Cyclone plays spoilsport with Navy Day celebrations in Vizag
Cyclone Jawad played a spoilsport on this year’s Navy Day celebrations by Eastern Naval Command here on the picturesque beachfront on Saturday
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Visakhapatnam Cyclone Jawad played a spoilsport on this year's Navy Day celebrations by Eastern Naval Command here on the picturesque beachfront on Saturday.
The programmes planned to commemorate Indian Navy's role in 1971 in the war with Pakistan, with a limited number of officials and Naval personnel to showcase three-dimensional power of Navy was dropped due Cyclone Jawad threat.
ENC headquarters earlier cancelled wreath-kaying ceremony in honour of war heroes at War Memorial on beach road due to the cyclone.
A naval official said the Chief of Eastern Naval Command hosted the traditional at home party in the evening.
Earlier, Navy said the
Band concert was held on Friday night. Saturday's wreath-laying which was planned in the morning at War Memorial and the illumination by ships at anchorage in the evening had been cancelled due to cyclone Jawad, an official told Bizz Buzz.
