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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 […]

Most of the projects in Krishna and Godavari basins are filled to the brim; officials sound alert

Hyderabad: Heavy inflows from neighbouring Maharashtra into projects on the Godavari in north Telangana prompted the Irrigation Department to open 24 of the 42 gates at the Sriram Sagar Project (SRSP) and three out of six gates at the Koulasnala Project on Tuesday. If the same situation continues for the next few days in the […]

Hyderabad: Drinking water supply to parts of the city has been halted due to the flooding of Mallaram pump house in Siddipet. Following heavy downpour there, the Mallaram pump house was flooded with rainwater and nine pumps, that purify water, were inundated. From the pump house, water is supplied to parts of the city through Godavari water […]

a 35 year old man called D Satyanarayana was killed on the spot when hit by a speeding car

The deceased was identified as Upender (26) belonging to Burgampadu mandal in Kothagudem district

The missing person, Veeraswamy and his relatives came to the ghat at Kaleshwaram to immerse the ashes of a deceased relative in the river and were taking a bath with five others

TS irrigation official says the department wrote letters to KRMB and GRMB requesting to convene the full board meeting

Kakinada: A couple jumped into the Godavari river along with their two children and committed suicide. Relatives of Satish, 34, his wife Sandhya, 28, Jaswant, 4, and Jaisridurga, 2, natives of Mogalikuduru village in Mamidikuduru mandal of East Godavari district a couple of days back lodged a complaint with Palakollu police that the family went […]

Mulugu: As the entire world is focused on protecting Tigers on the occasion of International Tigers Day, a team of police led by Eturnagram Circle Inspector K Kiran Kumar arrested two persons and recovered an adult tiger skin from them near Mullakutta bridge (Godavari)  under Eturngaram police station limits on Thursday. The arrested were identified […]

During the counting held on Sunday in the 47 divisions for which elections were conducted on March 10, YSRCP won in 42 divisions

District Collector D Anudeep, in a statement, said the river crossed the first warning level of 43 feet at 7.45 am and the gauge reading at 10 am was 44.70 feet.

Wankidi mandal received the highest rainfall of 361 mm in Telangana.

Instructs officials to focus on areas that are vulnerable to floods and carry out rescue and rehabilitation operations wherever required

He directed Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to deploy NDRF teams immediately to Nirmal town where several areas were in diluge.

Agriculture Minister says Telangana obtaining legal opinion on water sharing issue

Hyderabad: Special Chief Secretary for Irrigation Rajat Kumar on Monday reiterated that the State government was ready to submit the detailed project reports (DPRs) of new projects being constructed in the State as per the Union Jal Shakti Ministry’s directions. However, he reminded that the projects like Devadula, Palamuru-Rangareddy, Dindi and others were old projects […]

In a problem of plenty, farmers under Nizamsagar urge officials not to release water for Vaanakalam crops

Since the stream was in full flow, water was flowing over Basavapur bridge between Husnabad and Siddipet, forcing officials to suspend all vehicular movement on the busy road.

Jagadish Reddy said farmers should take the advice of agriculture officials in selecting crops and seeds for cultivation