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India intensified humanitarian assistance and catastrophe effect 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.
In summation to the 2 ships, INS Sukanya near Vishakhapatnam with alleviation worldly and is expected to scope Sri Lanka soon, said authoritative sources. High Commission of India successful Colombo is helping stranded Indian passengers astatine Bandaranaike International Airport aft flights were cancelled. They are being provided food, h2o and different assistance by Commission’s officials.
Two National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams comprising 80 rescuers and 4 trained canines, led by P. K. Tiwary, Commandant, 8th Battalion, flew retired from the Hindon Air Force Station aboriginal connected Saturday on an Indian Air Force IL-76 craft bound for Colombo. These teams are equipped with inflatable boats, hydraulic cutting and breaching tools, precocious connection gear, first-aid kits, and different indispensable rescue instrumentality to behaviour search, rescue and humanitarian alleviation operations successful affected areas of Sri Lanka. Indian Navy helicopters rescued respective persons from flood-affected areas connected Saturday, said the authoritative spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry.
This determination deployment is successful summation to NDRF’s home preparations to woody with the cyclone’s aftermath. As of Saturday, 14 teams were already positioned crossed susceptible coastal districts of Tamil Nadu including Villupuram, Chengalpattu, Tiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, Pudukkottai and Mayiladuthurai. Further, further teams were being mobilised for Puducherry, portion 10 much teams from 5th Battalion (Pune) and 6th Battalion (Vadodara) are en way to Chennai arsenic portion of proactive readiness, an NDRF connection said.
The NDRF is monitoring the concern round-the-clock successful adjacent coordination with India Meteorological Department (IMD), National Disaster Management Agency, State governments, Foreign Ministry, and different cardinal stakeholders to guarantee synchronised and seamless effect operations astatine some home and planetary levels, it added.
According to the IMD update connected Saturday, Ditwah, which is stationed implicit southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining northbound Sri Lanka, moved “nearly northwards” with the velocity of 10 kmph during past six hours and laic astir 80 km northeast of Jaffna (Sri Lanka), 90 km east-southeast of Vedaranniyam, 120 km southeast of Karaikal, 220 km south-southeast of Puducherry and 330 km southbound of Chennai.
“It is precise apt to determination north-northwestwards and scope implicit southwest Bay of Bengal adjacent North Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining southbound Andhra Pradesh coasts by aboriginal greeting of November 30.
Light to mean rainfall was apt implicit astir parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, with dense to precise dense showers astatine galore locations and isolated highly dense rainfall (>20 cm) implicit coastal areas connected November 29, extending to northbound coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry connected November 30 earlier gradually decreasing connected December 1. Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam and Rayalaseema are expected to person dense rainfall connected November 30, followed by a gradual simplification connected December 1, the bureau forecast added. The tempest is expected to peter retired disconnected the Andhra seashore successful the oversea by Monday.
