Cyclone Aila Floods East India and Bangladesh, Killing 115

Cyclone Aila caused major flooding in areas of eastern India and Bangladesh overnight, destroying thousands of homes and killing 115 people. Almost 3,000 thatch and mud houses were torn away and tens of thousands of...

Cyclone Aila Misses Kolkata - Hits Coastal Orissa and West Bengal

Update 9:53 IST 26th May 2009 The Day After Kolkata was saved the fury of Aila though the tail of the cyclone did hit the city, but nothing on a catastrophic scale. "Had Aila actually ripped through Calcutta in its...