Tag: Bay Of Bengal

Puri: Surging sea waves have lashed the Puri beach incessantly over the last two days ingressing up to 100 meters into land and posing a major threat to Swarga Dwara, the biggest Hindu cremation ground in the pilgrim town. As sea waves have threatened to wash away everything on their path, nearly 100 panicky vendors […]

Bhubaneswar: The local Met office has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in some parts in interior Odisha in the next 48 hours under the influence of a low pressure over Bay of Bengal. “The low pressure formed over the north Bay of Bengal and its adjoining areas yesterday has centered over north-west Bay of […]

Bhubaneswar: The local Met office has predicted heavy rainfall in coastal Odisha in the next 24 hours under the influence of a low pressure over the Bay of Bengal. A Met release issued this morning said a low pressure area, under the influence of the upper air cyclonic circulation over east-central Bay of Bengal and […]

Bhubaneswar: The Met department has predicted heavy rainfall in north Odisha during the next 24 hours under the influence of a low pressure over Bay of Bengal. “The low pressure area formed over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal yesterday has moved and now lies over Jharkhand and […]

Bhubaneswar: Cyclone Roanu moved further northeastwards and lay centred about 50 km south-southeast off Gopalpur coast today causing rains coupled with gusty surface winds to lash several parts of Odisha and affect normal life. The system is likely to move further northeastwards along and off north Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coast and intensify into a […]

Bhubaneswar: Some parts of Odisha will experience heavy rainfall accompanied by wind reaching a speed of 50 km/hr in the next 24 hours due to the Cyclonic Storm ‘ROANU’ formed over the Bay of Bengal, a release issued by the Met department this morning said. Rain and thundershower would occur at most places over South […]

Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh on Sunday sounded a high alert in the coastal region as a cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal was heading towards it and was likely to cross the region between Kakinada and Visakhapatnam on Monday. Real Time Governance Society (RTGS) of the state government alerted all nine coastal districts. The State […]

Kolkata: The Indian Coast Guard on Thursday rescued all 22 crew members of a merchant container vessel after a devastating fire broke out in the ship in the Bay of Bengal, a senior coast guard official said here. The container ship, MV SSL Kolkata, that was on its way to the city with 464 containers […]

Kolkata: China is slowly increasing its political, economic and military influence in the Bay of Bengal by forging maritime ties with the countries such as Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh through infrastructural fundings, a senior Indian navy officer said here on Monday. However, there is an amount of skepticism about China’s military initiatives in the […]

Bhubaneswar: Several places in Odisha are likely to get rainfall in next 24 hours under the impact of a low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday. “Rain or thundershower is likely to occur at a few places over south Odisha and at one or two places […]

Bhubaneswar: Heavy to very heavy rainfall are likely to lash several parts of Odisha over the next two days with the low pressure area over Bay of Bengal set to intensify into a depression and then deep depression on Thursday, the weatherman said. Under its impact, rain and thundershower are likely to occur at many […]

Bhubaneswar: With a low pressure area likely to form over the Bay of Bengal around September 6, Odisha may receive heavy to very heavy rainfall for two days from Thursday and heavy rainfall on Saturday. Heavy to very heavy rainfall likely to occur at one or two places over Sundergarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, […]

Yekateringburg (Russia): Hidden from public, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal at Kalpakkam near Chennai, Indian nuclear scientists are in the final throes of starting a high-tech giant stove more than 15 years in the making. This novel nuclear reactor is a kind of an ‘akshaya patra’, the mythical goblet with a never-ending […]

Bhubaneswar: A depression over Bay of Bengal is likely to trigger rain or thundershower accompanied by gusty surface wind by tomorrow in Odisha, which is reeling in scorching summer heat. The well marked low pressure area of yesterday concentrated into a depression over southeast Bay of Bengal today and moved north-northeastwards. The system is likely […]

Bhubaneswar: The Coast Guard has saved the lives of 16 Bangladeshi fishermen whose fishing boat was sinking due to technical snag in the Bay of Bengal. The Coast Guard ship ‘Sucheta Kripalani’ while on routine patrol off Odisha coast sighted a Bangladeshi fishing boat approximately 35 nautical miles East of Paradip. The ship immediately launched […]