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Cyclone Amphan: Heavy rain, strong winds in coastal Odisha

  •   Wed, May 20 2020 10:37:57 AM

Bhubaneswar, May 20 (IANS): The Odisha government has evacuated over 1.37 lakh people to safer places as extremely severe cyclone Amphan hurtled towards the coast triggering heavy rain and strong wind on Wednesday morning.

Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradeep Kumar Jena informed that over 1.37 lakh people have been evacuated to cyclone shelters till morning and the figure may go up.

According to reports, trees were uprooted and power infrastructure suffered damage following strong winds in the coastal districts.

Paradip recorded the highest wind speed of 102 kmph followed by Chandbali with 74 kmph, Balasore 61 kmph, and Bhubaneswar 56kmph.

Paradip also registered highest 197.1 mm rainfall.

As many 16 units of the National Disaster Response Force, 15 teams of Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), 75 teams of Odisha Forest Development Corporation (OFDC) and 217 fire service team have been deployed in the affected districts.
  

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  • Sanjeev Kamath, Udupi

    Wed, May 20 2020

    Nobody HERE to pay at least lip sympathy?

    Only to the migrants of Bihar with Rs 1.00 crore bounced cheque, fleet of handcarts, auto rikshaws, tempo, trucks and also a couple of buses?

    Does anyone know that Bihar accounts for nearly 450 out of total 5,500 IAS officers in the country?One in 10 bureaucrats shaping the destiny of India in North or South Block is from Bihar. The highest numbers of IAS, IPS & IFS aspirants are from Bihar.

    Some Bihari will rule us one day and only then will we realize!!

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