The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has seen its heaviest rainfall in over a century, driving thousands from their homes, shutting auto factories and paralyzing the airport in the state capital Chennai. And there is no sign of an immediate letup, with the national weather office predicting three more days of torrential downpours in the southern state of nearly 70 million people. “There will be no respite,” Laxman Singh Rathore of the India Meteorological Department told reporters on Wednesday. No deaths were reported in the latest round of floods, but since heavy rain set in on Nov. 12 there have been 150 deaths in Tamil Nadu. More than 200 people were critically injured over the past 24 hours in Chennai, a senior home ministry official said. The flooding has also forced more than 200,000 people to abandon their homes. The rains have resulted in levels of the Adyar river, […]