A wide view of the open grassy Tundikhel ground in Kathmandu with city buildings and a tower visible in the background under a blue sky.

POLITICS · 04 October 2026

Nepali Congress opens 15th convention as Deuba's invitation is left with his guard

Nepal Wire's take. Nepali Congress opened its 15th convention while the man who used to run it urged a boycott. Sher Bahadur Deuba, the former prime minister and former party president, has called for that boycott, Desh Sanchar reported. His own invitation never reached him either, co-general secretary Yogendra Chaudhary told OnlineKhabar. That one-sided account stands uncontested because none of the reports carries Deuba's side. Hotel bookings for roughly 10,000 delegates and well-wishers show the party can put on a spectacle. They do not show who actually takes part in Monday's nominations, or whether a pending Supreme Court review changes the Election Commission's January recognition of party president Gagan Thapa's committee.

What the coverage missed Sher Bahadur Deuba's camp was not freshly 'boycotting' a new decision today — Deuba had already called the Thapa-led process an outcome of an 'illegal special convention' and his faction had already filed a rival Dec 7-9 convention timetable with the Election Commission weeks before Sunday's Tundikhel opening.

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A hydropower project with concrete spillways sits beside the Bhotekoshi River, flanked by steep mountain slopes in Sindhupalchok District, Nepal.

DISASTER · 03 Oct 2026

Nepal to back five flood children as 933 hydropower missing from August go unmentioned

One flood, four threads in Friday's news. The state will support five children until they turn 18. Their fathers went missing in the flood, Republica reports. A Malaysian is home after 37 days missing, Malay Mail reports, with 54 still out there. None of Friday's follow-up stories ask about the 933 people NDRRMA tied to hydropower projects on August 31. A Tikapur family has already stopped waiting for a body. Nepal owes the rest an answer too.

Portrait of Sher Bahadur Deuba wearing a traditional Nepali topi and glasses, looking directly at the camera.

POLITICS · 03 Oct 2026

Nepali Congress sets October 5 nominations as Deuba urges boycott

Four outlets reported today's nomination date, and all four missed that Nepali Congress is now split between two rival camps holding two separate conventions. Sher Bahadur Deuba, the former prime minister, has told members to skip the October convention entirely, calling it the product of an "illegal special convention." His camp is building its own convention for December. The Supreme Court agreed in August to review its April ruling that backed Gagan Thapa, now party president, Kathmandu Post reported. Readers deserve to know which camp they are actually reading about.

Floodwater from a breached river embankment spreads across submerged paddy fields near a Tarai town in Nepal.

DISASTER · 02 Oct 2026

Mahottari's Jaleshwor Floods as Ratu River Embankment Breaks in Three Places

Floodwater damaged rice in six Mahottari villages, OnlineKhabar reported. The Ratu river keeps breaking the same bank. A farmer told Ratopati the embankment fails every year at the same spots. Ratopati reports Banchauri broke in the same place last year. In 2021 the Ratu breached its embankment near Tilgadh and flooded about 900 houses, the Kathmandu Post reported. A resident told the paper the embankment was dilapidated. ICIMOD installed warning systems upstream on this river years ago, yet nobody has said if they worked this time. Indradev Yadav, Mahottari's Chief District Officer, told OnlineKhabar that repair crews are working to close the breaches. No date has been given for a permanent rebuild.

A wide view of the forested Bhote Koshi river valley in Nepal, with steep mountain slopes rising on either side.

DISASTER · 01 Oct 2026

Nepal shifts Bhotekoshi flood response to recovery as officials count 5,285 missing

Nepal's disaster committee has moved the Bhotekoshi response from rescue to recovery, though crews still search two tunnel sites. The government's own numbers show why: 5,285 people still missing by the committee's count, 4,718 by Nepal Police, only 112 of 1,454 bodies identified. NDRRMA chief Dharma Raj Upreti told the Kathmandu Post a day earlier that officials want to declare the missing legally dead to release relief money. That raises a harder question than any DNA lab can answer. No date has been given for the legal change.

A satellite view from the International Space Station showing the snow-covered Himlung Himal and surrounding glaciated peaks in Nepal's Manang district.

DISASTER · 01 Oct 2026

Himlung avalanche toll rises to seven dead, nine Nepali workers still missing

Seven Nepali mountain workers are dead and nine more are missing on Himlung Himal, four days after an avalanche buried their camp. They were fixing ropes and cooking for climbers, not climbing for themselves. A weather warning went out before the slide hit, and some crews stayed anyway, expedition organiser Mingma Gyalje Sherpa said. Outlets have credited Manang's chief district officer, his assistant and the mountain guides' association with Wednesday's update, and it is unclear who owns the official count. Nine families now wait for a name.

JUDICIARY · 30 Sep 2026

Government says ex-Chief Justice Rana was rescued, not arrested

The government has now given three names for one 3am police visit to a former Chief Justice. Police said arrest, then security concern, and the government now says rescue. His family says no warrant was shown, and no agency has named the threat. The fallout has reached the sitting Chief Justice, whose fellow judges questioned him about his ties to Rana.

An illustration of a distance runner on an athletics track, representing Nepal's new national 5000m record at the Asian Games.

VIRAL · 30 Sep 2026

Nepali runner Mukesh Pal breaks 22-year 5000m record at Asian Games

Pal's 14:03.61 beats the 2004 national mark by 1.28 seconds. It beats his 14:19.65 in Gumi from May 2025 by about 16 seconds. That second gap is the real story. Before these Games, Nepal had never won an Asian Games athletics medal. Where Pal finished is still unknown, and that is the next fact to find.

