DHAKA/ GUWAHATI, India( Reuters)-Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods in more than a century in some parts of low-lying Bangladesh and have killed at least 69 people over the past two weeks there and in northeast India's Assam state." People are witho

Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods in more than a century in some parts of low-lying Bangladesh and have killed at least 69 people over the past two weeks there and in northeast India's Assam state." People are without food.... They are not even ge

Hardline Hindu vigilante groups disrupted Christmas mass in parts of India, including in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's core territory ahead of local elections in the coming months, media reported on Monday. The disruption of Christmas celebrations at the weekend and last week included the vandalising of a life-size statue of Jesus Christ at Ambala in Haryana, a northern state governed by Modi's nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party( BJP), The Hindu newspaper said.It also reported activists burnt a

Retail inflation for industrial workers inched up to 5.57 per cent in June compared to 4.42 per cent in May this year, mainly due to higher prices of certain food items.... Similarly, food inflation stood at six per cent against 3.24 per cent in the previous month and 6.73 per cent during the corresponding month a year ago, it added.... The maximum upward pressure in the current index came from Food Beverages group, contributing 1.62 percentage points to the total change....

The Congress released its second list of 43 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections on Tuesday.... In Gujarat, the Congress said it will contest on 24 seats, while the AAP will contest on two seats of the total 26 seats. The Congress released its first list of candidates on March 8.... Below are the details of 28( of 46) seats on which it is clear which BJP candidate will fight against which Congress leader....