West Bengal

A man removes bamboo rooftop of a damaged hut following Cyclone Yaas in Digha

Cyclone Yaas Leaves More Than 1.5 Lakh Homeless in Eastern India

Jatindra Dash and Subrata NagChoudhury 28/05/2021

In West Bengal's Sundarbans delta, which stretches into Bangladesh,...

A woman stands next to her stall damaged by heavy winds at a shore ahead of Cyclone Yaas in Bichitrapur

Cyclone Yaas Makes Landfall Over Odisha, Destroys Thousands of Mud Homes

Jatindra Dash and Subrata NagChoudhury 26/05/2021

Cyclone Yaas was packing gusts of up to 140...

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Ahead of Cyclone Yaas, Tornado Strikes West Bengal’s South

The Wire Staff 26/05/2021

Cyclone Yaas has intensified into a very severe cyclonic...

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India Braces for Cyclone Yaas on Eastern Coast after Tauktae

The cyclone is likely to make landfall on May...

Ahead of Cyclone Tauktae in Veraval

Cyclone Yaas Likely To Intensify Into Very Severe Cyclonic Storm: IMD

Last week, the extremely severe cyclone Tauktae hit South...

COVID-19 vaccination in Kolkata

Is Vaccination Protecting Bengal’s Elderly People From COVID-19?

Anirban Mitra 19/05/2021

By mid-May, 8.9 million people in West Bengal had...

COVID-1 vaccination drive in Karad

India Records Highest Single-Day Vaccination Coverage

Cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the...