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Top Hyderabad: Proving yet again that weather forecasts can be hit-and-miss exercises despite using the best possible forecast models, rainfall

Top Hyderabad: Even as the now on-now off monsoon continues to play hide and seek with Telangana, farmers, apparently buoyed by late July

Andhra Pradesh has sought permission to use 47 tmc ft of Krishna water from Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar, citing drinking-water needs and poor monsoon inflows.

Top HYDERABAD : All may not be lost for farmers, at least those with lands in the ayacut of select projects in Telangana, this El Nino-hit

In all, according to official estimates, some 1,20,883 acres of reserve forest land – which also forms part of the tiger corridor areas — is under encroachment in the Kawal tiger reserve circle, but, of this, the forest department has only managed to retrieve 2,100 acres.

The collapsed section of the shear zone, which was around 50 metres wide in the original alignment, was narrower in the revised path of the tunnel.

Manish Tewari says New Delhi must reassess its global role and neighbourhood strategy

Top HYDERABAD: There may be some hope for Telangana's plans for constructing the barrage at Tummidihatti with the Central Water Commission calling for a meeting in New Delhi on September 1.

“It is as yet uncertain which way the latest one that is still forming will go,” said Dr GNRS Srinivas, a senior meteorologist from the India Meteorological Department.

Top Hyderabad: The erratic monsoon appears to have put nearly half of all the mandals in the state under the spotlight, with 290 of the 621 mandals reported to have received deficit rain so far.