NOAKHALI, Bangladesh — Nurul Haque wades slowly across a murky pool of water. He places one foot cautiously in front of the other, avoiding the dirt and debris that the floods have washed in. He holds ...

Bangladesh faced a formidable double challenge in August. A historic uprising unseated a long-standing prime minister, and just as the new interim government took charge, floods devastated the nation, ...

Bangladesh’s low-lying terrain combined with the crisscrossed river network, which is cause for recurring floods, tidal ...

DHAKA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Relentless monsoon rains and flooding have stranded nearly three million people in Bangladesh and killed two, submerging vast areas and damaging homes and infrastructure, ...

Disaster has hit just weeks after mass protests led to a lethal crackdown and then prompted the abrupt flight of the long-serving prime minister. By Saif Hasnat Reporting from Dhaka, Bangladesh Floods ...

Ranajit Chisim shivered with fear as he watched the overflowing Bhugai River swell so fast on Oct. 4 and inundate his entire village within hours. “The floodwater turned the village into a ferocious ...

Extensive flooding has stranded about 1.8 million people in northeast Bangladesh, following weeks of heavy rains that have submerged homes and devastated farmland, according to state media and ...

DHAKA, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The death toll from floods in Bangladesh rose to 71 on Tuesday with millions of people still stranded in devastated areas and increasing concern about outbreaks of waterborne ...

Rescuers are scrambling to evacuate flooded communities after heavy rains inundated parts of Bangladesh and northeast India, killing at least 36 people and causing rivers on both sides of the border ...