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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Odisha on Tuesday recalled the Super Cyclone that struck the state on this day 25 years ago, battering the coastal region and leaving more than 10,000 dead. However, learning from experience, Odisha ...

Amphan is the second super cyclone to hit the west coast of India. In 1999, Odisha was devastated by a cyclone that killed nearly 10,000 people, according to the Associated Press. Read next ...

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 ...

After the 1999 super cyclone struck, Odisha established a disaster management authority -- becoming the first state to do so. In fact, it was set up well before the National Disaster Management ...

The states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh ... destruction it could cause -- could be comparable to a deadly Super Cyclone that hit India in 1999.