The Bhote Koshi river rises in Tibet and cuts a mighty swathe through the Himalayas, carving out gorges as it tumbles into Nepal in a series of thundering rapids. Regarded as one of the best waterways ...

The Bhote Kosi has been hit thrice by disasters in the last two years. The Jure landslide of August 2014 brought down a whole mountainside and blocked the river. A year later, the earthquakes struck.

The 45MW Bhote Kosi Hydropower Project has agreed to handover 10% of its share for free to a local GenZ group that had forced the shutdown of the project in Sindhupalchok for more than one month.

In 2024, Indigenous Bhote-Lhomi Singsa people filed a writ petition against a hydropower project expressing concerns over what they say is a flawed EIA, forged signatures and community rights ...