2016: Full list of Indian States, Capitals and their Chief Ministers; Union Territories and capital cities | India News Bulletin Names and capital cities of all Indian States and an up-to-date list of Chief Ministers and their political parties 2016: Full list of Indian States, capitals and their Chief Ministers Tuesday, 24 May 2016 - 3:09pm Updated 6 weeks ago Archana Venkatraman December 05, 2016 UPDATE: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha passed away at Chennai's Apollo Hospital at 23:30 IST following a heart attack. She was 68. In a statement, Apollo Hospitals said: "It is with indescribable grief we announce the sad demise of our esteemed honourable chief minister of Tamil Nadu - Thalavi Amma. O Panneerselvam has taken over as temporary Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu immediately. Gujarat has a new Chief Minister - Vijay Rupani. Anandiben Patel announced on August 1, 2016 that she will quit her post. The BJP has accepted her resignation.

Her resignation comes amid allegations that Anandiben Patel has been unable to manage or control major uprisings in Gujarat including the recent case where four Dalit men were thrashed. Nitinbhai Patel, too oath as Deputy CM. After Telangana split from Andhra Pradesh to become the newest -- 29th -- State of India on 2nd June 2014 with Hyderabad as the capital of the new state and Amravathi as the capital of Andhra Pradesh, we make a refreshed and updated list of all the states, their capital cities and their chief ministers. [The list is updated as and when local government elections take place.] India comprises 29 States and seven Union Territories. A Chief Minister is an elected head of the local government in a State for a five-year term and can serve unlimited number of terms. Union Territories, unlike States, are directly ruled by the central government. But some Union Territories in India di have a local legislature and a chief minister (such as Delhi or Chandigarh). Indian States and Ministers: Chennai - Wikiquote Chennai Jump to: navigation , search Modern Chennai Chennai (formerly Madras) is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu .

Located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal , it is the biggest industrial and commercial centre in South India , and a major cultural , economic and educational centre. According to the provisional results of 2011 census , the city had 4.68 million residents, making it the sixth most populous city in India . Contents Quotes[ edit ] Globalised Chennai is no longer the hamlet-tish Madras of slow days and early nights, quiet avenues and conservative lifestyles . And yet, beneath the gloss lies the old sheen of kapi-tipan [Coffee and Snacks] and Carnatic music . Globalised Chennai is no longer the hamlet-tish Madras of slow days and early nights, quiet avenues and conservative lifestyles . And yet, beneath the gloss lies the old sheen of kapi-tipan [Coffee and Snacks] and Carnatic music . Biswajit Balasubramanian and Ranjitha Ashok, in Lots to laugh about (11 April 2005) Today, Tamil Nadu has become the largest manufacturing hub, both for electronic hardware, consumer durables and automobiles.

Industry-friendly government policies, proximity to the port , a traditional engineering base are factors that have made the City the ‘Auto Hub’ of India . M. R. Venkatesh, in "Chennai has emerged as India's Detroit (20 April 2014)." It (Chennai- Sriperumbudur - Oragadam ) is already an automobile hub with so many companies. Its location and access to a sea port is a big plus. Spokes person for Hyundai Motors, in "Chennai has emerged as India's Detroit (20 April 2014)." Appreciation in the value of the Rupee against the US dollar , interrupted power supply, increased bank rate and labour issues are the reasons cited for the (manufacturing group’s) setback. Becoming a ‘ Detroit ’ has taken so many years, but staying there seems equally challenging for the State. Tamil Nadu Economic Survey Report, in "Chennai has emerged as India's Detroit (20 April 2014)." Parrys corner Business area of Chennai The economic base of Chennai City had shifted from trade and commerce to administration and services by the early part of the 20th Century.

