Theme: Nepal

A 47-year-old Indian national was killed and another passenger injured when two helicopters collided while landing on Tuesday in Nepal’s Solukhumbu district, at Pheriche, according to police; the deceased was identified as Vasanth Kumar Balaramaramadu, a passenger aboard the Fishtail Air helicopter.

The United Nations (UN) climate loss and damage fund moved to provide US$20 million in aid to flood-stricken Nepal — the first time it has set aside money for any country, according to the SCMP. The fund’s board agreed to earmark the money at an extraordinary meeting for the country, hit in August by floods that killed more than 1,400 people and left over 5,000 missing, also according to the SCMP.

Nepal suspended all non-essential search and rescue operations 40 days after the August 26 Bhotekoshi-Trishuli floods, according to the Times of India, and is shifting to reconstruction. The official toll is 1,455 dead and 5,285 missing, including 189 Indians. The council recommended that the finance ministry approve 559 billion Nepalese rupees for 504 reconstruction and rehabilitation programmes.

At least 21 people have died, five are missing and five others have been injured in Nepal after four days of torrential rain triggered floods and landslides, according to authorities. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) attributed 14 of the deaths to landslides, four to floods and three to continuous heavy rainfall. Around 3,000 people were moved from high-risk areas, 260 homes were completely destroyed and another 80 partially damaged.

Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah told the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York on Thursday, September 24, 2026, that last month’s floods were “a warning to the world” about the rising dangers of climate change in the Himalayas. Shah, whose country contributes less than 0.1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, said Nepal “did not create this crisis, yet is paying for it,” and proposed a Himalaya Climate Resilience Mechanism with India and China to share satellite data, monitor glacial lakes and strengthen joint early warning systems. The floods killed more than 1,400 people, left 6,000 missing and caused devastation worth billions of dollars, according to France24.

Nearly four weeks after Nepal’s August 26, 2026 floods, more than 1,000 children remained in temporary shelters, according to an assessment by Nepal’s National Child Rights Council and the nonprofit Save the Children, with data from September 4: 102 children were unaccompanied by any relative and 439 were separated from their parents and in the care of relatives. More than 500 are living in those shelters with their parents dead or missing, and Nepali law requires a person to be missing for 12 years before they can be declared dead, with an exemption during disasters when relatives must seek a judicial declaration. A Nepal Police bulletin released on September 16 put the death toll at 1,404 with about 6,150 people still missing from the disaster, triggered by a glacier and rock collapse near the border with Tibet. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates 32,000 children were displaced and said 18 schools were destroyed and 20 others damaged, leaving about 10,000 school-age children without classes.