Hyderabad, July 31 -- Heavy rainfall lashed several districts across Telangana on Thursday, with the state administration on high alert after a forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned of heavy to extremely heavy rainfall across the state up till Friday morning. Officials attributed the weather to the influence of a depression moving over Chhattisgarh in addition to the active southwest monsoon.

According to a weather bulletin from Telangana state development planning society, as many as 13 places across the state received heavy rainfall ranging from 118 mm to 165 mm up to 8 am on Thursday, with Wazeedu in Mulug district recording the highest rainfall of 165.8 mm.

The bulletin said Tapalpur in Mancherial district rec...