{"id":305577,"date":"2018-11-16T05:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T05:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305577"},"modified":"2018-11-16T05:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T05:21:42","slug":"cyclone-gaja-crosses-tamil-nadu-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cyclone-gaja-crosses-tamil-nadu-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Gaja crosses Tamil Nadu Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305578 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181116-104820__01-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181116-104820__01-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181116-104820__01-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181116-104820__01-696x457.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181116-104820__01-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181116-104820__01-640x420.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181116-104820__01.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The severe cyclonic storm &#8216;Gaja&#8217;\u00a0crossed between the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coast on early Friday, a weather bulletin said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 70,000 people were evacuated from low lying areas and sheltered at over 300 relief centres in six districts including Nagapattinam, Pudukottai, Ramanathapuram and Tiruvarur,\u00a0Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Authority said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Holiday has been declared at educational institutions in Nagapattinam due to Cyclone Gaja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several trees were uprooted in Nagapattinam in the overnight rainfall and strong winds which hit the town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A team of NDRF is carrying out clearance work in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to a weather bulletin, the severe cyclonic storm &#8216;Gaja&#8217; over coastal Tamil Nadu got weakened and moved nearly westwards and lay centred over coastal Tamil Nadu at Atirampattinam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A red alert was issued for the administration in parts of\u00a0Tamil Nadu\u00a0to mobilise resources to meet any eventuality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Schools and colleges will remain closed in various districts of Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Anna University has also postponed its exams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The IMD said in the latest bulletin, \u201cthe severe cyclonic storm is very likely to move nearly westwards and weaken gradually into a cyclonic storm during next few hours.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The severe cyclonic storm &#8216;Gaja&#8217;\u00a0crossed between the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coast on early Friday, a weather bulletin said. Over 70,000 people were evacuated from low lying areas and sheltered at over 300 relief centres in six districts including Nagapattinam, Pudukottai, Ramanathapuram and Tiruvarur,\u00a0Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Authority said. Holiday has been declared at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2534],"tags":[9686,1542,2533,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305577"}],"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=305577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305579,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305577\/revisions\/305579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}