Rains Today Updates: Heavy rain lashes parts of Telangana, kills one in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada

Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka Rains, Weather Forecast Today, Waterlogging, Traffic Jams News Updates: Andhra Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed officials to take precautionary measures.

By: Express Web Desk

Updated: August 25, 2025 12:04 PM IST

People wade through a waterlogged road after heavy rainfall, at Mithali Nagar, Meerpet, Near Hyderabad, Telangana, Sunday (PTI Photo)

Red alert issued in Telangana: Heavy rains battered Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) sounding red alerts for both the states. IMD forecasts heavy to extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places in Bhadradri Kothagudem, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Medak and other districts from August 13-14. Normal life was also disrupted owing to waterlogging on arterial roads and causing several rivulets and other water bodies to overflow.

Heavy rain kills one in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada: Incessant rainfall in Andhra led to severe waterlogging, which killed a 51-year-old, who accidentally fell into an underground drainage, said the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation on Thursday. The local body said that the cleaning work of the drainage near Gulammohiddin Street was underway when Rao fell into it as the area was waterlogged. “Heavy rains lashed Vijayawada in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, leaving several areas waterlogged and claiming the life of Rao,” the VMC said in an official release. The water level, due to heavy rainfall which started at 9 pm on Tuesday, rose nearly three feet above the road, said the corporation. The VMC has urged residents in low-lying areas to move to safer places.

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Andhra Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directs officials to take precautionary measures: Andhra Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed officials to take precautionary measures. “Officials should take precautionary measures and sudden flood inflows from streams and rivulets in the Krishna River basin must be monitored continuously,” the CM said in an official release on Wednesday.

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16:01 (IST) 14 Aug 2025

Rains Today LIVE Updates: Telangana minister reviews rain situation; relief funds, NDRF teams deployed

Telangana Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has directed district collectors to take preventive measures as heavy rains batter the state, releasing Rs 1 crore to each of the 33 districts for immediate relief. With a heavy rain forecast for the next three days, Hyderabad’s civic, water, and traffic agencies have been told to coordinate to avoid disruption. Widespread rains have swollen rivulets, cutting off road links in several districts. An 80-year-old woman in Warangal died after rainwater flooded her hut. Seven NDRF teams have been deployed for relief work, and officials are inspecting vulnerable areas.

14:53 (IST) 14 Aug 2025

Rains Today LIVE Updates: Heavy to very heavy rainfall over coastal Andhra Pradesh

"During 0830-2330 hrs IST of Yesterday, the 13th August, Heavy to very heavy rainfall (in mm) over coastal Andhra Pradesh (Vijaywada 128; Tuni 80) and moderate rainfall over West Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha, Konkan & Goa," IMD said.

13:21 (IST) 14 Aug 2025

Rains Today LIVE Updates: Extremely heavy rainfall at Isolated places over Telangana

Rains Today LIVE Updates: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places over Telangana on Thursday (Aug 14).

"Isolated heavy rainfall likely over Coastal Karnataka, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, Telangana and North Interior Karnataka during 14th-20th; South Interior Karnataka during 14th-17th; Rayalaseema on 14th; Kerala on 14th and 15th August with isolated very heavy rainfall over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam on 14th; Telangana during 15th-17th; Coastal Karnataka during 18th-20th August," said IMD.