The Kharkai and Subernarekha river are in spate following opening of sluice gates of Bankabal and Silaipath dams in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha since Wednesday.
Similarly, three important rivers in...
Nine relief columns have also been kept on standby in Calcutta to undertake necessary rescue and relief operations. Besides, Eastern Air Command has mobilised its assets for quick response due to the ...
The cyclone’s landfall that began around 9am on Wednesday morning continued till 1pm during which period high velocity winds and heavy rainfall lashed the north coastal belt, especially Balasore...
The two have been identified as Kamal Majhi and Swapan Baul Das. But a local resident said: “They were hit by lightning.”
Met officials in Alipore said the IMD did not have conclusive pic...
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she’d stay overnight at state secretariat Nabanna with the top-tier bureaucracy to keep tabs on Cyclone Yaas from a war-room of the disaster manage...
Much before Cyclone Yaas’s expected landfall, several areas in three coastal districts of Bengal were swept away on Tuesday morning because of high tidal waves coupled with strong winds.
Over t...
By Subhasish Chaudhuri , Snehamoy Chakraborty
in Calcutta
The city police have urged people to download a Google application named “Plus Code” on their smartphones so they can share their location if they get trapped during the storm and do not h...