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Cyclone Tauktae: PM Modi to visit Gujarat, Diu today to review damage

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat and Diu on Wednesday to review the situation and damage caused by   Cyclone Tauktae Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat and Diu on Wednesday to review the situation and damage caused by Cyclone Tauktae. The Prime Minister will leave Delhi at 9.30 am today and land at Bhavnagar from where he will proceed for an aerial survey of Una, Diu, Jafarabad and Mahuva. He will also hold a review meeting at Ahmedabad after the aerial survey. “PM Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat on Wednesday to conduct an aerial survey of the areas of Amreli, Gir Somnath and Bhavnagar districts hit by Cyclone Tauktae. The PM will also hold a review meeting with CM Vijay Rupani and top officials of the State later in Ahmedabad”, informed Gujarat CMO as well in a tweet. Tauktae stands to be the strongest storm to impact  Gujarat  since 1998 as it battered parts of the state and left behind a trail of destruction along the coast, uprootin...

What is Cyclone Nivar, logic behind the name and things you need to know

  Extremely heavy rains and strong winds are expected in the next three days in Tamil Nadu and Poducherry   Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are on high alert with Cyclone Nivar expected to make landfall on November 25 afternoon between Karaikal and Mamallapuram. While rains are expected in southern Andhra Pradesh, a deep depression is brewing over the Bay of Bengal and is most likely to turn into a severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday and cross the coast on Wednesday, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is currently 440 km east-southeast of Puducherry and 470 km southeast of Chennai, according to the latest IMD bulletin. The  Cyclone Nivar  is very likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours and into a severe cyclonic storm in the subsequent 12 hours with a speed of 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph. Extremely heavy rains and strong winds are expected in the next three days. The state governments...