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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A category-4 super <keyword id="6386783" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="CYCLONE">cyclone</keyword> is due to hit <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>'s coast on Wednesday, and thousands of people are being evacuated. </li><li>Super cyclone Amphan is set to bring heavy rain and winds will reach up to 105 miles per hour when it hits, <a href="https://mausam.imd.gov.in/Forecast/marquee_data/indian111.pdf">according to the India Meteorological Department</a>.</li><li>The cyclone comes just after India's <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> cases are at a peak. It reported its <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">highest-ever number</a> of new cases on Sunday. The country is currently easing its lockdown. </li><li>Under social distancing orders, cyclone shelter capacity is reduced by more than half, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/19/asia/super-cyclone-amphan-india-banglash-intl-hnk/index.html">according to CNN</a>.</li></ul>Hundreds of thousands of people in India are in danger as a category-4 super cyclone heads towards the east coast, as the country is still grappling with a serious coronavirus outbreak. The super cyclone, dubbed "Amphan," is set to hit the West Bengal coast on Wednesday.The storm is carrying extremely heavy rains and wind speeds that could reach up to around 105 miles per hour when it hits the land, <a href="https://mausam.imd.gov.in/Forecast/marquee_data/indian111.pdf">according to the India Meteorological Department</a>.The country's director general of the National Disaster Relief Force, Satya Narayan Pradhan, said that as many as 260,000 people in West Bengal and the state of Odisha may need to be evacuated, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/19/asia/super-cyclone-amphan-india-banglash-intl-hnk/index.html">CNN reported</a>. The cyclone also threatens the neighboring nation of Bangladesh. Millions could be uprooted by the storm, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-52718826">the BBC reported</a>. At its height on Monday night, the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center <a href="https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/abioweb.txt">recorded wind speeds of up to 166 miles per hour</a> in the Bay of Bengal.Since then, Super Cyclone Amphan has eased slightly and has been downgraded to a category-4 storm. <div type="image" title="NASA amphan india cyclone" height="512" width="1024" msid="75826820" hostid="261"></div>Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority on Monday, <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/cyclone-amphan-tracker-live-updates-amphan-intensified-into-a-super-cyclonic-storm/liveblog/75796712.cms">according to The Times of India</a>. The West Bengal government halted port operations and began evacuating people from the coast on Tuesday morning, the newspaper reported. Narayan Pradhan said that cyclone shelter capacity will be reduced under coronavirus social distancing orders, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/19/asia/super-cyclone-amphan-india-banglash-intl-hnk/index.html">CNN reported</a>. While West Bengal usually has capacity for 500,000 people, this may be reduced to 200,000.The cyclone comes as India eases its coronavirus lockdown, although the virus is still at a peak. On Sunday, the country reported <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">around 5,000 new cases</a>, its highest number to date. This was followed by around 4,600 new cases on Monday, its second-highest figure.In total, India has reported more than 100,000 cases of the virus and 3,164 deaths. <div type="image" title="storm amphan india kolkata west bengal calcutta cyclone" height="1000" width="2000" msid="75826823" hostid="261"></div>Although the country's lockdown period has been officially extended to May 31, many measures have been relaxed, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/lockdown-extended-till-may-31-but-most-curbs-lifted-states-will-decide-on-transport-and-zones-6414933/">according to The Indian Express</a>.Offices, markets and shops have been allowed to open, and some inter-state travel on buses is allowed, the paper reported. Entertainment and religious venues will remain shut. Districts are being demarcated into "red" "green" and "orange" zones, with differing levels of movement allowed for each. Amphan is the second super cyclone to hit the west coast of India. In 1999, Odisha was devastated by a cyclone that killed nearly 10,000 people, <a href="https://apnews.com/b352ace4688b5c11de7dd3bc9b5dec33">according to the Associated Press</a>. Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-braces-for-super-cyclone-amphan-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

India is about to get hit by a super cyclone at the same time as its coronavirus outbreak is peaking

