Cities submerge, villages getting flooded as rains wreak havoc in India, Nepal, Bangladesh

This year's rains have also come in the wake of the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, with the loss of crops across flood-affected areas a further blow to farmers and rural communities.

Delhi NCR is also seeing heavy rains in the last few days which has disrupted lives. In Gurgaon, several residential sectors got flooded while roads submerged creating traffic chaos. Pink city Jaipur also battling with flood-like situation.

In Bangladesh, 226 people have died so far with 40 percent of the country underwater after torrential rain caused rivers to burst their banks and inundate villages. More than six million people have had their homes damaged by the floods, and tens of thousands of villagers remain in shelters, an official from Bangladesh's disaster management ministry told AFP. Others are sleeping in shanties built on roads on higher ground, unable to return home to their submerged homes.

In Nepal 218 people have died and 69 are missing from landslides and floods since mid-June when the monsoon began. Nepal's monsoon toll tops 200 for most years, but experts say this year's landslips have been particularly deadly due to the continuing after-effects of the massive 2015 earthquakes and more road construction in the country's Himalayan foothills.