The Kali Gandaki River flows through a broad rocky valley near Jomsom, Nepal, with a large rock outcrop and mountains in the background.

DISASTER · 30 Sep 2026

Nepal flood toll rises to 35, Myagdi recommended for crisis status

Thirty five dead and a district asking for crisis status is real, and so is the Kaligandaki corridor blocked six days straight. But the Rs 21 billion insurance figure sitting next to this week's toll belongs to a different, deadlier flood, the one that hit Rasuwa on August 26 and killed more than 1,453 people, Republica reported. That money is insurance claims for another disaster, not relief for this one. NDRRMA and the police still owe the public one number, not two.

A dam structure on the Bhote Koshi River in Sindhupalchok District, Nepal, surrounded by steep hillsides.

DISASTER · 29 Sep 2026

Nepal flood toll hits 27, but the Rs 74 billion power damage figure is from August

Nepal's flood death toll has climbed to 27 since September 24, but NEA's Rs 74 billion power damage estimate belongs to a different flood a month earlier. NEA has not said what the new rain actually cost. Two official counts, 27 dead over four days and 21 dead in one day, have not been reconciled. Gandaki has approved Rs 100,000 for each grieving family. Lumbini, with six dead of its own, has no relief announcement reported yet. Until NEA updates its math, the true cost of this week's floods is unknown.

Members of the Nepal national cricket team in navy blue Nepal kit walking together on a grass field.

VIRAL · 29 Sep 2026

Rain, Not Sri Lanka, Knocks Nepal Out of Asian Games Cricket

Nepal did not lose to Sri Lanka. It lost to a rulebook. Nepal Khabar and Hamro Patro report the team is out of the Asian Games without playing a ball. With no reserve day, Sri Lanka went through on ranking, the Kathmandu Post reported. "You can't control the weather," Nepal head coach Stuart Law told the paper before the match. Add Nepal's exit to the India and Pakistan washouts Sankalpa Khabar reported, and rain and ranking, not cricket, decided three quarterfinals this week, by Nepal Wire's count. Whether the Cricket Association of Nepal will push to change the rule before the next Games has not been reported.

The Supreme Court of Nepal's building in Kathmandu, with its distinctive tower and pink facade, seen from the garden in front.

POLITICS · 29 Sep 2026

Supreme Court calls police action against former Chief Justice Rana unacceptable

Nepal's Supreme Court just told the government that taking citizens at midnight without completing legal process is not how a democracy works. Yet the loudest silence came from the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party, whose own police carried out the operation. The National Human Rights Commission was blocked at the gate. No one has named the law behind Rana's 10 to 12 hours in custody. Until police do, a midnight knock looks a little less safe for everyone.

Exterior view of the pink and brown Supreme Court of Nepal building with its distinctive tower and Nepali flag, set behind a garden.

POLITICS · 28 Sep 2026

Ex-Chief Justice Rana held 12 hours, then police said it was never an arrest

A former Chief Justice was taken from his home before dawn, held for twelve hours, and released with no charge disclosed. Police first called it an arrest, then said he had never been arrested but taken to a safe place, the Statesman reported. Nepal Bar Association president Bijay Prasad Mishra says the government still owes an explanation, OnlineKhabar reported. Opposition leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal calls the security threat an excuse, Republica reported. Until the Home Ministry names who ordered this and why, that gap will keep costing the government credibility.

Exterior daytime view of the pink and grey Supreme Court of Nepal building in Kathmandu with its distinctive tower and a Nepali flag out front.

GOVERNANCE · 27 Sep 2026

Former Chief Justice Cholendra Rana Arrested From Kathmandu Home, Complaint Undisclosed

A former Chief Justice was arrested at his home on Sunday and nobody in authority has said why. Lawmakers filed 21 allegations against Cholendra Shumsher Rana in 2022 and Parliament never voted. The Supreme Court closed that file on September 9. Now police hold a complaint they will not describe. The Constitution gives them 24 hours to put him before a judge. That deadline is the first real test of this arrest.

A damaged mountain road and temporary bridge over a muddy river in Nepal's flood hit Rasuwa district, with a hydropower tunnel entrance visible nearby.

DEFENSE · 27 Sep 2026

Nepali Army calls its Bhotekoshi flood rescue 'incomparable, historic and exemplary'

The army graded its own flood response and gave itself top marks. Seven people pulled alive from buried tunnels is real. So is the rest of the ledger: 1,453 dead, 5,285 missing, and more than 800 hydropower workers unaccounted for by the Energy Minister's own count. Rasuwa's roads are still broken and one village link is a cable pulley. A month on, historic is a word for later.

A turquoise river flows past a small dam and rocky banks surrounded by green forest in the Tinau River valley near Butwal, Nepal.

DISASTER · 27 Sep 2026

Floods and landslides kill six in Nepal, 407 rescued as rivers breach danger levels

Six dead and 407 rescued is the count so far, and the rain has not finished. Humla just recorded its heaviest 24 hour rainfall since 1978. The Narayani and Tinau have crossed their danger marks. Forecasters expect more heavy rain across the west through Sunday. Authorities have not said whether the toll will rise. Watch the west. Rasuwa's roads are still cut from the last flood.

A metal truss bridge spans the fast-flowing Bhotekoshi River in Sindhupalchok District, with piles of construction rubble and rebuilding materials near the riverbank.