Phailin(g) to tell the story
The dead make a better story than the living. Failure of media to continue reporting Phailin will take the pressure off administration to provide …
Megastorms and the relevance of climate action
Experts predict ten-fold increase in frequency of tropical storms if the climate becomes two degree Celsius warmer
Some villages made their own disaster plan
People say it was lessons from 1999 super cyclone and media warnings that helped save lives during cyclone Phailin
Seaside villages deserted
Experience of super cyclone1999 prompts people to move to safer places; evacuation continues
Hudhud intensifies into a category 1 cyclone
Phailin had intensified rapidly from a category 1 cyclone on this day last year. Will Hudhud follow in its footsteps?
Why cyclones like Sitrang stoke fear? Loss & damage worth billions due to Indian Ocean storms
Cyclone Sitrang made landfall on along the Chittagong-Barisal coast last night & killed at least 9 people
Severe cyclone strikes Odisha
It will continue ravage the coastal districts till early morning; scale of devastation will be known by late Sunday morning
Odisha braces for cyclone Phailin
People in vulnerable villages in coastal districts are being evacuated to safe areas, cyclone shelters
Cyclone threat possible this week
Severe weather warning for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; a cyclone watch for coastal Odisha, Andhra Pradesh
No respite for Odisha and Andhra from extreme rains, floods
Ongole town in Andhra receives 34 cm rains in one day; 68 people die in flood fury in two states. Raghuram Puvvada reports from Hyderabad and …
POSCO makes villages vulnerable to cyclone
Forests that shielded seaside villages from earlier super cyclone have been chopped down for proposed steel plant
Cyclone rains may lead to floods from Hirakud
Activists say water level in dam reservoir dangerously high even after letting out water through sluice gates
Relief and rehabilitation is next big challenge
Cyclone Phailin leaves behind a trail of destruction; people complain they have received no relief supply
Dumping garbage in rivers is now a crime in Maharashtra
Bombay High Court orders municipalities to register cases and take action against anyone who violates the law
Green tribunal bans quarrying in Sariska
Forest department found 84 stone and marble quarries operating within the tiger reserve and its buffer zone
‘Scale of disaster would depend on where Phailin hits’
M R Ramesh Kumar from National Institute of Oceanography on Phailin and the cyclone vulnerability of Bay of Bengal
Floods follow cyclone Phailin
Thousands of people are trapped in Balasore district, which is far from areas hit by cyclone
Mangroves may have saved this village from Phailin
Residents of Praharajpur say the mangrove forest they nurtured contained damage to the coastal village
Phailin cyclone: how severe?
Experts in the West say Phailin is category 5 tropical cyclone, and may prove to be more devastating than even Hurricane Katrina
How people weathered Phailin storm
Bitter lessons from 1999 cyclone and a prepared community helped reduce the impact of the night-long cyclonic storm that raged across coastal …
Cyclone Lehar may be as severe as Phailin
Cyclone wind speed may reach up to 200 km/hr on Thursday at time of landfall; heavy rains predicted from Wednesday evening
Cyclones and climate change
Some climate models predict two- to seven- fold increase in the frequency of Hurricane Katrina magnitude events for a 1°C rise in global …
How Phailin was different from super cyclone 1999
Improvements in weather forecasting and disaster preparedness, and lessons learnt from 1999, made all the difference
Live updates Phailin Cyclone
UN praises Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik again for saving lives during Cyclone Yaas
The UN had earlier praised Naveen Patnaik after Cyclone Phailin had hit Odisha in 2013