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
PM Modi to visit cyclone-affected Visakhapatnam on Tuesday
Andhra chief minister asks the Centre to declare cyclone ‘national calamity’
Nilam effect: heavy crop loss in coastal Andhra districts
Kharif season started with drought and ended with floods
Cyclone Helen hits Andhra coast
Makes landfall close to Machillipatnam; people evacuated from vulnerable areas; 130 relief camps opened in Krishna district
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
India this monsoon: 12% excess rainfall until now, distribution skewed
The North East, for example, is experiencing floods in some regions and below-normal rainfall in others
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
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
Relief and rehabilitation is next big challenge
Cyclone Phailin leaves behind a trail of destruction; people complain they have received no relief supply
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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
Mass evacuation on in coastal districts
All two-storey government and NGO buildings, schools and colleges declared cyclone shelters
Floods follow cyclone Phailin
Thousands of people are trapped in Balasore district, which is far from areas hit by cyclone
Tropical storm Hudhud: Odisha puts 16 districts on high alert
Residents of seaside villages start moving to safer areas; stock up rations
Odisha: ravaged by drought till September; cyclone, floods in October
Is it climate change?
Kolkata evicts ecological refugees
Seven hundred squatters occupying prime land rendered homeless; activists demanding their rehabilitation branded Maoists
Urbanisation making us more susceptible to natural disasters, says global report
Calls for preparing communities and locals for possible disasters
Mangroves may have saved this village from Phailin
Residents of Praharajpur say the mangrove forest they nurtured contained damage to the coastal village
Programme to insure Pacific island nations against natural disasters enters third season
The insurance cover is provided against earthquakes, tsunamis, and risk of tropical cyclones
22 million people displaced by natural disasters globally last year
Floods, storms and quakes displaced 19 million people in Asia alone