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Super  cyclone  ‘Amphan’, which will make landfall on May 20 between Digha in  West Bengal  and Hatia Island in Bangladesh, is a significant development and 53 teams are on the job to save lives and property,  NDRF  Chief S N Pradhan said on Monday. Addressing a press conference along with IMD DG M Mohapatra, Pradhan said the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was not taking Amphan lightly as it was only the second time that India is facing a super  cyclone  in the Bay of Bengal region. He said this was a very “significant development” as this is the second super  cyclone  after the first one hit the  Odisha  coast in 1999. The landfall of cyclone ‘Amphan’ would be on May 20 between Digha in  West Bengal  and Hatia Island in Bangladesh, he said. ALSO READ:  'Amphan' is serious'; will make landfall in Bengal, Odisha on Wed: NDRF “Cyclone Amphan is very intense. It has the potential to wreak large...

Cyclone Vayu : As cyclone 'Vayu' advances towards the Gujarat coast, the state government launched a massive evacuation exercise to shift about 300,000 people from low-lying areas of Saurashtra and Kutch regions, officials said Wednesday. According to the latest weather information, the cyclone has intensified into a "very severe cyclonic storm" and is located around 340 km south of Gujarat's Veraval coast. Mumbai and some neighbouring coastal areas of Maharashtra witnessed a windy Wednesday morning as cyclone 'Vayu' turned into a "very severe cyclonic storm", the weather department said. "Cyclone Vayu has turned into a very severe cyclonic storm. It would cause gusty winds to blow at a speed of 145 kmph to 170 kmph by Thursday morning," the IMD said. The Indian Meteorological Department has said that thunderstorm and lightning accompanied with gusty wind (40-50kmph) is very likely at isolated places in the districts of North G...

India has accelerated efforts to evacuate more than a million people along its northeast coastline as a cyclone intensifies ahead of landfall on Friday, with thousands of villagers piling household possessions on to trucks before fleeing their homes. Severe cyclonic storm Fani was churning up the Bay of Bengal about 275 km (171 miles) south-southwest of the Hindu temple town of Puri where special trains were put on to evacuate tourists and the beaches were empty. In total, about 1.2 million people are expected to be evacuated from low-lying areas of 15 districts in the eastern state of Odisha to cyclone shelters, schools and other buildings, authorities said. More than 800,000 have left so far. “ We are maximising efforts at all levels for evacuation,” Odisha’s Special Relief Commissioner Bishnupada Sethi told Reuters. Fani was generating maximum sustained winds of 170-180 km (105-111 miles) per hour, the state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Cyclone tracker...