{"id":3344,"date":"2026-10-27T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:03:45","slug":"india-evacuates-thousands-as-cyclone-arnab-nears-eastern-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"India evacuates thousands as Cyclone Arnab nears eastern coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thousands of people were evacuated along India\u2019s eastern coast, and some train services cancelled, authorities said on Tuesday, one day before \u200ba severe cyclone was scheduled to make landfall, bringing gusting winds \u200cand heavy rain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In neighbouring Nepal, authorities cautioned tourists against venturing into high-altitude areas as they feared Cyclone Arnab could trigger torrential downpours, snowstorms and avalanches in the Himalayan region from \u200bThursday night through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The risks come at a time when the \u200bmountainous country is starting to recover from a <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/nepal-ends-search-rescue-after-flood-focuses-rehabilitation-2026-10-05\/\">deadly flash flood<\/a> \u2060in August, which killed about 1,500 people.<\/p>\n<p>Arnab, which formed over the Bay \u200bof Bengal, has intensified since Monday, India\u2019s weather office said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u200bexpected to make landfall in the southern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh by Wednesday morning, bringing strong winds and intense showers to parts of the state as well as \u200bneighbouring Odisha state.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 50,000 people had been moved to shelters from vulnerable areas by \u200bMonday night, out of 400,000 estimated to need evacuation, Prakhar Jain, Managing Director of Andhra \u200cPradesh State \u2060Disaster Management Authority, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvacuation is continuing,\u201d Jain added.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no evacuations in Odisha so far, Rajesh Prabhakar Patil, Special Relief Commissioner of Odisha, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The state had already announced <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/india-evacuate-thousands-cyclone-arnab-nears-eastern-coast-2026-10-26\/\">closure of schools and colleges<\/a> in \u200bfive districts for \u200bTuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Television showed waves crashing on deserted beaches and shuttered shops lining the streets along affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>At least 12 trains were \u200bcancelled in the east, while rail services on 53 routes \u200balong \u2060the southern coast were suspended for Tuesday and Wednesday, regional railway authorities said in social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>The Bay of Bengal is one of the world\u2019s major \u2060regions for \u200btropical cyclones, which makes India\u2019s eastern coast \u200bparticularly vulnerable to sea-linked weather disasters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people were evacuated along India\u2019s eastern coast, and some train services cancelled, authorities said on Tuesday, one day before \u200ba severe cyclone was scheduled to make landfall, bringing gusting winds \u200cand heavy rain. In neighbouring Nepal, authorities cautioned tourists against venturing into high-altitude areas as they feared Cyclone Arnab could trigger torrential downpours, snowstorms and avalanches in the Himalayan region from \u200bThursday night through Saturday. The risks come at a time when the \u200bmountainous country is starting to recover from a deadly flash flood \u2060in August, which killed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}