-IANS/ Business Standard More than two days after Severe Cyclonic Storm Shaheen moved well away from Dwarka on India's western coast, the IMD continues to issue advisory/bulletin giving its latest location, predicted track. More than two days after the Severe Cyclonic Storm Shaheen moved well away from Dwarka on India's western coast, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) continues to issue advisory/bulletin giving its latest location and predicted track. On Sunday, the 2 p.m....
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Odisha seeks immediate supply of fertilisers for ongoing crop season
-The Hindu In a letter addressed to Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, CM Naveen Patnaik said the State witnessed a severe shortage in the supply of different fertilisers during May, June and July. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has sought the immediate restoration in supply of fertilisers as its shortage is likely to badly affect Kharif crop season. In a letter addressed to Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday, Mr....
More »Sundarban Farmers Need a Rice Variety That Is Salt-Tolerant But Also Marketable -Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
-TheWire.in The increasing frequency of cyclones means growing high-yielding varieties – which do not grow well on saline soil – is no longer an option. Kolkata: Cyclone Aila of 2009 had triggered a wave of migration from the Sundarbans region, after the storm surges associated with the cyclone inundated thousands of acres of land with saline water from the rivers and the seas and left them uncultivable for years to come. It...
More »Cyclone Yaas: Eight lakh people impacted in Jharkhand; about 12,000 people evacuated
-The Hindu/ PTI This is the first time in the history of Jharkhand that the State is facing such a Severe Cyclonic Storm. As storm 'Yaas' enters Jharkhand, the State remains on high alert and has evacuated about 12,000 people to safer zones while operations are still on to minimise damage from the cyclone that pounded neighbouring Odisha and West Bengal, officials said Wednesday. The storm has weakened into a deep depression, and...
More »Cyclone Yaas likely to intensify into very Severe Cyclonic Storm: IMD
-The Hindu/ PTI Cyclone Yaas is likely to intensify into a “very Severe Cyclonic Storm” and cross the Odisha and the West Bengal coasts on May 26, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday. A low pressure area formed over the east-central Bay of Bengal and the adjoining north Andaman Sea on Saturday. While a low pressure area is the first stage of formation of a cyclone, it is not necessary that...
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