Heavy rains: Following heavy downpour in several parts of Tamil Nadu, the authorities in Cuddalore, Mayiladuthurai, and Villupuram districts of the state declared holidays at schools. This comes as the Indian Meteorological Department issued an orange alert on Monday, indicating the possibility of isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall in the coastal regions of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal on …
CHENNAI: As cyclonic storm Mandous, which is expected to make landfall past midnight, approaches the Tamil Nadu coast, the Chennai international airport cancelled more than a dozen flights and state capital Chennai shut down parks. Weather department officials said Manous will cross north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coast between Puducherry and Sriharikota as a cyclonic storm …
The Met Department withdrew red alert for eight districts — Chennai, Tiruvallur, Ranipet, Vellore, Salem, Kallakurichi, Tirupattur and Tiruvannamalai — on November 11 as the depression which caused extremely heavy rainfall to most places in Tamil Nadu began to cross the coast between Chennai and Puducherry. It is very likely to continue to move west north Tamil Nadu and adjoining …
Torrential rains continued to wreak havoc in several parts of Cuddalore district on Saturday inundating low-lying areas. Principal Secretary to Government Gagandeep Singh Bedi said that two types of compensation will be available to farmers whose crops had been damaged in the rains. District Collector Chandra Sekhar Sakhamuri said that the administration was in touch with NLC India Ltd to …
