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Cyclone Mandous, a severe cyclonic storm, made landfall late Friday night, crossing the coast in Tamil Nadu with a wind speed of 75 km an hour. The cyclone has now weakened into a deep depression.Around 12 district in Tamil Nadu are being affected y the up coming Cyclone, apart from that parts of Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh have been affected by the cyclone.Also read :  After trying Luck in Gujarat : AAP now ready to contest election from 100 Local constituencies in Ghaziabad.Talking about the cyclone, it started around at 11:30  pm on Friday crossed the coast near Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram) in Tamil Nadu around 1.30 am, uprooting hundreds of trees in Chengalpattu and neighboring Chennai. Chennai received around 115 mm of rain due to cyclone “Around 200 trees have fallen and we have been clearing them since night,” said Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Commissioner,  Greater Chennai Corporation. “A major damage has been averted as we had secured many hoardings early,” he added. The city