"heavy-rains"

The Delhi Police and the East Delhi district administration have started evacuating people living on the floodplains of the Yamuna in the capital.

The district administration is arranging the necessary equipment at the spot for a prompt rescue operation by the NDRF.

Almost half of Velus village located near Valpoi town in Sattari, is inundated, while several other villages were cut off as roads and culverts are under water, eyewitnesses said.

The Indian Meteorological Department had sounded a red alert for Telangana on Thursday, warning of heavy to very heavy rains in several districts of the State.

As many as 13 mandals received large excess rainfall, and irrigation projects were brimming with water.

The widespread rains are being attributed to an active southwest monsoon as well as a cyclonic circulation lying over northwest Bay of Bengal in the middle and upper tropospheric levels.

The highest rainfall of 91.0 mm was recorded in Kathalapur mandal of Jagitial district while Gangadhara of Karimnagar district received 81.3 mm.

Till 6 p.m on Monday, Jurala project received 1.23 lakh cusecs, and authorities lifted 20 gates to release 1.51 lakh cusecs of water downstream to Srisailam

By evening several parts in the city and suburbs were lashed by heavy rain with Chandulal Baradari in Bahadurpura receiving the city’s highest rainfall of 50.30 mm

Local train services are currently running only for personnel engaged in health and other essential services.

Till 8 am on Thursday, Chegunta in Medak recorded the highest rainfall of 227.5 mm, followed by Thatiannaram in Rangareddy.

The highest rainfall of 145.3 mm was recorded in Kathalapur of Jagitial district followed by 110.5 mm in Rudrangi of Rajanna-Sircilla district, and 119.0 mm in Govindaram of Jagitial.

The highest rainfall of 88.5 mm was recorded in Tadikal on Sunday followed by 76.5 mm in Kothagattu of Shankarapatnam mandal.

Traffic cops advise motorists to avoid venturing out in case of heavy downpour given the visibility issues

The soil erosion took place on the pipeline of Sarawathi pump house at Ganjapadugu because of heavy rain water

Temperatures in the city dropped and the maximum temperature recorded on Friday was 33 degrees Celsius

The incessant rainfall - that mostly hit the hilly and mountainous districts including Chitral, Dir, Mansehra and Swat - left four more people dead and injured 12 others in the last 24 hours.

Local train services from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajTerminus (CSMT) to neighbouring Thane and Vashi in Navi Mumbai were suspended due to water-logging on some railway tracks

Light to heavy rains have been lashing several parts of the State for the last few days

The teams of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation swung into action and kept clearing water logged roads in different parts.