The death toll from an outbreak of a tropical disease linked to heavy rainfall in Australia's northeast has increased to 26.
The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai, has issued a heavy rainfall alert for several districts in Tamil Nadu, forecasting significant precipitation on April 2 and 3.
Ahead of cyclone Fengal (pronounced fenjal) making landfall early on Sunday near the Puducherry coast, Chennai and surrounding districts are pounded by heavy downpour accompanied by gutsy winds without any respite.
Flash floods caused severe property damage in northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province on Saturday, a local official said on Sunday.
State agricultural minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay yesterday conducted a review meeting of Hooghly district zilla parishad to assess the total loss of paddy crops and vegetables due to untimely heavy rainfall followed by cyclone Dana and also from the release of water from DVC dams.
The building department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is keeping a tab on old dilapidated buildings in view of the heavy rainfall and storm which may hit the city as fallout of cyclone Dana.
The low-lying areas of Durgapur have been inundated due to heavy rainfall, and the district magistrate of West Burdwan, S. Ponnambalam, has directed the civil administration to relocate marooned people to safer areas.
Battered by the torrential downpour, the worst is over for Chennai as the deep depression in the Bay of Bengal, expected to bring extremely heavy rainfall, has moved towards Tirupati and Nellore in south coastal Andhra Pradesh.
Continuous heavy rainfall has destroyed most of the flowering plants at the ‘valey of flowers’ at Hossainpur under Haroa in North 24-Parganas, one of the major flower supplier villages to city
Together with a cyclonic circulation in the Bay of Bengal and a low pressure area in the Arabian Sea, north-east monsoon is set to commence on October 16 and 17 following which a red alert has been issued for extreme heavy rainfall for Chennai and neighbouring districts of Tamil Nadu for the two days.
