DHAKA, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- People from Choto Ankujanpara Village, a small southern Bangladesh river bank village, bursted into cheers and applause as their narrow, unpaved street was reconstructed ...

Low-lying Bangladesh is crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers that empty into the Bay of Bengal. Located in the floodplains of rivers make Bangladesh vulnerable to natural disasters like cyclones, ...

A swollen river burst its banks and swamped dozens of villages in Bangladesh on Saturday, while in eastern India officials said seven people drowned when a boat capsized in swirling flood waters.