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Officials halt World Bank project after irregularities

The West Bengal Major Irrigation and Flood Management Project is aimed to benefit about 2.7 million farmers in five Bengal districts cultivating on 3.94 lakh hectares with better irrigation services and distinctive protection against annual flooding to mitigate the impact of climate change.

When benefactors become villains

In recent years, as Pakistan has hurtled from one catastrophe to another, remittances sent by Pakistani workers living abroad have been a source of some small amount of stability.