As mosquitoes spread dengue and chikungunya, Bangladeshi cleanup crews are taking public health into their own hands.
Almost four million people have been hit by monsoon floods in South Asia, officials said Thursday, with a third of Bangladesh already underwater from some of the heaviest rains in a decade. Almost a ...
Their few belongings packed into rice sacks, Momena Begum and her husband Mohammad Harez squat on a damp plot of sand just above the waterline, waiting to move out. Almost surrounded by a chest-deep ...
When I arrived at Dhaka’s international airport before dawn on July 30, I feared for the worst. I had traveled against the advice of virtually everyone I knew, two weeks after violent student-led ...
The Bangladesh Ministry of Cultural Affairs has launched an ambitious anthology film project titled “Remembering Monsoon Revolution,” selecting eight accomplished directors to create works that will ...
~ The South Asian monsoon season runs from June to September. LUCKNOW, India -- Torrents of water washed away homes, crops and cows, leaving hungry and frightened villagers perched in treetops or on ...