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IRDAI asks insurers to expedite “Cyclone Fani’ claims
The regulator wants insurers to report the claims settled for the cyclone related deaths in Odisha and neighbouring states ona daily basis.
Cyclone Fani: PM grants Rs 1,000 cr more for relief work; hails CM Patnaik
“I would like to praise the people of Odisha. Shifting 12 lakh people is not easy. Lives have been saved, that’s more important for me. The central government will also give Rs 2 lakhs to the kin of those who have lost their lives due to Cyclone Fani. Also, Rs 50,000 will be given to those who have got injured,” Modi said.
Cyclone Fani: Death toll rises to 29 in Odisha, CM announces relief package
Announcing a relief package for those affected by the calamity, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said all families in Puri and in those parts of Khurda, which had been “extremely severely affected” in the storm, will get 50 kg of rice, Rs 2,000 in cash and polythene sheets, if covered under the Food Security Act (FSA).
From its formation to landfall, how IMD tracked cyclone ‘Fani’
Data was processed under different weather models by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. These two institutes have two supercomputers that process data. Twelve hours before the landfall, we kept sending updates on locations to concerned states every half hour using our radars, besides releasing hourly bulletins, IMD’s Director General K J Ramesh. said
How do you save a million people from a cyclone? Odisha has the answer
This is so different from 20 years ago, when a fearsome cyclone blasted into this same area and obliterated villages, killing thousands. Many people were caught flat-footed in their homes. Some of the dead were found miles from where they had lived, dragged away by raging cascades.
Cyclone Fani laeves 12 dead, causes severe disruptions, damages properties and crops in Orissa
Summer crops, orchards and plantations have been devastated in large scale, said government sources. Also, mobile towers at many places were blown away, disrupting telecommunication services. “All telecom services are down in Puri district,” said Special Relief Commissioner Bishnupada Sethi
Cyclone Fani moving towards Bangladesh, no major impact in Bengal
“It is very likely to move further north-northeastwards and enter Bangladesh around noon as a deep depression with wind speeds of 50-60 kmph, gusting to 70 kmph,” Deputy Director General of the Regional Meteorological Centre here Sanjib Bandyopadhyay told PTI.
Cyclone Fani:Massive restoration and relief work launched in Orissa
The extremely severe cyclonic storm, which made landfall at Puri on Friday, unleashed copious rain and windstorm that gusted up to 200 kmph, blowing away thatched roofs of houses, swamped towns and villages, before weakening and entering West Bengal, they said.
UN praises India’s zero casualty policy, evacuation of 1 million
“The almost pinpoint accuracy of the warnings, the early warnings from the IMD, allows them to conduct a very well targeted evacuation plan which resulted in 1.1 million people mainly moving to about 900 cyclone shelters.”