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Cyclone Amphan, weather forecast today live news updates: The IMD warned that the high-velocity winds might cause extensive damage to mud houses and partial damage to 'pucca' structures

Amphan cyclone news: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has also sent 10 teams to Odisha and seven to West Bengal. It is expected to make landfall on May 20

Cylone Amphan: Under its impact, the coastal districts of West Bengal, including North and South 24 Parganas, Kolkata, East and West Midnapore, Howrah and Hooghly will experience heavy to very heavy rain on May 19 and 20

Cyclone Amphan: The extremely severe cyclone would have wind spread between 166 and 221 km/hr. It may bring heavy rainfall to the coastal regions of Odisha and West Bengal

Light rain and cooler temperatures in the southeast of the country were a welcome change from the searing heat that has fueled the devastating fires, but officials warned they were not enough to put out almost 200 fires still burning

As part of revival efforts, VRS was introduced for the staff of the two telecom firms and December 3 was the last date for submitting the applications

Ravi Shankar Prasad said a total of 79,000 employees of BSNL and 14,000 out of 20,000 employees of MTNL have applied for the VRS scheme which the government has come out with to reduce the employee cost

Hundreds of trees were uprooted by the winds gushing at a speed of more than 100kilometre/hour in the last 48 hours as cyclone Bulbul hit Bengal and Orissa, moving towards Bangladesh. Cyclone Bulbul smashed into the low-lying areas of Bangladesh. Watch the video for more.

Cyclone Bulbul: Around 6,000 homes were partially or fully damaged. No major damage was reported in camps in southeastern Bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar are living

Cyclone Bulbul: Due to Bulbul, heavy rainfall battered the city of Kolkata and several trees were uprooted.

Cyclon Bulbul: Squally wind with speed of 50 to 60 kmph with gusts up to 70 kmph was likely to prevail over Kolkata during the night, the Met office said.

Cyclone Bulbul: Several flight operations will remain suspended at Kolkata Airport from 6.00 pm today till 6.am on Sunday, November 10

Bulbul cyclone updates: West Bengal, Odisha that fall in Cyclone Bulbul's path brace for impact as IMD warns of heavy rainfall, harsh sea conditions from Nov 8 onward

Rajkot weather forecast: The IMD's Ahmedabad office has placed an orange alert for Rajkot district ahead of the India-Bangladesh 2nd T20I to be played in the evening

Vadodara rains: A release by the state government said that Vadodara received 442 mm rainfall, the highest in Gujarat between 8 am to 8 pm on Wednesday. Of this, 286 mm of rain fell in just four hours ending at 8.00 pm, it added.

The ministry, currently headed by Amit Shah, received a modest 5.17 per cent hike over the revised estimate of 2018-19 amounting to Rs 1,13,167 crore

The monsoon's progress will help farmers to accelerate sowing of summer-sown crops, which has been lagging due to a delay in the arrival of monsoon rains