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The severe heat wave sweeping across the state claimed about 190 lives on Saturday, according to Commissioner for Disaster Management T Radha. A total of 274 persons died due to sunstroke in the state since April 1 to May 24, including 84 deaths ...

The state government has decided to request the New India Assurance Company to accept the reports of three-member committees in lieu of FIR and postmortem report for the payment of Rs 50,000 to the kin of sunstroke victims, under Apatbandhu scheme.

The family of a person who dies due to cold wave is entitled to ex gratia of Rs.1.5 lakh from State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) contributed by the Centre, but in case of heat wave (sunstroke), the compensation is only Rs.50,000. In case of ...

The government is likely to allot the terrace of the north 'H' block of the Secretariat where a state-of-the-art Disaster Management Control Room is coming up. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) plans to install environmental radiation ...

Official Language Commission chairman Mandali Buddha Prasad inspecting the use of the state's official language, Telugu, in the department of disaster management at the Secretariat in Hyderabad on Friday | Express Photo The State Official Language ...

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh government is planning to set up a State on the lines of the National (NDRF), which will be stationed at Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Tirupati. "Discussions are on and a meeting has been convened with the Chief Secretary on ...

Urban areas are more vulnerable to disasters and need a plan to take up reduction measures than villages where people are capable of coping with such contingencies, Principal Secretary, Revenue and Commissioner for Disaster Management, T. Radha has ...

The billowing clouds over the city gave further respite to people from the scorching summer as the maximum temperature fell to 38.4 degree Celsius on Monday. The minimum temperature was recorded at 29.7 degree Celsius. Taking cue from the cloudy ...

The death toll due to sunstroke rose to 32 with 8 more reported on Friday from different parts of the State. The summer heat in the peak for the last few days while Coastal Andhra and Telangana regions reeled under severe heat wave conditions. The ...