{"id":54710,"date":"2025-07-13T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=54710"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:23:47","slug":"bhadrakali-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bhadrakali-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhadrakali Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bhadrakali Lake Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Activists urge the Telangana government to rethink island development in Bhadrakali Lake amid lake shrinkage concerns.<\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bhadrakali Lake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an artificial lake located in <\/span><b>Warangal, Telangana.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It covers an area of approximately 32 acres. The lake stretches to 2 km in distance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is believed to have been <\/span><b>built <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during the <\/span><b>12th century <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the <\/span><b>Ganapati Deva of the Kakatiya dynasty.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is <\/span><b>connected to the Maneru Dam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">via the <\/span><b>Kakatiya Canal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and was initially formed for drinking water resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main highlight of the lake is the <\/span><b>Bhadrakali Temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, located <\/span><b>on one of the islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within the lake.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an ancient temple which was originally <\/span><b>built during the Chalukyan reign in 625 AD.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">The temple is dedicated to <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Goddess Bhadrakali,<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">an incarnation of <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goddess <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Durga<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/southern-states\/telangana\/greens-urge-rethink-of-bhadrakali-lake-island-plan-amid-shrinkage-fears-1891106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhadrakali Lake in Warangal, Telangana, is a 12th-century artificial lake known for the ancient Bhadrakali Temple dedicated to Goddess Durga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":54843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1517,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-54710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bhadrakali-lake","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}