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.

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, ...

At least four people died after a boat carrying 20 people sank in Bangladesh's Buriganga river near the capital Dhaka on Sunday, a fire service official said.