German Parliamentary State Secretary Dr Bärbel Kofler is on a four-day visit to Nepal, ending on October 31, focused on development cooperation, health, women's rights and recovery from the Bhotekoshi flood.
After the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli floods and landslides, Nepal used talks in New Delhi and Bangkok to press for regional cooperation on climate and disaster risk, including shared data and satellite-based early warning.
Minister Gita Chaudhary says Nepal's position paper for the COP31 climate conference is ready. Officials say it will be made public at the National Climate Summit in Kathmandu on October 29.
Two months after the devastating floods on the Rasuwa–Bhotekoshi rivers, damage is estimated at Rs 79 billion as families await news of missing relatives.
RSP lawmaker Ganesh Parajuli secured the chair of a 15-member parliamentary special committee investigating the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster and Himalayan climate change with cross-party backing.
The devastating Bhotekoshi flood, which displaced 50,000 people, has laid bare technical failures and missing cross-border data links in Nepal's early warning network.
Following catastrophic flash floods in Rasuwa, Prime Minister Balendra Shah and civil society groups demand international loss-and-damage compensation as existing climate funds fall short.
Nepali diaspora groups in New York, local business chambers, and school foundations have contributed over Rs 20 million in cash and relief goods for Bhotekoshi and Trishuli flood victims.
A month after catastrophic flash floods devastated the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli valleys, Nepal confronts reconstruction costs running into hundreds of billions of rupees alongside urgent calls to reform centralized disaster planning.
A month after the Bhotekoshi flash flood devastated Rasuwa, survivors struggle with severe trauma, missing kin, and lost livelihoods while the state works to verify the disaster's true toll.
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.
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