Airlines and train services suspended and heavy rain lashes in West Bengal and Odisha. Follow The Hindu's live updates on Cyclone Dana

The cyclonic storm is expected to make landfall in Odisha and southern Bengal early Friday, bringing heavy rain and thunderstorms.

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.

Trees were uprooted and power infrastructure was hit at isolated places in Bhadrak and Kendrapara districts while disaster response forces cautiously treaded to remove obstructions along road

Severe Cyclonic Storm Dana will hit between Bhitarkanika and Dhamara in Odisha from Thursday night to Friday morning. Wind speeds will reach up to 120 kmph. West Bengal and Odisha have started evacuations and set up shelters.

Over a million people have been evacuated and flights and trains have been suspended as India’s eastern regions and Bangladesh braced for a severe cyclone. Cyclone Dana is expected to hammer the low-lying regions of West Bengal and Odisha,

India is evacuating nearly 1.5 million people from the eastern states of Odisha and West Bengal as Cyclone Dana nears, with landfall expected within the next 24 hours. Authorities have deployed thousands of relief workers and set up temporary camps to safeguard those in the cyclone’s path.

Please follow this space for all the news and latest updates on Cyclone Dana which is expected to make its landfall on Friday. The cyclonic system formed over the east-central Bay of Bengal on Wednesday and is set to bring heavy rainfall in several districts of southern West Bengal including North and South 24 Parganas,

As Cyclone ‘Dana’ barrels toward the Odisha coast, threatening to impact nearly half the state’s population, the government is racing against time to execute a massive evacuation plan aimed at relocat

Cyclone Dana has prompted the Odisha government to close schools and advise fishermen to avoid going till October 24