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Ajay, a resident of Nagaram, along with his friends, had come to participate in the 'Bharatha Matha Maha Harathi' event, which was organised on Republic Day near People's Plaza

The demolition of the building is being carried out by the DRF and Revenue authorities, with strict police security in place. Officials had inspected the building on Saturday before proceeding with the demolition.

The Municipal Corporation of Karimnagar made all arrangements for immersion.

Commissioner Ranganath reviewed the techniques adopted by the DRF teams to clear the water logging at busy junctions.

Recently, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has instructed the officials to set up a proper system to prevent any kind of inconvenience to people in case of heavy rains and floods upto ORR.

According to police, the victims Abdul Wahab (17) and Nahadi (19) along with three others came to Jalpally Tank for fishing. "Both Wahab and Nahadi ventured into the water and got drowned.

On being alerted, Attapur Inspector P Yadagiri along with his men and local DRF team reached the spot and with the help of a traffic police crane towed away the bus to a safer spot.

On information the fire personnel and DRF personnel reached the spot and started fire fighting operations.

Tourists who were stranded at the Mutyaladhara waterfalls in Mulug district were rescued by police, DRF and NDRF personnel. Aboiut 80 tourists were stranded due to torrential rains in the district.

The incident happened in early hours of the day when the workers were laying a slab between two pillars of the flyover when it caved in.

The DRF started relief measures in areas that were inundated and attended to 59 rain-related complaints in different parts of the city

A unit of GHMC's Directorate of Enforcement Vigilance and Disaster Management (EV&DM), assistance can be sought from the DRF for different emergency and distress situations.

Hyderabad: The GHMC’s Directorate of Enforcement, Vigilance & Disaster Management (EV&DM) wing issued a rain alert on Friday evening, asking people to stay indoors unless it is unavoidable. In a tweet from the official handle of the EV&DM Director, it was mentioned that over 8 cm of rainfall was recorded in some parts of the […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Government’s decision to set up a Disaster Response Force (DRF) is coming in handy in taking up relief and rescue works during heavy rains and other natural calamities in Urban areas across the State. The DRF was set up following floods in Sircilla and Warangal in the past. This dedicated force is facilitating […]

Hyderabad: Following the heavy downpour on Wednesday morning, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) pressed into service its staff and Disaster Response Force (DRF) teams in the early hours. The teams equipped with machinery cleaned catch pits, removed silt from nalas, cleared garbage choking the nalas and took up works to drain out water from […]

Hyderabad: The monsoon action teams and personnel from the Disaster Response Force (DRF) of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) swung into action on Wednesday to address rain-related issues following a heavy downpour in the city. GHMC workers were pressed into service to clear waterlogging on roads, remove fallen tree branches, and tangled utility wires. The […]

Hyderabad: Following the heavy rains that lashed the city on Saturday, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) deployed its monsoon and Disaster Response Force (DRF) teams to attend to complaints from different parts of the city including Mansoorabad, Nagole, Chintalkunta and P&T Colony in LB Nagar Zone. The civic body engineers also visited localities in […]

Department has stocked up coal in large quantity to deal with any situation, says Transco CMD

Hyderabad: There appears to be no let-up for the city from the September showers, which continued for the third consecutive day. The weekend version on Saturday was quite strange, with some areas in the city reporting heavy rain and waterlogging, while areas not even a kilometre away saw just a drizzle, and in some areas, […]

As surplus water gushes on to roads, GHMC attends to over 700 rain related grievances in last two days