In a strong judicial retaliation against unlawful 'bulldozer action', the Orissa High Court has ordered the State to pay ...

Tracking Tropical Cyclone Zelia See the likely path and wind arrival times for Zelia. The storm may bring wind gusts of as much as 180 m.p.h. when it makes landfall, Mr. Hines said.

1999: The deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa, India, killing 15,000 people. 2011: A record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents ...

The 1999 Odisha (then Orissa) Super Cyclone, designated as BOB 06 by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and 05B by the US-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) ...

As Odisha (then Orissa) gears up to face Cyclone Dana, it’s perhaps time to remember how in 1999, the worst ever storm of the country in over five decades ripped through the riparian state of ...

The Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority was founded after the super cyclone that hit Odisha in 1999, ...

Catastrophic events such as the Orissa Super Cyclone in 1999, the Gujarat earthquake in 2001, and the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, among others, highlighted the need for a structured and ...

In October 1999, an intense Tropical Cyclone caused severe damage and around 10,256 deaths. Odisha state is home to the Hirakud Dam, near Sambalpur, the longest earthen dam in the world.

In 1999, India's Met department did not have the robust infrastructure it possesses today. On October 26, the Director General of Meteorology (DGM), IMD, informed Odisha (then Orissa) about a cyclonic ...

With cyclone Laila nearing landfall, over 40,000 people were evacuated from low- lying areas of Andhra Pradesh even as authorities in West Bengal and Orissa on Thursday issued alerts to people in ...

Three days after one of the worst cyclones on record hit eastern India, relief helicopters finally lifted off with food for some of the millions of people left homeless and stranded by flood waters.