{"id":3654,"date":"2026-11-02T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:03:45","slug":"india-evacuates-thousands-ahead-of-second-cyclone-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3654","title":{"rendered":"India evacuates thousands ahead of second cyclone in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Authorities began evacuating people along India\u2019s eastern \u200bcoast on Monday, a day before \u200ca severe cyclonic storm is expected to make landfall in a region recovering from a <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/six-killed-cyclone-off-indias-eastern-coast-2026-10-29\/\">deadly \u200bcyclone<\/a> last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Murasu is \u200bexpected to be less intense than \u2060last week\u2019s cyclone Arnab, where six \u200bpeople were killed, and dozens of houses \u200band crops were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast Murasu to make landfall in the early \u200bhours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 2,000 people have \u200bbeen evacuated, and the process is continuing. We are \u200cplanning \u2060to evacuate some 30,000 people,\u201d Prakhar Jain, managing director of the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority, told Reuters \u200bon Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bcyclone \u2060formed over the Bay of Bengal, a major region for \u200btropical cyclones that has spawned \u200bdeadly \u2060storms on India\u2019s east coast.<\/p>\n<p>IMD expects Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, states along \u2060India\u2019s southeastern coast, to \u200bfeel the brunt of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities began evacuating people along India\u2019s eastern \u200bcoast on Monday, a day before \u200ca severe cyclonic storm is expected to make landfall in a region recovering from a deadly \u200bcyclone last week. Cyclone Murasu is \u200bexpected to be less intense than \u2060last week\u2019s cyclone Arnab, where six \u200bpeople were killed, and dozens of houses \u200band crops were destroyed. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast Murasu to make landfall in the early \u200bhours of Tuesday. \u201cAround 2,000 people have \u200bbeen evacuated, and the process is continuing. We are \u200cplanning \u2060to evacuate&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-3654","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\/3654","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=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}