Last week, the irrigation authorities began repairing precarious stretches of dykes at Mahishamari, Silpara, Muriganga and Ghoramara in South 24-Parganas. But residents feel such temporary and hurried...

The people of the pilgrim city of Puri, who are yet to overcome the nightmare caused by the cyclone Fani in May 2019, heaved a sigh of relief as Cyclone Jawad turned into a depression and weakened fur...

Sir — The final match of the 2019 Indian Premier League between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings turned out to be a thriller. Mumbai Indians won by the narrowest of margins — one run — whi...

Cyclone Fani has passed, leaving behind a trail of devastation. The early warning system, effective disaster response plans, investments in disaster shelters and systematic deployment of volunteers on...

A store on Ganesh Chandra Avenue selling portable generators usually closes by 7.30pm. For the past three days, it has remained open till midnight, and is still struggling to meet the demand.The power...

Sir — Cyclone Fani wreaked havoc in several cities and districts of Odisha, especially in Puri, leaving people dead and bringing down power and communication links (“Town cut off as power and phon...

Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she was unable to receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s calls made to her office as she was then camping at Kharagpur to closely monitor the possible advent of cyclon...

The passage of Cyclone Fani has resulted in a sharp rise in the Celsius and the discomfort level.The maximum temperature in Calcutta rose by 6.6 degrees Celsius in 24 hours to 35.7 on Sunday as the cl...

Two IIT Kharagpur professors who have designed the shelters that saved thousands of lives after Cyclone Fani hit Odisha last Friday said the lessons of the 1999 supercyclone were the trigger behind th...

High-velocity winds and continuous rainfall triggered by Cyclone Fani on Saturday caused severe damages to electrical infrastructure in different parts of Assam.Many trees and electricity poles were u...