Thane Cyclone

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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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  Reeling From 2nd Wave Of Covid, Mumbai Now Braces For Cyclone Tauktae

  The IMD has issued an alert for Mumbai and Thane and asked civic authorities to remain updated

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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 ...

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  Cyclone Ockhi: Schools, Colleges In Mumbai, Parts Of Maharashtra Closed On December 5

  The Maharashtra government has ordered precautionary holiday for schools and colleges in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Sindhudurg, Thane, Raigad and Palghar districts tomorrow due to "serious weather predictions" in view of Cyclone Ockhi.

• Tamil Nadu government to construct one lakh houses for cyclone affected

  Tamil Nadu government would construct one lakh concrete houses for the people in Cuddalore and Viluppuram districts, hit badly by the cyclone Thane last year. Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today announced allocation of Rs 1,000 crore for the project under which 90,000 houses would be constructed in Cuddalore and 10,000 houses in Viluppuram.

• Repair work allottment after Cyclone Thane illogical: Madras High Court

  The Madras High Court has observed that the manner in which road repair works in cylone Thane-hit Villupuram district had been split up and awarded to a small group of contractors did not satisfy the laid down procedure and appeared to be wholly illogical.

• Rs 45.34 lakh compensation given to cyclone hit fishermen

  The Puducherry government today handed over Rs 45.34 lakh as financial aid to 57 fishermen of Nallavadu coastal village to enable them buy fishing boats or repair those partially damaged in Thane cyclone in December last year.

• High Court tells Centre, Government to spell out relief measures on Thane

  The Madras High Court directed the Centre and Tamil Nadu government to spell out the specific relief measures being taken by them to alleviate hardships of those hit by cyclone 'Thane' in the state in the last week of December 2011.

• Walmart Foundation donates Rs 50 lakh to cyclone-hit farmers

  The Walmart Foundation, a division of the world's largest retailer Walmart, has donated USD 100,000 (about Rs 50 lakh) to farmers in Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu, who were severely affected by cyclone Thane last year. International humanitarian organisation CARE and Walmart Foundation are currently engaged in cashew value chain at the district...

• Neyveli Lignite Corporation to contribute Rs two cr to CM's cyclone relief fund

  Workers of Neyveli Lignite Corporation would donate one day's salary, amounting to Rs two crore, towards the Chief Ministers Thane Cyclone Relief fund, a top NLC official said.

• Fishermen to stage demo over 'delay' in cyclone relief

  Fishermen in the union territory today said they would stage a demonstration before the Fisheries Department office on February 13 to protest the 'delay' in giving relief to those affected by the December 30 cyclone Thane.

• Villagers stage road block over cyclone relief

  More than 1,000 residents of a village in Cuddalore district, which bore the brunt of cyclone Thane in December last, staged a road roko on the Vidudhachalam-Chennai road here today alleging relief amounts had not been paid to a majority of households in the region.

• Villagers in Cuddalore stage road block over cyclone relief

  More than 1,000 residents of a village in Cuddalore district, which bore the brunt of cyclone Thane in December last, staged a road roko on the Vidudhachalam-Chennai road yesterday alleging relief amounts had not been paid to a majority of households in the region. Uma Maheswari, president of the Village Women's Association of Pudukuppam village, ...

• Tamil Nadu to construct one lakh concrete houses in cyclone-hit districts

  Tamil Nadu Government would construct one lakh concrete houses at a cost of Rs 1000 crore to replace damaged huts in the Cyclone Thane affected districts of Cuddalore and Villupuram, Governor K Rosaiah said today.