Cyclonic Storm Thane

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  Cyclone Biparjoy To Bring Thunderstorm In Coastal Maharashtra, Warns Weather Office

  Cyclone Biparjoy has intensified into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm and lies centered over the east-central Arabian Sea.

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  Cyclone Tauktae Expected To Hit Gujarat In Evening, Mumbai Airport Shuts

  Cyclone Tauktae - an 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' - is "very likely" to make landfall in Gujarat's Bhavnagar between 10 and 11 pm, with winds up to 165 km per hour. At 2.30 pm it was 165 km west-northwest of Mumbai and moving at 15 km per hour.

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  Crisis Management Body Reviews Prep To Face Cyclone Nisarga

  Nine districts in Maharashtra and Gujrat including Mumbai, Thane, Surat and Bhavnagar have been put on high alert by the Home Ministry as Cyclone Nisarga approaches. Cyclone Nisarga will make landfall along the Maharashtra coast on Wednesday with high wind speed ranging up to 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph, and heavy rain and storm in Mumbai and ...

• CPI urges Centre to expedite sanction of relief

  Observing that cyclone-Thane had caused extensive damage, the CPI has slammed the Centre for "delay" in sanctioning relief to Puducherry. It was a pity that the Centre was yet to announce the relief for Puducherry although more than ten days have passed since the cyclone lashed the coast, CPI national secretary D Raja, who visited the storm-ravage...

• AIADMK seeks Rs 2500 cr compensation for cyclone-hit areas

  Opposition AIADMK in Puducherry has said the Union Territory suffered Rs 2500 crore damage in the wake of the cyclonic storm that crossed the coast on Dec 30. In a memorandum submitted to the inter-ministerial Central team during its visit to Puducherry yesterday, AIADMK demanded that each house fully damaged in cyclone-Thane should be paid compen...

• Cyclone Thane: Inter-ministerial team meets state officials

  An Inter-Ministerial team deputed by the Centre to assess the damage in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry by cyclonic storm 'Thane' today met state officials, headed by Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi.

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  Day after storm, hunt on for water, milk

  A day after cyclone Thane unleashed a wave of destruction, hapless people in the worst-hit Cuddalore district were struggling get essential items, including water and milk, even as officials stepped in to provide relief.

• Cyclone Thane batters Tamil Nadu, Puducherry; toll rises to 42

  Relief operations were launched on war-footing to bring back normalcy in Cyclone Thane battered Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district and the adjacent Puducherry, as the toll caused by the severe storm mounted to 42 today.

• Jayalalithaa allots Rs 150 cr for immediate cyclone relief

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday alloted Rs 150 crore for immediate relief measures and directed four Ministers to visit the districts which bore the brunt of cyclonic storm 'Thane'.

• Ryots alerted over crop damage by Thane

  With the cyclonic storm Thane closing in on the Bay of Bengal coast, the state government issued a high alert on Thursday.

• Threat to Andhra Pradesh recedes, cyclone changes direction

  The very severe cyclonic storm Thane changed its direction and is likely to make a landfall near Chennai on Friday morning.

• Cyclone 'Thane' to reach Tamil Nadu by early Friday morning

  The severe cyclonic storm Thane is expected to cross the north Tamil Nadu coast between Nagapattinam and Chennai, close to Puducherry early on Friday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.

• Cyclone Thane: Tidal waves continue to slam Andhra coast

  High tidal waves continued to slam the Andhra Pradesh coast today under the influence of severe cyclonic storm 'Thane' in the Bay of Bengal which is likely to cross north Tamil Nadu coast between Nagapattinam and Chennai tomorrow.

• High tidal waves lash Andhra coast

  Fear gripped coastal Andhra as high tidal waves lashed the coast under the impact of cyclonic storm 'Thane' which is set to cross the coast between Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh Dec 30. According to the India Meteorological Department , the cyclonic storm over southwest and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal remained practica...

• Cyclone 'Thane' to hit Andhra, Tamil Nadu coasts

  The south Andhra and north Tamil Nadu coast is facing the threat of a cyclone later in the week with a cyclonic storm formation in the Bay of Bengal likely to intensify and hit the coast between Tamil Nadu and Andhra on December 30, the weather office said on Tuesday.