Cyclone Titli makes landfall at Odisha's Gopalpur


·       Cyclone 'Titli' triggered significant to terribly significant downfall in Ganjam, Gajapati and Puri districts of Odisha, whereas harm of hutments and asbestos-roof ED homes, street lights, road blockade thanks to uprooted trees were reported from Ganjam. The cyclone additionally triggered significant downfall in a minimum of 3 districts and caused minor harm to power and communication.

·       There has been no major harm or report of casualty received from any a part of the state up to now. Some destruction was reported from Ganjam and Gajapati districts," Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) B P Sethi aforesaid. Power offer and phonephone links got discontinuous and road communication snapped thanks to uprooted trees at several places of Gajapati district, the SRC aforesaid. Efforts area unit on to clear roads blocked by uprooted trees and restore power offer in affected areasat the earliest, he said. In all, eight districts - Ganjam, Gajapati, Khurda, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore - are stricken by "very severe cyclone Titli", he said.

·        However, there area unit reports of 2 deaths in separate incidents once cyclone Titli created a landf dead province. Mudalla Surya Rao , 55, resident of Sarubujjilimandal died once his house folded on weekday. While, ThudiAppalaNarasamma (62) died once a tree fell on him in Srikakulam.

·      The cyclone was upgraded to 'very severe cyclonic storm'. up to now no deaths were reported however trees and electricity y poles were uprooted with roads and makeshift mud-brick homes broken.

·       The government has deployed fourteen NDRF groups in state's Balasore, Sambhalpur, Gajapati, Nayagarh, Puri, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur, Ganjam and Bhubaneswar. Whereas four NDRF groups are deployed in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam, Srikakulum and Vijaynagram.
·       The Chief Secretary of the state, Aditya Prasad Padhi, proclaimed the closure of all faculties, faculties and anganwadis on October eleven and twelve.

·       Chief minister Naveen Patnaik took stock of the case and asked district collectors to travel f or a right away evacuation of individuals within the low-laying areas within the coastal belt.
·       In Ganjam district, about 1,000 folks are shifted as cyclone 'Titli' is probably going to create a landfall at concerning five.30 am on weekday.

·       Title is moving with a speed of concerning ten kmph and is probably going to create a landfall between Gopalpur in Odisha and Kalingapatanam in province early weekday morning with a wind speed of a hundred forty five kmph.

·       During consequent eighteen hours, it'll intensify more and is probably going to maneuver north-northwestwards to cross Odisha and north province coast.

·       The storm surge of height of concerning one metre on top of astronomical tide is incredibly possible to inundate the low-lying areas of Ganjam, Khurda and Puri districts.

·       Districts like Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Khurda, Nayagarh, Cuttack, Jajpur, Bhadrak and Balasore area unit expected to receive significant to terribly significant rainf all until weekday.It is probably going to weaken bit by bit solely once re-curving northeastward to maneuver towards Gangetic West Bengal. 
      
      
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The Sahyadri Natural History Society observed the Wildlife Week with photography competitions, books expo and quiz.

KOCHI: With the intention to create awareness about the flora and fauna, Sahyadri Natural History Society (SNHS), an NGO in the city observed Wildlife Week, marking the end of the week with various environment-related programmes.

The celebration, which was held at Adiyodi hall, kick-started with the state-level wildlife photography contest followed by wildlife photo exhibition, district level wildlife quiz for upper primary and high school students of the city, book exhibition on the environment. Two books - ‘Paschimaghattathile Jeevajathikal’ (Endemics of Western Ghats) and ‘Paristhithiyum Jeevajalangalum’ (Environment and Living Things Quiz) - co-authored by T R Jayakumari and R Vinodkumar were released in the function by author Ezhumattoor Rajarajavarma.

“We conduct these competitions every year. For the contest, we had invited entries and those ones were displayed on Sunday. Some of them were exceptionally good and all the students were given prizes for their participation,” said T R Jayakumari, president of Sahyadri Natural History Society.

The function was chaired by T R Jayakumari, R Vinod Kumar and Padmakaran Pillai who also spoke on the occasion. The programme was inaugurated by Magician Gopinath Muthukad. During his inaugural address, he said, “Nature has lost patience on man’s misdeeds against it. It overlooked people for a while and its fury came out as the deluge in August 2018. It was good as it made people be humane for at least a few days.” The first prize in the wildlife photography contest was bagged by Sagu Rafeeq from around 60 photographs received.

The second prize was shared by Aparna Purushothaman and Shiny Jose. P J Stibin and Aparna Purushothaman shared the third prize. The Wildlife Photography Awards consisting of prize money, memento and certificate were distributed by Muthukad. Author Ezhumattoor Rajarajavarma also distributed the Paristhithi Sahitya awards to Suresh Mannarassala and Krishnakumari.

In the quiz programme, 26 teams of students of upper primary and 29 teams of students of higher secondary participated. Sahyadri joint secretary V Venugopal was the quiz master. All the participants were given certificates and environment-related books were given as gifts.


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