{"id":323412,"date":"2020-05-21T05:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T05:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323412"},"modified":"2020-05-21T05:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T05:46:53","slug":"cyclone-amphan-causes-widespread-destruction-in-bengal-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cyclone-amphan-causes-widespread-destruction-in-bengal-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Amphan causes widespread destruction in Bengal, Odisha"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-323415 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cyclone-amphan-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/cyclone-amphan-3.jpg 749w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/cyclone-amphan-3-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/cyclone-amphan-3-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/cyclone-amphan-3-696x432.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/cyclone-amphan-3-677x420.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/>Cyclone &#8216;Amphan&#8217;, one of the worst storms, made landfall in West Bengal and Odisha causing widespread destruction. At least 12 people were killed in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kolkata airport was flooded as the cyclonic storm devasted Bengal after it made landfall yesterday,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of houses were blown away, trees uprooted and\u00a0waterlogging in several parts of Kolkata due to the cyclonic storm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kolkata has suffered from massive damages to buildings including some reports of structures being collapsed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) is carrying out relief restoration work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Expressing concerns, West Bengal\u00a0Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in a tweet said, \u201cI am distressed at the loss of lives and property #Amphan. Was in constant touch with agencies for last few days. Their commitment has minimised damage. It has left behind a trail of destruction. Worst since decades. All need to come forward for massive relief work\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the\u00a0India Meteorological Department (IMD), the cyclone is likely to weaken into a deep depression during the next 3 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCyclonic Storm \u2018AMPHAN\u2019 lay over Bangladesh at 0530 hrs IST of today. To weakened into a Deep Depression during next 3 hrs,\u201d IMD tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said he was deeply anguished by the loss of lives and devastation caused to crops and public and private properties by Amphan cyclone in West Bengal and Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMy appreciation to the State administrations for timely evacuation of lakhs of people to safer places and undertaking rescue &amp; relief operations in coordination with the central NDRF teams in the affected areas. My condolences to bereaved families,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone &#8216;Amphan&#8217;, one of the worst storms, made landfall in West Bengal and Odisha causing widespread destruction. At least 12 people were killed in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday. Kolkata airport was flooded as the cyclonic storm devasted Bengal after it made landfall yesterday, Thousands of houses were blown away, trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014,2917],"tags":[13034,2174,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323412"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323418,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323412\/revisions\/323418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}