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A priest carries an idol of Lord Jagannath from a seafront temple to a safer place ahead of Cyclone Yaas’s landfall in Odisha’s Balasore district on May 26, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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The major news headlines of the day, and more. Cyclone Yaas weakened into a severe cyclonic storm on May 26 afternoon after pounding the beach towns in north Odisha and neighbouring West Bengal with a wind speed of 130-145 kmph, inundating the low-lying areas amid a storm surge even as the two eastern states battled the COVID crisis, officials said.