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Sources say due to heavy rain about 80 percent of the coal production in the various opencast mines of the company has come to a standstill as it has become difficult to use heavy machinery.

Eturunagaram, Kannaigudem,Wazeedu, Venkatapuram and Mangapet mandals received heavy rains, leading to disruption of normal life.

The average rainfall of Mancherial district was gauged to be 74.5 mm, while Vemanapalli and Kotapalli mandals registered 152.3 mm and 136.6 mm of rainfall respectively.

Mahadevpur in Jayashankar Bhupalapally district receives a record 207 mm of rainfall, the highest in Telangana State for this year

In Hyderabad, a yellow alert has been issued for Thursday, indicating moderate rains accompanied by thundershowers, intense spells at times, and gusty winds.

Thirteen mandals of the total 19 received normal rainfall, while five mandals witnessed excess rainfall by 20 to 36 per cent

The vigorous monsoon conditions over Karnataka was due to the existing off-shore trough along the Maharashtra-north Kerala coast

Incident occurred when about 33 villagers were digging for grains of gold in a pit at the small traditional gold mine

Further advanced into the remaining parts of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab, says India Meteorological Department

On Saturday, the city experienced scattered light rainfall. Data from the Telangana Development Planning Society (TGDPS) indicated that maximum temperatures across the state hovered around 31-33 degrees Celsius.

The district’s actual rainfall was gauged to be 164.9 mm as against the normal rainfall of 146.9 from June 1 to 27, showing an excess by 12 percent.

Since the distinct has been witnessing a prolonged dry spell, farmers were organising various programmes to appease rain gods across the district.

According to officials, at least 378 houses collapsed, and 880 hectares of crops damaged, amounting to losses of $57.2 million

The maximum power demand met on Monday, stood at 9160 MW, way below the highest peak demand of 15,623 MW on March 8.

The IMD has also predicted heavy rainfall in several districts of Telangana until June 13.

The weather forecast across the city, until June 13 indicates a generally cloudy sky with light to moderate rain and thundershowers, accompanied by gusty winds.

During the meeting, officials also discussed immediate and permanent measures to be taken up for preventing stagnation.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) Hyderabad, the city recorded a maximum temperature at 36.1 degree Celsius and a relative humidity of 60 per cent which marked the lowest temperature recorded compared to all other districts on Wednesday.

According to Xinhua news agency, most of the deaths were reported in the capital, Colombo, which experienced over 150 mm of rain since early Sunday.

Five bodies have been recovered, while several others are still trapped under the debris, a police officer said.