The devastation caused by torrential rains and flash floods in and around Hyderabad this week is another grim reminder of the havoc played with the chain of lakes and storm water drains that were working as a natural flood control system.
Dozens of colonies in Hyderabad and nearby areas remained inundated for the fourth consecutive day on Friday even as authorities scrambled to pump out floodwaters from waterlogged areas and provide relief to rain-hit people.
It is now official. The Telangana government on Thursday declared that heavy rains and flash floods that ravaged different parts of the state since Tuesday resulted in the death of 50 people and left a trail of destruction that is estimated to have caused a loss of Rs 5,000 crore to properties and crops.
A woman had a narrow escape when a dilapidated structure abutting the famous Akanna Madanna temple in the old city of Hyderabad collapsed.
Telangana has slashed the number of daily Covid-19 tests in the last few days which has resulted in fewer cases being reported.
Many colonies in Hyderabad and suburbs remained under water on Thursday while Army and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel continued rescue and relief work in the flood-hit areas.
Fifteen people have died in Hyderabad in rain related incidents, following incessant rainfall that lashed the city and different parts of Telangana, leading to waterlogging on roads and inundation of some low-lying areas.
A man is seen being swept away by the rampaging floodwater in a dramatic visual that has emerged from Hyderabad, one of the worst affected districts in Telangana that has been witnessing heavy rain for the last three days.
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A Telangana government official, who was caught red-handed while taking Rs 1.10 crore bribe in August, has apparently killed himself in Central Prison Chanchalguda here, police said on Wednesday.
Heavy rains continued to lash Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana on Tuesday, paralysing normal life, throwing road transport out of gear and damaging crops.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has dropped the proposal to relax two-children norm for the candidates to contest the elections to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation likely to be held in November and December.
Trouble seems to be brewing in popular television channel TV9, which has been witnessing a steady decline in its profits for the last few months, thanks to Covid-19 pandemic and recession in media market.
After Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s son K T Rama Rao and nephew T Harish Rao, it will now be his daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha who is most likely to get into the state cabinet, if the speculations in the political circles are to be believed.
A speeding Ferrari sports car knocked down and killed a 50-year-old man from Andhra Pradesh in Hyderabad's upscale Madhapur area on Sunday afternoon, police said.
Die-hard Donald Trump fan Bussa Krishna, who used to worship him like a god, died of cardiac arrest on Sunday after being concerned about the US President's health condition following his Covid-19 infection.