Flash Floods

A major flash flood that tore through Nepal’s Rasuwa district on August 26 has exposed a rapidly evolving Himalayan risk: disasters originating high above the river valleys can now cascade …

Nepal observed a national day of mourning on Monday for victims of the devastating flash floods that swept through parts of the country, with candlelight vigils planned as rescue teams …

A bipartisan group of 27 U.S. lawmakers is pressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to dramatically expand Washington’s search-and-rescue and humanitarian response to Nepal’s catastrophic floods and landslides, including the …

A Chinese national has been rescued alive from inside a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Nepal, while a 60-year-old woman was pulled out alive from under debris …

Nepal’s government has declared September 7, a National Day of Mourning to honor those killed in the devastating floods in Rasuwa. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting on …

Rescue teams in Nepal continued their search for survivors and missing people through waterlogged hydropower tunnels on September 2, where hundreds of workers remain unaccounted for seven days following the …

The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, the largest organization representing physicians of Indian heritage in the United States, has launched an “urgent humanitarian appeal” to support victims of …

Rescue teams in Nepal continued their desperate search on Monday, trying to establish contact with the more than 900 people who are believed to be trapped at hydropower construction sites, …

Australia will allocate an additional 3 million dollars (about $2.1 million) to those affected by the floods on the border between Nepal and China, bringing the total amount of humanitarian …