Cyclone Nivar updates: LG Kiran Bedi thanks Centre for support to Puducherry
New Delhi, Nov 27: At least three people were killed in Tamil Nadu, over 1,000 trees uprooted and some low-lying areas marooned due to water-logging following heavy rains on Thursday as severe cyclonic storm Nivar made landfall near Puducherry.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Kiran Bedi on Thursday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind expressing gratitude to the centre for its support to the UT administration in its preparedness to face cyclonic storm Nivar.
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Water-logging in #Puducherry's Kamaraj Nagar today, following landfall made by #CycloneNivar last night pic.twitter.com/T2je83uNOv
— ANI (@ANI) November 26, 2020
Puducherry: National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clear uprooted trees in Kamaraj Nagar area#CycloneNivar pic.twitter.com/OcNNmPCL9l
— ANI (@ANI) November 26, 2020
Puducherry: CM V Narayanasamy visits different areas to assess damage by #CycloneNivar
— ANI (@ANI) November 26, 2020
"Heavy rainfall of 23 cm in 24 hours was observed. No report of loss of life. We've never seen such torrential rains here. Electricity in the city will be restored in 12 hours," he says pic.twitter.com/JCWDno6LkC