School, colleges closed amid heavy rain prediction in Chennai

Cyclone Gaja, which slammed the coastal areas of the southern state on Friday last week, claimed 45 lives and damaged over one lakh houses and uprooted lakhs of trees and thousands of electric poles in Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Pudukottai among other districts in the region.

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