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

Ever wondered how cyclones are named? Names are needed to identify them and keep a watch without getting confused. You too can name a cyclone. Watch the video to know more.

Monsoon is expected to advance further up north as Cyclone Vayu loses intensity paving the way for the wind system to move towards the Arabian Sea, the weatherman said Sunday.

On Sunday morning, the cyclone remained centred about 470 km west-southwest of Porbandar, 440 km southwest of Dwarka and 545 km southwest of Bhuj

Ordinary people will have to come on the streets to ensure that their governments actually do so. Thanks to  Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement, England, Ireland, Wales and 558 councils covering 65 million people in 13 countries have declared a climate emergency.

All schools and colleges remained closed, trains cancelled and over 3 lakh people evacuated in anticipation of cyclone Vayu. While the cyclone did not make a landfall in Gujarat, strong winds and rough seas have disrupted life in the state and National Disaster Response Force has been deployed.

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