Another cyclone in India's eastern state of Orissa three years ago killed at least 10, 000 people.
Perhaps the disfigurement of Orissa's capital will have an effect on those who govern the state.
In Orissa, the state authorities have published instructions in newspapers on how to cope with the heat.
The worst affected areas are the rural states of central and eastern India like Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Bihar.
It is true that missionaries are busy in much of India, especially the tribal belt that runs through Orissa.
An Indian government panel advised against allowing Vedanta Resources to mine for bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa.
Vedanta suffered another setback last month when the Indian environment ministry rejected its plans to extract bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa.
The eastern state of Orissa is reported to be one of the worst hit where state officials have confirmed 40 deaths.
It was launched from Wheeler Island off the coast of the eastern state of Orissa at 0807 local time (0237GMT) on Thursday.
The national average is worsening thanks to states which once were more neutral with regard to sex, such as Tamil Nadu and Orissa.
He is a trustee on the board of Digjyoti, an educational trust that provides scholarships to needy students in the state of Orissa in India.
India's top court has said local villagers will have a say on whether to allow mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in the state of Orissa.
Others, such as Wipro Cares, match contributions from employees and provide disaster relief, lending a hand after the earthquake in Gujarat or the floods in Orissa, for instance.
NGO, had wanted to build 5, 000-10, 000 houses for victims of a cyclone that struck the eastern state of Orissa in November 1999, but has money enough only for 1, 400.
It is also bad politics: in the states of Bihar and Orissa, voters in this election proved they will reward state administrations that show an interest in improving their lot.
NDTV, an Indian cable news channel, called the test Thursday from Wheeler Island, off the coast of the eastern state of Orissa, a "high-five moment for Agni and India" in screen graphics accompanying its coverage.
It is no coincidence that states with the most dalits (former untouchables) or tribes (such as Bihar and Orissa) have higher malnutrition rates than those, like Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, with fewer of these excluded groups.
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People in Orissa, in eastern India, can testify to the horror: last November, when a cyclone dropped the sea on them, floods claimed over 10, 000 lives, 400, 000 animals, 250, 000 houses and 200, 000 hectares (500, 000 acres) of crops.
As we enter a new millennium hardly a month goes by without new evidence of serious environmental disruption, including, most recently, freak storms that battered the Eastern United States and floods which have inundated the Indian state of Orissa.
Born in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Mr. Jain got an undergraduate degree in engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur in 1972 and worked as both an engineer and salesman for International Business Machines Corp.
He had never been on a plane before 1995, when he left his native Orissa, India, at age 23 with a one-way ticket to Logan, Utah, to pursue a master's degree in economics on an academic scholarship to Utah State University.
Back in Orissa, even when Agarwal announced he would donate a billion dollars to set up a university in Orissa that would look to Stanford University for inspiration, his plans were greeted with deep suspicion and the locals were convinced he wanted the land so he could mine it.
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