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BENGALURU: Bengaluru city and other places in south interior Karnataka are expected to receive showers from Thursday. The rainfall, expected to be moderate to heavy, will be due to the influence of Cyclonic storm 'Gaja', which is set for the landfall on Tamil Nadu coast in couple of days. The cyclone follows deep depression over Andaman & Nicobar Islands at the Bay of Bengal.

GS Srinivasa Reddy , director, Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, said in addition to south interior Karnataka, places in coastal Karnataka are also expected to receive rains. "Cyclone effect is expected to stay for couple of days," he added.

