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Chennai airport on Monday announced that it has shut its operations till 11 pm ahead of Cyclone Michaung that is expected to make landfall in the next 24 hours, causing torrential rains. "Airfield closed for arrival and departure operations till 2300 hrs IST today due to severe weather conditions," said Chennai airport on social media platform X. 33 flights have been diverted from Chennai to Bengaluru at the airport due to heavy rain and strong wind since midnight. The heavy rain has led to severe waterlogging across the city and other parts of the state.

Catch all the LIVE Updates on Cyclone Michaung hereCyclone Michaung live: As Cyclone Michaung approaches towards the North Tamil Nadu coast, several areas of Chennai were left inundated due to heavy rainfall and severe waterlogging. The rainwater accumulated to the extent that the vehicles were completely submerged in water.

Michaung' is expected to make landfall tonight in Southern Andhra Pradesh and the North coast of Tamil Nadu, several parts of Chennai continue to receive heavy rainfall with very strong winds. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescued around 15 people from Chennai's Tambaram area as it witnessed severe waterlogging.

Puducherry. Cyclone 'Michaung' is expected to hit the west-central Bay of Bengal off south Andhra Pradesh and adjoining north Tamil Nadu coasts by December 4 forenoon, and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed 21 teams for rescue and relief operations, the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) informed on Sunday.

The people were rescued amid waterlogging and power outages near Peerkankaranai and Perungalathur neighbourhoods in the Tambaram area. Parts of Chennai received torrential downpours as cyclone 'Michaung' approached the coast. Earlier, on Sunday, a State Disaster Response Team of more than 100 members arrived in the Kanchipuram district as the state geared up to tackle all possible threats and contingencies arising out of approaching Cyclone Michaung, which is expected to make landfall on December 5 in coastal Andhra. The cyclone, brewing in the Bay of Bengal, is likely to cross the coasts of northern Tamil Nadu and southern Andhra Pradesh around December 4. The India Meteorological Department informed on Sunday that the deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm, Michaung, over the same region. Following the IMD's cyclone warning in the Bay of Bengal, local cautionary Signal Number III has been hoisted in Chennai, Cuddalore and Ennore ports to alert people. The looming cyclonic storm over the Southwest Bay of Bengal prompted meteorological authorities to issue a comprehensive rainfall warning for several regions in southern and eastern India. Rainfall intensity increased on Sunday, with most places experiencing heavy to very heavy rainfall. Isolated, extremely heavy rainfall is anticipated on December 3. Rainfall is expected at most places on December 4, with heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated locations. Isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely on December 5 but is likely to ease off thereafter.

sobering placement season this year. For thousands of to-be engineers in the class of 2024, the number of hirings is expected to taper, although salaries may not drop by much. “IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi have informed the companies with an explicit request not to defer joining dates as was done in 2023," said a partner at a consulting company that has recruited 8 -11 students from the IITs in the ongoing campus placements.

IMD, heavy rainfall is likely to occur over Vellore, Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Thiruvannamalai, Kallakkurichi, Cuddalore and Kancheepuram. Meanwhile, the remaining part of the state might witness thunderstorms and lightening. Meanwhile, high tides were witnessed in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, as a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm 'Michaung' (pronounced Migjaum).

Michaung. The cyclone is expected to make landfall in Andhra Pradesh on December 5 while prompting rainfall in various parts of the country.

Cyclone Michaung, brewing over the Bay of Bengal, is expected to skip the city and make landfall between Nellore and Machilipatnam with winds that could pack speeds of upto 100 kmph on Tuesday morning. Speaking to ANI, Sunanda, MD, Visakhapatnam Cyclone Warning Centre, India Meteorological Centre, said, «The deep depression over Southwest Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards with a speed of 18 kmph during the past 6 hours and lay centred on December 2, 2023, over the same region near Latitude 10.6°N and Longitude 83.6°E, about 440 km east-southeast of Puducherry, 450 km east-southeast of Chennai, 580 km south-southeast of Nellore, 670 km south-southeast of Bapatla and 670 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam.» «It is likely to move west-northwestward and intensify into a cyclonic storm over the Southwest Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours. Thereafter, it would move northwestwards and reach the west-central Bay of Bengal off south Andhra Pradesh and adjoining north Tamil Nadu coasts by the December 4 forenoon,» she added. «Thereafter, it would move nearly northwards, almost parallel and close to the south Andhra Pradesh coasts and cross the south Andhra Pradesh coasts between Nellore and Machilipatnam during the forenoon of December 5 as a cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 80-90 kmph, gusting to 100 kmph,» she informed further. Also sharing his bytes on Cyclone 'Michaung', S Balachandran, deputy director general of Meteorology, Chennai, told on Saturday, «There is depression over the South West Bay of Bengal.

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Admiral R Hari Kumar said the Indian Navy has appointed its first woman commanding officer in a naval ship in sync with its philosophy of 'all roles-all ranks' for female personnel. Commander Prerna Deosthale is presently the First Lieutenant of warship INS Chennai, the Indian Navy said. She hails from Mumbai and joined the Indian Navy in 2009, Free Press Journal reported.

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Realty firm Brigade Enterprises will develop a new residential project in Bengaluru, comprising 1,275 units, and expects to earn a revenue of around Rs 2,000 crore. In a statement, Brigade on Saturday said it has launched a housing project — Brigade Sanctuary, spread across 14 acres on the Whitefield-Sarjapur Road.

Cyclone 'Michaung', a holiday is declared on 04.12.2023 (Monday) for all colleges in Puducherry, Karaikal, and Yanam regions," it said in a statement. All schools in Puducherry, Karaikal, and Yanam regions will also remain closed on December 4, 2023. The cyclone is predicted to hit India's eastern coast.

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Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer, accusing him of being caught “red-handed" accepting a bribe of ₹20 lakh from a doctor in Dindigul district. As per an official release, authorities noted that Ankit Tiwari and his ED officers team had allegedly been intimidating multiple individuals, demanding bribes under the pretext of settling cases within the Enforcement Directorate.

Also Read: Tamil Nadu rains: IMD predicts heavy to very heavy rains in Chennai and THESE districts till 4 Dec. Check forecast here "The low-pressure area has now after observation intensified into a depression near southeast and adjoining areas neighbourhood. So in the next 24 hours, it is further intensified into a deep depression.

weather department has also predicted heavy rain at isolated places over Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai and Cuddalore districts of Tamil Nadu, Karaikal area. For 3 December, IMD has predicted heavy to very heavy rain at a few places over Tiruvallur, Chennai, Kancheepuram, Ranipet, Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Cuddalore and Mayiladuthurai districts of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry while heavy rain over Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Kallakurichi, Perambalur, Ariyalur, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts of Tamilnadu and Karaikal area.

₹21 per cylinder in various locations throughout the country. The hike will come into effect from today i.e.

all-India House Price Index (HPI) moderated to 3.4 per cent in the July-September quarter of 2023-24 from 4.5 per cent in the year-ago period, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India on Thursday. The RBI releases HPI-based on transaction-level data received from the registration authorities in 10 major cities.

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