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By S. Radha Kumar HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was due to visit flood-affected areas in southern and western India on Friday, and tens of thousands were evacuated as another river threatened to burst its banks, officials said. Week-long flooding triggered by annual monsoon rains has killed more than 350 people and made more than 4 million homeless across at least five Indian states. The floods, caused by overflowing rivers and the sudden release of vast...

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Nearly 400 people who had been listed as missing in a storm off the southern coast of India were found alive after they took shelter on rooftops, trucks and buses, officials said on Thursday. But there were still scores missing, and survivors in neighboring Bangladesh, which was also hit by the storm in the Bay of Bengal on Monday, spoke of bodies floating in the sea. At least 66 people have been killed so far, authorities in the Indian state of Andhra...