India-Nepal Relations: Boundary Row and the 2026 Floods
India's ties with Nepal in 2026 run on two tracks at once. The Kalapani-Lipulekh-Limpiyadhura triangle, where India, Nepal and Tibet meet, flared again in May when Kathmandu protested the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra's Lipulekh route and New Delhi called its claims untenable. Then, on 26 August 2026, an ice-and-rock avalanche set off a flash flood on the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli system that tore through eight Nepali districts; when search and rescue closed on 5 October, Nepali officials counted at least 1,455 dead, 5,285 missing and 13,795 rescued, with some 20,000 houses to be rebuilt. India has rescued 166 of its nationals, flown in more than 130 tonnes of relief across eight Air Force sorties, worked the Chilime tunnel shafts and, from 13 September, exported power to a Nepali grid the flood left short; trade officials of the two sides met in New Delhi on 16-17 September and the finance ministers on 18 September.
- Kalapani
- Lipulekh
- Limpiyadhura
- Sugauli Treaty
- Nepal floods 2026
- Balendra Shah
- India Nepal relations
- Trishuli-3A
- Nepal Electricity Authority
- power export
- Chilime tunnel
- Muzaffarpur-Dhalkebar
- Inter-Governmental Sub-Committee
- India-Nepal trade
- Vanijya Bhawan
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