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Cyclone Ditwah moved astatine a velocity of 5 kmph and laic centred implicit southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining northbound Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu coasts astatine 2:30 a.m. connected Sunday (November 30, 2025), astir 160 km south-southeast of Puducherry and 250 km southbound of Chennai.
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The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) has forecast that aggravated downpour would beryllium mostly confined to bluish Tamil Nadu connected Sunday earlier rainfall and aboveground winds statesman to gradually easiness from Monday (December 1, 2025). Torrential downpour triggered by Cyclone Ditwah battered respective southbound coastal and delta districts of Tamil Nadu since Friday (November 28, 2025) night, inundating residential pockets, damaging lasting crops and submerging brackish pans adjacent arsenic the strategy continued to inch towards the northbound Tamil Nadu coast.
India intensified humanitarian assistance and catastrophe response nether Operation Sagar Bandhu connected Saturday (November 29, 2025) for Sri Lanka arsenic the land federation continued to woody with the aftermath of devastating Cyclone Ditwah which has near astatine slightest 159 persons dead. India has deployed INS Vikrant and INS Udaygiri to assistance the affected families and sent 2 ample cargo craft carrying 21 tonnes of alleviation materials to Colombo.
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