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65 schools in Bidur to reopen on Wednesday after August 26 floods

Kathmandu, Sept. 7 -- Schools in Bidur Municipality, Nuwakot, which have remained closed since August 26 following the Bhotekoshi floods, will reopen on Wednesday, 14 days after the disaster. Nuwakot... Read More


Nuwakot schools to reopen 14 days after Bhotekoshi floods

Kathmandu, Sept. 7 -- Schools in Bidur Municipality, Nuwakot, which have remained closed since August 26 following the Bhotekoshi floods, will reopen on Wednesday, 14 days after the disaster. Nuwakot... Read More


600 children unaccounted for in Rasuwa and Nuwakot. Verification hampered by crippled communication

Kathmandu, Sept. 4 -- Approximately 600 students remain unaccounted for in Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts after the August 26 Bhotekoshi flooding. The catastrophic mid-morning flood tore through settlem... Read More


New bypass track to be built above collapsed Krishnabhir stretch

Kathmandu/hetauda, Sept. 3 -- Authorities have begun constructing a new track above the collapsed road at Krishnabhir along the Prithvi Highway to restore traffic along the key road link to Kathmandu ... Read More


Oft-battered Langtang Valley cut off after Rasuwa floods

Kathmandu, Sept. 2 -- The popular tourist destination of Langtang in Rasuwa has been cut off from the district headquarters Dhunche following the Bhotekoshi floods of August 26. With bridges, roads, ... Read More


Authorities scramble for alternatives after Krishnabhir road cave-in

Kathmandu/hetauda, Sept. 2 -- Authorities have launched a detailed study to find alternative routes after a section of the Prithvi Highway at Krishnabhir collapsed into the Trishuli river following he... Read More


From hospital to hospital, families search for the ones the flood took

Nepal, Aug. 31 -- When Ram Budha left his younger brother Praveen at their workplace in Rasuwa on Tuesday and returned to Kathmandu, neither imagined it would be their last meeting. The following day... Read More


Washed-out bridges force flood-hit communities to rely on choppers

Kathmandu/dhading, Aug. 29 -- When floodwaters swept away the bridge over the Trishuli river, a routine journey between neighbourhoods in the same municipality became a helicopter operation. As many ... Read More


Eighty container drivers stranded in Kerung plead for repatriation

Kathmadnu, Aug. 28 -- Following the flash floods in the Bhotekoshi river, approximately 80 drivers along with their containers have been stranded in the Chinese market town of Kerung for the past thre... Read More


20 schools in three districts damaged by Wednesday's floods

Kathmandu, Aug. 27 -- Wednesday's Bhotekoshi flood has damaged 20 schools in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts, with mud, sand and silt filling classrooms at most of the affected schools. The Min... Read More