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Severe Cyclone Tauktae Slams India’s West Coast By Pratik Parija and Debjit Chakraborty | May 17, 2021
A severe cyclonic storm is set to slam India’s west coast, home to major refineries and ports, prompting authorities already grappling with a savage second virus wave to evacuate people and patients to safer areas.
Cyclone Tauktae, equivalent of a category 3 hurricane, will hit the Gujarat state on Monday evening, with wind speed seen surging as high as 185 kilometers (115 miles) per hour, according to the India Meteorological Department.
The “extremely severe cyclonic storm,” which was about 145 kilometers away from the financial hub of Mumbai by midday, may bring heavy rainfall to the affected regions, damage houses and disrupt electricity supply, it said.
a recognition of her efforts to combat extremism after Taliban
militants shot her in the face. Satyarthi, 60, is a children’s
rights activist whose organization has rescued more than 80,000
children from bondage, trafficking and exploitative labor.
“Alone, Malala and Satyarthi are both great individuals
whose work in education with young people links them,” Nikita
Sud, an associate professor of development studies at the
University of Oxford, said by phone. “But it’s too simplistic
to boil down their identities to Hindus, Muslims, Indians and
Pakistanis and makes them part of their national jingoism,
which neither have chosen to do.”
The two countries saw as many as one million deaths in