvi Highway blocked after road collapses near Nagdhunga

Kathmandu, Sept. 2 -- The Prithvi Highway was blocked on Wednesday after a section of the road collapsed at Pataleban, about 700 metres beyond the Nagdhunga checkpoint, authorities said. The damaged ... Read More

'I managed to survive, but my brother and sister couldn't'

Rasuwa/kathmandu, Sept. 1 -- year-old Samir Tamang reached his school in Khalte, Rasuwa, the Bhotekoshi river had already turned into a roaring torrent of debris. Samir, an eighth grader at Nilakantha... Read More

They survived the flood. Their families did not.

Rasuwa, Sept. 1 -- When the flood came, Purna Bahadur Ghale had seconds to decide whether to run. The 43-year-old executive member of Uttargaya Rural Municipality was in Shanti Bazar when the Bhoteko... Read More

In a settlement destroyed by the Bhotekoshi flood, a disabled couple offer strangers the little they have

Nuwakot, Aug. 29 -- On a hillside in Dabile of Bidur Municipality-10 stands a lone house with a corrugated zinc-sheet roof. There are no other houses nearby. From the house, the only view below is of ... Read More

In Nuwakot's flooded villages, grief comes before rescue

Betrawati, Aug. 29 -- Three days after the Bhotekoshi flood, relief has yet to reach many affected areas in Nuwakot, one of the two hardest-hit districts, while the search for bodies believed to be bu... Read More

They watched settlements disappear beneath a wall of water and mud. Somehow, they survived

Trishuli/kathmandu, Aug. 28 -- For Raju Budhathoki, a customs agent working at the Rasuwa Customs Office in Timure, Wednesday morning became one of the most terrifying mornings of his life. Budhathok... Read More

From Army camps to hospitals, families desperately search for missing members

Trishuli/kathmandu, Aug. 27 -- Early Thursday morning, a crowd gathered at the Nepali Army's military training centre in Maithali, Nuwakot. Traffic police struggled to manage the growing number of rel... Read More

Flood washes away 42km road linking Betrawati to Rasuwagadhi

Kathmandu, Aug. 26 -- Flooding has destroyed a 42-kilometre stretch of road linking Betrawati in Nuwakot with the Rasuwagadhi border crossing with China, according to the Department of Roads. "Inform... Read More

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