Floods caused by summer monsoon rains displaced about 66,000 people in India’s northeast, while heavy rains disrupted traffic in eastern India, officials said on Friday.

Devastating floods in the western Indian state of Gujarat have killed at least 132 people and affected 25 million.

In all, an estimated one billion people - or one in five people in the developing world - still live below the extreme poverty line. Prospects were significantly brighter in Asia where economic growth in the world's most populous countries, China and India, helped reduce the number of people in extreme poverty by 250 million from 1990 to 2001.

Thirty-eight percent of children in urban India are underweight as poor sanitation aggravates the food shortages faced by the poor, a UN report said. With more than one billion people, India has the most hungry people in the world, said the study by the World Food Programme (WFP).