Nearly 81 crew are reported missing, after a barge was sunk, about 35 nautical miles from Mumbai in the Mumbai Offshore Development Area, after a cyclone Tauktae ripped through it, even as the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard continued search and rescue operations (SAR) on Tuesday.
The Congress leader Rajeev Shankarrao Satav from Maharashtra passed away following the post-COVID-19 complications at a private hospital in Pune on Sunday, May 16, 2021, creating a void in the Congress.
At least eight people died, over 500 houses were damaged, hundreds of trees were uprooted and roads were blocked as gale-force winds, heavy rainfall, and high tidal waves swept the coastal belt of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra, as Cyclone Tauktae hurtled northwards towards Gujarat, forcing evacuation in low-lying areas on Sunday.
As anticipated the torrential rains and fierce winds, influenced by Cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea, leaving a trail of destruction in coastal areas of Kerala, when hundreds of families living close to the sea had to abandon their homes and rush to relief camps set up by the state government in the face of massive sea-incursions on Saturday evening.
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