A holiday for all government and private schools, as well as colleges, on Tuesday (December 3), has been announced due to heavy rainfall caused by Cyclone Fengal, said Puducherry's Education Minister,
Entire Puducherry town is flooded in yesterday’s heavy downpour of 46 cm rainfall, the highest since 2004 when it was 21 cm.
Cyclonic Storm Fengal crossed the North Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts during the early hours of Sunday morning and is likely to continue moving west-southwestward, weakening into a deep depression within the next few hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Moving at a much reduced speed of 6 kmph than the previous 13 kmph, the centre of the cyclonic system would take another three to four hours to cross the coast, the Regional Meteorological Centre said.
President Droupadi Murmu has appointed new Governors in nine states and a new Lieutenant Governor in Puducherry.
The test positivity rate was 1.81 per cent while fatality and recovery rates were 1.46 per cent and 97.85 per cent, respectively.
The plant will take care of 15 per cent of the electricity demand of JIPMER and save Rs 1.7 crore in electricity bills every year as per the present power tariff rates
As many as 5.84 lakh people coming under the category of either senior citizens or those above 45 years with comorbidities have been vaccinated so far in the union territory.
The Election Commission recently announced polls for the vacant Rajya Sabha seats from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
The department has, till date, vaccinated 38,175 health care workers and 23,005 front line workers against the pandemic.
