Nepal farmers are losing up to 90% of their maize to monkey and wild boars; getting compensation can require 12 documents for a payout capped at Rs 10,000
Nepal farmers are reporting substantial crop losses from wildlife, with rhesus macaques, wild boars and porcupines among the animals frequently entering agricultural fields. A 2026 study by the National Trust for Nature Conservation found that households…
Singapore police investigate five people over ‘racist’ online comments on Nepal floods, Air India
Singapore, Singapore police have questioned five people over the alleged racist comments online related to the Nepal floods and Singapore Airlines’ investment in Air India. Singapore police investigate five people over ‘racist’ online…
Nepal probes abusive social media comments targeting flood survivors
Kathmandu, Nepal’s Cyber Bureau has formed a 10-member team to investigate social media users accused of posting abusive and hateful comments targeting people affected by last month’s devastating flash floods, according to a media report.…
Watch: 2 workers make it out alive 9 days after Nepal floods hit hydropower tunnel
The rescue of two workers have revived hope for hundreds of others still said to be trapped Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower project on Friday, nine days after devastating floods and landslides…
Death toll rises to 1,252 in Nepal; risks of fresh floods due to incessant rainfall
Kathmandu, The death toll due to the devastating flash floods in Nepal rose to 1,252 on Thursday as more bodies were recovered from the affected areas, while risks of fresh floods loomed due to incessant rainfall in the upstream areas of the Bhotekoshi…
When roads end, drones carry dead home in flood-hit Nepal
Kathmandu, In the flood-ravaged hills of Nepal, drones are doing something far beyond their traditional role of taking aerial photographs or mapping carrying the dead home. When roads end, drones carry dead home in flood-hit Nepal Seven bodies were…
‘The flood is on its way’: How 400 Nepal students escaped in time
A school bag is full of mud brought in by the recent flash floods, at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Nepal. (Photo: AP) Morning assembly was about to begin at Bageshwori Higher Secondary School on August 26 when teachers learned that…
The odds of survival for those trapped after Nepal flood
NEW YORK — For those stranded by a flood, survival depends on many factors including access to oxygen, food and water. The odds of survival for those trapped after Nepal flood Catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border has killed hundreds and…
Nepal tragedy: Owners missing, dog refuses to leave flood-hit Trishuli home
File photo: A dog rests on muddy ground in front of a damaged house after flash flooding in the Devighat area of Nuwakot district in Nepal TRISHULI BAZAAR (NUWAKOT): A black-and-white dog, its collar still intact, has refused to leave the site of a row…
Nepal floods: Stranger ran past school screaming ‘Run, water’. It saved 370 kids, teachers
Trishuli River flows with heavy sediment and debris past eroded banks and affected settlements in the aftermath of the devastating flash floods in Nuwakot NUWAKOT: “The big flood is coming, run…” An unidentified man sprinting past Uttargaya Public…