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With cyclone 'Biparjoy' likely to make landfall near Jakhau Port in Gujarat's Kutch district on Thursday, the state administration has shifted more than 74,000 people living near the coast as a precaution and deployed disaster management units for rescue and relief measures, said officials on Wednesday.
Star Air and Air India are among the airlines that cancelled their flights to Jamnagar Airport as well as there are no aircraft in the parking at the airport.
With the India Meteorological Department (IMD) alert that the Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Biparjoy will cross Saurashtra and Kutch near Jakhau Port on Thursday, the state of Gujarat has begun evacuation of people from Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a review meeting today as cyclone Biparjoy intensified into an "extremely severe cyclonic storm". It is likely to make landfall between Gujarat's Kutch and Karachi in Pakistan on Thursday afternoon.