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Nepali family had begun funeral rituals for 64-year-old Chandrika Shrestha thinking she has died in the devastating floods; then she was found buried under mud but alive on the 11th day

Nepali family had begun funeral rituals for 64-year-old Chandrika Shrestha thinking she has died in the devastating floods; then she was found buried under mud but alive on the 11th day

Chandrika was found alive, partly trapped in mud on the fourth floor of a house that had been buried by the August 26 floods. For eight days, Chandrika Shrestha’s family searched for her after a devastating flood swept through Nepal’s Bhotekoshi river basin. There was no sign of the 64-year-old woman. Her house had been…

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Nepal Floods: Meet Tanvi: NEET-PG aspirant takes exam in tears as parents remain missing after Nepal floods: ‘I have to do it for them’

Nepal Floods: Meet Tanvi: NEET-PG aspirant takes exam in tears as parents remain missing after Nepal floods: ‘I have to do it for them’

For most medical aspirants, the NEET-PG exam is the culmination of months, sometimes years, of preparation. For Tanvi, however, the three-hour test on August 30 came with something far heavier on her mind.Her parents were missing in Nepal.Tanvi’s parents, Venkatram Annamdevara and Anagha Annamdevara, were travelling with a 67-member group on the Kailash Yatra when…

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Nepal Floods: “It was a terrifying wall of dirt and water and we jumped out of the bus”: Couple recalls their near- death experience in Nepal floods

Nepal Floods: “It was a terrifying wall of dirt and water and we jumped out of the bus”: Couple recalls their near- death experience in Nepal floods

Couple recalls their near-death experience in Nepal floods (Image Credit: Instagram/ @cbsnews) Anjana Raja and Pattabiraman Venkatesan, a couple from the San Francisco Bay Area who were travelling on a pilgrimage to Tibet, described a terrifying escape after a huge mass of mud and debris suddenly rushed toward their tour bus near the Nepal-China border….

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