Bhubaneswar, Oct. 26 -- Odisha is bracing for another cyclone as a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal intensifies and moves toward the east coast. The State government has directed district officials in all 30 vulnerable pockets to be in preparedness for the exigencies of the situation.
Distant Cautionary Signal No-I (DC-I) has been hoisted at all ports of Odisha. Senior officials of the revenue and disaster department today advised marine fishermen not to venture into the sea until October 29.
The deep depression, centred today at 11:30 am over the southwest Bay of Bengal, is about 920 km south-southeast of Gopalpur (Odisha). The IMD's Bhubaneswar regional centre stated the system is likely to intensify into a Cyclonic Storm within the...