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Mancherial: Activists and leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Mancherial district unit, staged a dharna by standing in knee-deep water in the Godavari demanding the commencement of works of a proposed bridge across the river on Monday. BJP district president Verabelli Raghunath Rao said that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao duped the public […]

Hyderabad: The SC and ST population in the country was around 38-40 crore, but the union government allocated a mere Rs 12,800 crore in the Budget for their welfare which was far less than what Telangana allocated for SC ST sub-plan, said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Wednesday. “This is pathetic. Telangana is spending […]

Kothagudem: District Collector Anudeep Durishetty has directed the panchayat officials to take immediate steps to stop contamination of river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in the district due to dumping of garbage in it. The garbage should not be dumped in and around Godavari and steps should be taken to move all the garbage to the dumping yard […]

Adilabad: Members of Mesram clan, who fetched holy water in an ancient container Jhari from Godavari near Kalamadugu village in Jannaram mandal arrived to Keslapur village in Indervelli mandal centre as part of their annual important and religious affair, Nagoba Jatara, on Friday. Nagoba Jata is the second largest fair after the bi-annual Sammakka-Saralamma Jatara […]

Mancherial: In a novel gesture, teachers of a government school on Wednesday came to the rescue of Class IX and a former student who accidentally drowned in Pranahita recently and belonging to Alugama village in Kotapalli mandal on Wednesday. Headmaster of Bheemaram government high school Venkateshwar Rao handed over Rs 10,500 and 50 kg of […]

Adilabad: Mesrams, who fetched holy water from Godavari at Hasthanamadugu on the outskirts of Kalamadugu village in Jannaram mandal of Mancherial district on Friday, performed special prayers at Indradevi temple as a prelude to their important annual religious and cultural affair Nagoba Jatara, in Indervelli mandal centre on Sunday. They would later camp under sacred […]

By J R Janumpalli It is a general refrain from a disappointed section of Telangana society, the disgruntled ‘dual citizens’ of Telugu States in Hyderabad and the opposition parties, “what new have we got in Telangana State which was not there earlier” — the same politics, the same political parties and the same administration, etc. […]

Mulugu: In a tragic incident, a 17-year-old youngster, who was working as a bike mechanic, drowned in Godavari near Mallur village of Mangapet mandal in the district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Mancharla Rajesh from Malluru. He went for a bath in the river this morning with his uncle, aunt and two cousins. […]

Mancherial: About 10,000 Adivasis belonging to several parts of erstwhile Adilabad district and neighbouring Maharashtra thronged Padmalpuri Kako Etmasur temple on the banks of Godavari at Gudirevu village in Dandepalli mandal on Sunday. They visited the shrine as a prelude to Dandari-Gussadi, an important cultural and religious affair of the ethnic tribes. The tribals performed […]

Kothagudem: River Godavari water level at Bhadrachalam in the district crossed the first warning level on Thursday. At 10 am, the river gauge reading was 43.90 feet with water discharge of 9,20,657 cusecs, Central Water Commission officials said. At 4 pm, the water level came down to 43.60 feet and remained at that mark till […]

Kothagudem: The water level of river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in the district crossed the first warning level on Thursday. At 11 am the river gauge reading was 43.90 feet. The water discharge was 9,20,657 Cusecs, informed Central Water Commission officials. The level in river Godavari has been increasing due to rains in its upper catchment […]

Hyderabad: Telangana saw some respite from rains on Tuesday after incessant downpour since Sunday under the influence of cyclone Gulab. Even as the rain clouds moved towards Maharashtra and Gujarat, several districts were still reeling under the impact of heavy rains in the past couple of days with most water bodies including rivers, rivulets, streams […]

Hyderabad: All the major irrigation projects in Godavari basin in north Telangana were in spate, prompting Irrigation department officials to lift gates in most projects on Tuesday. The department also issued a red alert for people living in areas downstream of Sriram Sagar Project (SRSP) on Monday night asking them not to go near project […]

Mancherial/Nirmal: Irrigation projects continued to receive copious inflows following rains in upstream areas for the third day on Tuesday. According to an irrigation department press release, Sripada Yellampalli Project had inflows of 4.32 lakh cusecs. The water storage was now 16.531 tmcs against its total storage capacity of 20.175 tmcs. Surplus water was discharged by […]

Visakhapatnam: Chairman and Managing Director of RINL- Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Atul Bhatt and RINL Director (Operations) AK Saxena inaugurated the 50 Million Ton Park near Blast Furnace 1 (BF-1) complex on Sunday in the presence of senior officers, union leaders and employees of Vizag Steel to mark the milestone achievement of 50 million Hot metal […]

Nalgonda: Miryalaguda police on Tuesday arrested a five-member gang of ganja peddlers and seized four kilograms of ganja from their procession. The arrested were identified as Pothuganti Anil Kumar, a resident of Kothapet and Utadi Gyaneshwar of hayatnagar in Hyderabad, Saidi Reddy alias Babbu, native of Miryalaguda, pangi Vishwanath of Siduwada and Vema Jhan Reddy, […]

Kothagudem: The water level in River Godavari at Bhadrachalam in the district has reached 43 feet on Thursday and officials have issued the first warning. The water level crossed the first warning level of 43 feet at 3.35 am and at 7 pm in the evening the gauge reading was 46.80 feet discharge of 11,38,029 […]

Kothagudem: The water level in river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in the district has reached 43 feet on Thursday and officials have issued the first warning. The water level crossed the first warning level of 43 feet at 3.35 am and at 6 am the gauge reading was 43.90 feet, informed the officials adding that the […]

Inflows to major irrigation projects were also decreasing gradually, say officials

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday made a strong case for Telangana’s right to utilise water allocations provided by the Central Water Commission (CWC) to the State in Godavari River. The State government seeking to utilise an additional one TMC of Godavari water per day under Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme was neither for […]