The Latest Breaking News from Godavari

Edurlamma Lanka, a tiny island in East Godavari, has gone four years without celebrating Independence Day. With no school, children lack access to education and the concept of patriotism. Fisherfolk families sustain their livelihood through fishing in the river, while girls remain homebound, shouldering household responsibilities. Despite the Collector's promise…

The way the government is dealing with Polavaram project is not right and it will be a major threat to the Godavari region if it is not handled properly, says TDP national president.

CM Jagan Mohan Reddy to inspect flood-hit areas in Godavari region on August 7-8. He'll visit Chintoor Agency, Gommu Gudem, Gurajapulanka, Ramalayampeta, Thotaramuduvaripeta and Kondukuduru

Thousands of families who went atop the hills and those who were shifted to relief camps in the wake of flood in the Godavari in the Chintoor Agency of Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) district are staying put there even as the water receded completely. They said that they chose to stay…

Agriculture and horticulture crops are under a sheet of floodwater in nearly 8,000 acres of the Godavari Agency and delta by July 31 (Monday). However, no casualty has been reported so far during the flood in the Godavari region of Andhra Pradesh.  In Eluru district, agricultural crops in more than…

Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti,  Bishweswar Tudu, stated this in response to a question raised by MP M. Thambidurai in the Rajya Sabha; the project envisages the transfer of surplus water of the Godavari river from the Inchampalli dam Telengana to the Grand Anicut, near Thanjavur, on the Cauvery

Heavy rains across the State for about 10 days have made all major projects, except Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar, become surplus both in the Godavari and Krishna Basins

Questions are being raised on how could the authorities build a hospital in an area that was vulnerable to flooding

The police, including women officers, are working in tandem with the SDRF and NDRF personnel in shifting the flood-affected people to safer places and supplying them essential commodities, says DGP Rajendranath Reddy

Members of the Koya tribe are the worst-affected; at least 14,000 families are being evacuated from the affected region, says ASR district Collector; second flood warning continues at Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage

Ensure enough stocks of medicines and essential items, and provide relief to the affected people without bothering about the expenditure involved, Jagan Mohan Reddy tells district Collectors