Bhubaneswar: With cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ likely to trigger rainfall in Odisha from Thursday (May 2), the state government on Monday asked all its District Collectors to stay alert. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the cyclonic storm, which is expected to develop into a very severe cyclone, will continue to move in north-west direction before […]
Category: Fani Cyclone
Official assesses preparedness for cyclone ‘Fani’
New Delhi: Cabinet Secretary P.K. Sinha on Monday took stock of the situation arising out of the cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ that has been intensifying in the in southeast Bay of Bengal in a National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) meeting here, a Home Ministry statement said. The meeting followed directions from Prime Minister Narendra Modi who […]
Cyclone Fani likely to turn ‘very severe’
Visakhapatnam: Cyclone Fani, currently over the southeast Bay of Bengal and the adjoining East Equatorial Indian Ocean, is likely to intensify into a “very severe cyclonic storm” on Monday, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. Fani is centred about 750 km east-southeast of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 1,080 km southeast of Chennai and 1,260 km […]