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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Water levels were slowly receding Thursday in major rivers in Bangladesh's flood-hit northeast, bringing hopes of relief to millions of Bangladeshis, but woes continued in India’s northeast, where 5.5 million people remained affected, officials said. Up to 78 people have died in floods and 17 others in landslides in India’s Assam state, while at least 42 monsoon-related deaths have been recorded in Bangladesh since last month, when floods began ravaging parts of the two South Asian countries, forcing millions to take shelter away from their homes. Bangladesh's Flood Forecasting and Warning Center said water in all major rivers in the country’s northeast was receding, but downstream water levels in central and eastern parts of the country could rise over the coming day. Aid workers said the pace of decline in water levels … [Read more...] about Water receding slowly in flood-hit northeast Bangladesh

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 GAUHATI, India (AP) — Pounding rain following weeks of heavy downpours triggered a mudslide in northeast India that killed at least seven people and left about 40 others missing, authorities said Thursday. Disaster response workers, police and local villagers were trying to rescue those buried under the debris in Noney, a town near Imphal, the capital of Manipur state. All of the confirmed dead were members of the volunteer Territorial Army, state chief minister N. Biren Singh said. He said five Indian Railway officials were among those feared missing. A railway project is being constructed in the area, where there is a rebel insurgency, and the army personnel were providing security for railway officials overseeing the project. The state's decades-old insurgency seeks a separate homeland for ethnic and tribal groups. Continuous rainfall over the past three weeks has … [Read more...] about Mudslide in northeast India leaves 7 dead, 40 others missing

Opinion by Arundhati Roy Updated 0717 GMT (1517 HKT) June 22, 2022 Arundhati Roy is the author of "The God of Small Things," which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. Her collected political writing has been published as "My Seditious Heart" (2018) and "Azadi" (2020). She lives in New Delhi. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion at CNN. New Delhi (CNN) When two spokespeople from India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made derogatory comments about the Prophet Mohammed last month, it prompted an international firestorm. The incident led to protests among India's Muslim minority in several states. Some Muslim-majority nations summoned their India ambassadors. India's foreign ministry said the comments did not reflect the views of the government, and the officials involved -- one of whom later withdrew her remarks -- … [Read more...] about Arundhati Roy: ‘The damage to Indian democracy is not reversible’