Chennai and Cyclone Thane!

Cyclone Warning has been given to all coastal areas including Chennai today. Fishermen are not allowed to enter into the sea for any cause. People living near shore were asked to evacuate until the storm moves from Chennai.

This severe cyclone is named "Thane" and that lay centered over southeast of Bay Bengal this morning and expected to moves towards Chennai and other coastal areas by tomorrow Morning.

City is showered with thin drizzling from the morning and the dark clouds have been spread across Chennai and other cities in Tamil Nadu. Most of School and Colleges were announced Holiday today and tomorrow.

Chennai people seem to be enjoying this super cool climate playing and getting drenched in rain. As per the official news from Tamil Nadu Government, heavy rainfall is expected once the storm moves from Chennai.

But Tamil Nadu government fear there could be damage of groundnut and paddy fields across the state. Puducherry and North Tamil Nadu could experience heavy rainfall upto 25 cm from tomorrow early morning. Now after 20:00hrs today, wind blowing in speed of 55-70 kmph. 

CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was funded in 1947 by signing of the National Security Act by former President Harry S. Truman(April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953). This is also used to create a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to serve as head of the United States intelligence community, This is used as a principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to the national security of states; and formed to serve as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 amended the National Security Act to provide for a Director of National Intelligence who would assume some of the roles formerly fulfilled by the DCI, with a separate Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Present director general of CIA is Leon E. Panetta assumed office February 13, 2009

The director general serves as the head Director of National Intelligence his responsibilites include :

Collecting information from appropriate human sources and acting according to that

Correlating and evaluating intelligence relating with national security and to give appropriate

dissemination of such intelligence at right time