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/american-airlines">American Airlines</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/alaska-airlines">Alaska Airlines</a> are expanding a partnership agreement, creating a "West Coast international alliance."</li><li>The airlines will expand a codeshare agreement to allow Alaska passengers to connect onto American Airlines international flights from West Coast gateways, and the airlines will expand reciprocal frequent flyer benefits.</li><li>Alaska will also apply to join the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/oneworld">Oneworld</a> airline alliance.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>American Airlines and Alaska Airlines said on Thursday they plan to launch a new partnership, expanding an older arrangement with a new integrated agreement that the airlines are calling a "West Coast international alliance."Alaska also plans to join the Oneworld airline alliance. American is a founding member.American and Alaska already operate a codeshare agreement, which allows Alaska passengers to book an itinerary that includes flights operated by American, and vice versa. The agreement only covers certain flights under specific conditions.Under the new agreement, the codeshare will be expanded significantly and will initially include American Airlines long-haul international flights from Seattle and Los Angeles. Additionally, members of both airlines' frequent flyer programs will be able to earn and use miles on all flights operated by the other airline - an expansion of a current agreement.The codeshare is intended to expand access to international destinations flown by American, so that passengers in Alaska's market can connect to American Airlines long-haul flights, particularly at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport and Los Angeles International Airport.In effect, the arrangement allows American to operate Seattle as an international hub, or gateway, without building up more of a domestic feeder network to the airport. As Delta <a href="https://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/alaska-and-delta-competition-drives-growth-sea-tac">increases its presence at the airport</a>, the partnership with Alaska gives American a new leg up."This is a broad West Coast international partnership," Vasu Raja, American Airlines' senior vice president of network strategy, told Business Insider. "With this we'll be able to grow in Seattle and also in Los Angeles."The move can also help American grow its passenger base at Los Angeles, offering a connecting network from the Northwest through Alaska."The codeshare will broadly take a few forms," Raja said. "One will be Alaska codesharing on American Airlines flights beyond our hub - for example they fly from the West Coast to Chicago and we fly beyond Chicago. The second will be Alaska codesharing on our long-haul services from Los Angeles and Seattle. "The third form is American Airlines putting its code on Alaska Airlines for markets such as Austin to Seattle - Austin is a city where we have a huge presence," he added, while "the fourth is something like Alaska adding its code on a flight like Redmond, Washington, to Phoenix, where we can attract those customers near Redmond to connect in Phoenix."Raja said that the expanded partnership would be introduced in phases."Just so we can be sure that the customer experience is as seamless and positive as possible. But we're keen to expand this thing, because the partnership of American and Alaska is something which is a huge benefit for all of our customers, and really enables the growth of both of us internationally and on the West Coast."Additionally, American announced two new international routes from Seattle: Service to Bangalore, India, starting in October, and to London Heathrow starting in March 2021."Bangalore is the most requested market among all of our corporate clients on the West Coast, and in Austin, Raleigh, and Dallas-Fort Worth. It's one of the biggest business travel markets," Raja said. Flying from Seattle will allow the airline to use a Boeing 787-9 with a full passenger contingent, making the flight commercially viable despite the long distance, he added. The distance between Seattle and Bangalore is nearly 8,100 miles.Numerous tech and IT companies have offices in Bangalore, <a href="https://www.nestaway.com/info/top-30-it-companies-in-bangalore/">including</a> Twitter, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html">IBM</a>, Amazon, Cisco, Deloitte, Dell, and Accenture, leading to a robust demand for travel to the southern Indian city, which is also known as Bengaluru."In Seattle, we'll be able to go and really pioneer markets that wouldn't be physically in the range of any of our other places or hubs, places like Bangalore and other markets in India, Asia, and maybe even further afield than that."The codeshare will begin pending approval from the US Department of Transportation, a spokesperson for the airline said.

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<ul><li>The <keyword id="6375985" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Coast-Guard">Indian Coast Guard</keyword> is ready to start relief work in the eastern state of Odisha in India after <keyword id="7561057" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="cyclone-fani">Cyclone Fani</keyword> made landfall in India today morning. </li><li>They have 34 disaster relief teams and 4 Coast Guard ships helping out. </li><li>The <keyword id="6355100" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Navy">Indian Navy</keyword> also has seven warships on the ground — 3 of which are keeping a watch on the eye of the storm. </li></ul> The Indian Coast Guard and the Indian Navy are <a href="https://twitter.com/IndiaCoastGuard/status/1124174863470456833">standing by</a> to start rescue operations after Cyclone Fani made landfall in India today morning. The Indian Coast Guard has 34 disaster relief teams <a href="https://twitter.com/IndiaCoastGuard/status/1124013333076697089">on the ground</a> and four Coast Guard ships trailing the seas to conduct relief operations in coordination with the states authorities in Odisha to deal with the fall out of what is being seen as one of the most severe cyclonic storms to hit the east coast. 
	
