The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rainfall in the last two days have killed over two dozen people in far-western districts. In Kailali district, at least 15 people have been killed and twenty-five Village Development Committees (VDCs) inundated due to flood in Mohana River. Nearly a dozen flood and …
Many people in the country are gripped by the destruction caused by floods in the Kosi river of Bihar, leading to vicious misery and displacement of nearly two-and-half million people there. However, floods are common and intrinsic to the Bihar economy. The Kosi is particularly known for this problem, and …
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) has announced the release of an additional $800,000 as relief funds to the recent flood victims at Sunsari and Saptari districts of Nepal. USAID/Nepal has authorized immediate additional release of the amount, which …
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday released an additional $800,000 in relief funds for recent flood victims in Sunsari and Saptari districts. According to a press statement issued by USAID/Nepal today, the amount is being released through the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). "The …
South Asia's endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is being driven out of its natural habitat in search of food into the hands of illegal poachers, experts said on Thursday. A meeting of the Asian Rhino Specialist Group in Nepal said that the massive animal's feeding grounds were being invaded by "exotic …
The government has proposed to earmark around Rs 6 billion for the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MoAC) for the current fiscal year, most of which will be spent on 42 major projects. The budget allocation is a big jump from last year
Students at Bheri Technical Institute (BTI) in Nepalgunj have successfully developed and test-drove on Wednesday a vehicle named 'Niful' that runs on solar power and batteries. A team of students studying for the Diploma in Electrical Engineering at BTI developed the three-wheeler that uses two batteries and a solar panel …
BY RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI The Indian and Nepal governments have given the green signal to the construction of two mega dam projects to help rein in the tumultuous Kosi river. These two dams, called the Saptakosi and Sumkosi projects, will together provide 4,000 MW of electricity and will be …
Ramaswamy R. Iyer There is in Nepal a deep ambivalence about India, which many in India tend to misinterpret as anti-Indianism. India-Nepal relations have been badly mismanaged on both sides. The time has come to make a break with the past and explore new beginnings. In his article in the …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: With the visiting Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) signalling a desire to expedite work on the outstanding water projects between India and Nepal, the two sides on Tuesday agreed to set up a three-tier joint water management mechanism. There will be a ministerial-level Joint …
Nepal and India decided on Tuesday to establish a number of mechanisms, including a minister-level Joint River Committee, to avert floods like the one caused by Koshi River, in future. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting between Minister for Water Resources Bishnu Poudel and his Indian …
The water in his ground floor house has already covered his chairs and dining table. So Vikash Ranjan Sinha, a grocery shop owner in Madhepura, moved up to the first floor with his octogenarian parents, wife and three children, including an infant. They have been there for the past week- …
THE Kosi is often called Bihar's "river of sorrow" as it has a* I propensity to create displacement and despair for millions I regularly. But what if the misery and devastation was more a result of human folly rather than the river's fury? The floods this year have inundated 16 …
- How to turn the river of sorrow into a river of hope N.K. Singh The author is a Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Every new report about the devastation caused by the river Kosi only heightens our anxiety
Centre and state trade blame over floods The swollen Kosi river breached its banks in upstream Nepal and brought grief to north Bihar. By government count, 90 people died in the floods, but unofficial reports put the toll at more than 1,000. More than three lakh people were marooned. Even …
Did the Kosi really change its course this time? Ask the Nepali citizens near Kushaha - where the river breached the embankment - and they would say 'yes', as the Kosi barrage near Hanumannagar (Nepal) was not opened this year for the natural (read man-made) outflow of the swelling river. …
