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Further, the Tunga-bhadra reservoir which is also filled with water from upstream inflows will cover the needs of Anantapur, Kadapa and Kurnool districts through HLMC and LLC canals.

Rayalaseema gets enough water

No drinking water crisis this year: Officials.

24 Aug 2019 3:07 AM

Picture of polluted Tungabhadra river

Pollution chokes Tungabhadra river

Major polluters are located in the AP border areas.

05 Jan 2019 1:50 AM

Tungabhadra dam (Photo:DC)

Tungabhadra river at dangerous levels at Hampi, Vijayanagar

The historic Purandaradasa mantap, where the saint used to pray five centuries ago, was submerged near the Chakra Theertha at Hampi.

24 Jul 2018 1:00 AM

On Friday, with around 60,000 cusecs inflow, the discharge into the river was around 63,000 cusecs through 22 of the 33 crest gates which have been opened to a height of two feet. (Representational image)

Tungabhadra overflows, people warned

As usual, the Purandara Mantap and another stone mantap near the bathing ghat, where last rites are performed, have been submerged.

21 Jul 2018 5:19 AM

A huge deposit needs to be made to get a tipper load of sand. There is a waiting period of 15 to 20 days for it. (Representational Image)

Sand from Tungabhadra costly

Sand business lucrative with rising demand for construction.

14 Dec 2017 8:00 AM

Madikeri MLA Mr Appachchu Ranjan on Friday offered Bagina to River Cauvery at Harangi reservoir in Kodagu which reached its maximum level on July 23. Harangi is the only reservoir which has reached its maximum capacity in the Cauvery basin during the South-West Monsoon this year.

Dry flows the Tungabhadra...and dead fish and tortoises!

Tungabhadra river has so little water in it now that its fish and crocodiles have also started dying.

05 Aug 2017 3:30 AM

Weighing just about 2 to 6 kgs, the oriental short-clawed otters, also known as the Asian small-clawed otters, are the smallest otter species in the world and are endangered.

Karnataka: Saving the otter – Tungabhadra gets a clean-up

Specialised poachers of otters and turtles, they went unchecked until the trade in otters was busted in 2012.

23 Jun 2017 3:17 AM

Rain water overflows at Kallur in Kurnool on Saturday. (Photo: DC)

Kurnool city sleeps as flood threat looms again

First state capital has no underground drainage system.

18 Jun 2017 6:55 AM

Remote areas in Jogulamba Gadwal district on the banks of the rivers Krishna and Tungabhadra are engaged in a flourishing ganja cultivation business and the middlemen who collect dry ganja from them are supplying it to either Raichur or Hyderabad.

Telangana: Free seeds, high returns, lure farmers to grow drug

Middlemen and ganja smugglers are luring the farmers into growing the forbidden crop by dangling the bait of high profits.

10 Mar 2017 12:39 AM

Illegal sand mining (Representational Image)

Sand mining goes on unabated in Kurnool

100 tractors with loads of sand pass daily violating norms.

12 Dec 2016 2:47 AM

Otters were once a target of poachers who traded in hides

On the banks of Tungabhadra, a home for the otter

The Forest department has declared a distance of 34 km downstream of Tungabhadra an ‘Otter Conservation Reserve’.

11 Dec 2016 3:56 AM

Around 20 drawings from that era on a boulder atop a hill near Taalrighatta, adjacent to the river Tungabhadra in Hampi are drawing historians, anthropologists and linguists from around the world eager to know more about Hampi’s possible Indus Valley connection.

Gondi script found in Hampi

20 drawings found on stone near Tungabhadra river.

13 Feb 2016 3:38 AM

A view of the bridge across the Tungabhadra river connecting Hampi and Anegundi in Ballari district (Photo: DC)

Bridge to re-establish Hampi-Anegundi link to be ready by March next year

Work on the 487.5-metre bridge was taken up under RIDF at an estimated cost of Rs 32 crore

27 Oct 2015 8:15 AM

People wade through a flooded road following heavy rains in Hyderabad (Photo: PTI)

Bountiful rain: Hyderabad now in safe zone

11 Sep 2015 8:46 AM

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Water inflows yet to be consistent in Tungabhadra river

Officials are optimistic that the present rains will ease the drinking water problem

09 Sep 2015 11:07 AM

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Stringent action against illegal mining of sand from Tungabhadra River

CC cameras were inst-alled in 13 locations for identifying the illegal mining

23 Aug 2015 11:28 AM

Sand extracted from the Tungabhadra river is unavailable for people of nearby Davangere district as it is being transported illegally to Bengaluru every day

Bengaluru swallows up the Tungabhadra sand, Davangere residents suffer

People who plan to construct houses are finding it difficult to get sand

07 Jul 2015 9:23 AM

A file photo of a dam built over Tungabhadra river in Karnataka

Telangana to protest Karnataka's Tungabhadra river dam proposal in Delhi

Minister held discussions with engineering officials and ordered them to file a complaint

27 Nov 2014 12:28 PM

A file photo of a dam built over Tungabhadra river in Karnataka

Telangana, Andhra Pradesh unite to fight for new dam across Tungabhadra River

Karnataka major irrigation minister M B Patil had announced construction of a dam

27 Nov 2014 9:54 AM

Bhadra river rafting

For water sport enthusiasts, Bhadra’s the perfect river

The calm Bhadra river is ideal for rafting

08 Oct 2014 12:02 PM

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