8L Evacuated As Fani Set to Rip Through East Coast
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Icise aimed at minimising northwards towards Khurda, Prime Minister Narendra possible damage from the Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Modi reviewed the prepared- may climb to “extremely severe” cyclonic Kendrapada, Jajpur, Bhadrak, ness for Fani and instructed storm Fani that is expected to Balasore and Mayurbhanj. Government officials to main- make landfall at India’s south- IMD bulletin said storm surge tain close coordination with eastern coast on Friday, the of about 1.5 metre above astro- officials of the affected States to 180-205 kmph Odisha Government shifted nomical tide is likely to inun- ensure preventive measures. more than 8 lakh people away date low lying areas of Ganjam, Modi also asked the offi- from low-lying areas close to Khurda, Puri and cers concerned to take effective This satellite image acquired from the RAJESH KUMAR n NEW DELHI translates to “the hood of a the sea on Thursday. More Jagatsinghpur districts of steps for relief and rescue oper- Indian Metrological Department shows snake”. The IMD has pre- than 100 trains have been can- Odisha at the time of possible ations. He was briefed on the Cyclone Fani in the Bay of Bengal on ani is the most severe dicted that the storm wind celled in view of the approach- landfall. Several areas are like- likely path of the cyclone, and Thursday AP Fcyclonic storm since the could climb to 180-205 ing cyclonic storm. ly to receive rainfall up to 20 cm the ongoing precautionary and super cyclone of 1999 that kmph. IMD officials said People living in vulnerable under the impact of the preparatory measures being Bhubaneswar airport, while claimed close to 10,000 lives April to December is the areas along the coast were put cyclone. undertaken. Kolkata airport will be out of and left a trail of destruction cyclone season but over 65 in buses and smaller four- According to IMD, maxi- All the 880 cyclone centres bounds for flights between in vast swathes of Odisha, per cent of all cyclones occur wheelers and then in trains and mum damage is expected in have been readied for the pur- 9.30 pm of May 3 and 6 pm of according to the Joint in the last four months of the brought to cyclone shelters Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Jajpur, pose. Boats have been kept in May 4. Typhoon Warning Centre. year. Cyclones are classified specially prepared for them. Villagers at the beach as dark clouds hover above the sea ahead of Cyclone Fani, in Balasore, Ganjam, Gajapati, a state of readiness. The Airport Authority of IMD said it is also the first on the wind speed around Cyclone Fani is expected to Puri on Thursday PTI Khurda, Puri, Jagatsinghpur The Railways on Thursday India (AAI) has issued alerts to cyclonic storm of such sever- the low pressure area. Wind make the landfall near the districts of Odisha and east and said around 102 trains have all coastal airports, asking that ity to have formed in April in speed of over 62 kmph is temple town of Puri on the has been issued to some dis- Gopalpur and Chandbali any- west Medinipur, South and been cancelled in the last two all precautions and standard India’s oceanic neighbour- classified as a tropical coast of the Bay of Bengal in tricts of Uttar Pradesh. Parts of time after Friday afternoon, North 24 Parganas, Howrah, days in view of the cyclonic operating procedures be put hood in 43 years. cyclone and assigned a name. Odisha between 8 am and 10 north coastal Andhra Pradesh with wind speed of up to 200 Hoogli, Kolkata districts of storm, while three special trains into place immediately in view The super cyclone of It becomes a severe am on Friday (May 3), accord- started receiving heavy rain as km per hour. Currently, Fani West Bengal and Srikakulam, pressed into service to ferry of Fani. “Situation will be mon- 1999 had affected at least 1.3 cyclonic storm if the speed is ing to the latest forecast by Fani in the Bay of Bengal lay centred over West Central Visakhapatnam and stranded passengers from itored at the highest level. crore people, including 33 between 89 and 