{"id":305547,"date":"2018-11-15T07:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T07:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305547"},"modified":"2018-11-15T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T07:56:01","slug":"cyclone-gaja-to-hit-tamil-nadu-coast-ndrf-teams-on-stand-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cyclone-gaja-to-hit-tamil-nadu-coast-ndrf-teams-on-stand-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Gaja to hit Tamil Nadu coast, NDRF teams on stand by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/cyclone-gaja-to-hit-tamil-nadu-coast-ndrf-teams-on-stand-by\/gaja\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305548\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305548 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gaja-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Gaja-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Gaja-696x640.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Gaja-457x420.jpg 457w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Gaja.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Cyclone Gaja centred over Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm and cross Tamil Nadu coast between Pamban and Cuddalore in the next 12 hours on Thursday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The wind speed would be touching 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph, the IMD added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In its Thursday bulletin, the IMD said, the cyclonic storm moved at 14 kmph and lay centred over east-northeast of Nagapattinam of Tamil Nadu at 5:30 am and it is likely to move west-southwestwards and cross between Pamban and Cuddalore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Schools and colleges have been closed in Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Ramanathapuram and Pudukottai districts in Tamil Nadu and in Karaikal district in Puducherry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Anna University has cancelled all its examination scheduled for Thursday amid cyclone warnings from IMD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Tamil Nadu, teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were on stand by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several relief centres have been established in view of the cyclone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone Gaja centred over Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm and cross Tamil Nadu coast between Pamban and Cuddalore in the next 12 hours on Thursday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The wind speed would be touching 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph, the IMD added. In its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2534],"tags":[9689,9687,9686,1477,1852,9688,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305547"}],"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=305547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305550,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305547\/revisions\/305550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}