GUJARAT RAJYAMA TAJETARMA AAVEL VAVAZODANA KARANE SARKARI SHALAONE THAYEL NUKSHAN NI MAHITI MOKALAVA BABAT
Cyclone Tauktae LIVE: PM announces Rs 1,000-cr relief package for Gujarat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes an aerial survey of Cyclone Tauktae-affected areas of Gujarat | PTI photo
Cyclone Tauktae LIVE updates: As many as 45 people have been killed due to cyclone 'Tauktae' across 12 districts of Gujarat. Fifteen deaths were reported from Amreli district in Saurashtra region, the worst affected in the cyclone that crossed the state coast as an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Monday night and completed landfall around 1.30 am Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday undertook an aerial survey of affected areas in Gujarat and adjoining Union territory of Diu to assess the devastation caused by Cyclone Tauktae. PM Modi is in Gujarat to review the situation in the state in the aftermath of cyclone Tauktae.
Cyclone Tauktae has triggered heavy rains in southern districts of Rajasthan in the last 24 hours while it is expected to weaken in the next 12 hours. The cyclonic storm entered southern Rajasthan late on Tuesday night causing heavy rains in the region and it was centred 60 km southwest of Udaipur on Wednesday morning. In the next 12 hours, the cyclone is expected to weaken and turn into a low pressure area and move to northeast Rajasthan.
At least 22 personnel on board accommodation barge P305 that went adrift in Cyclone Tauktae fury before sinking in the Arabia Sea off Mumbai coast are dead and 65 still missing, a Navy official said on Wednesday. The Navy said its personnel, battling extreme weather, have so far rescued 186 of the 273 people who were onboard barge P305 and also two from tugboat Varaprada.
