The editorial Page: Two wounded strongmen and the trouble with being invincible 10 FRIDAY, AUgUsT 28, 2026 Journalism of Courage kolkaTa, laTe ciTy, 18 PageS ₹6.00 (₹12 in north east states, ₹20 in andaman) l www.indianexpress.com da i ly F r o m : a h m e da b a d , c h a n d i ga r h , d e l h i , j a i P u r , ko l k aTa , l u c k n o w , m u m b a i , n ag P u r , PaT n a , P u n e , va d o da r a INDIA AIRlIFTS MORE AID, lOOKS AT BAIlEY BRIDGES TO HElP RElIEF EFFORTS Nepal races against time to look for survivors, 290 Indians still missing Business as usual Death toll now 392, hundreds missing; China alerts Nepal about threat from new barrier lake By EP UNNY Pratyush Deep New Delhi, August 27 Yubaraj Ghimire, Divya A & Shubhajit Roy Kathmandu, New Delhi, August 27 »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Over 30 peOple frOm Bengal missing, p3 ExPlAINED Schoolchildren at a rescue camp in Nepal’s Nuwakot, Thursday. PTi echOes Of the past and warning fOr future page 14 A hyDROpOWeR plant that supplieselectricitytoindiawas among the power plants hit by Wednesday’s flash flood in nepal. Authorities were assessing the extent of damage to scores of power plants which catertothebulkofnepal’selectricity needs. Aseniorindiangovernment official told TheIndianExpress the editorial page himalaya needs shared system fOr early warning p 10 Thursdaythatnepalslashedits power supply to india by half, from around 800 megawatts (MW) to at least 400 MW. The 14-MW Devighat hydropower plant that supplies power to »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Hanging glacier collapse Relief for some, anxious wait for many: in focus, NDMA for hard ‘Tell us how they are, where they are…’ look to reduce future risks Arun Janardhanan & Sujit Bisoyi Chennai, Bhubaneswar, August 27 ThRee pilgRiMS from Tamil nadu’s hosur, an Australiabased couple from Odisha, and the wife of a former MlA from Bengal were among scores of tourists from india who are still missing in the aftermath of the devastating flash flood that Missing: Sandeep Mohapatra, wife Siddharthi Kumari Sahu struck nepal on Wednesday. Anxious family members, dealing with unreachable networks and mobile phones switched off, are knocking at every possible door to get word on the whereabouts of their loved ones. AccordingtotheMinistryof external Affairs (MeA), 290 indian nationals are still out of contact in nepal. »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Nikhil Ghanekar & Amitabh Sinha New Delhi, August 27 WiTh The spotlight now on thecollapseofahangingglacier as the likely trigger for the devastatingflashfloodinnepal,the incident is being closely monitored by the disaster management establishment in india where similar disasters have E. happened in the recent past. The national Disaster ManagementAuthority (nDMA) said Thursday it was planning to initiate a comprehensive study on the nepal event. “Many areas in india are vulnerable to the kind of »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ICA-D1324(22)/2026 WiTh hunDReDS still missing in nepal a day after a flash flood ravaged several districts in the country’s north, rescuers searched mud-filled valleys and hills for survivors as the official death count climbed to 392 Thursday night. in new Delhi, the Ministry of external Affairs said at least 290 indians were still missing and around 200 others were stranded on the Chinese side of the Sino-nepal border. it said india was in contact with authorities in nepal and China to coordinate their rescue. As the nepal Army and security personnel stepped up search and rescue operations, thefloodforecastingdivisionof the Meteorology Department, quoting Chinese officials, warned about the formation of “a significant barrier lake” on Hydel plant in Nepal feeding power to India among several units hit Kolkata 6-month plot, 3 states, iCloud use: CBI joins dots on Adhikari aide killing Ravik Bhattacharya Kolkata, August 27 The killing in May of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to Suvendu Adhikari, days before he took charge as West Bengal Chief Minister, was the culmination of an alleged conspiracy hatched over six months.TheCBiuncoveredthe plot using digital evidence, including a photo on iCloud, and by joining the dots between CCTV footage, road tolls and multiplephones,includingone at the bottom of hooghly river, The Indian Express has learnt. The CBi filed a chargesheet before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in BarasatonAugust7.Theprobe, Chandranath Rath was shot dead in his car on May 6. File it is learnt, states that the man whoallegedlypulledthestrings was Sagar Sonkar, Rath’s 29year-old assistant. Rath was shot inside his vehicle in Madhyamgram in kolkata around 10 pm on May 6. his associate Buddhadeb Bera was injured in the attack. »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2