India Meteorological Department has placed South Interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the northeast states of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura under a heavy rain alert for September 29.
The alert comes as a deep depression over the north Andaman Sea moves closer to the Myanmar coast, according to IMD's bulletin issued at 9 pm on September 28.
