Heavy rains today evening

Cyclone Titli has now reduced to a depression only but weathermen predicted heavy rains in Tripura from Saturday Evening.

Cyclone Titli weakened into a deep depression, triggering incessant rainfall even as it claimed four lives – three in Odisha and one in Bengal.

The cyclone and the accompanying heavy rain have wrought damage in Bengal’s Jhargram and Paschim Medinipur districts adjoining Odisha. It left one person dead in Paschim Medinipur district and uprooted trees along state highway number 5, holding up traffic, authorities in the two districts said.