In the post- Independence period, manufacturing became an important sector and Commissionerate of Municipal Administration (CMA) continues to be the most important industrial area in the State. Recent trend shows that the economic structure of the City is tertiarised with growing contribution by Information Technology /Information Technology Enabling Service/ Business Process Outsourcing Industries . Headquarters of the Corporation of Chennai . K. V. Raman: One of the oldest parts of Chennai is Tiru-alli-keni, anglicised as Triplicane , which means the sacred lily tank. The place is named after the large, beautiful tank in front of the temple of Lord Parthasarathy ... The Corporation of Chennai (previously Madras) is the Oldest Municipal Institution in India established on the 29th September 1688. A charter was issued on the 30 December 1607 by East Indian Company constituting the "Town of Fort St. George " and all the territories thereunto belonging, not exceeding the distance of ten miles from the Fort, into a Corporation.

Corporation of Chennai , in About Corporation of Chennai Sir Josiah Child , one of the directors of the East India Company was responsible for the formation of the Corporation of Chennai, on the model of Dutch Government in the East Indies . On 29th September 1688, the corporation was inaugurated with power to decide petty cases, levy rates upon the inhabitants for building of schools , a town hall and a jail . Nathaniel Higginson was nominated as First mayor with 12 aldermen and 60 burgesses . Corporation of Chennai , in "About Corporation of Chennai." Over the years, the City has developed in trade , commerce and industry . Chennai City is the biggest industrial and commercial centre of South India . There are about 15,000 industries and factories licensed in the Chennai City. Corporation of Chennai , in "About Corporation of Chennai." One OF the oldest parts of Chennai is Tiru-alli-keni, anglicised as Triplicane , which means the sacred lily tank. The place is named after the large, beautiful tank in front of the temple of Lord Parthasarathy .

The beauty of the place, its thick groves, tall mansions and the architecture of the temple have been extolled by Tirumangai Azhwar in a string of 10 verses (padikam). The temple is unique in many ways. It has two main shrines built back-to-back — one facing East (for Lord Parthasarathy) and the other facing West (for Lord Narasimha ). K. V. Raman, in Unique temple The first architectural expansion of the temple took place during the reign of the Pallavas (Tondaiyar Kon) as vividly described by Tirumangai Azhwar. Reminiscent of this is the inscription of the Pallava King Dantivarman (796-847 A.D.), which is preserved in the temple. K. V. Raman, in "Unique temple". The temple witnessed a major expansion during the rule of the Vijayanagar kings like Sadasiva Raya , Sriranga Raya and Venkatapati Raya II (16th Century). Many sub-shrines and pillared pavilions (mandapas) like the Tiruvaimozhi Mandapa were added. K. V.

Raman, in "Unique temple". The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai (29 October 2008)[ edit ] Fort St. George . [Damarla] Venkatapathy sought access to British trade partners, and so granted to the company’s representatives a fishing village , Madraspatnam and surrounding territory . The Fort, built south of Madraspatnam, came to be known to Indians as Chennapatnam, after Venkatapathy’s father, either in deference to the wishes of Damarla Venkatapathy or the site originally bore that name. Chennai Corporation accounts for the use of the name “Madras” over the prior 350 years as the product of “ confusion ” asserting that the original place names were inexplicably reversed, with Chennai taken to refer to the fishing village and Madras to the fort and environs and that, as a result, historians drew the erroneous conclusion that Madras was the more accurate name. Mary E. Hancock, quoting Madars Metropolitan Authority, in p.

227 Partisan of both “Madras” and “Chennai” used those names to assert that the city was, from its inception, a volatile borderland , a point of contact, mixing, hybridity . For its part “Chennai” suggests the frontier of pre-modern empire , whereas “Madras” is a frontier of modern imperial expansion . Both names, however, assert that the city is a “glocality” – a global entrepot in which diverse population , exchange media , languages , and ideas were brought into intimate and enduring relationships, and, more recently, a product of and staging ground for globalizing capitalism . Mary E. Hancock, modified the word ‘glocalisation’, coined by Roland Robertson to capture the articulation of global and local forces in the article “Globalization or Glocalization” published in the Journal of International Commemoration 1, no. 1 (1994):33-53, quoted in pp. 54, 227 ”Chennai” or variants also appear in descriptive essays and literary works as names for the city that the English know as Madras.

