Cyclone Amphan to make landfall on Wednesday, strong winds witnessed in Sunderbans area. “Amphan is the most intense and the first super cyclone since the 1999 Odisha cyclone. We are dealing ...

The eastern Indian state of Odisha was hit by a super cyclone that left nearly 10,000 dead in 1999, eight years after a typhoon, tornadoes and flooding killed 139,000 in Bangladesh.

Cyclones lashing Odisha’s coasts have been severe to very severe in their devastation. The height of cyclonic catastrophe in recent times came with the notorious Super Cyclone of 29 October 1999 ...

DURHAM, N.C. – A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests ...

The 1999 super cyclone left nearly 10,000 dead in Odisha, eight years after a typhoon, tornadoes and flooding killed 139,000 in Bangladesh. In 1970, half a million perished in Cyclone Bhola.