Word: orissa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lack of Concern. Shitala's scourge has been particularly felt in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam. Yet no where has the goddess lashed harder than in Bihar. With 70,393 reported cases, that state accounts for 60% of the world's current total of known smallpox victims...
...eastern state of Orissa, the C.P. also carried the day. Independent local parties won the elections in the smaller states of Nagaland, Manipur and Pondicherry. Overall, Indira Gandhi had lost some political strength, but she was still clearly the strongest vote-getter in the country...
...area of East Pakistan, killing as many as 500,000. Last week the ghastly business of counting bodies along the bay's palm-fringed coastline was under way again. A storm with shrieking 120-m.p.h. winds, torrential rains and a 15-ft. tidal wave struck India's Orissa State, southwest of Calcutta. The death toll was set officially at 12,000, though unofficial estimates indicated that it could be closer to 25,000. Fully 1,000,000 were left homeless. Many of the victims were refugees who had poured out of East Pakistan to escape the man-made...
After one night of terror, the storm's fury abated. Indian federal and state governments moved quickly to provide aid to the victims of Orissa. Soldiers helped in the digging-out process while military planes dropped supplies to the survivors. Menial laborers, most of them belonging to India's "untouchable" caste, were brought in to help dispose of the bodies...
Many in India wondered aloud why the government had not taken steps to prepare Orissa for the cyclone. When it was first spotted and reported by a U.S. weather satellite a full day before it hit land, the storm seemed to be headed for the very area of East Pakistan that was devastated last year. Then it changed direction, but the satellite forecast well in advance that it was headed for Orissa. "The authorities seem always caught unawares by calamities, even when they are at least partially foreseeable," said the Statesman, one of India's leading dailies. "The traditional...