India, Sept. 10 -- India meteorological department (IMD) on Wednesday issued alerts for heavy rainfall over almost entire Peninsular India, along with parts of central India and Andaman and Nicobar islands.

While Kerala, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh remained entirely under an IMD weather alert for heavy rain with strong winds and thunderstorms, parts of Karnataka and almost the whole of Tamil Nadu were placed under a yellow alert, the second level in its four-tier warning system, for heavy to very heavy rain.

Additionally western parts of Maharashtra, parts of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and the north-east are also expected to face heavy rain with thunderstorms, according to IMD's districtwise warning system.

The entire state of Tela...