Cyclone alert in West Bengal
A very severe cyclonic storm, nicknamed 'SIDR' and now lying just 250 km south of Kolkata, is fast racing towards the West Bengal coast and was likely to make landfall with a speed of 180 to 200 km per hour by midnight tonight.The worst cyclones in many years has already hit the Bangladesh coast. Around 50,000 people have been evacuated to safer ground in West Bengal and many more in Bangladesh.
