Over three dozen people have lost their lives, and more than two lakh have been affected across the northeastern states due to flash floods, heavy rains, and landslides caused by Cyclone Remal over the past few days.
The result of the Assembly elections in the northeastern states of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh will be announced on Sunday, two days ahead of the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections.
Over three dozen people have lost their lives, and more than two lakh have been affected across the northeastern states due to flash floods, heavy rains, and landslides caused by Cyclone Remal over the past four days.
The agricultural sector in Tripura is on the brink of collapse, with betel nut farmers bearing the brunt of the crisis. The Tripura State Committee of the All-India Krishak Sabha (AIKS) has sounded the alarm on the severe economic deprivation facing thousands of farmers in the state.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the "grim" flood situation in Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, and Sikkim on Friday.
"The Southwest Monsoon has advanced into the remaining parts of the northeast Bay of Bengal and some parts of the northwest Bay of Bengal, remaining parts of Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam and most parts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim," said the weather department.
"The landfall time of the cyclone was around 11:30 PM on 26th May in nearby areas of West Bengal & Bangladesh coast. After that, the movement was towards the north and northeast. On May 27th in between afternoon-night, it crossed Tripura. After that, it moved towards the northeast and i
"Severe Cyclonic Storm Remal over Coastal Bangladesh and adjoining Coastal West Bengal weakened into Cyclonic Storm at 0530hrs of the 27 May about 70km northeast of Canning and 30km west-southwest of Mongla. The system is likely to gradually weaken further," IMD posted on X.
After making landfall over coastal areas of West Bengal and Bangladesh, severe Cyclonic storm 'Remal' would continue to move nearly northwards for some more time and then north-northeastwards and weaken gradually into a Cyclonic Storm, as per the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on M