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Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a high-level meeting to assess the situation.

Broken trees, mobile towers, wretched electric poles and debris lay scattered on roads of Puri and Bhubaneswar as a category 4 cyclone named "Fani" ripped through the Odisha coast in the early hours of 3rd May.

Cyclone Fani has devastated Odisha's Raghurajpur, the village famous for Pattachitra art.

As PM Modi meets Naveen Patnaik today, reports state that the West Bengal government have declined PMO's request for a review meeting on Cyclone Fani stating that the state officials are busy in election duty. Earlier, Mamata Banerjee had avoided PM's phone call over the same.

UN credits IMD's pinpoint accuracy early warning system for successfully achieving this feat

The central government has already mobilised all possible resources to help citizens in Kerala.

The Indian armed forces along with coast guard and NDRF have been ordered to deploy all additional resources for Kerala floods.

23 people have reportedly died so far, many highways and railway tracks submerged, thousands of people are stranded

Indian media misreports Nepal direction to withdraw rescue teams