"rains"

The Chief Minister has asked all officials concerned to come prepared for the meeting since the State government has to submit a report to the Centre on the losses caused by the heavy rains and flash floods in the State.

He said the government should have alerted the people about the impact of the extremely heavy rains that the State had experienced in over a century.

As a culvert swept away near Anna Sagar village of Mulug Mandal due to rains last night, the Collector has inspected the place to examine the situation.

According to the police, nearly a dozen vehicles were damaged after a portion of the road abutting the Katora Houz caved in during the heavy downpour.

Hyderabad: Osmania University (OU) on Wednesday said all colleges, departments and offices under university’s jurisdiction will remain closed on October 14 and 15. The OU has issued a circular to this effect as per the State government order which declared holiday for all private and government offices on these two days due to incessant rain […]

As the area witnessed heavy rains and the Manjira has been receiving huge inflows overnight from upstream, the family members along with a two-year old girl have climbed on a shed to save their lives.

Hyderabad district collector Swetha Mohanty is supervising the local revenue, fire, police and GHMC teams in taking up rescue operations.

According to the relatives, the family was staying at their house in Bandlaguda when around 2 a.m following a breach in Palle Cheruvu tank the water entered into several colonies.

Heavy rain (6 cm to 12 cm) has recorded in six mandals in Warangal Urban district including Warangal, Hanamkonda and Hasanparthy mandals.

Siddipet district has received 110 mm average rainfall as Mulugu witnessed a record 210 mm rain during the past 24 hours at 8.30 am on Wednesday.

The project, which was having 24TMCft by Tuesday evening, has got a huge over one lakh inflow on Wednesday.

The Vice President sympathised with those affected by the excessive rains and urged all the people to follow the administration's directions to stay safe.

If required, services of staff working at different Basti Dawakhanas in the vicinity should be utilised to extend medical services and treatment, he said.

According to zoo authorities, areas like the safari park, bear moat and primate area were the most affected ones.

The Cyberabad traffic police have advised people coming from Bengaluru to take the following alternative route to reach the city.

Talking to media persons, Agriculture minister K. Kannababu said that the weather forecast spoke of more rains for another two days and in the wake of this, special teams were set up to assess crop damage.

The India Meteorological Department issued a forecast warning of heavy rains during the next 72 hours in the city.

Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod districts have been issued yellow alert on Thursday.

Water entered several houses in Hassannagar, Shastripuram, Tallabkatta, Ghousenagar, Osmannagar, Jalpally and Teegalkunta in the south of the city.

While Mancherial district recorded rainfall of 15.5 mm, Adilabad district received 14.8 mm of rainfall. Mandamarri, Jaipur mandals had 36.6 mm and 35.6 mm of rainfall, respectively