{"id":1619,"date":"2018-11-12T13:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:50:34","slug":"cyclone-gaja-alert-sounded-in-tamil-nadu-andhra-pradesh-and-puducherry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/12\/cyclone-gaja-alert-sounded-in-tamil-nadu-andhra-pradesh-and-puducherry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Gaja alert sounded in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities on Sunday warned fishermen against venturing into the Bay of Bengal until Thursday and asked those in the mid-sea to return to shores as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a cyclone red alert for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Andhra Pradesh.\u00a0\u201cThere will be a cyclonic storm, which may not be of severe intensity. So, fishermen in these states have been asked to stay away from the sea till November 15,\u201d said IMD meteorology director M Mohapatra.\u00a0Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Puducherry will receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on November 14 (Wednesday), which will not be less than 20 cm.\u00a0Tamil Nadu\u2019s chief secretary Girija Vaidyanathan would chair a meeting at the state secretariat on Monday to discuss the measures to be taken in dealing with the cyclone.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/thiruvananthapuram-vizhinjam-thiruvananthapuram-destruction-southern-cyclonic-depression_508a6ef8-e5d9-11e8-b876-ee7dab6cad6d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/thri.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1622\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1622 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cyclone-300x144.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cyclone-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cyclone-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cyclone.png 895w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclone Gaja alert in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities on Sunday warned fishermen against venturing into the Bay of Bengal until Thursday and asked those in the mid-sea to return to shores as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a cyclone red alert for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Andhra Pradesh.\u00a0\u201cThere will be a cyclonic storm, which may not be of severe intensity. So, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1730],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-cyclone-gaja"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}