Cyclone Dana is barrelling toward India ’s east coast, prompting authorities to shut schools and airports and begin evacuating more than one million people. The storm, packing wind speeds of 62-68mph and gusts up to 74mph, is expected to make landfall by early Friday along the coastlines of Odisha and West Bengal.

Over a million people evacuated as India and Bangladesh brace for severe storm - Dana expected to hammer low-lying regions of West Bengal and Odisha, home to 150 million people