' 6'! # 4 4 4 &' &!()*+, ,-.- . ()*+# , ("+/ )(*/,*)5 .(/1!(1'/1((7( 1(),&('*,()9:; !(,-,.)/+ &-/ ,&-.&)(+1 1)-1 .1 -)!51- !($/18 ('/7-1 )(.1/ ,(5.( !(-1!.) -8!(1&!*08+! #$ %;<&& ;;= > ( # - ,-./)01)+. )(+!(,- coastal belt of the State. Several Fani, AIIMS Delhi is cancelling trees were uprooted and the exam centre in yclone Fani (also known as thatched structures destroyed Bhubaneswar. Another exam CPhani, meaning “hood of at some places, including will be conducted for students the snake” in Bengali) rolled Bhubaneswar. All flights from affected by this cancellation as through Odisha’s Puri on Bhubaneswar have been can- soon as normalcy returns (sic),” Friday, bringing rain and celled since Thursday mid- Union Health Secretary Preeti windstorm that gusted up to night, and Kolkata airport is Sudan tweeted. 175 kmph, leaving at least 8 shut from 3 pm on Friday till KJ Ramesh, Director people dead, and blowing 8 am on Saturday. 140 trains, General of the India away thatched houses, uproot- including 83 passenger trains, Meteorological Department ing trees, electricity polls, cut- have been cancelled so far. (IMD), predicted light to mod- ting off power supply, and In Bhubaneswar, people erate rain in northeastern States swamping towns and villages took shelter under shades as the — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam in the State. heavy rain lashed the city. They & Meghalaya and Nagaland, The strongest cyclone in said their “homes were shak- Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura India in 20 years made landfall ing”. After crossing Odisha, due to cyclone while heavy to around 8 am in Puri, with roar- cyclone Fani is likely to move very heavy rain predicted over ing winds flattening huts, towards West Bengal before Arunachal Pradesh and Assam enveloping the pilgrim town in tapering off. Cyclone Fani also on May 4 and 5. sheets of rain, and submerging triggered heavy rain in parts of “After making landfall this homes in residential areas. north coastal Andhra Pradesh, morning, cyclone Fani has The extremely severe where gusty winds with speed started weakening and it’s like- cyclone Fani, a name given by reaching up to 140 kmph ly to enter Bangladesh by Bangladesh, weakened from uprooted trees and electricity Saturday evening,” he said. an “extremely severe” to “very poles, officials said. No cyclone ever had such severe”, and is predicted to The Odisha Government a long duration in April. The further weaken to a “severe has evacuated over 11 lakh Home Ministry said an eye of cyclone” before moving to West people, including at least 600 cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ “com- Bengal. pregnant women, to camps on pletely moved into land” by 10 In several videos doing higher grounds. am on Friday weakening its rounds on social media showed “I assure the affected peo- fury, but heavy rainfall is still the impact of the powerful gale ple that the nation and the cen- predicted in Odisha, Andhra and heavy rain. In videos post- tre are with them,” Prime Pradesh, West Bengal ed by Sitangshu Kar, the Minister Narendra Modi said at and parts of the northeastern Director General of the Press a rally in Rajasthan. He said States. Information Bureau, the roof of over 1,000 crore had been The system is likely to an undergraduate hostel in the released in advance for the weaken gradually and emerge Bhubaneswar AIIMS was seen states affected by Fani. into Gangetic West Bengal as a being blown off. Later the The Union Health “severe cyclonic storm” by the wind speed of Fani came down Ministry has announced can- early morning of May 4. to around 140-165 kmph. cellation of Bhubaneswar as a Thereafter, it is expected to According to officials, large centre for the AIIMS PG 2019 move further north-north- areas in Puri and other places examination due to Fani. eastwards and emerge into were submerged with water as “AIIMS PG exam is sched- Bangladesh by May 4 evening heavy rain battered the entire uled on May 5. Due to cyclone as a cyclonic storm. ! Q"R# & " '( $& Q R -)!51- (Sunday) from 7 am to 6 pm. elections have revealed their There are 23,213 polling real intent. ,.)/+ attle lines are drawn with stations on 14460 polling loca- Out of the total 278 candi- Btotal 278 candidates in fray tions from which 249 booth are dates, only 26, only nine per- he Congress candidate 0$$. for 13 parliamentary con- identified as critical, 719 as sen- cent, are women. Out of these, Tfrom Lucknow on Friday stituencies of Punjab for May sitive, 509 as hyper sensitive, the four prominent political took strong exception to party joint team of security 19 elections. and 12,002 polling booths will outfits have fielded just seven ! leader Shatrughan Sinha can- Aforces early on Friday The Election Commission be covered under web casting women candidates. ! vassing for his wife, who is the morning dealt a body blow to on late Thursday night has also ! "!