The Vishvagunadrasa Campu (composed between 1650 and 1700) and Anandarangavijaya Campu, composed in 1752 refer to the settlement as Chenna Kesava Pura and to “Chenna Patna”, and the Sarva-deva-vilasa uses the term “Cennapuri” or “Cennapuram” as the place name Peterson, in "Eighteenth Century Madras through Indian Eyes", quoted in p. 219 Critics of the name change favoured the retention of “Madras” and took the incoherence of its spatial form and built environment as their point of departure. Instead of treating these qualities as sins of lack, however, they celebrated them as artifacts of the city’s origins as a colonial port and its status as the ground zero of Indian modernity. Mary E. Hancock, in P.54 There is little doubt that [all of India ’s major cities], owe much to the beginnings of modern progress that Madras gave the rest of the subcontinent ... Madras, till the 1760s, lay the foundation on which modern India has grown. S.

Muthiah of Madras Musings on retaining the name of Madras instead of changing it to Chennai, in p. 54 What emerged [over the eighteenth century]... was not merely a collection of separate quarters, but two or even three distinct societies with their own characteristic ways of organizing space ...the outstanding feature of Madras was that these cultural units – colonial European , indigenous urban and rural societies – in many cases shared the same territory without actually merging together or losing their distinctive characteristic. Susan Neild, in p. 217 A fortuitous collection of villages , separated from the surrounding country by an arbitrary boundary line rather than a town in the usual sense of the word. Imperial gazetteer , in 1908 quoted in, p. 217 Madras, then, is a story of sheer accident changed the future of a fishing village...The fact that Madras is an artificially stimulated growth and not a naturally evolved organism explains why the growth of Madras has been at the expense of the region in which it is set. P.V.Venkatakrishnan, in 1971 on the status of Madras City in the regional setting, in p. 217 Black Town and Chennai Port .

Besides the Fort and the Black Town , the city encompassed ten villages acquired by the East India Company from local rulers, several other villages created by Company officials and numerous small hamlets . The population in the early nineteenth century was estimates at 236,500. Half that number resided within Black Town, another thirty thousand in Triplicane , and the remainder in dispersed settlements whose population ranged from a few hundred to several thousand. The 1822 census listed thirty-five villages within Madras, excluding Black Town and hamlets of low caste and “ Untouchable ” groups, and that 1871 Census identified fifty-eight villages within the Municipal boundary. Susan Neild, in p. 218 Neoclassical architecture was common in Europe by the late eighteenth century and influenced the design of public buildings. This was adopted by Company architects initially in imitation of European fashion but later acquired more intense symbolism meant to distinguish the different origins of rulers and ruled. Susan Neild in “Madras”, quoted in p. 218 The original Black Town was razed in 1758 to allow for an extension of the Fort.

This forced residents and businesses to relocate to the adjacent villages Peddanaikenpet and Muthiapet, though the name “Black Town” remained in use. Mary E. Hancock, in p. 219 In 1840s, an organization titled Chennapattnam Hindu Vidya Pareyalochana Sabha (Hindu Council of Education) established Tamil and Telugu schools in various parts of the city. Susan Neild in “Madras”, quoted in p. 219 Black Town’s central temples, Chenna Kesava and Chenna Malleswarar, typify late medieval styles of temple construction in the many sub-shrines, mantapam (pillared-halls) and carved pillars but depart from those styles lacking in Kopuram (entry arches). Joanne Waghorne in “The Diaspora of the Gods Hindu in the New world System 1640-1800”, quoted in p. 219 The Chepauk Palace . The British provincial rulers divested the Nawab of his title and his jurisdictional authority following the Company’s defeat of Tippu and its annexation of his Caranatic holdings.

The Nawab and his descendants were granted a title (The Prince of Arcot) and pension, and a portion of the estate was allocated for their use. The estate’s main palace, the Chepauk Palace , was purchased by the British administration in 1855 and converted to government offices, and it continues to be used in this way. Susan Neild in “Madras”, quoted in p. 219 Early leadership of the Indian National Congress , and its forerunner, the Hindu Mahajana Sabha , was based in Madras and the city had hosted early meetings of these organizations. The high-caste residents of Madras were also prominently represented in the Home Rule League , a Gandhian organization with strong ties to the Theosophical Society , Headquartered on an estate in Adyar , about 9 km south of the city’s urban core. D. Sadasivan in “The Growth of Public opinion in Madras Presdiency”, quoted in, p.

