Heavy rain floods India's Chennai

Chennai-based TVS Motor Co, which makes motorcycles and scooters, slid 4.9 per cent, the most since Aug 24, after saying rainfall in the past three weeks adversely affected production and sales.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Modi left for Chennai today to take an aerial survey and assess the situation.

If you, or anyone you know, are stranded in the Chennai floods, the following helplines have been set up to provide support.

Train services and flights to Chennai, capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, remain cancelled and the navy has pressed fishing boats into service to evacuate people from the worst-hit suburbs to temples, schools and wedding halls.

More than 5,000 houses were under water with many people still trapped on rooftops, while others crowded in relief camps.

Separately, news reports said that flood waters released from a lake on the outskirts of Chennai inundated more neighborhoods in the city. And with the Chennai airport shut till December 6, stranded passengers tried to make their way to Bengaluru and Madurai. Singh said that railways officials convened an emergency meeting to get the station back on track quickly.

In several places the communication lines are down and power supply has been snapped. The Indian Air Force airlifted 200 people to Hyderabad.

Banks advised their customers to use the ATMs for cash as some of their branches will not be functioning on Thursday due to floods.

He has repeatedly called on developed countries to do more to combat the impact of global warming on the world's poor, who experts say will be disproportionately affected.

IMD director general L.S. Rathore said IMD, the National Disaster Management Authority and government officials in Chennai were in regular contact. Meteorologists had warned late last month that the remnants of Typhoon Marilyn or In-Fa and which had formed near the Philippines could turn into a tropical depression and bring heavy rains to India's east coast.

The Saidapet bridge over the Adyar river, which runs through the city, was closed to traffic yesterday as water spilled onto the road.

He said IAF is also helping in the effort by deploying 14 teams of NDRF.