With what is said to be India's strongest tropical cyclone in 20 years, Cyclone Fani made landfall on the eastern coast of Odisha on Friday morning. Wind speed touched nearly 200kmph, wreaking ...

Cyclone Fani, one of the most severe storms to hit the region in recent years, made landfall at 08:00 local time (02:30 GMT) on Friday. More than one million people have been evacuated from the ...

The name of the Cyclone ‘Fani’, pronounced as ‘Foni’ was suggested by Bangladesh. It means ‘Snake’ or ‘hood of snake’. The practice of naming the cyclones began when authorities ...

Fani is a cyclonic storm building up in the ... Odisha was hit for 30 hours by a super cyclone two decades ago that killed 10,000. However, a million people were saved through mass evacuation ...

Apart from the staggering human casualty, the 1999 super cyclone (official name ... of successive natural disasters such as ...

For instance, in the wake of Cyclone Fani in 2019, the state suffered losses worth ₹8,138 crore. The cyclone also battered ...