India, Dec. 2 -- In view of heavy rainfall triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Ditwah, schools in Chennai will remain closed on December 3. The Indian Meteorological Department issued a series of yellow and orange alerts for the state and warned of very heavy rainfall in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.

Cyclone Ditwah, which weakened into a depression on Tuesday, lay centred over the southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas and was moving southwestwards with a speed of 3 kmph at 5:30 pm IST on December 2.

It was about 60km northeast of Puducherry and 80 km south of Chennai. The minimum distance of the Centre of the depression from India was from the Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coasts, about 25 km away.

Meanwhile, heavy rainfall lashed Madurai on...