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Cyclone Hudhud Hammers Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, India; Damage May Top $1 Billion

by The Daily Eye Team October 14 2014, 3:57 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 41 secs

Cyclone Hudhud roared across India's eastern seaboard on Sunday leaving widespread damage to trees and buildings and killing at least six people despite a massive evacuation effort in the coastal states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu was urging India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to declare the storm a national calamity, India Today reports. The state government has not officially determined the cost of damage, but estimations are saying it could be at least Rs 10,000 crore,' or 100 billion rupees (around ?$1.632 billion U.S. dollars), The Times of India reported. According to the BBC, Hudhud brought winds of 127 mph as it passed near Visakhapatnam, uprooting hundreds of trees and bringing down power lines. The storm has since weakened but continues to deliver high winds and drenching rain.

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Piroj Wadia


PIROJ WADIA is a journalist of long standing, she was Assistant Editor for Cine Blitz and  The Daily,  and   edited TV & Video World, India’s first & only authentic television magazine. She is  equally ardent about television as  she is about films, and critiques both. She has been keenly watching and observing television since the 1990s and has witnessed the industry’s growth and sea changes.   She has  served on the jury for the Indian Television Academy (ITA)  and the  Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA); and on the script committee of the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI). Currently, she is  researching on the contribution of the Parsis to Indian cinema.

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