Three weeks after a catastrophic glacial flood devastated the Bhote Kosi and Trisuli basins, scientific assessments reveal unprecedented flood velocities as experts and local leaders urge settlement relocation.
Monsoon floods have severed parts of the BP Highway and damaged a Kaligandaki bridge approach, while Nepal's first tourist cruise ship capsized during a rescue operation on the Narayani River.
Minister for Information and Communications Dr Bikram Timilsina has directed Nepal Telecom to expedite the restoration of 130 mobile towers knocked offline by recent monsoon floods and landslides.
Families displaced by the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli floods face prolonged uncertainty as statutory relief packages stall over bureaucratic criteria, leaving the kin of more than 6,100 missing people without aid.
