People residing in flood prone residential areas in the town and those living on the banks of rivers in rural places are keeping their fingers crossed with the Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, predicting another spell of heavy rainfall in Puducherry and adjoining districts of Tamil Nadu The forecast for heavy rainfall comes at a time when people of flood prone …
PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry-Cuddalore highway remains submerged following heavy rains that caused water from Thenpennai river and irrigation channels to overflow, cutting off traffic on the Reddichavady to Mullodai stretch. “The highway was navigable when I travelled at 8:30 a.m., but by evening, floodwaters had taken over with water gushing,” Deputy Registrar Joseph Naresh S of Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and …
