Nepal Shortens Death Declaration to 45 Days for Flood Missing

As more than 5,000 people remain missing over a month and a half after the major flood in Nepal, the Nepali government has decided to drastically reduce the waiting period for legal declaration of death for disaster-related missing persons from the existing 12 years to around 45 days. Consequently, families of the missing will now be able to receive government compensation and proceed with inheritance or name transfers. Search operations for nine South Korean employees who went missing at a hydr