Odisha's journey to face nature's fury began immediately after the devastation of the Super Cyclone, though the then chief minister Giridhar Gamag had to quit and another Congress leader Hemananda ...

The super cyclone of 1999, the strongest ever to hit India, killed more than 10,000 people after landfall in Odisha and unleashed such devastation that took years for the state to come back to normal.

as had happened after the 1999 super cyclone, says Saudamini Das. But in the short run, only a massive plantation drive can help, she points out. Das says a vulnerable state like Odisha should ...

23 years on, Odisha Super Cyclone horrors still haunt survivors Torrential rain, tidal waves as high as 6-7 metres and flood wreaked havoc across the Odisha coast killing 9,843 people officially PTI ...

Khokan Parmanik can vividly recall what he had seen as a child 23 years ago – huge tidal waves lashing his village, people including his parents and brothers getting swept away by the turbulent ...

Bhubaneswar: With another very severe cyclonic storm looming over the state, it was recalled that so high was the wind speed of the super cyclone that ravaged Odisha in 1999 that the anemometers ...

It has been twenty-five years since the Super Cyclone ravaged Odisha. Around 18 million people were affected, more than 10,000 precious lives were lost, and the economy was devastated. The event, ...

Fears of Phailin have evoked memories of a cyclonic storm in 1999, when winds reaching speeds of 300 kph battered Odisha for 30 hours. On October 29, 1999, a super cyclone with a wind speed of 300 ...

NDTV was among the first agencies to reach Paradip after the Odisha super-cyclone in 1999, even ahead of officials, to report on the widespread destruction. An estimate of the dead was eventually ...

Odisha on Monday began evacuation of people ... predicted that the extremely severe cyclonic storm Amphan could intensify into a super cyclone in the next 12 hours. “Amphan is continuously ...

As Odisha (then Orissa ... Apart from the staggering human casualty, the 1999 super cyclone (official name BOB 06; back then, cyclones weren’t given common names as they are now) destroyed ...