A port crucial to the global economy has shut down. By Yan Zhuang A powerful tropical cyclone was barreling toward the Pilbara region in northwestern Australia on Friday morning and was expected ...

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 ...

When we finally came down, there was nothing left,” he recounts. The 1999 Odisha (then Orissa) Super Cyclone, designated as BOB 06 by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and 05B by the US ...

Why did I survive?” she asked. 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 ...

The Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority was founded after the super cyclone that hit Odisha in 1999, claiming close to 10,000 lives. It affected 1.3 crore people in 12 districts and caused ...

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 ...

The newly formed Odisha (earlier Orissa) consisted of six districts ... Odisha is subject to intense cyclones. In October 1999, an intense Tropical Cyclone caused severe damage and around 10,256 ...

THE SUPER CYCLONE OF 1999 But here, let's rewind to 1999 and how things changed ... On October 26, the Director General of Meteorology (DGM), IMD, informed Odisha (then Orissa) about a cyclonic storm ...

Mr. Tyagi rejected suggestions of the system intensifying into a super cyclone similar to the one that struck Orissa in 1999 wreaking havoc. Over 40,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas ...

Food riots erupted in Bhubaneswar, the state capital of Orissa Press Trust of India reported ... to bring emergency aid to the homeless. The cyclone crashed into the coast on Friday.

BHUBANESHWAR, India – Stung by large-scale complaints of poor or no relief after the cyclone that hit Orissa, the state government in eastern India suspended the chief of relief efforts Saturday.