Relief Trucks Looted by Villagers In Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore District

Chennai airport was returning to normalcy after resuming operations on Sunday.

From Tollywood, Nandamuri Brothers, NTR and Kalyan Ram, Mahesh Babu, Ravi Teja and actor Varun Tej have announced aid for the flood victims. As part of our efforts to help the flood victims, we have waived off the commission for all remittances to “Chief Minister’s Relief Fund” Tamil Nadu State, India and “Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund” India, so that more people can reach out with more funds in the need of the hour.

Indian Cricket team, as a matter of fact, required a bit more involvement looking at the fact that families of two of the team’s prominent members hailed from Chennai.

She said special camps for two weeks starting on December 14 will be held to issue duplicate land title deeds, educational certificates, cooking gas connection cards, voter identity and Aadhar cards and bank passbooks free of cost.

Just as the Tamil Nadu governmetn has faced criticism over its poor drainage systems, the British government has drawn flak as multimillion-pound defences have failed to contain the flood damage. Only technical flights and ferry services were operated today.

“Rumours of surplus water being released are also a cause of serious worry”, Revathi Vasan, of West Mambalam, told IANS. “We are working with the local water and sewage agencies to disinfect the worst-hit areas”. Experts say the heavy rainfall was linked to the El Nino weather pattern, when the waters of the Pacific Ocean get warmer than usual. The absence of effective storm-water drainage systems means that the water has nowhere to go and quickly inundates low-lying areas and roads throughout the city. AmeriCares is also delivering water purification tablets and jerry cans in areas without access to clean water.