(Photo | Debadatta Mallick, EPS)
Severe cyclonic storm Dana struck the eastern coast, triggering torrential rain and high-speed winds uprooting trees and electric poles and caused significant damage to infrastructure and crops in some districts of Odisha and West Bengal.
While Odisha claimed that it achieved its 'zero casualty mission,' one death was reported from Bengal.
As Cyclone Dana weakened into a deep depression and moved westward, authorities launched extensive relief and rehabilitation efforts on a war-footing in the affected regions.
Cyclone Dana also impacted rice cultivation, as vast paddy fields were flattened and crops submerged.
A man walks along a road blocked by an uprooted electricity pole at Talakrunia in Balasore. Odisha state government has evacuated 4,431 pregnant women to nearby health care centres, where 1,600 babies were born.
NDRF personnel clear a tree that fell on a house at Anantpur in Balasore.