Cyclone Dana To Make Landfall In Odisha Tonight, Authorities Evacuating People

Heavy rain lashed parts of Odisha and West Bengal on Thursday. This comes as authorities in the two states were racing against time to evacuate lakhs from several coastal districts before Cyclone Dana’s expected landfall tonight. As per IMD, cyclone Dana is threatening to impact nearly half of Odisha’s population, with Bengal expected to witness extremely heavy to very heavy rains.