India approves 654 MW power export to Nepal for 18 hours a day after flood damage

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• 2026-08-27

  India puts NDRF on high alert as Nepal flash flood threatens Bihar and UP border areas

  The Ministry of Home Affairs said on 26 August 2026 that the Centre was closely monitoring the fallout of a flash flood in Nepal given the risk to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewing preparedness with the Chief Ministers of both states and local administration, rescue teams and the National Disaster Response Force placed on high alert in vulnerable border districts. The Central Water Commission reported a sudden rise in the Trishuli river at Furke Khola in Nepal, about 160 kilometres from the Indian border, suspected to have been caused by a flash flood or a glacial lake outburst flood, and warned that the floodwaters could travel downstream through the Gandak river system into India. The MHA said water levels in reservoirs on the Nepal side were receding and the situation remained under control, with officials from the MHA, the Ministry of External Affairs, the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Ministry of Defence continuing to monitor developments.

• 2026-08-29

  320 Indians remain uncontactable as Nepal flood death toll rises, India steps up relief effort

  At least 320 Indian nationals remained 'uncontactable' following the flash floods that struck Nepal on 26 August 2026, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday (28 August 2026), as the death toll in Nepal continued to rise. The MEA said 84 Indian nationals had been rescued so far, including 21 pilgrims from Tamil Nadu and 63 workers from the Trishuli I hydropower project, while around 400 others remained stranded on the Chinese side of the border. India has sent about 60 tonnes of relief material in three planeloads along with a tunnel rescue team, a medical team, additional Bailey bridges and technical teams, and is coordinating with the Nepali and Chinese authorities to trace and evacuate its citizens.

• 2026-08-30

  Nepal flood death toll rises to 675 as India sends tunnel rescue team

  The death toll from the flash floods that struck Nepal on 26 August 2026 rose to 675 by Sunday (30 August 2026), Nepal's disaster management authorities said, as rescue and relief operations continued for a fifth day. India's Ministry of External Affairs said an 11 member Indian team, comprising tunnel rescue specialists and medical personnel, arrived in Nepal to provide specialised technical assistance for the ongoing effort to rescue workers trapped or unaccounted for inside hydropower project tunnels in the Bhotekoshi river region. Search and rescue operations have been hampered by continuing bad weather and difficult terrain along the Nepal Tibet border.

• 2026-09-02

  Nepal flood death toll crosses 1,000 as Indian tunnel rescue team pushes into flooded hydropower sites

  Nepali authorities said on 1 September 2026 that the death toll from the flash floods triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas on 26 August had crossed 1,000, with around 3,916 people still listed as missing, including 583 foreign nationals from 38 countries. India's Ministry of External Affairs said an Indian Army tunnel rescue team, working alongside Nepal's army and a Chinese team, continued to push into flooded tunnels at hydropower project sites on the Bhote Koshi river where workers remain trapped, despite marshy tunnel floors and restricted access for heavy equipment. India said 163 of its nationals had been rescued as of the evening of 1 September, and it has also sent relief material and a forensic team to help Nepali authorities with DNA identification of the deceased.

• 2026-09-04

  Two workers rescued alive from a flooded Nepal hydropower tunnel, nine days after the flash floods

  Two hydropower workers were pulled out alive from tunnels buried by debris at the Trishuli-3A project in Nepal's Rasuwa district on 4 September 2026, nine days after the 26 August flash floods likely caused by a glacier collapse, Nepal's Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha and Army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Raja Ram Basnet confirmed. Nepal Police said the death toll had reached 1,282 by 4 September, with more than 4,700 people still missing and around 600 children unaccounted for in the worst hit Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts. The joint command of Nepal's security forces continues to search for those still missing across the flood affected region.

• 2026-09-05

  MEA says 275 Indians remain missing in Nepal floods, 166 rescued so far

  India's Ministry of External Affairs said on 5 September 2026 that 275 Indian nationals remained missing and 166 others had been rescued following the flash floods that struck the Nepal Tibet border on 26 August, while 1,907 Indian nationals had safely crossed over from Tibet into Nepal. Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India has supplied around 95 tonnes of relief material and sent 54 personnel, including 30 tunnel rescue experts, 19 forensic experts and a five member medical team, to support relief and rescue efforts in Nepal. Nepal's overall death toll from the floods has risen to at least 1,295, with roughly 5,000 people still reported missing.

• 2026-09-06

  Nepal flash floods death toll passes 1,300 as rescue operations continue

  The death toll from the flash floods that struck Nepal in late August 2026 rose to 1,344 by 5 September 2026, with Nepal Police reporting 843 bodies recovered, comprising 758 adults and 85 children, as search operations continued across the affected region. India's specialised tunnel rescue teams, deployed to Nepal since the floods began, have continued assisting Nepali authorities at flood hit hydropower project sites including Chilime in Rasuwa district, part of India's sustained disaster assistance to its neighbour.

• 2026-09-15

  India approves 654 MW power export to Nepal for 18 hours a day after flood damage

  India's Ministry of Power has approved export of up to 654 megawatts of electricity to Nepal for 18 hours a day, from 13 September to 31 December 2026, after flash floods triggered by a glacial mountain collapse on the China Nepal border on 26 August destroyed or damaged more than two dozen hydropower projects in Nepal. The approval covers up to 600 MW through the Muzaffarpur Dhalkebar 400 kV transmission line and up to 54 MW through the Tanakpur Mahendranagar 132 kV line, helping Nepal, which lost roughly a tenth of its generation capacity in the floods, meet its domestic power demand. Nepal had been exporting close to 1,000 MW of surplus hydropower to India during the wet season before the floods cut its exports to around 650 MW.