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Cyclone Fani has made landfall along the coast of Odisha in eastern India. Nineteen districts of Odisha, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh are likely to be hit as the storm is set to intensify over the next few hours. Around 800,000 people from 11 districts…

INDIA (October 14, 2013) - An estimated 1,000 villages, towns and cities in India’s Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states have been left without electricity after Cyclone Phailin destroyed three million hectares of crops and flooded low-lying areas of the…

INDIA (October 13, 2013) - Cyclone Phailin has hit the southeastern coast of India with a speed of more than 200 kms per hour and an expected rainfall of 20 cms on Sunday 13 October.

The recent devastation in Uttarakhand (a northern state in India famous for its pilgrimage sites) from unprecedented heavy rains due to a cloud burst, triggered flash floods and landslides along the two main river basins of Alaknanda and Bhagirathi.

January 4, 2013: CARE International shares the anger and grief of our sisters and brothers in India over the recent and widely reported brutal rape and death of a 23 year old woman in India.

DELHI, INDIA (October 7, 2009) – Heavy rains due to a depression in the Bay of Bengal and low pressure from the Arabian Sea have caused flash floods in north Karnataka and the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, flooding hundreds of villages and…

SUPAUL, INDIA (September 3, 2008) – CARE’s emergency team in the flood-affected Supaul district of Bihar state warns that standing pools of water created by the floodwaters provide a breeding ground for water-borne disease and malaria. CARE is one of the…

DELHI, INDIA (August 29, 2008) – CARE is providing emergency medical assistance and helping evacuate some of the more than 2.6 million people affected by the worst flooding in India’s Bihar state in 50 years. CARE is providing boats to evacuate families…