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Lucknow, Oct 13: The UP government late Saturday transferred Secretary (Home) and suspended a section officer of the department for issuing a letter that "mistakenly" called senior administration and police officers for a meeting "to discuss the construction of a temple at Ramjanmabhoomi, like the reconstruction of Somnath temple, by enacting a parliamentary law". The letter, issued by Secretary

Gopalpur(Odisha)/Srikakulam(AP), Oct 12: People run for shelter following a cyclone warning at the Bay of Bengal coast in Gopalpur beach in Ganjam district about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of people living along India's eastern coastline were taking shelter Saturday from a massive, powerful cyclone

Ichapuram/Bhubaneswar, Oct 12: Trees are uprooted at Chhatrapur Circuit house due to turbulent winds of Cyclone Phailin in Chhatrapur, Odisha on Saturday. Rain and wind lashed India's east coast on Saturday, forcing about 450,000 people to flee to shelters as one of the country's largest cyclones closed in, threatening to cut a swathe of devastation through farmland and fishing hamlets. Filling

Bhubaneshwar, Oct 12: Bracing for Cyclone Phailin which is expected to hit the east coast on Saturday evening, the National Disaster Management Authority said it has deployed nearly 2,000 personnel of the National Disaster Response Force in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal. Over 4.25 lakh people in Odisha and one lakh in Andhra Pradesh have been evacuated, said Home Secretary Anil Goswami in

Ahmedabad, Oct 12: A Indian fisherman was killed and 30 others were allegedly kidnapped by Pakistani Maritime Security Agency, which took them away in five boats from international waters off Jakhau coast in Gujarat, a member of fishermen boat association said here today. "Pakistani agencies started indiscriminate firing on fishing boat 'Dhanvati', yesterday morning at around four when they were

Bhubaneswar, Oct 12: Strong winds and heavy rains pounded India's eastern coastline on Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of people took shelter from a massive, powerful cyclone expected to reach land in a few hours. The skies were dark - almost black - at midmorning in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha and about 60 miles (about 100 kilometres) from the coast. Roaring winds made palm trees sway

Bhubaneswar, Oct 12: Heavy rains today lashed the coastal belt of Orissa, which is bracing for cyclone Phailin that is set to hit the state by the evening, as authorities shifted 2.5 lakh people to safer place in the state. Heavy rains today lashed the coastal belt of Orissa, which is bracing for cyclone Phailin that is set to hit the state by the evening, as authorities shifted 2.5 lakh people to

Lucknow, Oct 12: A communique of the UP government convening a meeting of senior police officers and the district magistrate of Faizabad to discuss the reconstruction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya on the lines of rebuilding of Somnath temple created a flutter here, even triggering speculation in political circles. The communique issued by Satish Chandra Mishra, secretary to the state government

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi, Oct 12: Touching wind speeds of 210-220 km an hour, Cyclone Phailinis set to hit the Odisha coast between Paradip and Kalingapatnam with full fury on Saturday evening, whipping up a storm surge up to 10 feet above the tide level posing a threat to low-lying villages. Anticipating the cyclone's fury, the state government began Odisha's biggest ever evacuation of shifting more

Bhubaneswar, Oct 11: Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on braced for the “very severe” cyclone that is expected to hit the east coast with winds gusting up to 220 kmph tomorrow evening, as lakhs of people were being evacuated to safer places and the military kept on standby. Cyclone Phailin — the biggest cyclone in years to hit Odisha — is expected to make landfall near Gopalpur in Ganjam district in the