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‘No Home, No Money for Treatment’: Mother’s Distress After 10-Year-Old Daughter Miraculously Survives Nepal Floods

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Malakumari Dhakal Nagarkoti was at work when floods struck her hometown in Nuwakot district. She had sent her 10-year-old daughter to school from her hostel at about

“Swept Away by Floodwaters, I Survived — but My 4-Year-Old Cousin Slipped From My Hand and Was Found 100 Miles Downstream”

BETRAWATI, Nepal — Swostik Poudel, a ninth-grade student from Betrawati in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, was preparing to leave for school last Wednesday morning when a neighbor warned him that a

Families in Nepal Bid Farewell to Flood Victims With Grass Effigies as Bodies Remain Missing

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nine days after a devastating flood struck Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River on Aug. 26, thousands of families are still waiting for news of their loved ones. According

From Malaysia to Flood-Ravaged Nepal: A Father’s Desperate Search for His Wife, Three Children and Four Relatives

NUWAKOT, Nepal — When Subindra Nagarkoti, a Nuwakot native working in Malaysia, learned that flooding in Nepal had swept away his entire family, he initially could not believe it. His

Nepal’s Flood Devastation: A Journalist’s Account From the Front Lines

At 9:25 a.m. Wednesday, I was at my regular desk in Kathmandu, sipping tea and scrolling through my phone when a video appeared on social media: “A major flood has

Nepal Counts 95 Dead After Flood Tears Through Rasuwa and Trishuli

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepali officials said Wednesday that catastrophic flooding along the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river systems had killed 95 people, while 403 tourists and travelers remained out of contact

Nepal Supreme Court Orders Release of American Facing Deportation

Nepal’s Supreme Court has ordered the immediate release of American citizen Peter Kwang Seong Kim, who had been detained while immigration authorities pursued his deportation over allegations that he misused

Marriage-Visa-Holding American Faces Deportation Over Alleged Religious Conversion Campaign in Nepal

KAVREPALANCHOK, Nepal — A 72-year-old American citizen of Korean origin, who had been living in Nepal on a marriage visa, faces deportation after authorities accused him of illegally promoting Christianity

More Than 562,000 Nepali Students Left to Study Abroad Since 2020; 45,634 Chose U.S.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — More than 562,000 Nepali students left the country for overseas study between 2020 and early August 2026, underscoring a sustained rise in outward student migration and growing

U.S. Deportation Flights to Nepal Halt During Middle East War; 5 Nepalis Deported in July

NEW YORK — The number of Nepali nationals deported from the United States fell sharply in July, with only five people returned to Nepal — the lowest monthly total this