220 The Imperial Gazetteer of India reported the intensification of the urban character of Madras in the early twentieth century, noting that 30 percent of the city’s population was between the ages of twenty and forty and that the sex ratio was 98/100. Mary E. Hancock, in p. 220 The population of the city, as reported in the 1871 Census, was 367,552; in 1881, 405,848; in 1891, 452,518; in 1901, 509, 346; in 1911, 518,660; in 1921, 526,912; and in 1931, 647,230. Mary E. Hancock, in p. 220 The Tamil Film Industry ’s history is summarized in “Cinema of the Urban Poor in South India”.

The first production studios were set up in 1920s and 1930s; with the advent of sound, regional cinema (i.e, those in languages other than Hindi or English) quickly gained in popularity . The first theaters were built in the 1910s on Mount Road, in Georgetown and Purasalwakam. By 1927 the city had nine theatres; in 1941 that number had risen to twenty. Mary E. Hancock, in p. 220 By the first decade of the twentieth century, 125 newspapers and periodicals existed in the Presidency , of the total, 65 were under vernacular (Tamil, Telugu or Hindi) or bilingual publications. The city itself had 5 daily newspapers at that point, all English language ; 3 ( The Hindu , The Madras Standard, and The Indian Patriot) were published and edited by Indians . Mary E. Hancock, in p.

220 quoting from the Imperial Gazetteer of India/ Statue of Annadurai former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Neoclassical details abounded in the statues of colonial officers and British royals that appeared during the course of the nineteenth century, in public buildings, in the city’s new parks, and along the major roadways. These began to appear at junctions in the city in 1839 and later in parks and on the grounds of the government buildings. In 1898, the Madras Government Press listed ten statues in the city, all having been erected by the colonial government . The 1908 Imperial Gazetteer noted that a statue dedicated to an Indian High Court Justice , Muttuswami Ayyer, was added to the list. It was not until after independence , however, that additional statues commemorating Indian cultural heroes and political leaders appeared in public places. Mary E. Hancock, in p. 220 By the late 1930s all nationalist movements had generated [[w:Historiography|historolographical writing.

Poetry , essays , plays , and fiction , as well as aural and visual representations ( maps , cartoons , lithographs , sculpture , songs , film); all were generative of politically infused historical consciousness . S.P.Sen in Historians and Histiriography, quoted by Mary E. Hancock, in p. 223 In the 1937 provincial elections, nationalist associated with the Indian National Congress had gained a legislative foothold and C. Rajagopalachari , a lawyer and Congress nationalist, was the presidency's premier between 1937 and 1939. In an effort to advance the pan-Indian nationalist cause, he had introduced legislation making study of Hindi compulsory in the Presidency’s secondary schools. In the course of protests, twelve hundred persons were incarcerated, and in 1939, two men died in prison . They were hailed as martyrs and mourned with elaborate funeral processions in Madras.

Their sentiment was encapsulated in poems such as this: [Our] mind is Tamil; [Our] entire body is Tamil; [Our] life is Tamil; [Our] pulse is Tamil; [Our] veins are Tamil; [Our] flesh, muscle, everything is Tamil; everything in [our] body is Tamil, Tamil, Tamil. Mary E. Hancock, quoting Ramaswamy in “Passions of the Tongue”, in p. 223 After Mumbai , Chennai is India’s second most populous destination for investment. During the 1990s, domestic, foreign, and multinational corporations...opened production sites and offices in or outside Chennai. Mary E. Hancock, quoting N. Bajpai and N.Radjou in “Raising the Global Competitiveness of tamilnadu’s Information Technology Industry ”, in p. 224 Chennai also has a large and growing services sector, accounting for over 40 percent of the total organized sector employment . Mary E. Hancock, quoting Madars Metropolitan Authority, in p.

