Odisha CM Mohan Majhi and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee continue to monitor situation in their respective states.

Cyclone Dana surged toward the Bengal-Odisha coast on Wednesday, with landfall expected between Bhitarkanika and Dhamara in northern Odisha, approxim

Bhubaneswar: The landfall process of severe cyclonic storm Dana began on Thursday night and was expected to continue till Friday morning, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The storm moved north-northwest at a speed of 15 kmph over the past six hours before making landfall between Bhitarkanika in Kendrapara district and Dhamra in

Bhubaneswar/Kolkata/IBNS: Odisha and West Bengal are set to brace cyclone Dana which has already disrupted normal lives in the two eastern states of India.

Cyclone Dana is likely to make landfall between Bhitarkanika National Park and Dhamra Port in Odisha early Friday with wind speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour (kmph), IMD said. Track all updates here.

IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra on October 24 expected that Cyclone Dana would move north-northwestward and cross Odisha, West Bengal between Puri and Sagar island. “The cyclone Dana intensified into a severe cyclonic storm last midnight and moved north north-westward and today in the forenoon it is lying centred about 200 km southeast.

The Kolkata airport suspended flight operations for 15 hours from Thursday evening in the wake of Cyclone Dana, a senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) official said

Attention for flyers! In the wake of the possible impact of Cyclone Dana, flight operations have been suspended from Kolkata’s Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Air Airport and Bhubaneswar Airport.