118 kmph India Meteorological neared the coast. Bay of Bengal about 430 km Vijayanagaram districts of affected areas. Four trains have Airlines and all others to be lakh children, 50 lakh and a very severe cyclonic Department (IMD), and it will The IMD on Friday south-southwest of Puri in Andhra Pradesh. The cyclone been diverted, it said. fully ready,” tweeted Civil women and nearly 35 lakh storm if the speed is between continue till 12 noon. warned that Fani is moving Odisha, 225 km south-south- is likely to enter West Bengal as According to the Director Aviation Minister Suresh elderly. And over 3,15,886 119 and 221 kmph. Those IMD says 19 districts of northwards with a speed of 5 east of Vishakhapatnam in a ‘severe cyclonic storm’ of 90- General of Civil Aviation, no Prabhu. He also said that all cattle died. with higher speeds are cate- Odisha, West Bengal and km per hour in last six hours Andhra Pradesh and 650 km 100 kmph gusting to 115 flights will take off from authorities concerned are on Cyclone Fani has been gorised as super cyclonic Andhra Pradesh are likely to be and is likely to make landfall at south-southwest of Digha in kmph. It is likely to emerge into Thursday midnight for the high alert. named by Bangladesh. It is storms. hit by Fani. Even red warning Odisha coast between West Bengal. Bangladesh on the evening of next 24 hours from Continued on Page 7 pronounced “Foni” and Continued on Page 7 Court asks EC to Decide plaints against Modi, take call on plea Cong banks on old guards in Alwar, Dausa DEEPAK KUMAR JHA n with him. Shah before May 6: SC to EC for poll from 5 am ALWAR/DAUSA “We have voted for the Congress and will do once during Ramzan n the keenly-contested Lok again because the bypolls in the EC’s clean chit ISabha polls in Rajasthan, two seats and the Assembly PNS n NEW DELHI Alwar and neighbouring Dausa elections were clearly a signal to Modi on third parliamentary constituencies against misrule of Vasundhra he Supreme Court on figure prominently among the Raje,” said Manav from Dausa, TThursday directed the few seats where the Congress is who has to travel to neighbor- complaint ‘nuke Election Commission to take a banking on old guards. The BJP ing Alwar for his studies. call on a plea seeking to had won all the 25 seats in 2014 The stakes for the not for Diwali’ advance the voting timing to 5 LS polls in Rajasthan. Congress is high also in the am for the remaining phases of The Congress is riding Rajesh Pilot’s political “Karm PNS n NEW DELHI the Lok Sabha election due to high on Alwar old-timer Bhoomi” Dausa where two heat waves and Ramzan. Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, who women contestants — former fter the Supreme Court’s The petition was filed by has been trying hard to con- Union Minister Jaskaur Meena Adirections to decide on the advocates Mohammed vince the electorate about the (BJP) and Savita Meena complaints pending against Nizamuddin Pasha and Asad popularity of “Gehlot Sarkar” (Congress) — are locked in a Prime Minister Narendra Modi The EC told the SC that it only on two. Hayat, who mentioned it for highlighting the failures of the Yadav. The C ongress won While none of the candi- straight fight. and BJP chief Amit Shah before has already decided two out of “After about five-and-a- urgent hearing before a Bench BJP Government in providing Alwar Lok Sabha by-election dates in Alwar are talking While Prime Minister the apex court hears the case on the 11 complaints which were half weeks, they (EC) have headed by Chief Justice Ranjan gainful employments. with a margin of over 1.97 lakh about the demand to bifurcate Narendra Modi has been talk- May 6, the Election filed by the Congress against decided only two representa- Gogoi and also consisting of On the other hand, the BJP votes and Ajmer with 84,000 Alwar to carve out a new dis- ing about bravery of Wing Commission (EC) on Thursday Modi and Shah for the alleged tions,” Singhvi told the SC. Justices Deepak Gupta and is relying on communal polar- votes in the January 2018 Lok trict, people are hopeful that Commander Abhinandan gave clean chit to Modi on the violation of the model code.