Cyclone Remal: Four Odisha districts to receive heavy rainfall, preparations reviewedThe Met department has issued heavy rainfall warning for four districts of Odisha in the wake of Cyclone Remal approaching the coast. Under...
"Anti-collision device would have averted Odisha train tragedy": West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee confronts railway ministerWest Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee stated that the crash could have been avoided with the installation of the anti-collision syste...
Odisha's lessons in disaster management came to rescueOdisha has 345 fire stations across the state covering all the blocks and the firemen are trained to work in all kinds of disasters. The OD...
Govt prepares for evacuation as cyclone is likely to reach Odisha coast on Dec 4The forecast said that the low pressure area in south Andaman Sea will intensify into a depression and move towards the coast as a cyclonic...
Cyclone Gulab likely to cross Andhra, Odisha coasts by midnightThe IMD had issued a red alert for these states. Ahead of cyclone alerts issued by India Meteorological Department (IMD), Odisha has begun ...
Odisha rushes rescue teams to 7 districts, orders evacuation as IMD issues cyclone warningAs many as 42 teams of Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) and 24 squads of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), along with fire...
'Yaas' intensifies into cyclonic storm, likely to cross Odisha-Bengal coasts on May 26'Yaas' is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip and Sagar Islands around noon on May 26 as a very severe cyclonic s...
NDRF, Odisha Fire Services Personnel to donate plasma for treatment of serious patientsAs per the State's Health and Family Welfare Department, around 295 personnel including National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Odisha Dis...
Weathering Cyclone Fani: How Odisha is rebuilding lives and localities ravaged by itOdisha has been widely praised for its efforts before Fani, but now an equally challenging task lies ahead.
CM Naveen Patnaik orders evacuation of people as flood situation turns grimPatnaik has asked the officials to remain on high alert in Baliapal, Bhoigari and Basta blocks in Balasore as the water level in Subarnarek...
Nepal earthquake: Odisha government announces Rs 5 crore for victimsApart from this, three officials of the Odisha State Disaster Mitigation Authority have been sent to Nepal to help with thre relief and res...
Government prepared for cyclonic storm: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen PatnaikThe government also asked district authorities to open round-the-clock control room to coordinate with different departments.
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik announces Rs 5 crore aid for Jammu and Kashmir flood victimsThe Odisha government announced an assistance of Rs five crore from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund for relief and restoration works in J&...
Don't panic over Cyclone Phailin: Naveen Patnaik tells peopleOdisha CM Patnaik appealed to all sarpanches and other elected peoples' representatives to extend their assistance.
Phailin gains strength, wind speed to reach 215 kmph: IMD"It would move northwestwards and cross north Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coast between Kalingapatnam and Paradip by the evening of October 1...
Very severe cyclonic storm’ to hit Andhra, alert soundedA deep depression expected to turn into "a very severe cyclonic storm" over Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, crossed the North Andaman island on ...
- Natural disaster-prone Orissa roping ISRO, NRSC
A decade after the natural calamity-prone Orissa got devastated by Super Cyclone, the Naveen Patnaik government is taking help of technolog...