224 The Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) is a comprehensive nuclear power production , fuel reprocessing, and waste treatment facility that includes plutonium fuel fabrication for fast breeder reactors. Commercial operations at MAPS started in 1983. Mary E. Hancock, in p. 246 That aroused my curiosity and I started reading more about the city and its origins and realized that the foundation for modern India was laid in Madras... it all started here. S. Muthiah , when in 1971-72, the first map of Madras was printed Muthiah had written the text for the guide and in that process had discovered that Clive, Hastings, Wellington and Yale had started their careers in Madras. Quoted in “Crusader for Chennai (11 March 2002)” Trade and Politics on the Coromandel Coast: Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth …[ edit ] Chennai India � Chennai City Guide Location: Chennai District, Tamil Nadu.

Climate: Summers: 420C (Maximum), 370C (Minimum) Winters: 200C (Maximum), 180C (Minimum) Best Time to Visit: October to March Nearest Airport: Chennai International Airport Nearest Railhead: Chennai Central station Must Visits: Marina Beach, Fort St. George and Parthsarthy Temple Language Spoken: Tamil and English. STD Code: 044 Earlier known as Madras, Chennai is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The city is proud to be listed amongst the four metropolitan cities of India. Conveniently located on the beautiful Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, Chennai is spread over an area of 174 square kilometers and is listed as 36th largest metropolitan area in the world. Located on thermal equator, the city is only six meters above the sea level and has a tropical wet and dry climate. The city experience extreme hot and sweaty summer in the months of May-June, with light cool winters in the month of January. Being situated on a sea coast, it experiences a rainfall of 1,300 mm every year.

The city gets most of its seasonal rainfall from the north-east monsoon winds, from mid-October to mid-December. Chennai is also listed in world global cities and crowned as �Gamma+ world cities" amongst other global cities like Montreal, Nairobi, Bratislava, Panama City, Brisbane, Casablanca, Denver, Vancouver, Zagreb, Manama and Cape Town etc. The city houses a big industrial base that includes car, computer, technology, hardware manufacturing, and healthcare industries. It is also known as �The Detroit of Asia� for being the manufacturing state of India, as it is responsible for 60 percent of the country�s automotive parts. Chennai is the second largest exporter of software, information technology (IT) and information-technology-enabled services (ITES) in India. The literacy rate of the city is also highest amongst all the metropolitan cities of India. Chennai boasts of many renowned engineering and medical institutions like Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras Institute of Technology etc. Chennai is an imperative centre for ancient Carnatic Music and Bharatanatyam, a classical dance form that is appreciated internationally.

The city also houses Kollywood (the Tamil film industry) which is one of the largest film industries of India. Apart from the cultural and industrial importance, the city has rapidly evolved as a prospective tourist place. The city has a selection of various tourist attractions like Marina Beach, Fort St. George and Parthsarthy Temple. Along with this, it has finest museums of India including Government Museum (Pantheon Road) housing various historic artifacts. Thus, it wouldn�t be wrong to say that Chennai is, by far, one of the most important destinations in India. The next time you plan a trip to South India; do not forget to include this charming city in your itinerary. Best Time To Visit Chennai The bustling city of Chennai, with its imperial history and dazzling showbiz status, is probably one of the most humble cities you will ever come across. Once the hub of seafarers, cloth merchants and spice traders, today this economic powerhouse of Southern India stands as one of the most prosperous metropolitan cities of India. Gardens In Chennai Chennai, one of the oldest cities of India, is the home to intriguingly lush landscape that beckons visitors from near and far to come and unwind on a hot smothering day.

