In Heavy Mumbai Rain, Schools To Be Shut Today, Flights Hit

Heavy rain battered Mumbai on Tuesday, triggering traffic jams and waterlogging in many areas of the city. Schools and colleges have been asked to remain closed today. The downpour is likely to continue for the next 24 hours, the weather department predicted. Operations at the Mumbai airport were suspended for a while, delaying several flights.

Heavy rains lashed Mumbai on Tuesday, but there were no reports of waterlogging or disruption of transport services.

Police have arrested four persons in connection with the death of a renowned doctor, who fell into an open manhole while walking along a flooded street during torrential rains in Mumbai on August 29.

The districts in Konkan and Goa are likely to receive heavy rain at isolated places during the 72 hours commencing from tomorrow, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

Mumbai has been experiencing a spate of thunderstorms off late, and it seems like today is going to be one of those days.

As a mark of appreciation, the Maharashtra government has decided to give Rs 5 crore reward to police personnel who worked untiringly during the deluge of August 29.

Last month, Mumbai experienced heavy rains that disturbed the city's normal life. Bollywood celebrities like Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Alia Bhatt and Abhishek Bachchan shared their concern on Twitter

India's ability to predict the sort of devastating rainfall that struck Mumbai last week is set to get a major boost next year.

It is a common phenomenon around the world for a city to face an epidemic after facing heavy rain and water-logging. Here in Mumbai, we face the epidemic that has hit a few opportunists called the blame game and the misinformation campaign.

The Bombay High Court has said we cannot control nature but the situation in the city of Mumbai which has been facing floods during monsoons regularly has not improved in the past few years.

Sikander Khan is a cab driver whose kindness ensured that his passenger, Puja Vaish, came to no harm. Ms Vaish shared her experience in a Facebook post that has gone viral with over 15,000 likes and 1,000 shares.

The German car-makers has prepared a cross-functional task force from the after-sales team to support the customers whose vehicles have been affected in the sudden Mumbai inundations, on August 29.

The number of dead in the Mumbai building collapse rose to 34 today with 10 more bodies being pulled out from the debris since last night, police said.

For a 13-year-old rape survivor in Mumbai, the heavy rains that that brought the city to a standstill, made her wait for abortion test longer. She is 30 weeks pregnant and is waiting to be examined by doctors who will assess if she can abort the foetus.

Moments before a building in Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar collapsed, Mohammed Rafiq, 25, had gone in to collect his stuff and get ready for a trip to his home in Uttar Pradesh. Then he heard a loud noise. "I ran out immediately," said Mr Rafiq, who lived in Husaini Building that has turned into a heap of debris now

In his tweets, Daniel Fernandes alleged that actor Sanjay Dutt's manager threatened to beat him up for asking if he could park his flooded car on an elevated area of his building - the manager works out of an office in the same building

Noted Mumbai doctor Deepak Amarapurkar, who was missing since Tuesday after heavy rain left most of the city flooded, has been found dead. His body was found at a drain near the seashore at Worli.

Rescue workers, including those from the National Disaster National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), searched for more than a dozen people who are still feared trapped in a 117-year-old, five-storey building that collapsed in Mumbai this morning, two days after torrential rain lashed the city. 32 people have died and many, including four firemen, are injured and have b...

In a sensational claim regarding Tuesday's downpour, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said that "nine-km-high" clouds were hovering above the city and the impact would have been severe had they burst. Lapping up Mr Thackeray's remarks, which he made at a press conference, political parties across the spectrum asked the Sena chief to clarify his statem...

The Santa Cruz observatory of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Mumbai registered 331.4 mm rainfall on Tuesday, the heaviest since the July 26, 2005 record of 944 mm, which had caused the worst havoc in decades in the city.

Around 450 personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been mobilised for deployment in Mumbai, where normal life has been disrupted due to heavy rains.

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray today flew off the handle when questions were posed to him on the monsoon preparedness of the party-ruled Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai or MCGM, a day after heavy rains virtually clogged the city.

Four persons, including a three-year-old girl, were washed away in separate incidents following heavy rain in neighbouring Maharashtra's Palghar district, about 87 km from Mumbai. Of the four, the body of the minor girl has been recovered so far, Palghar police said.

After heavy rain flooded the city, many people took refuge in the Gurudwara in Dadar. The Gurudwara offered not only 'langar' but also provided shelter to about 750 people. Among the several people who took shelter was the Boleslawski family from Paris. The family of five has thanked the Gurudwara for their help in a moving thank you note.