{"id":304038,"date":"2018-10-11T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304038"},"modified":"2018-10-11T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:38:14","slug":"cyclone-titli-live-updates-8-dead-in-andhra-pradesh-3-lakh-evacuated-in-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cyclone-titli-live-updates-8-dead-in-andhra-pradesh-3-lakh-evacuated-in-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone &#8216;Titli&#8217; live updates: 8 dead in Andhra Pradesh, 3 lakh evacuated in Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304039 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cyclone-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/cyclone-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/cyclone-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/cyclone-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/cyclone.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The &#8220;very severe&#8221; cyclonic storm, &#8220;Titli&#8221; that hit the coast in Southern Odisha today left eight people dead, including six fishermen, in neighboring Andhra Pradesh. Titli is accompanied with heavy rains and strong winds resulted in uprooted trees and electric poles causing widespread damage in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Updates:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nearly three lakh people in Odisha&#8217;s five coastal districts were moved to safety as a precautionary measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Eight districts in Odisha have been affected by Titli, including Ganjam, Gajapati, Khurda, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gajapati is the worst hit among the districts, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik directed to deploy two more NDRF teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The flights and train services between Andhra Pradesh and Odisha have also been affected because of Cyclone Titli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Road lines were snapped, power supply and telephone links got disrupted due to uprooted trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Titli caused extreme damage to railway station buildings, platform shelters and foot over bridge at various places.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;very severe&#8221; cyclonic storm, &#8220;Titli&#8221; that hit the coast in Southern Odisha today left eight people dead, including six fishermen, in neighboring Andhra Pradesh. Titli is accompanied with heavy rains and strong winds resulted in uprooted trees and electric poles causing widespread damage in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh. Updates: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014],"tags":[1281,2174,5525,5526,5503,5527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304041,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304038\/revisions\/304041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}