{"id":327551,"date":"2020-10-14T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327551"},"modified":"2020-10-14T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:21:58","slug":"telangana-govt-declares-holiday-till-thursday-as-heavy-rains-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/telangana-govt-declares-holiday-till-thursday-as-heavy-rains-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana govt declares holiday till Thursday as heavy rains continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/telangana-govt-declares-holiday-till-thursday-as-heavy-rains-continue\/telangana-rains\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327552\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/telangana-rains-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/telangana-rains-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/telangana-rains-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/telangana-rains-696x539.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/telangana-rains-542x420.jpg 542w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/telangana-rains.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a>The Telangana government has declared a holiday till Thursday as the state has been witnessing heavy downpour, causing waterlogging in many parts including Hyderabad. Telangana minister KT Rama Rao appealed to people to not venture out as more rains are expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;In view of incessant rains, state govt has declared a holiday today &amp; tomorrow for all private institutions \/offices \/ non essential services within ORR with work from Home advisory! People are advised to stay indoors unless it\u2019s an emergency,&#8221; Telangana government said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to reports, as many as 12 people have died in the last 48 hours in rain-related incidents. At least 14 districts of Telangana have been affected, with several areas in Hyderabad being flooded and vehicles stuck due to waterlogged roads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The rescue operation is underway in many areas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telangana government has declared a holiday till Thursday as the state has been witnessing heavy downpour, causing waterlogging in many parts including Hyderabad. Telangana minister KT Rama Rao appealed to people to not venture out as more rains are expected. &#8220;In view of incessant rains, state govt has declared a holiday today &amp; tomorrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":327552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2921],"tags":[12162,2426,1853,2226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327554,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327551\/revisions\/327554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}