Cyclone Arnab weakens but brings rain and snow to Nepal
Meteorological authorities have issued warnings for heavy rain and snowfall across Nepal as a developing cyclone in the Bay of Bengal moves northwest.
Meteorological authorities have issued warnings for heavy rain and snowfall across Nepal as a developing cyclone in the Bay of Bengal moves northwest.
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.
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.
The disaster authority is preparing legal amendments so families of roughly 5,000 missing flood victims can receive death certificates and relief, while displaced survivors in Nuwakot struggle in tents as temperatures drop.
A late-monsoon storm system killed at least 27 people across Nepal, pushing the country's disaster death toll past 300 since mid-April.
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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