Skip to content
Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Primary Menu Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us
  • Featured

India Evacuates Thousands Threatened By East Coast Cyclone

May 18, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

Cyclone Amphan is expected to make landfall on Wednesday

India began evacuating thousands of villagers and halted port operations ahead of a cyclone expected to hit its east coast this week, officials said on Monday, piling pressure on emergency services grappling with the coronavirus pandemic.

The cyclone, expected to make landfall on Wednesday, comes as India eases the world’s longest lockdown, imposed in April against the virus, which has infected more than 96,169 people and killed 3,029.

The states of Odisha and West Bengal sent disaster management teams to move families from homes of mud and thatch to places of shelter from the severe cyclonic storm, Amphan, which is expected to gain strength in the next 12 hours.

“We have to evacuate people from low-lying areas, and protect them from the coronavirus too,” said a senior official of India’s Home Ministry who sought anonymity.

“It’s not an easy task.”

The cyclone season usually runs from April to December, with severe storms forcing the evacuations of tens of thousands, causing widespread death and damage to crops and property, both in India and neighbouring Bangladesh.

Authorities at the port of Paradip in Odisha ordered ships to move out to sea to avoid damage as the cyclone formed over the Bay of Bengal was likely to intensify into a super cyclonic storm.

“Operations have been wound down,” said Rinkesh Roy, chairman of the Paradip Port Trust. “We are clearing the port.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to hold a meeting in New Delhi, the capital, to plan how to mitigate damage and injuries.

“The extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Amphan’…is likely to gain more strength and intensify further into a super cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours,” weather officials said in a statement, forecasting heavy rain in eastern and southern areas.

India, with a coastline of 7,516 km (4,670 miles), gets hit by more than a tenth of all the world’s tropical cyclones, the bulk of them hitting its eastern coast around the Bay of Bengal.

Tags: bay of bengal, coronavirus pandemic, Cyclone Amphan, disaster management teams, Home Ministry, Paradip Port Trust, Pratirodh, prime minister narendra modi, severe cyclonic storm

Continue Reading

Previous Why India’s Migrant Labourers Fill Me With Hope
Next Outbreak At Factory Shows Challenges Of Easing Lockdown

More Stories

  • Featured

“We’ve Got A Lot Of Work To Do. It’s Not Going To Be Easy”

2 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Govt. Urges Frontline Workers Not To Refuse Vax As Targets Missed

3 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Estonian Firm Seeks Finance From Forests

18 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • “We’ve Got A Lot Of Work To Do. It’s Not Going To Be Easy”
  • Govt. Urges Frontline Workers Not To Refuse Vax As Targets Missed
  • Estonian Firm Seeks Finance From Forests
  • China, WHO Could Have Acted More Quickly: Probe Panel
  • ‘Advisable To Not Take Vaccine If’: Covaxin Factsheet
  • Opp Seeks Probe Into Security Leak After Goswami’s Messages Emerge
  • Big Oil’s Flagship Plastic Waste Project Sinks In The Ganges
  • Alexei Navalny Flies Home And Straight Into Trouble
  • Amazon Faces Backlash From BJP Lawmakers Over ‘Tandav’
  • One ‘Severe’, 51 ‘Minor’ Cases Of Post-Vaccination Adverse Events
  • Covid Vaccination Campaign: Sanitation Worker Gets First Shot
  • Norway Warns of Vaccination Risks After 23 Die
  • No Headway In Talks Between Govt And Protesting Farmers
  • ‘World’s Largest’ Vaccination Campaign Starts Today
  • Poor Nations Need More Cash To Adapt To Climate Change: U.N.
  • Protesting Farmers, Govt To Hold New Round Of Talks
  • ‘Twitter, Facebook Repeatedly Mishandled Trump’: Wikipedia Founder
  • WhatsApp Faces First Legal Challenge In India Over Privacy
  • World’s Oldest Known Cave Painting Discovered In Indonesia
  • WHO Team Arrives In Wuhan For Coronavirus Origin Probe

Search

Main Links

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us

Related Stroy

  • Featured

“We’ve Got A Lot Of Work To Do. It’s Not Going To Be Easy”

2 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Govt. Urges Frontline Workers Not To Refuse Vax As Targets Missed

3 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Estonian Firm Seeks Finance From Forests

18 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

China, WHO Could Have Acted More Quickly: Probe Panel

19 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

‘Advisable To Not Take Vaccine If’: Covaxin Factsheet

1 day ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • “We’ve Got A Lot Of Work To Do. It’s Not Going To Be Easy”
  • Govt. Urges Frontline Workers Not To Refuse Vax As Targets Missed
  • Estonian Firm Seeks Finance From Forests
  • China, WHO Could Have Acted More Quickly: Probe Panel
  • ‘Advisable To Not Take Vaccine If’: Covaxin Factsheet
Copyright © All rights reserved. | CoverNews by AF themes.