Puducherry, Jan 8 (PTI) Normal life was affected in Puducherry on Monday with incessant rain pounding the region in the last 24 hours and a holiday was declared for schools and colleges.

Chief Minister N Rangasamy announced that all schools and colleges would remain closed in the union territory on Monday.

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Meanwhile, fishermen did not put out to the sea owing to the heavy rainfall caused due to a trough of easterlies in the southwest Bay of Bengal.

Low-lying areas remained waterlogged. Standing crop was affected in several parts of the union territory, sources said.

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