Eleven bodies were recovered from the Audit-3 tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydroelectric Project on Saturday as search and rescue teams continued efforts to locate people still missing following the disaster.
The increasing frequency of glacier-related disasters in the Himalayas has raised concerns over the risk of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in India’s northeastern region, as climate change accelerates the melting of glaciers and the formation of glacial lakes.
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bottlers have assured consumers in the Kathmandu Valley that the supply of cooking gas will return to normal from Friday, following the reopening of an alternative route along the disrupted Prithvi Highway.
Oil, gas and hydrocarbons will continue to play the crucial role in the development of the global economy and in ensuring the well-being of nearly all countries for a long time to come, for many decades Q:We believe that oil is an instrument of political manipulation. The largest ever energy crisis of 1973 was ...
24 October, 2024Kathmandu: The devastating flood that swept through the Bhotekoshi–Trishuli–Narayani river system on August 26 was not caused by unusually heavy rainfall, rather it was triggered by a massive high-altitude landslide involving glaciers and...
15 September, 2026Odd Hoftun was born in an engineering family, in Norway, in the late 1920s. He grew up around a power plant which his father operated. He had early exposure to power plants and was aware of the multiple positive impacts they could have on rural communities. Norway was a poor and devastated country in the aftermath of the Second World War. Odd was witness to how...