COVID-19 and Cyclone Yaas: Double whammy for Jharkhand’s watermelon farmers

Unseasonal rainfall triggered by Cyclone Yaas, combined with COVID-19 restrictions, has led to few takers for the crop 

Cyclone Yaas: Record evacuation saves lives in Sundarbans but not livelihoods

Flood waters brought about by rains due to Cyclone Yaas breached embankments across region; residents used their bodies to plug embankment …

Cyclone Yaas ravages through Odisha

Yaas has now weakened into a severe cyclone and it will weaken into a cyclonic storm in the next six hours

Cyclone Yaas: Landfall in Odisha but flood scares in Bengal

Cyclone Yaas’ landfall will overlap with the high tide and could inundate inland areas

Cyclone Yaas: Odisha evacuates 400,000 fearing the worst since 1999

Cyclone Yaas likely to intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm in next 12 hours

Cyclone Yaas gathers speed, set for early landfall on May 26

Cyclone Yaas likely to make landfall on the east coast between Balasore in Odissa and Digha in West Bengal, from where it is expected to move …

Cyclone Yaas may turn extremely severe by May 25

The low-pressure area that will eventually intensify into cyclone Yaas is likely to form on May 22 over the north Andaman Sea and east central …

Cyclone Yaas: Bengal to double number of disaster shelters to avoid COVID-19 spread

Cyclone Yaas is predicted to strike Bengal, which is recording 20,000 COVID-19 cases daily, on May 26 

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

Cyclone Yaas fells hundreds of trees in Bhitarkanika, hit on fauna being assessed

National park hit hard by cyclone 3rd year in a row

Cyclone Yaas: Fishing vessels return to shore as Odisha ramps up preparation

Special cyclone shelters are being set up for evacuues who test positive for COVID-19

Odisha braces for Cyclone Yaas amid COVID-19 crisis

The eastern state will witness a pre-monsoon cyclone for the third year in a row

Cyclone Yaas, COVID-19 leave Odisha’s weavers in deep trouble

Hundreds of looms, yarn and spindles have been damaged in the cyclone and flood, as most weavers live in thatched houses

Cyclone Yaas: Where are the 50 million mangroves gone, asks Mamata? 

Banerjee’s earlier government had planted 50 million mangroves after Cyclone Amphan despite experts criticising the plan

Experts fear COVID-19 spread in Odisha’s districts affected by Cyclone Yaas 

Many of those evacuated and housed at cyclone centres have been observed not adhering to COVID-19 protocol

Cyclone Yaas: Acres of standing crop destroyed in Odisha’s ‘vegetable bowl’

Farmers fear further losses if rainwater is not flushed out from the fields

A day after Cyclone Yaas, signs of destruction in Odisha

3 people died in the state; restoration work starts in affected districts

Cyclone Yaas is the 96th tropical cyclone to strike Odisha in 130 years

Balasore was the site for landfall for 28 cyclones in that period

World Environment Day 2023: How a teen climate crusader battled poverty, abuse after Cyclone Yaas

Across the world, there are millions of children who have been displaced from a stable life by climate-change induced natural calamities

Cyclone Yaas aftermath: Odisha farmers in a fix over sowing Kharif crop

At least 5,882 hectares of cultivable lands in five blocks of Balasore district affected by sea water 

After Cyclone Yaas, Sunderbans brace for massive floods again

A low-pressure area brewing over north Bay of Bengal might coincide with spring tides on June 11 and prolong flooding 

Cyclone Yaas aftermath: Bengal farmers worry on how to carry on

As rain water breached embankements, saline water entered the fields, destroying the standing crop

Months after forest fire, Cyclone Yaas threatens flooding in Similipal

Animals are being evacuated from the national park even as power and communication are disrupted

Cyclone Yaas: Landfall speed lower than predicted, but damage severe

At least 51 embankments in East Medinipur and 24 in South 24 Parganas were breached, CM Mamata Banerjee said 

Cyclone Yaas: Heavy rains may spell doom for maize farmers of Bihar

Bihar is likely to witness moderate to heavy rains along with high-velocity winds May 27 and 28