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Cyclone Phailin hits Odisha, may rage on for 6 hours

 Cyclone Phailin has made landfall in Gopalpur in Odisha, the Indian Meteorological Department has confirmed.  The east coast will witness heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours, said the......

Odisha lost 26 lakh trees after cyclone Phailin!

The high-velocity cyclone Phailin that hit Odisha about a week ago is estimated to have destroyed around 26 lakh trees in the state. "As per reports received from cyclone-affected areas about 26......

Cyclone Phailin claims 17 lives; many more in tatters

Cyclone 'Phailin' on Sunday left a trail of destruction, hitting nearly 90 lakh people, damaging lakhs of houses and laying waste paddy crop worth about Rs 2,400 crore, mainly in coastal Ganjam......

Cyclone Phailin approaches: Odisha to evacuate 2 lakh people

  With cyclone Phailin expected to make landfall in Odisha on Saturday, the state government mounted a massive operation to evacuate two lakh people from six coastal districts on Friday night......

Most parts of coastal Andhra escape Cyclone Phailin's fury

Andhra Pradesh seems to have largely escaped the fury of Cyclone Phailin, which crossed the coast near Gopalpur in Odisha at around 8.25 pm. Andhra Pradesh Commissioner for Disaster Management T......

WB, ADB assure Odisha of $313-million aid for cyclone

International funding agencies, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, have assured a financial assistance of $313 million to Odisha government for restoration and rehabilitation activities......

Phailin unlikely to bleed insurance companies

Cyclone Phailin, which hit Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, may not lead to huge losses for insurance companies. According to sector officials, the highest destruction is on “kuchcha......

Odisha loses Rs 2,300 crore worth of crops to Phailin

Cyclone Phailin, which made a landfall on the southern coast of Odisha at around 8:30 pm on Saturday at a windspeed of 200 km an hour, affected a cultivable area of 0.5 million hectares and damaged......

Phailin takes a toll on industries in Ganjam

While cyclone Phailin has passed off without causing too many casualties, major industries in south Odisha’s Ganjam district, the worst-hit by the storm, took a hard knock. Orissa Sands......

Phailin aftermath: Jairam Ramesh seeks proposals for rebuilding rural roads

Realising the need for reconstruction of rural roads that may have been ravaged by Phailin, the Union ministry of rural development has invited proposals from the Odisha government for taking up......

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