A scene at Anna Salai in Chennai on Saturday (November 29, 2025) during the Cyclone Ditwah.
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B. Velankanni Raj
Cyclone Ditwah moved at a speed of 5 kmph and lay centred over southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu coasts at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday (November 30, 2025), about 160 km south-southeast of Puducherry and 250 km south of Chennai.Â
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The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) has forecast that intense downpour would be largely confined to northern Tamil Nadu on Sunday before rainfall and surface winds begin to gradually ease from Monday (December 1, 2025). Torrential downpour triggered by Cyclone Ditwah battered several south coastal and delta districts of Tamil Nadu since Friday (November 28, 2025) night, inundating residential pockets, damaging standing crops and submerging salt pans even as the system continued to inch towards the north Tamil Nadu coast.
India intensified humanitarian assistance and disaster response under Operation Sagar Bandhu on Saturday (November 29, 2025) for Sri Lanka as the island nation continued to deal with the aftermath of devastating Cyclone Ditwah which has left at least 159 persons dead. India has deployed INS Vikrant and INS Udaygiri to assist the affected families and sent two large cargo aircraft carrying 21 tonnes of relief materials to Colombo.Â
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