India

JAKHAU, India (AP) — Over 100,000 people who had sheltered from Cyclone Biparjoy in relief camps in western India have begun to return home after the storm weakened and headed toward Pakistan, officials said Saturday.

In the coastal village of Jakhau, where the cyclone made landfall in India’s Gujarat state on Thursday, over 130 people had shifted back to their homes from a government-run shelter by midday Saturday.

India’s powerful home minister, Amit Shah, was expected to visit the village later Saturday and take stock of the situation.

Kanpur: Attending a meeting with the metro officials here lately, the city Mayor Pramila Pandey got angry with the working of metro officials.

She instructed to switch off ceiling fans and ACs in the meeting hall and kept them sitting for one hour without the cooling air.

She wanted to know the exact reason for cutting all the trees.

Questioning about the 118 trees cut for the Metro project she asked them to explain.

Not only this but people were distressed by the logs put outside their homes.  

AHMEDABAD, India/KARACHI, June 16 (Reuters) - Roofs were blown off houses and trees and electric poles uprooted, leaving thousands without power as a severe cyclone made landfall and rain lashed both the Indian and Pakistani coasts early on Friday.

At least two people died in India's western state of Gujarat after being swept away by flood waters just before the cyclone hit.

More than 180,000 people were evacuated in India and Pakistan in the last few days as authorities braced for the cyclone, named Biparjoy, which means 'disaster' or 'calamity' in the Bengali language.

NEW DELHI, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The extremely severe cyclonic storm Biparjoy made landfall on Thursday evening in India's western coastal state of Gujarat, causing uprooted trees, hoardings and electric poles with wind speeds over 100 km per hour.

This is reportedly the longest cyclone witnessed in several years.

As a precautionary measure, power has been suspended in the affected regions and highways near the coastal areas have been closed. All schools and educational institutions have also been shut until Friday.

AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - Roads will be flooded along parts of India's western coast, crops could be damaged and some houses destroyed when a very severe cyclonic storm makes landfall late on Thursday, the country's weather department said.

On Wednesday, the storm Biparjoy was situated in the Arabian Sea about 280 km (174 miles) from Jakhau Port in the Indian state of Gujarat and 340 km from Pakistan's largest city Karachi, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

NEW DELHI, June 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 47,000 people have been shifted to shelter homes in India's western state of Gujarat, as the catastrophic cyclone "Biparjoy" approaches the country's western coastal areas, said government officials on Wednesday.

The cyclone is expected to make landfall on Thursday.

A senior official of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Mohsen Shahidi told media persons that the process of evacuation of people from the coastal areas had been underway for the past two days.

NEW DELHI, Jun 13 (NNN-PTI) – Two boys were killed and two others went missing, after venturing into the rough sea in Mumbai, the capital city of India’s south-western state of Maharashtra, officials said today.

The boys, aged between 12 and 16, went into the sea last night, ignoring calls from a lifeguard at the city’s Juhu beach.

“The boys went missing nearly half a kilometre from the shore,” a local government official said.

NEW DELHI (AP) — An earthquake struck the eastern India-controlled Kashmir region Tuesday, sending tremors throughout New Delhi and parts of northern India. The quake was also felt in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan.

The quake had a 5.4 magnitude and its epicenter was in Doda, a small town in India-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, according to India’s National Center for Seismology. The quake was at a depth of 6 kilometers (3.7 miles).

In Pakistan, many people fled their homes and offices in the capital, Islamabad, and the city of Lahore.

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Pakistan’s army and civil authorities are planning to evacuate 80,000 people to safety along the country’s southern coast, and thousands in neighboring India sought shelter ahead of Cyclone Biparjoy, officials said Tuesday.

The cyclone is forecast to slam ashore in the densely populated region on Thursday. It is likely to be the most powerful to hit western India and Pakistan since 2021, and follows devastating floods that ravaged Pakistan last year, leaving 1,739 people dead and causing $30 billion in losses.

MUMBAI, June 12 (Reuters) - A storm off India's west coast has strengthened to become a powerful cyclone and could hit India's western state of Gujarat and southern parts of Pakistan this week, the Indian weather department said on Monday.

The cyclone, named Biparjoy, is expected to make landfall on Thursday afternoon between Mandvi in Gujarat and Karachi in Pakistan with maximum sustained wind speed of 125-135 km (78-84 miles) per hour, gusting to 150 km (93 miles) per hour, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.