 <div type="image" title="fani1" msid="69157684" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;One of the Indian Coast Guard&amp;#39;s relief teams preparing for relief operations in Odisha&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div>





 The <a href="https://twitter.com/indiannavy/status/1123909181994676224">Indian Navy</a> said it had three of its seven warships deployed for Cyclone Fani keeping watch on the eye of the storm. 
	
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 Seven fixed aircraft and seven helicopters are on stand-by as well. The Navy also has Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR), divers, rubberised crafts and medical teams ready to go. Another three naval ships — Sahyadri, Ranvi and Kadmatt — have been deployed off the coast of Odisha to launch rescue operations. 
	
 <div type="image" title="D5e4lRTU0AAL0jl" msid="69157758" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;INS Sahyadri puts out to sea quietly to provide assistance as Cylone Fani reaches the Indian coast&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div>





 The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) also sent in 50 teams to prepare onground before hand, getting equipment in and training the volunteers. 
	
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 They were also seen evacuating the citizens from areas that are most prone to the effects of Cyclone Fani. 
	
 <div type="image" title="evacinpuri" msid="69157866" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;NDRF conducts door to door awareness and evacuation at Penthakata of Puri, Orissa&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div>





 Over 1 million people have been evacuated from Odisha while 800,000 people have been cleared out in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cylcone-fanis-global-warming-seen-in-nasa-images/articleshow/69138876.cms">Cyclone Fani and the impact of global warming captured by NASA</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/this-live-simulation-of-cyclone-fani-shows-how-dangerously-close-it-to-indias-east-coast/articleshow/69143895.cms">This live simulation of Cyclone Fani shows how dangerously close it to India’s East coast</a>

Cyclone Fani rescue and relief efforts underway as Indian warships deployed to keep guard

<ul><li><keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword> is the second largest trade partner of <keyword id="50996" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="saudi-arabia" source="Orion">Saudi Arabia</keyword> and Saudi Arabia is India's fourth largest trade partner.</li><li>India's imports from Saudi Arabia stood at $34 billion in 2021-22, while exports are aggregated at $8.8 billion.</li><li>Meeting set between Commerce and Industry Minister <keyword id="6355222" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="piyush-goyal" source="Orion">Piyush Goyal</keyword> and Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia Prince <keyword id="5749322" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="abdul-aziz-bin-salman" source="Orion">Abdul Aziz Bin Salman</keyword> on September 18-19.</li></ul> India and Saudi Arabia are expected to formulate a plan of action for strengthening bilateral cooperation in different areas and projects, including the <keyword id="44875" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="west-coast" source="Orion">west coast</keyword> refinery project, an official statement said on Saturday. The issue will come up during the meeting between Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Salman on September 18-19. They would co-chair the inaugural ministerial meeting of the <keyword id="15013219" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="economic-and-investments-committee" source="Orion">Economic and Investments Committee</keyword>. The two ministers are expected to discuss the progress made under the various joint working groups of the economic and investment committee, the <keyword id="6365809" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="commerce-ministry" source="Orion">commerce ministry</keyword> said. "Both sides are expected to formulate plan of action for further strengthening bilateral cooperation in an array of priority areas and projects, including the West Coast Refinery Project, Trans-ocean grid connectivity, Green Hydrogen, Food security, energy security and pharmaceuticals," it said. They may also accelerate progress on the announcement made by Crown Prince <keyword id="2785815" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="mohammad-bin-salman" source="Orion">Mohammad Bin Salman</keyword>, during his visit to India in February 2019, of investments worth $100 billion in India, it added. This committee, it said, is one of the two ministerial verticals established under the framework of the India-Saudi Arabia Strategic Partnership Council, which is headed at the highest level by the Prime Minister of India and the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. India is the second largest trade partner of Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia is India's fourth largest trade partner. India's imports from Saudi Arabia stood at $34 billion in 2021-22, while exports are aggregated at $8.8 billion. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/gross-direct-tax-collections-rise-30/articleshow/94281181.cms">Gross direct tax collections rise 30%</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/telecom/news/chinas-chip-output-shrinks-as-india-us-ramp-up-local-manufacturing/articleshow/94281093.cms">China's chip output shrinks as India, US ramp up local manufacturing</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/idbi-trustee-asks-rcap-administrator-to-withdraw-allegations-of-breach-of-confidentiality/articleshow/94280808.cms">IDBI Trustee asks RCap administrator to withdraw allegations of breach of confidentiality</a>

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