India approves export of power to Nepal
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India to provide Nepal with 654 megawatts of electricity daily to meet urgent needs after devastating glacial floods.
More than 3,000 people are still missing after catastrophic flash floods hit following a glacial collapse high in the Himalayan region.
A private group working with the Indian government is concerned that the Himalayan water cycle supplying south Asia’s rivers will dry up, but not before delivering apocalyptic flash floods.
In a place that’s prone to flooding and landslides, the recent disaster that struck along Nepal’s border with Tibet still came as a shock. As recovery efforts continue, everyone from locals to scientists are trying to find the cause of the massive floods and what can be done to prevent them in the future.
Third worker rescued from Nepal tunnel, woman found alive in rubble 10 days after devastating floods
The rescue brings to a total of three workers saved from a hydropower tunnel, after two other workers were freed a day before.
Every day since a torrent of mud and rocks destroyed a Nepal-China border crossing high up in the Himalayas last month, Arushi Gupta's parents have called and messaged their missing daughter hoping she somehow survived.
Mujib Mashal, our South Asia bureau chief, travels to points along a river in Nepal that turned into a deadly torrent, killing more than 1,300 people and leaving over 5,000 more missing as entire towns,
Nepal’s Academy Awards entry “Elephants in the Fog” is the sole Nepali film at the Toronto Film Festival, where director Abinash Bikram Shah has turned the film’s international visibility toward the floods devastating communities back home – among them people directly connected to the production.