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In this photo provided by the Nepal Army, a Chinese national is seen after being rescued by soldiers during an ongoing operation at the Trishuli-3A hydropower project in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, September 5, 2026. (Nepal Army via AP)
September 5, 2026, 2:14 pm
Rescuers in Nepal pull 2 people alive from the debris 10 days after devastating floods
Chinese man and a woman found in separate operations, day after 2 Nepalese hydropower workers were found, but thousands are still missing
By AP
Katerina (Katya) Sakovich (MFA, courtesy of the family)
August 31, 2026, 5:07 pm
Second Israeli confirmed missing as death toll continues to climb in Nepal floods
More than 900 people confirmed killed in natural disaster, with over 4,000 still missing, including Israeli-Belarusian Katya Sakovich and a second unidentified Israeli man
By Nava Freiberg and Agencies
A resident looks at the swollen Trishuli river in Galchhi, Dhading District, Nepal, August 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
August 30, 2026, 9:19 pm
Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation
Death toll passes 800 with 3,000 still missing, as rescuers scramble to find survivors of Wednesday’s flood; residents begin to return to ruined homes; mass burials begin
By Agencies
Damage is seen in the aftermath of flash floods in Devighat in the Nuwakot district in Nepal, August 27, 2026. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
August 28, 2026, 8:40 am
Rescue teams race to find survivors of Nepal flash floods as risk of fresh flooding grows
Confirmed death toll rises to 469, with almost 1,000 others still missing, including at least 540 foreigners; lake formed by debris could soon burst, disaster management body warns
By Reuters
A member of the security forces and his sniffer dog search for survivors following flash floods at Trishuli in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on August 27, 2026. (Prakash MATHEMA/AFP)
August 27, 2026, 6:10 pm
Nepal flood death toll rises to 362 as rescuers dig through mud for more than 1,400 missing
Foreign Ministry says it’s providing assistance in search for Israeli man among the missing, is in contact with his family; survivors describe towns completely wiped out as rescuers race against fresh flood risk
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Rescuers use earthmovers to reach submerged houses after flash flooding along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, August 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
August 27, 2026, 5:57 am
At least 168 killed in Nepal-Tibet flood disaster; Israeli among over 1,300 missing
Videos of the tragedy show water and mud swallowing people as they tried to escape; USGS says disaster caused by glacial collapse
By AFP
A boy looks at the devastation caused by flash flooding along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, August 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
August 26, 2026, 10:01 pm
At least 160 dead, hundreds of tourists missing, including Israeli, after Nepal-Tibet mudslide
Homes, roads and villages swept away after possible quake triggers Himalayan landslide and flooding; authorities fear death toll will rise significantly
By Gopal Sharma, Liz Lee, Sahana Bajracharya and Navesh Chitrakar
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks in a video broadcast at the start of the 15th Tibetan Religious Conference, a meeting of religious leaders in McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala on July 2, 2025. (Sanjay BAID / AFP)
July 2, 2025, 10:20 am
Leader of Tibetan Buddhism says he won’t be last Dalai Lama as he plans to reincarnate
Exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual, 90, stresses only India-based trust can identify next reincarnation, in bid to foil Chinese control
By SHEIKH SAALIQ
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers search for survivors in the aftermath of an earthquake in Changsuo Township of Dingri in Xigaze, southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Jan. 7, 2025. (Xinhua via AP)
January 7, 2025, 11:26 am
At least 95 killed, 130 injured as 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Tibet
Officials say 1,000 houses damaged as result of relatively shallow tremor; epicenter was about 75 km northeast of Mount Everest; aftershocks felt throughout western China and Nepal
By KEN MORITSUGU
An activist pays his respect in front of portraits of Tibetan political prisoners released in 2015 from Chinese jails during an event organized by Students for a Free Tibet in Dharamshala, India, December 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
December 23, 2024, 8:51 am
In Dharamshala, nonviolent Tibetan leaders grapple with Chinese occupation, Gaza war
As Israel and regional terror organizations battle it out, pacifist Buddhist scholars and activists see parallels – and crucial differences – between themselves and the Middle East
By Eliyahu Freedman
In this December 3, 2018, file photo, residents line up inside the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center which has previously been revealed by leaked documents to be a forced indoctrination camp at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. (AP/Ng Han Guan, File)
December 19, 2020, 1:09 pm
Olympic Committee accused of ignoring human rights for 2022 Beijing Games
Groups speaking for Tibetans, Uighurs and others representing Hong Kong say international body has ‘turned a blind eye’ to systematic violations
By Stephen Wade
Rabbi Dror Shaul prays with his children in the Himalayan mountains near his Chabad centers close to Dharamshala. (Courtesy)
September 18, 2018, 10:12 pm
How a Himalayan Chabad house’s wildly popular rabbi almost became a Tibetan monk
After a near-death experience while studying at a Buddhist monastery, Dror Shaul returned to Judaism — and India — setting up an outreach center for 20,000 travelers a year
By Nadine Wojakovski
Sikyong Lobsang Sangay (courtesy Department of International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala)
June 25, 2018, 2:43 pm
In 1st Israel visit, a Tibetan leader quietly seeks support, hails Jews’ return
Lobsang Sangay makes low-key trip, does not meet with Israeli officials, encourages nonviolence without taking a side
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, February 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
February 5, 2015, 10:36 pm
Obama invokes Crusades, Inquisition in condemning IS
President castigates those who seek to ‘hijack religion,’ says ‘no God condones terror’
By Nedra Pickler
US President Barack Obama, right, and the Dalai Lama during a meeting in Washington on July 16, 2011 (photo credit: CC BY SFT HQ/Flickr)
February 21, 2014, 7:53 am
Over China’s protests, Obama to host Dalai Lama
Beijing calls exiled leader ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’; administration: Meeting doesn’t signal support for Tibet independence
By Stephen Collinson and Shaun Tandon
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