Kolkata, Dec 5 The West Bengal government stopped ferry services on the Hooghly River and urged tourists not to visit seaside resorts, as rai..
The East Coast Railway on December 2 had already cancelled the operation of 95 trains for three days in the wake of predictions of a cyclonic storm hitting the Odisha coast.
NDRF Director General (DG) Atul Karwal told reporters during a briefing here that while 46 teams have been deployed or pre-positioned in the vulnerable states, 18 teams have been kept in reserve.
The forecast said that the low pressure area in south Andaman Sea will intensify into a depression and move towards the coast as a cyclonic storm on December 4 and the Coast Guard has initiated extensive pre-emptive measures in the eastern coast keeping it in view