{"id":270775,"date":"2024-07-16T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=270775"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:23:38","slug":"bangladesh-flood-situation-improves-with-water-levels-receding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=270775","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Flood Situation Improves With Water Levels Receding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DHAKA, Jul 16 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; The overall flood situation in parts of Bangladesh, including north-eastern Sylhet region, has improved with water levels in many rivers receding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a bulletin of the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), the major Brahmaputra-Jamuna rivers are in a falling trend, which may continue in the next 72 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall flood situation in different low-lying areas of the north-eastern region of Bangladesh may further improve in 24 hours, commencing yesterday, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the same period, the flood situation in the country&#8217;s north-western region may also improve, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since June, the floods, triggered by heavy seasonal rains and an onrush of water from hills, have left a trail of misery and destruction in parts of Bangladesh, the north-eastern Sylhet region, to be more specific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Devastating floods left large swaths of land in Bangladesh&#8217;s north-eastern Sylhet division underwater earlier this month, marking the third wave of flooding in less than a month in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheikh Russel Hasan, deputy commissioner and district magistrate in Sylhet, said on July 3 that, more than one million people in the north-eastern Bangladesh districts, including Sylhet and nearby Sunamganj and Moulvibazar were stranded, due to extensive flooding after days of heavy rains.&#8211; NNN-BSS &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Jul 16 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; The overall flood situation in parts of Bangladesh, including north-eastern Sylhet region, has improved with water levels in many rivers receding. According to a bulletin of the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), the major Brahmaputra-Jamuna rivers are in a falling trend, which may continue in the next 72 hours. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":270783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,322,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270784,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270775\/revisions\/270784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}