National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Director General SN Pradhan said that Cyclone Nivar might make landfall after 2 am on November 26. "Over 1 lakh people have been evacuated across Tamil Nadu and more than 1,000 people have been evacuated in Puducherry," ANI quoted him as saying. Cyclone Nivar has intensified into a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’.