Hyderabad Floods

Hyderabad: Survey reveals 80% of Old City slums affected by lockdown, floods

Hyderabad: Faced with hardships due to the COVID-19 lockdown and floods last year, more than 80% of families in the Old City areas reported loss of property, jobs, wages and health, revealed…

Mosque in Hyderabad providing free healthcare to poor

Hyderabad: A mosque in the old city of Hyderabad is providing free healthcare facilities to poor, thanks to the initiative taken by an NGO. Masjid Omer Al shifa, in Saif colony in Shaheenagar,…

Irregularities in GHMC flood relief: HC issues notices to Govt, SEC

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court today issued notices to the state government and state election commission on the issue of alleged irregularities committed in the distribution of flood relief to the residents…

Three months after Hyderabad floods, Osman Nagar still inundated in water

Hyderabad: It has been over three months since Osman Nagar, located in the outskirts of the city, witnessed the deadliest of floods that followed heavy rainfall in October. Their woes did not end…

Osman Nagar inundated since October; residents blame apathy of govt

Hyderabad: It has been over three months since Osman Nagar, located in the outskirts of the city, witnessed the deadliest of floods that followed heavy rainfall in October. Their woes did not end…

Siasat Millat Fund and Faiz-e-Aam help the flood-affected businesses

Hyderabad: In a bid to rescue flood victims to get back into business in the aftermath of Hyderabad floods, the Siasat Millat Fund and Faiz-e-Aam on Thursday came forward to help those…

Distribution of Flood relief is in progress: GHMC

Hyderabad: GHMC officials today informed that flood relief is being distributed among affected people in its purview. The civic body officials have stated that they already began yesterday the process of flood…

State election commission put brakes to flood relief distribution

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Election Commission (SEC) on Wednesday directed the state Government to stop the registration and distribution of relief to flood-affected families in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits…

Hyderabad: Woman standing in queue for flood relief dies

Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, a woman waiting in queue to submit the application for rupees ten thousand flood relief died on Wednesday. The 50-year-old Munawarunnissa, a resident of Hakeempet area in…

Hyderabad flood victims wait in long queues at Meeseva centres for relief

Hyderabad: Hyderabad flood victims are seen waiting in long queues at Meeseva centers across the city in order to avail the financial assistance of Rs. 10, 000. At the centers, they were…

Application fee irks flood victims applying for 10k aid at MeeSeva

Hyderabad: All those flood victims who couldn’t the government Rs 10,000 given as relief fund by Telangana government can now apply online at MeeSeva centre. All those who would apply would get…

GHMC’s Strategic Nala DV Program to prevent future flooding

Hyderabad: To avoid flooding and development of nalas in the city, the Telangana govt. has set up a Strategic Nala Development Plan (SNDP), in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to execute…

Hyderabad struggles to return to normal after record-breaking rain and floods

Hyderabad floods: Retired medico comes forward to help victims

Hyderabad: Few weeks ago, as colonies in the city lay submerged for days due to heavy rainfall, a brave doctor waded and stumbled through muddy waters and slush for hours to reach flood-affected areas.…

Hyderabad flood compensation disbursement: Congress alleges irregularities

Hyderabad: All India Congress Committee spokesperson Dosaju Sravan on Wednesday alleged massive irregularities and discrimination in the disbursement of compensation meant for the flood-affected families in Hyderabad by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi…

Nightmare for Osman Nagar Residents, as homes still flooded

Hyderabad: Haseena Begum, a resident of Osman Nagar, has been living in a private school along with her two children and ill husband for the past 17 days after her house got…

Rains, natural; floods, manmade–Hyderabad walks from prediction to perdition

Shafeeq R. Mahajir Prediction = forecast, guess, prophecy…Perdition = hell, purgatory, punishment…Water-body = lake, pond…Rain = precipitation returning evaporated vapour to earth…Deluge = torrent, flood, inundation…Law = mandatory rule, commandment, Act…Regularise = legalise, legitimise, make acceptable overriding violation of…

Will ensure flood affected families get relief exgratia: KTR

Hyderabad: Telangana Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday assured that the financial aid of Rs.10K would be given affected families. In a tweet KTR had made it…

Hyderabad flood relief: Complaints galore of mismanagement

Flood victims protests at GHMC offices as govt stops relief

Hyderabad: A day after the Telangana government stopped its flood relief fund, a series of protests ranging from roadblocks to a self-immolation bid were staged at the GHMC’s zonal offices on Saturday.…

Protests spark across Hyderabad against stopping of flood relief

Hyderabad: Protests broke out across Hyderabad city against the Government’s move of stopping of flood relief. Scores of public staged protest on streets and demanded the immediate restoration of relief amount distribution.…

Hyderabad floods: Kin await 18-year-old Aamir’s safe return

Hyderabad: For exactly one week, Shaik Mehtab has been waiting at the Musi river’s banks, hoping that his 18-year-old son Shaik Aamir would return home safely. Mehtab, a rickshaw puller, walks daily to…

Telangana: NGO constructs pukka house for daily wager after floods

Medak: After incessant rains poured over Telangana causing widespread inundation, an NGO stepped in to provide a pukka house to the family of a daily wager who suffered damages due to the flood. Pyaram Chandrayya, the daily…

Hyderabad floods—NGOs, individuals rise to clean up city, help the affected

By Syed Khaled Shahbaaz Twelve days after rains rattled Hyderabad, flood waters peaking as high as 12 feet in some areas have subsided, partially restoring life even as normalcy hangs in balance.…

Hyderabad floods: Victims start returning to wrecked homes

Hyderabad: Qamar Begum, a resident near the lower Chaderghat bridge, was busy washing her utensils on a Monday morning. It would seem like any other daily chore for her, but for her, life…

Hyd Floods: Relief work underway at Tahreek Muslim Shabban office

Hyderabad: Relief work, like packing essentials and clothes, is underway at Tahreek Muslim Shabban office on Monday. Hyderabad: Relief work, like packing essentials and clothes, is underway at Tahreek Muslim Shabban office…

Inaction over 6350 encroachments around River Musi led to floods

Hyderabad: Who should be blamed for flooding in Hyderabad? Is it the government or the encroachers? It wouldn’t be wrong to claim that the government remained negligent even after knowing about the…

Displaced Hyderabad flood victims forced live on railway tracks

Hyderabad: Anxiety and uncertainty have gripped the minds of several flood-victims residing along the Falaknuma railways tracks, as they have been rendered homeless, thanks to the last week’s floods that ravaged their homes.…

Telangana employees donate big to help rain hit victims

Hyderabad: Telangana government employees have decided to donate their one day’s salary to support the relief measures launched by the state government for the victims of recent heavy rains and floods. Leaders…

Misery for Osman Nagar residents as area flooded since 2 weeks

Hyderabad: Mohammed Siddiqui (68) ran out of his cramped house as water gushed into his house made of asbestos sheets at Osman Nagar, when heavy rains caused severe floods in the area…