India, Dec. 1 -- Two powerful storms - Cyclone 'Senyar' and 'Ditwah' - have carved a trail of devastation across the Indian Ocean region, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and tens of thousands displaced, hitting Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka the most and also led to fatalities in India's southern coast.

It was a deep depression over the Strait of Malacca first that turned into Cyclone Senyar last week and now stands dissipated over the South China Sea, according to the Hong Kong Observatory, cited in a Bloomberg report. Immediately after Senyar weakened, another cyclonic storm - Cyclone Ditwah - brewed over southwest Bay of Bengal, heading towards Sri Lanka and India.

The Senyar cyclone posed no major threat to India as it build ...