Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday requested the Centre to extend the registration date of the JEE Advanced examinations by at least 10 days in the wake of cyclone Fani. In a letter to Union Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, Patnaik said: “As you are aware, the extremely severe cyclone FANI had […]
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Mamata refused my calls regarding cyclone twice: Modi
Tamluk (West Bengal): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of neither receiving nor returning his calls to assess the losses incurred by cyclone Fani. Addressing an election rally in East Midnapore district’s Tamluk, Modi also alleged that the Bengal government has, earlier in the day, refused his request […]
No intimation about PM’s meeting on Fani: Bengal
Kolkata: The West Bengal government got no intimation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted to hold a meeting with Chief Secretary Malay Kumar De in the wake of the cyclone Fani, government sources said on Monday. “There were media reports that Modi wanted to hold a meeting with De as a part of damage assessment […]
Cyclone Fani: 29 deaths reported in Odisha so far
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Sunday confirmed that 29 deaths have been reported so far after cyclone ‘Fani’ hit the coastal state on Friday. Chief Secretary A.P. Padhi said that 21 people have died in Puri while eight deaths were reported from other affected districts. “We are still collecting information and the actual figure can be […]
Post Fani, normal traffic, flights resume in Odisha
New Delhi: Two days after cyclone “Fani” hit the Odisha coast, normal traffic as well as flight operations has been restored in the state and the Railways have also reintroduced 85 of the 138 cancelled trains, a Home Ministry statement said on Sunday. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has cleared fallen trees from most of […]
Fani: Rain lashes Tripura, houses damaged, trees uprooted
Agartala: Tripura and adjoining northeastern states have witnessed intermittent rains since Friday due to the impact of cyclone Fani, officials said here on Saturday. “Due to Fani, at least six houses were fully damaged and around 140 houses partly damaged in three of the eight districts – Khowai, Gomati, Sepahijala. A school structure was partially […]
Fani impact: 79 flights cancelled by AAI in northeast
Guwahati: A total of 79 flights were cancelled at different airports in the northeast region due to bad weather, triggered by cyclonic storm Fani, an Airport Authority of India official said here on Saturday. “The devastating effects of cyclone Fani has disrupted flight operations at northeastern regional airports. However, all the airports in NER are […]
Operations resume in Kolkata Airport as Fani passes
Kolkata: After hours of closure due to severe cyclonic storm Fani, operations at Kolkata airport resumed on Saturday morning, an official said. “Air India AI 743 to Agartala is the first departure from Kolkata at 0957 hours while GoAir’s G8 101 DEL CCU is the first flight to land into Kolkata at around 1010 hours,” Kolkata […]
Fani weakens, likely to enter Bangladesh around noon
Kolkata: Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest storms to batter the Indian subcontinent in decades, has weakened into a “cyclonic storm leaving no more major threat” for West Bengal on Saturday. At present, the cyclone, which is situated at Shantipur in Nadia district about 60 km north of Kolkata, is likely to enter Bangaldesh around Saturday […]
Cyclone Fani enters West Bengal
Kolkata: Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest storms to batter the Indian subcontinent in decades, entered West Bengal post midnight on Saturday, hours after making landfall and causing havoc in Odisha on Friday. According to the Meteorological department, the extremely severe cyclonic storm relatively weakened after entering coastal Odisha and transformed into “very severe” as it […]