POSCO makes villages vulnerable to cyclone

Forests that shielded seaside villages from earlier super cyclone have been chopped down for proposed steel plant

Battered Odisha sounds Lehar alert

People in coastal areas who faced the fury of Phailin start stocking up provisions

Evacuation of 450,000 people on in coastal Andhra

Officials say people from 500 villages will be moved to safer areas by evening

How Phailin was different from super cyclone 1999

Improvements in weather forecasting and disaster preparedness, and lessons learnt from 1999, made all the difference

Andhra buckles up; Hudhud just 20 km away

Army, navy and air force on stand-by for emergency rescue and relief

Andhra Pradesh braces for Helen

Cyclone expected to hit close to Ongole on November 22 in the afternoon

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 …

Tribals in Odisha likely to be severely affected by Hudhud

Many tribals, who earlier used to live in settlements amid big forests, have been made more vulnerable after being relocated by government to …

Cyclone Lehar weakens

Speed of the winds during landfall will be 70-80 km/hr as against 200 km/hr predicted earlier

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

Odisha worries over safety of dams in way of Hudhud

Officials try to figure out how to drain water from the dam reservoirs before heavy rains begin Sunday morning

Cyclonic rains ravage coastal Andhra; death toll rises to 25

Crops on 250,000 hectares destroyed, 60,000 people in relief camps

Evacuation leads to tragedy; two feared dead as boat capsizes in Odisha

Seaside village residents say boat was overloaded

Phailin affects tourism in Odisha

Many villages near tourist sites in the state are dependent on tourism

Nilam lands at Mahabalipuram on Tamil Nadu coast

Over 4,000 people evacuated to relief camps

Tribal villages in Visakhapatnam may face landslides

Many of these villages in Eastern Ghats are neglected by administration and not priority areas when it comes to disaster management

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 …

Phailin impact: villages plunge into darkness

Officials promise to restore power in a week, but it may take much longer

‘Phailin’s wind speed exceeds that of 1999 super cyclone’

Where India Met office differs from private forecasters

Nilam effect: heavy crop loss in coastal Andhra districts

Kharif season started with drought and ended with floods

Cyclone Hudhud makes landfall on Andhra coast; three killed

People are warned to stay indoors as trees, poles and hoardings risk being uprooted

Phailin fallout: people face acute drinking water shortage

200 people in Ganjam get diarrhoea after drinking contaminated water

Cyclone Nilofar: Gujarat initiates precautionary measures

Fishing community is being issued warnings by the state; port authorities are keeping a close watch

Phailin keeps migratory birds away from Chilika lake

Only 120,000 birds have congregated at the Nalabana sanctuary in Odisha this year

Phailin: crop loss assessed at Rs 2,300 crore

Families in severely affected villages to get rations and cash assistance