"heavy-rains"

Hyderabad: Heavy rains across the city on Friday afternoon resulted in long traffic jams in different parts. Most of the arterial road stretches had vehicles crawling at a snail’s pace while at some other places in the city, hapless drivers were caught in jams spending anxious moments. Around Punjagutta, the snarled-up traffic impacted Somajiguda and […]

Hyderabad: After experiencing pleasant and breezy weather in the morning hours, heavy rains once again lashed the city on Friday afternoon. Several areas reported thunderbolts and lightning accompanying the rains. According to the forecast of Telangana State Planning and Development Society, Trimulgherry recorded 63.3 mm, followed by Hayathnagar at 62.5 mm, and Kapra at 60.8 […]

Hyderabad: Moderate to heavy rains continued to lash several parts of Telangana, including areas in Hyderabad, on Thursday, affecting normal life. Three fishermen, who were stranded in an overflowing rivulet at Rampally thanda in Kamareddy district, were rescued by rescue and police teams. A car driver, who tried to cross a low-level bridge between Andhguda […]

Hyderabad: Roads and Buildings Minister V Prashanth Reddy said due to heavy rains that have been lashing the State since last fortnight, several roads, bridges and culverts were damaged and the State Government sanctioned Rs.10 crore for taking up temporary repairs to avoid any inconvenience to road users. The Minister held a review meeting with […]

Hyderabad: The Vikarabad district administration declared a holiday for all educational institutions (government, aided and private) on Wednesday in view of the continuing heavy rains. All educational institutions will reopen from Thursday. Any further changes in the decision would be informed on Wednesday, according to a circular issued by the district administration on Tuesday.

Adilabad: After a lull, rains returned to Adilabad district. Several parts of the district saw moderate rains disrupting normal life and wreaking havoc to farmers on Tuesday. The average rainfall of the day was measured to be 27.4 mm. Tamsi mandal had the highest rainfall of 71 mm, followed by Adilabad Rural mandal which experienced […]

Hyderabad: After a brief gap, heavy rains are likely to lash several areas across the State as Met department issued a yellow alert of heavy rains for Adilabad, Komaram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Nirmal, Nizamabad, Jagityal, Rajanna Sirsilla, Karimnagar, Peddapally, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Mulugu, Bhadradri Kothagudem and Khammam districts. Met department in its evening bulletin issued on […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday instructed officials from the departments concerned not to leave their work centres under any circumstances in order to protect the people in difficult times. At a high level review meeting conducted by the Chief Minister at Pragathi Bhavan here on the heavy rains and floods in the […]

Medak: Normal life came to a standstill in Medak district as heavy rains lashed the district. Three persons died, several persons were injured a few cattle were swept away in the floods. The Medak town witnessed unprecedented floods on Saturday. The Auto Nagar, Sai Nagar, and a few other colonies witnessed heavy floods. The rainwater […]

Hyderabad: As heavy rains lash the city on Friday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) – Hyderabad forecast looks at heavy rains across the state for the next four days. Orange and yellow alerts have been issued for almost all the districts, indicating heavy rainfall. On Friday morning, rains lashed the city, with 26.6 mm rainfall […]

Hyderabad: In view of the heavy rains lashing the city since Friday morning, the Hyderabad Traffic Police have warned citizens that there was a likelihood of heavy traffic congestion at various places due to water logging. They urged citizens, particularly motorists, to defer their travel by at least one hour from the stopping of the […]

Yadadri-Bhongir: Varuna shanthi homam was performed by the temple priests at Sri Parvathavardhini Ramalingeshwara Swamy temple (Shivalayam) on Yadadri hill shrine on Saturday. The homam was performed praying the God Varuna(rain) for relief from heavy rains and restoration of normalcy. In view of the heavy rains in majority of the district in the state, the […]

Jagtial: Godavari river is flowing at danger mark at Dharmapuri temple town following the heavy rains in its catchment areas during the last four days. Besides incessant rains, release of water from Kadem and Sri Ram Sagar Projects increased the water level at Dharmapuri. While Kadem project is getting 5,09,025 cusecs of water from its […]

Peddapalli: Eight cage culture units developed in Sripada Yellampalli Project were washed away with the lifting of 55 flood gates at a time to release huge quantity of water from the project. Organizers estimated the cost of cage culture units at Rs 4 crore. Since the project was getting heavy inflows from its catchment area […]

Hyderabad: In view of the forecast of heavy rainfall in the State for the next three days and the heavy rains and floods continuing in many parts of Telangana, the State government has declared that educational institutions in the State will remain shut this week. They will reopen on Monday. The decision was taken during […]

Mancherial: Torrential rains lashed several parts of the district, affecting normal life on Wednesday. The average rainfall of Nirmal district was measured to be 186 mm, while Adilabad district’s average rainfall was 179 mm up to 8.30 am. Laxmanachanda mandal in Nirmal received the highest rainfall of 229 mm and Adilabad Rural mandal had highest […]

Hyderabad: Incessant rains have been lashing the State since last five days and the Met department said heavy rains are likely to occur at several places during the next three days. The red alert of heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy rain for Adilabad, Kumaram Bheem, Mancherial, Nirmal and Nizamabad districts continues for Wednesday […]

Hyderabad: In view of the heavy rains that have been lashing the city for last few days, the Nehru Zoological Park has announced closure of the Tiger Safari Park. In a press release issued here on Tuesday, the zoo authorities said the Tiger Safari will be closed for public as water from Mir Alam Tank […]

Ahmedabad: Heavy downpour continued in various parts of Gujarat on Tuesday and six people died in rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours, raising the toll to 69 since June 1, officials said. A total of 27,896 people were evacuated from flood-affected areas and 18,225 of them remained in shelters while the others have returned […]

Hyderabad: The Health Department has been put on high alert following widespread rains in Telangana and all the health care workers have been directed to be available round-the-clock to meet any kind of medical emergencies. Anticipating a significant rise in seasonal diseases, especially water and vector-borne ailments due to the incessant rains, Health Minister T […]