Cyclone Bijli The Department of Relief and Rehabilitation in Bangladesh provided 450 metric tonnes of rice to four districts, 200 of which was sent to Chittagong. To prevent an outbreak of post-storm diseases, the World Health Organization activated 1,105 medical teams in the country. A storm surge of was also expected to impact coastal areas of Myanmar close to the Bangladeshi border. An estimated 6,000 fishing trawlers were to return to port by the afternoon of April 17. Following the devastating results of Cyclone Nargis almost a year prior, officials in Myanmar urged residents along the coast to evacuate. Thousands of residents
Nargis New York. Upon her return to India, her condition deteriorated and she was admitted at Breach Candy Hospital in Bombay. Nargis went into coma on 2 May 1981 after she became seriously ill and died the next day. Less than a week after her death, on 7 May 1981, at the premiere of her son's debut film "Rocky", one seat was kept vacant for her. Nargis was buried at Badakabarastan in Marine Lines, Mumbai. A street in Bandra, Mumbai, was renamed Nargis Dutt Road in her memory. One year after her death, The Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Foundation (Barshi Maharashtra)