Bridges gone, roads damaged, villages cut off from relief

Kathmandu, Sept. 17 -- In Tarsama, ward 1 of Gosainkunda Rural Municipality in Rasuwa, relief workers on Tuesday measured out rice and lentils into small containers before distributing them to flood-d... Read More

Dhunche has relief supplies. Getting aid to flood-hit Rasuwa villages is the problem

Kathmandu, Sept. 8 -- Mansing Tamang, ward chairman of Uttargaya-4 in the flood-hit Rasuwa district, has been waiting in Dhunche for three days for a helicopter to take 250 sacks of rice and other rel... Read More

Power restored in much of flood-hit Rasuwa and Nuwakot, but pockets remain dark

Kathmandu, Sept. 6 -- The restoration of electricity in much of flood-hit Rasuwa and Nuwakot has provided a major boost to search, rescue and relief operations, while remote settlements remain without... Read More

Nepal weighing options to relocate Bhotekoshi flood survivors

Kathmandu, Sept. 3 -- The August 26 Bhotekoshi flood destroyed around 15 settlements across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading, leaving communities that lived there for decades devastated. The government has... Read More

Floods-hit local units seek urgent supplies, power and infrastructure repairs

Kathmandu, Aug. 31 -- Kaisang Nurpu Tamang, the chairperson of Gosaikunda Rural Municipality in Rasuwa, is confronting the disaster on a deeply personal level. Seven of his relatives remain missing fo... Read More

Brother searches tunnel for fifth day for missing sibling

Kathmandu, Aug. 30 -- Ram Budha travelled once again on Sunday morning to the mouth of a tunnel in Rasuwa where he believes his younger brother has been trapped for five days. Standing a short distan... Read More

Floods wipe out local governments' ability to lead rescue, relief

Kathmandu, Aug. 29 -- In the aftermath of catastrophic flooding in the Bhotekoshi river, disaster management efforts in the severely affected Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts have lurched into a deep cris... Read More

Internal rift widens in UML over policy and leadership reform

Kathmandu, Aug. 24 -- Calls for a sweeping policy and leadership overhaul in the CPN-UML are growing, but party chair KP Sharma Oli is digging his heels in, leaving the party's restructuring process i... Read More

Only 53 percent of UML workers renew party membership

Kathmandu, Aug. 21 -- UML members has fallen sharply, with only about 53 percent of committed workers renewing their membership, as the party struggles to rebuild its organisation shaken after last ye... Read More

UML dissidents embrace the 'awara' label, launch 'Awara Campaign'

Kathmandu, Aug. 19 -- drinking campaign is brewing inside the CPN-UML after Chairman KP Sharma Oli used the words 'awara' and 'uranthheula' for party leaders and activists calling for changes in polic... Read More

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