<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">India has handed over humanitarian assistance and disaster relief  to Myanmar which was ravaged by cyclone Mocha on May 14. Ambassador Vinay Kumar handed over the relief material to the people affected by the Cyclone Mocha to Yangon Region Chief Minister on Thursday under 'Operation Karuna'.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"><br />''</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The relief material brought by the INS Shivalik, INS Kamorta and INS Savitri included food items, tents, portable generators, clothes, water pumps, medicines, tarpaulins, hygiene and sanitary items, wheel chairs, face masks etc. Another ship INS Gharial with emergency materials and medical kits will be arriving shortly on Friday. The materials are being sent immediately to the Rakhine state for distribution among the affected communities.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"><br />''</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Cyclone Mocha swept across the Rakhine coast with wind speeds of over 200 kmph leaving a trail of devastation in its wake, particularly in Sittwe. The Cyclone, in addition to Rakhine state, severely damaged homes, infrastructure and farms in parts of Chin state, Magway and Sagaing regions.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The Military government of Myanmar announced that the death toll due to Cyclone has reached 145 till Friday.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"><br />''</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that close to 8 lakh people urgently require food assistance in Rakhine and Magwe states.</span></p>