Andhra Pradesh Drought

With water storage in dams dropping to a "critical" level, the Centre has issued a "drought advisory" to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, asking them to use water judiciously.

Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai's iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red - formed by farmers in red caps - on a long march through Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding compensation for drought, an unconditional farm loan waiver and the transfer of forest rights to tribals. I...

Chennai: One of the worst droughts in decades across south India is forcing tens of thousands of farmers and labourers to take out loans to survive, pushing them into debt bondage and increasing the risk that they may be exploited for work, activists said. Villages across southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have be...

Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: Shiva Prasad wants to go to school. At 14, that is where he should be. That is where he was, in Class VII, preparing for his annual examination like millions of children at this time of the year. But ten days back, a second successive year of drought pushed his father over the edge. Rama Rao, a farmer in Guntur district of A...

Like Bengaluru, Hyderabad was known as a city of lakes from the days of the Nizams and the Qutb Shahis. But in the last few decades, Hyderabad's lakes have been encroached by big builders, who have destroyed the impressive man-made water storage system that helped keep drought and flood at bay. And now, the government's beautification of the lakes ...

Scanty rain during July-August prompted the state government to declare the 'war' on drought by deploying thousands of rain guns to wet standing groundnut crop in 15 lakh acres in Anantapuramu district, 4.5 lakh acres in Kurnool and two lakh acres in Chittoor as it faced the threat of drying up.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said his government would work to make the state "100 per cent mosquito-free" in the next two years.

As a dozen states across the country wait for the rains to deliver them from one of the worst droughts in recent memory, for one man, the answer to the unquantifiable plight lies in becoming "water literate".

At a rally, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu led thousands of people in taking a pledge to save water. The symbolic gesture yesterday in Anantpur, one of the driest parts of the country, would have carried more weight if it hadn't been preceded by thousands of litres being poured onto a helipad where the Chief Minister's helicopter had landed, alon...

The Centre today approved grant of about Rs 2,550 crore to drought-affected states of Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

The Andhra Pradesh government is prioritising irrigation projects, making efforts for interlinking of rivers and introducing drip and sprinkler irrigation to make the state drought-free, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said in Hyderabad today.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the amendments to the land acquisition bill during his visit to the drought struck area of Anantpur- infamous for farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh.

The Centre would "immediately" release Rs 88 crore for Andhra Pradesh, in the wake of drought in Rayalaseema region and deput teams for assessing the extent of damage caused due to the calamity.

In Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's constituency - Gajwel in Andhra Pradesh's Medak district -- three farmers have killed themselves in the last three weeks after their crop failed due to the dry monsoon.

A sub-normal monsoon has given rise to the possibility of drought in parts of the country, but the government is ready to tackle it, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said ahead of a meeting called by the Prime Minister to review the impact of poor rainfall.

With water storage in dams dropping to a "critical" level, the Centre has issued a "drought advisory" to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, asking them to use water judiciously.

Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai's iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red - formed by farmers in red caps - on a long march through Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding compensation for drought, an unconditional farm loan waiver and the transfer of forest rights to tribals. I...

Chennai: One of the worst droughts in decades across south India is forcing tens of thousands of farmers and labourers to take out loans to survive, pushing them into debt bondage and increasing the risk that they may be exploited for work, activists said. Villages across southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have be...

Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: Shiva Prasad wants to go to school. At 14, that is where he should be. That is where he was, in Class VII, preparing for his annual examination like millions of children at this time of the year. But ten days back, a second successive year of drought pushed his father over the edge. Rama Rao, a farmer in Guntur district of A...

Like Bengaluru, Hyderabad was known as a city of lakes from the days of the Nizams and the Qutb Shahis. But in the last few decades, Hyderabad's lakes have been encroached by big builders, who have destroyed the impressive man-made water storage system that helped keep drought and flood at bay. And now, the government's beautification of the lakes ...

Scanty rain during July-August prompted the state government to declare the 'war' on drought by deploying thousands of rain guns to wet standing groundnut crop in 15 lakh acres in Anantapuramu district, 4.5 lakh acres in Kurnool and two lakh acres in Chittoor as it faced the threat of drying up.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said his government would work to make the state "100 per cent mosquito-free" in the next two years.

As a dozen states across the country wait for the rains to deliver them from one of the worst droughts in recent memory, for one man, the answer to the unquantifiable plight lies in becoming "water literate".

At a rally, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu led thousands of people in taking a pledge to save water. The symbolic gesture yesterday in Anantpur, one of the driest parts of the country, would have carried more weight if it hadn't been preceded by thousands of litres being poured onto a helipad where the Chief Minister's helicopter had landed, alon...

The Centre today approved grant of about Rs 2,550 crore to drought-affected states of Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

The Andhra Pradesh government is prioritising irrigation projects, making efforts for interlinking of rivers and introducing drip and sprinkler irrigation to make the state drought-free, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said in Hyderabad today.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the amendments to the land acquisition bill during his visit to the drought struck area of Anantpur- infamous for farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh.

The Centre would "immediately" release Rs 88 crore for Andhra Pradesh, in the wake of drought in Rayalaseema region and deput teams for assessing the extent of damage caused due to the calamity.

In Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's constituency - Gajwel in Andhra Pradesh's Medak district -- three farmers have killed themselves in the last three weeks after their crop failed due to the dry monsoon.

A sub-normal monsoon has given rise to the possibility of drought in parts of the country, but the government is ready to tackle it, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said ahead of a meeting called by the Prime Minister to review the impact of poor rainfall.