In a tragic incident, three members of a family lost their lives when an old mud house collapsed in Kundoor, Anantapur district, in the early hours of Wednesday, said police.
The temperature fell by almost 1.5 degrees in the last 24 hours due to cold northwesterly winds that drive down temperatures and signal the start of winter.
The race to the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) final gained a lot of spice and intensity as New Zealand and England were docked three points each for maintaining a slow over-rate in the opening Test of their three-match series.
These internet disruptions lasted for hours, according to Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA), a tool developed by the Internet Intelligence Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
To alleviate passenger discomfort, the government has relaxed security protocols, allowing passengers of flights delayed by over three hours or canceled due to fog, weather or technical issues to disembark and return to the terminal.
According to the Joint Superintendent of Police (SP), "The police are in constant communication with the farmers, we talked to them for 3 hours on Sunday as well. Along with the talks we are also ensuring security, we have prepared a 3-tier security plan, under which 5,000 police official
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday stated that the depression, a remnant of Cyclonic Storm Fengal over the north coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, moved west-northwestward at a speed of 7 km/h during the past six hours and was centred at 11:30 pm on December 1 (Sunday).
The passengers, travelling on Gulf Air flight GF 005 from Mumbai to Manchester, complained of facing discomfort as the airline failed to provide food, accommodation, or basic assistance during their extended wait.
"Now the cyclone had crossed so actually our focus is now shifted to restoration of whatever the damage has been done. There were heavy rainfalls until now. In some areas, 56 centimeter rainfall has taken place from yesterday morning at 8.30 am. So that's a huge rainfall, maybe one-year full
Indian Army troops from the Chennai Garrison Battalion, operating under the Dakshin Bharat Area, were mobilized in the early hours of Sunday to assist in rescue operations in flood-affected areas of Puducherry.
After crossing the north Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts, Cyclone Fengal remains stationary for the last six hours close to the union territory nearly 30 kilometres north of Cuddalore and 40 kms east of Villupuram.