kosigi mandal

Two teenagers who were walking on the railway tracks were run over by an unidentified train near Irangal in kosigi mandal of Kurnool district in the wee hours of Saturday.

The state government has notified 387 villages spread over eight districts as ‘overexploited’ and banned drilling of borewells or wells in those villages, except for community drinking water purpose.

Unprecedented showers since Saturday night battered several parts of Kurnool district where crops in thousands of acres of land submerged and flood waters inundated several low lying colonies in more than 17 mandals of the district on Sunday.

Ten people were killed and six others suffered injuries in three separate road accidents in Mahbubnagar district on Tuesday.

An all-party delegation from Ranga Reddy district, including home minister P Sabita Indra Reddy, came back disappointed when chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy did not give any categorical assurance on the creation of a separate district of Vikarabad.

Twenty-five persons were booked on Sunday for damaging the sluice gates of Rajolibanda diversion scheme (RDS) on Mahbubnagar-Kurnool border on Saturday.

With the rural development wing working actively on the feasibility of carving out new districts, the demand for formation of a separate district of Vikarabad has also gained momentum.

Farmers are rejoicing over the early release of water from Jurala project which has received copious inflows following heavy rains in the upper reaches of Karnataka.

The Godavari touched the full danger level of 53 ft even as the Tungabhadra floods wreaked havoc in Kurnool district yet again.

It's a double whammy for the poor workers of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGP).

KURNOOL: Tension eased at the Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme (RDS) as no farmer from either side came to the anicut across the Tungabhadra on Sunday.