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Two persons died and three went missing when a landslide buried houses at Taming in Rum of Malika Rural Municipality-2, Myagdi on Tuesday.

Chief Administration Officer of Malika Rural Municipality Hemraj Kafle said that the landslide buried houses of Gham Bahadur BK and Gothe BK.

Local Sam Bahadur BK said that the bodies of Gothe BK’s sons—Rajan and Nabin—were found this morning. Gothe and his wife Gori BK sustained injuries in the incident.

Gham Bahadur, his wife Ram Maya and daughter Roji BK have gone missing.

Locals are searching for the missing persons.

Malika Rural Municipality Chairman Beg Prasad Gaburja said that the local representatives and security personnel are heading towards the incident site.

The incident site is three hours walk from Darwang.

The Nag Panchami Festival that falls on the Shrawan Shukla Panchami as per the lunar calendar is being observed today across the country by Hindus as per the time-honored tradition on Tuesday.

The festival is being marked by worshiping Nag or the snake god and sticking a picture of the snake god above the main door of the house.

It is believed that sticking the picture safeguards the family from snakes and scorpions, fire and lightning.

Nag Puja is believed to have started in the Vedic time and Nag is considered the king of snakes as per the Vedic tradition.

Special Pujas are being offered at Nagpokhari and Taudaha in Kathmandu, Siddhapokhari in Bhaktapur and several other ponds and shrines across the country on this day.

After worshiping, the snake god is offered cow milk, Akshata, Dubo grass, rice pudding and Roti with due respect.

At least 37 people have now died in flash floods in eastern Kentucky, as the region braces for more rainfall, BBC reported.

At least six children - including four siblings, aged one to eight, who were reportedly swept from their parents' grip - are among the dead.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the death toll would continue to rise as "hundreds" remained unaccounted for.

More than 12,000 households remained without power, and hundreds of homes and businesses have been flooded.

The damage to roads, bridges and other infrastructure will cost millions to repair, the governor said on Monday.

Mr Beshear, who toured some of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods over the weekend, said he had seen "houses swept away" and "schools ruined".

This is the worst flash flooding the region has seen in decades, according to BBC.

Mr Beshear called the deluge "the deadliest and the most devastating of my lifetime", adding: "If things weren't hard enough on the people of this region, they're getting rain right now."

Displaced locals have taken refuge in state parks, churches and mobile homes brought in by the state. Around 300 people are in shelters, officials say.

Many people "only have the clothes on their backs", Mr Beshear said. "Everything is ruined."

Overnight curfews have been declared in two devastated counties amid reports of "excessive looting".

"I hate to have to impose a curfew, but looting will absolutely not be tolerated," an official for Breathitt County wrote on Facebook on Sunday evening. 

"Our friends and neighbours have lost so much - we cannot stand by and allow them to lose what they have left."

One of those dead was Eva Nicole Slone, 50, who had ventured out in the storm in Knott County on Thursday to check on an elderly neighbour.

Ms Slone's body was recovered the next day near her home, her daughter told the Lexington Herald Leader newspaper.

Four children - age two, four, six and eight - died in Knott County after their trailer home was swept away.

"They were holding on to them," the children's aunt told CNN, describing the moment they were torn from their parents' arms.

"The water got so strong it just washed them away."

President Joe Biden has declared the floods "a major disaster" and ordered federal aid to help local rescuers, BBC reported.

The world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned, BBC reported.

"We have been extraordinarily lucky so far," Antonio Guterres said.

Amid rising global tensions, "humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation", he added.

His remarks came at the opening of a conference for countries signed up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The 1968 deal was introduced after the Cuban missile crisis, an event often portrayed as the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The treaty was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to more countries, and to pursue the ultimate goal of complete nuclear disarmament.

Almost every nation on Earth is signed up to the NPT, including the five biggest nuclear powers. But among the handful of states never to sign are four known or suspected to have nuclear weapons: India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan.

Secretary General Guterres said the "luck" the world had enjoyed so far in avoiding a nuclear catastrophe may not last - and urged the world to renew a push towards eliminating all such weapons, according to BBC.

"Luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict," he said.

And he warned that those international tensions were "recaching new highs" - pointing specifically to the invasion of Ukraine, tensions on the Korean peninsula and in the Middle East as examples. 

Russia was widely accused of escalating tensions when days after his invasion of Ukraine in February, President Vladimir Putin put Russia's substantial nuclear forces on high alert.

He also threatened anyone standing in Russia's way with consequences "you have never seen in your history". Russia's nuclear strategy includes the use of nuclear weapons if the state's existence is under threat. 

On Monday, Mr Putin wrote to the same non-proliferation conference Mr Guterres opened, declaring that "there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed".

But Russia still found itself criticised at the NPT conference.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned what he called Russia's sabre-rattling - and pointed out that Ukraine had handed over its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in 1994, after receiving assurances of its future security from Russia and others, BBC reported.

"What message does this send to any country around the world that may think that it needs to have nuclear weapons - to protect, to defend, to deter aggression against its sovereignty and independence?" he asked. "The worst possible message".

Today, some 13,000 nuclear weapons are thought to remain in service in the arsenals of the nine nuclear-armed states - far lower than the estimated 60,000 stockpiled during the peak of the mid-1980s.