Gardens in Chennai are the ideal getaways to escape from the chaos of city clamor and take a deep dive into the lush lap of nature. Chennai is underwater—and America’s outsourcing chiefs should be worried — Quartz December 04, 2015 Quartz india I come from the beautiful city of Chennai in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. For the past few weeks, Chennai has been battered by relentless rains and flooding—the worst in over a hundred years. The city has been under water for many days. Power supply has been shut off due to safety concerns. Phone lines are down. Schools and offices are closed. The venerable local newspaper, The Hindu, failed to publish the daily edition for the first time in its history since it was launched in 1878. The airport is closed, and 3,500 people are stuck trying to get out. The common mode of transport in Chennai today is by boat. Yes, boat. My immediate family members are either marooned in their homes with no power and telecommunication or have moved in as guests in high-rise condos belonging to friends and neighbours. It continues to rain. There’s no respite expected for several more days.

The government has declared Chennai a disaster zone, and the army has been deployed to help thousands of stranded citizens. What does all this have to do with you if you’re a chief information officer (CIO) in an American company? Plenty, if you have chosen to outsource IT operations to a firm that is managing your data centre operations and applications from Chennai, one of the largest hubs of offshore IT services from India. Over the past couple of decades, large American firms have been outsourcing IT support and maintenance to tech firms that run operations out of India. The business case was always good—low costs, capable talent, and reliable infrastructure. I have personally signed and managed these contracts for clients, and have led large global teams from Chennai and other locations to deliver on the business case and cost savings. But I’ve never experienced a disaster of this nature. And I don’t know a single CIO who has, either. Newspaper reports indicate offshore providers have kicked in with contingency plans and have been flying out associates from Chennai to other locations to try and maintain service levels. But with airports and railway stations shut now, and no way to get in or out of the city, CIOs can only keep their fingers crossed and hope for the best.

Indian firms, rightly, are focusing on the safety of their employees. The impact of these floods could go far beyond Chennai, and potentially touch our daily lives in the US and elsewhere. Besides the immediate human costs of this disaster, the impact could go far beyond Chennai, and potentially touch our daily lives in the US and elsewhere. For example, if a major clinical application for a hospital system in a data centre supported remotely by software engineers in Chennai goes down, patient lives in the US could be at risk. We wouldn’t know till something like this actually happens, and we hope it doesn’t. However, rains are expected to continue for another two weeks in Chennai, so we have to keep our fingers crossed. Let’s take a quick look at how large outsourcing contracts address these types of situations. Every large outsourcing contract has a provision for disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans (BCP). Typically, this is an exhibit at the very bottom of a 250-page MSA that contract negotiators get to when they are completely worn out from all the wrestling with more important commercial and service-level discussions.

The DR/BCP contract language typically addresses the most critical applications, with agreement on both sides to identify alternate DR/BCP sites, document DR/BCP procedures, and update them from time to time. There is also usually an agreement to do DR simulation testing, like a routine fire drill, however whether these procedures are actually followed is a different matter. CIOs have to ask themselves how their staff, sitting in the US, could possibly appreciate the extent of the problem in Chennai, especially if they have never been to the site. Most organisations maintain a very thin retained staff with the skills required to manage IT operations (after all, that is part of the business case), and prefer to cut back on travel budgets than to commit to an annual site visit to their offshore provider’s facilities. The result is that IT staff are clueless about how to respond to a situation in faraway India, and have to rely on their service providers to do their best. Since they have never been there, they fail to appreciate the ground-level situation, and the living and working conditions of their extended IT support staff on a normal day, leave alone on a rainy day.

Back in December 2004, Chennai was hit by a tsunami that hit many other countries in southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. I happened to be in Chennai that day, and what I remember most was the disbelief among people who never imagined that the Bay of Bengal could rise one morning and sweep away several thousand people into the sea in a matter of minutes. The tsunami of 2004 gave very little warning, if any. Since then, early warning systems have been set up all across the Pacific Rim to prevent another tsunami from taking us by surprise. The torrential downpour that’s brought Chennai to a standstill today was a known disaster in the making, yet there was very little the city could have done to stop it. When the waters finally subside—and I pray for all my friends and family in Chennai that it happens soon—CIOs in the western world will have to step back and assess their own early warning systems, assuming they have made it through this in one piece. This post first appeared on LinkedIn . We welcome your comments at ideas.india@qz.com .