# on polling day and counting of Congress has trusted its #$ Samajwadi Party candidate in top Hizbul Muhajideen (HM) cleared the decks for the can- votes would begin on May 23 tried and tested female candi- % the constituency. commanders active in Kashmir didature of Aam Aadmi Party’s $ & Thursday from 8 am. date, Preneet Kaur, who has # Shatrughan was present Valley by neutralising Lateef (AAP) candidate from Sri $ On stake are the SAD pres- wrested Patiala for the four # during the filing of nomination Ahmad Dar, alias Tiger of Anandpur Sahib Narinder ident Sukhbir Badal, who is con- times at earlier occasions. SAD papers by his wife, Poonam Dogripora Pulwama, the lone Singh Shergill, after the inter- testing from Ferozepur, his and AAP has fielded two Sinha. He attended an election surviving member of Burhan vention of the Punjab and Union Minister wife Harsimrat female candidates each — meeting on Thursday with Wani group, along with two Haryana High Court. are in fray from Amritsar Dr Raju said that after Badal from Bathinda, Punjab SAD’s Bibi Jagir Kaur from Samajwadi Party president other local terrorists in a fierce For the next fortnight, the including BJP’s Hardeep Puri, withdrawal, total of 15 candi- Congress president Sunil Jakhar Khadoor Sahib, and Harsimrat " Akhilesh Yadav. firefight in South Kashmir’s political stalwarts from the Congress’ sitting MP Gurjit dates are left in fray for from Gurdaspur against the Badal from Bathinda; and “From the behaviour of Shopian district. State and also the national Singh Aujla, AAP’s Kuldeep Gurdaspur, 30 for Amritsar, 19 actor-turned-politician Sunny AAP’s Neena Mittal from ! Shatrughan Sinha, it appears Timing of the clinical oper- leaders of all parties would land Singh Dhaliwal; while the min- for Khadoor Sahib, 19 for Deol who is contesting as SAD- Patiala and Prof Baljinder Kaur & that although he has joined the ation is set to boost the morale in Punjab to give an impetus to imum eight candidates would Jalandhar (SC), eight for BJP candidate, former Union from Bathinda. # Congress, but has not yet of the security forces deployed the poll campaigning. fight it out in Hoshiarpur, Hoshiarpur (SC), 26 for Minister Preneet Kaur from Giving tough battle to the resigned from the RSS,” in the area to ensure peaceful May 2, Thursday, was the including two babus — BJP’s Anandpur Sahib, 22 for Patiala, Union Minister Hardeep former SGOC president Bibi ## Acharya Pramod, the Congress’ polling in the final phase in last date for withdrawal of Som Parkash and PDA’s Khushi Ludhiana, 20 for Fatehgarh Puri from Amritsar, AAP Jagir Kaur from the panthic Lucknow candidate, tweeted. Shopian and Pulwama districts nominations, and 12 candi- Ram, and two medicos — Sahib, 20 candidates for Punjab president Bhagwant seat of Khadoor Sahib is the Shatrughan Sinha quit the on May 6. dates withdrew their nomina- Congress’ Dr Raj Kumar, and Faridkot (SC), 22 for Mann from Sangrur, Punjab first-timer human rights BJP recently and is the After the killing of HM’s tion papers. AAP’s Dr Ravjot Singh. Ferozepur, 27 for Bathinda, 25 Ekta Party president Sukhpal activist Bibi Paramjit Kaur ! '( Congress candidate from the poster boy Burhan Wani in July The State Chief Electoral This time, the Lok Sabha for Sangrur, and 25 for Patiala. Khaira from Bathinda, Patiala Khalra, a Punjab Ekta Party $ Patna Sahib constituency in 2016, several other top com- Officer Dr S Karuna Raju said election in Punjab would be a “Now 278 candidates are MP Dr Dharamvir Gandhi from candidate contesting as PDA’s ) $ Bihar. Poonam is the SP-BSP- manders were neutralised by that total 385 candidates had multi-cornered contest as left in fray. Out of total Patiala, among others. joint candidate. RLD alliance candidate from the security forces. filed their nominations papers besides the traditional political 2,07,81,211 voters in Punjab, PDA would also be repre- # Lucknow, who is contesting Lateef Ahmad Dar, killed for 13 parliamentary con- players, AAP and Punjab 1,09,50735 are male and sented by another female can- * + ( against Union Home Minister in Shopian, was lone surviving stituencies of the state, and dur- Democratic Alliance (PDA), 98,29,916 are female voters almost all political parties didate, CPI’s Daswinder Kaur, # Rajnath Singh and Pramod. member of the group who was ing scrutiny, 297 nominations comprising six political outfits and 560 voters of third gender,” battling for the equality for in Amritsar. Besides, eight $ Polling will be held in still active in the area. were found valid. and splinter groups, would add he said, adding that the voting womenfolk, the final list of con- female candidates are in fray as Lucknow on Monday. Detailed report on P7 Maximum 30 candidates a new dimension.