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Chinese national rescued alive from Nepal flood tunnel after 10 days

A Chinese national has been rescued alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal, 10 days after catastrophic flooding, the Nepali Army said on Saturday. Major rescue operations were underway at hydropower projects in flood-affected districts, where hundreds of men...

Nepal floods: Death toll surges to 1,344 as rescue efforts continue; around 4,900 still missing

The death toll from the devastating flash floods in Nepal rose to 1,344 on Saturday as more bodies were recovered from the affected districts, police said. Rescue teams continued to search for around 4,900 people who remain missing. Of...

China Tightens Control in Disaster-Hit Regions in Tibet

The Chinese authorities have prohibited Tibetan businessmen and voluntary aid workers from travelling directly to the areas affected by the recent flood and landslides.

Rescue of Nepal hydropower workers ‘triumph for humans and humanity’, tunnelling expert says

Arnold Dix, an Australian engineer and geologist who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11, says finding two workers alive in Trishuli 3A ‘gives us hope’There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the flash flooding disaster on the...

Nine days after Nepal deluge, 2 pulled out alive from tunnel

Two men were rescued alive on Friday from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydropower project, nine days after a devastating flashflood trapped them inside, even as the Nepal tragedy death toll rose to 1,295 while more than 5,000...

China restrict Tibetan volunteers, relief efforts in flood-hit Kyirong

Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 4: Chinese authorities have imposed stringent restrictions on movement into flood-hit Kyirong region in occupied Tibet, preventing Tibetans from other parts of the region from travelling to the disaster zone to provide relief and express...

Dalai Lama returns to Dharamshala after more than two-month sojourn in Ladakh 

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 4: The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama returned to Dharamshala on Friday after spending more than two months in Leh, Ladakh, bringing to a close an extended summer sojourn marked by religious...

MEA confirms 275 Indians missing, pledges extra relief supplies as Nepal flood death toll reached 1,294

Three more Indian citizens were pulled to safety from Trishuli Bazaar since yesterday, identified as Abhijit Suresh Pawar, Dipika Abhijit Pawar, and five-year-old Samarth Abhijit Pawar, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal informed in a post on X. 

The week around the world in 20 pictures

The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster, Russian strikes in Kyiv, the Plaskett Fire in California and Notting Hill carnival – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading...

Families Urge US To Step Up Search For 90 Americans Missing In Nepal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Families of Americans missing after devastating floods in Nepal have appealed to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for an expanded rescue operation to help locate their relatives. The US State Department told the families that 90...

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