Read full story Chennai Rains: 188 Dead In India’s Tamil Nadu State, Flood Warning Issued; Army, Navy Deployed Chennai Rains: 188 Dead In India’s Tamil Nadu State, Flood Warning Issued; Army, Navy Deployed 12/02/15 AT 1:59 AM Close UPDATE: 3:05 a.m. EST -- People in Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have taken to Twitter to help people stranded in torrential rains, which have inundated the coastal city since Monday evening, BBC reported. The region has borne the brunt of heavy rains for the past several weeks and, according to some estimates, witnessed the wettest November in about 100 years. Chennai residents announced on Twitter that they would welcome those affected by the downpour and also provide food. "If we can't offer help in this hour of crisis, then what's the worth of human life? I am feeling helpless that I can't go to the affected areas because the roads are submerged. The least I can do is to open my house to people," Pushparaj Britto, a Chennai resident, told the BBC Wednesday.

Verified: Accommodation for upto 40 people available at Cuddalore. Contact @kapilvaalu on 8678973010. #ChennaiRainHelp #ChennaiFloods Indian men with a boat move people to safety on a flooded street after heavy rains in Chennai on Nov. 18, 2015. Photo: Getty Images/AFP/STR — ▶▪கௌதமன்▪◀ (@imgowthamraina) December 2, 2015 The heavy downpour shut down various public services across the city and The Hindu, one of India’s oldest newspapers, could not make it to print Wednesday for the first time since 1878, as workers could not access the printing press because of the rains. Original story: Torrential rainfall continued to wreak havoc Wednesday in Chennai, the capital city of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with death toll reaching 188, according to local reports. The state government issued flood warnings in Chennai and evacuated thousands of people from the city's coastal areas. Fresh spell of rains began in Chennai on Monday evening flooding most of the regions.

Chennai has been battling rains since early November due to slow-moving low pressure over southwest Bay of Bengal. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rains in the city for the next two days. Current satellite images of Chennai ( By: MeT Dept) #ChennaiFloods pic.twitter.com/qXoWWnYbyG — All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) December 2, 2015 A car is submerged amid water-logged houses in a rain-hit area of Chennai on Nov. 17, 2015. Photo: Getty Images/AFP/STR The Chennai International Airport has been closed until 6 a.m., local time, Thursday (7:30 p.m. EST Wednesday), according to the Airports Authority of India, local newspaper the Times of India reported. Runways of the airport have been flooded and arriving flights have been diverted to neighboring states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. This is Chennai airport .. Not looking good at all..

#ChennaiFloods pic.twitter.com/kuQnsY9UKZ Related Stories — HuffPost India (@HuffPostIndia) December 2, 2015 Road transport in Chennai was affected as most of the areas were submerged in water. Rescue teams from the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the National Disaster Response Force were deployed in parts of Chennai. The Tamil Nadu government extended holidays in schools and colleges due to heavy rains and floods. The Southern Railway canceled all major train services to India's southern districts Wednesday, the Indian Express newspaper reported. The National Disaster Response Force rescue flood-affected people during their relief operations in rain-hit areas on the outskirts of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Nov. 17, 2015. Photo: Getty Images/AFP/STR Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter that he has contacted Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. Spoke to Jayalalithaa ji on the flood situation in parts of Tamil Nadu. Assured all possible support & cooperation in this unfortunate hour. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 1, 2015 Jayalalithaa was monitoring the situation in Chennai “minute by minute,” according to her party members.

"Police, Fire and Rescue, National and State Disaster Forces and the Coast Guard have been kept ready for need-based evacuation of people from flood hit regions," Jayalalithaa said, according to NDTV news network. People who were stranded in buses, cars and rooftops due to the flood situation in the state were seeking help using social media. Micheals garden ramapuram Back side of MGR residence. More than 100 families have no food. Need help! #ChennaiFloods #Chennaifloodrelief Chennai Chennai Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox Add to myFT Digest You select the topic, we deliver the news. Close Sample the FT’s top stories for a week You select the topic, we deliver the news. Select topic Invalid email Sign up By signing up you confirm that you have read and agree to the terms and conditions , cookie policy and privacy policy .

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