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Fears of waterborne disease rise in Bangladesh as floods recede

Authorities in Bangladesh are bracing for the spread of waterborne diseases and racing to get drinking water to people stranded in their homes by flooding across a quarter of the country, an official said on Thursday.

Reuters

Japan halts aid for coal-fired plants in Indonesia, Bangladesh

TOKYO: Japan will stop providing yen loans for the construction of coal-fired electricity plants in Indonesia and Bangladesh, the government said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

South Asia's record-breaking weather set to worsen as climate change brings more dangerous monsoon seasons

South Asia is home to millions of the most vulnerable people in the world and this year has become the embodiment of climate extremes and weather records. Scientists fear it will only get worse due to climate change.

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Here's How Alibaba Is Reaping Benefits Of Overseas Infra Investments As Domestic Crackdowns Continue To Pinch

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA), through its Pakistan e-commerce subsidiary Daraz, expanded its reach across Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Myanmar, becoming South Asia's largest e-commerce company outside India,

Benzinga

Bangladesh floods: Experts say climate crisis worsening situation

The densely populated delta nation, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable, is facing its worst floods in 100 years.

Al Jazeera

Bangladesh, India race to help millions stranded in deadly flooding

Authorities in Bangladesh intensified efforts on Wednesday to deliver food and drinking water to millions of people struggling after heavy rain unleashed catastrophic flooding across a quarter of the country.

Reuters

Climate change a factor in 'unprecedented' South Asia floods

Scientists say climate change is a factor behind the devastating floods in Bangladesh and northeastern India

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Rain-triggered floods in Bangladesh conjure climate warnings

Scientists say that climate change was likely to have made the rains that unleashed catastrophic flooding across Bangladesh worse.

Reuters

Bangladesh, India floods kill over 100; millions in need of aid

The worst floods in decades in northeastern parts of two nations kill nearly 110 and leave millions scrambling for aid.

Al Jazeera

AP PHOTOS: India, Bangladesh floods destroy homes, lives

Early and strong monsoon rains have brought heavy flooding to northeastern India and Bangladesh, killing dozens of people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and cutting millions off from crucial supplies.

The Independent UK

Floods Swamp More of Bangladesh and India, Millions Marooned

Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods in more than a century in some…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Dozens dead, thousands homeless in Bangladesh, India floods

Villagers in northeastern Bangladesh are crowding makeshift refugee centers and scrambling to meet boats arriving with food and fresh water as massive floods, which have killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands there and in neighboring India, continue to wreak havoc

The Independent UK

Floods swamp more of Bangladesh and India, millions marooned

Reuters

‘Through our own eyes’: Rohingya refugees stage photography show

Refugees in Bangladesh’s sprawling camps hope online exhibition and book will help world better understand their lives.

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Floods in Bangladesh force military to help millions marooned in towns and villages as Indian flood crisis eases

Soldiers on small boats deliver relief material across flooded towns and villages after more than nine million people are marooned in Bangladesh and India following heavy rains, officials say.

Bangkok Post

Millions in Bangladesh and India await relief after deadly flooding

DHAKA/GUWAHATI, India: Authorities in flood-hit Bangladesh and northeastern India scrambled on Monday to provide aid to more than nine million people marooned after the heaviest rains in years killed at least 54 people across both South Asian nations, officials said.

The Guardian - UK

How we met: ‘My family wanted an arranged marriage, but I couldn’t bear the idea’

Namerah, 25, and Farhan, 30, met in 2014 while they were both studying in Malaysia. They now live in Bangladesh with their two cats

Reuters

Bangladesh military scrambles to reach millions marooned after deadly flooding

Soldiers on small boats delivered relief material on Monday across flooded towns and villages in Bangladesh, after more than nine million people were marooned in the low-lying country and neighbouring India following heavy rains, officials said.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

South Asia Floods Hampering Access to Food, Clean Water

Floods in South Asia wreaking havoc Monday hindered authorities' efforts to deliver food and drinking water to shelters across Assam in northeastern India and north and northeastern regions of Bangladesh. More than a dozen people died across Bangladesh since the monsoon began last week, authorities said.

Evening Standard

At least 59 people killed and millions stranded in India and Bangladesh storms

At least 59 people are known to have died in lightning strikes and landslides caused by severe monsoon storms in India and Bangladesh.

The Independent UK

Food, water concerns as floods continue to batter Bangladesh

Floods in Bangladesh have left millions struggling to access safe drinking water and food across the country’s vast northeastern and northern regions

The Hindu

India, Bangladesh should work on river management: Jaishankar

Ready to extend assistance in management of annual flood in neighbouring nation, says External Affairs Minister

Al Jazeera

‘It’s hell’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh rally to ‘go home’

Rohingya refugees living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh are demanding to go home to Myanmar.

Reuters

Monsoon floods kill 42 people, millions stranded in Bangladesh, India

At least 25 people were killed by lightning or landslides over the weekend in Bangladesh while millions were left marooned or homeless in low-lying northeastern parts hit by the worst monsoon floods in the country's recent history, officials said.

Reuters

Millions stranded as floods ravage parts of Bangladesh, India, more rain forecast

Monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in northeastern Bangladesh and India, stranding nearly 6 million people and killing at least 19 people in Bangladesh, authorities said on Saturday, warning the situation could worsen.

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