Tag: Cyclone Effect

These are quintals of fish strewn across the beach and rotting in rain near Chilika, under Krushnaprasad, Puri. They were netted in one bumper catch couple of days back. However, with no takers, it’s all dumped on the shores waiting to get washed away by the tides.

While all crewmen were saved by the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard battling extreme weather conditions in the Arabian Sea during those three harrowing days, a new problem has emerged now with oil seeping out of the stranded vessel, 12 days after it hit the ground.

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that restoration work was going on following the devastation caused by cyclone Fani, that hit the state earlier in the day but weakened soon after. Fani entered Bengal at 12.30 a.m. through Odisha’s Balasore. It crossed Kharagpur, with a wind speed at 70-80 kmph gusting to […]