NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department IMD ) on Tuesday released a new list of names of tropical cyclones over north Indian Ocean including Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, comprising 169 names including 13 from India such as Gati Aag , Neer, Vyom, Jhar and Jaladhi among others.The current list has, in fact, 13 names each from all 13 member countries of the regional specialised meteorological centres (RSMCs) including Bangladesh, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.Any tropical cyclone that hits the region is known by a name given in the list. Since the earlier list of 2004 is left with only one name - Amphan (shared by Thailand), the IMD being one of the six RSMCs in the world to provide tropical cyclone and storm surge advisories finalised the new list of 169 names.“Naming of tropical cyclones (TCs) helps scientific community, disaster managers, media and general masses to identify each individual cyclone; create awareness of its development; remove confusion in case of simultaneous occurrence of TCs over a region; remember a TC easily and rapidly and effectively disseminate warnings to much wider audience,” said the IMD.Once the last name (Amphan) of the previous list is used, the TCs thereafter will be known one-by-one as Nisarga (shared by Bangladesh), Gati (India), Nivar (Iran) in that order from the list of 169 names.These are the names suggested by general public or scientists from India and other countries. It is finalised by a Committee comprising of meteorologists from all member countries.The other names from India in the new list include Murasu, Probaho, Prabhanjan, Ghumi, Ambud and Vega.The names of TCs over the north Indian Ocean are not repeated. “Once used, it will cease to be used again,” said the IMD in a statement.