Mumbai rained in: Trains, flights delayed; landslide in Chembur

Mumbai has been hit by the heaviest rain of the season today, throwing rail, road and air traffic out of gear. Local trains are running late, and all flights have also been delayed by 15 to 20 minutes.

After long spells of little or no rain, the city witnessed heavy rains today affecting rail and road traffic. Heavy rains lashed Mumbai today delaying trains, slowing traffic and inconveniencing commuters who stepped out for work.

Worried by the deficient rains this year, Mumbai's civic body has decided to resort to 'artificial rains' at a cost of Rs 6.5 crore, an official said here on Thursday. Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Sitaram Kunte announced the decision even as the city's water collection and storage remained around 30 percent deficient, with the peak monsoon dr...

Years of living in Mumbai and working for a 24-hour news channel are sure-shot ways of hating the rain. So naturally, moving to Delhi meant goodbye to the rain madness. I cannot, for a moment, even remotely imagine standing near Milan Subway (which by definition is a low-lying area) and wonder why it's getting flooded.

Water supply to the maximum city may well be hit if the rain gods do not relent soon enough. Reservoirs that supply water to Mumbai throughout the year have not seen a rise in water levels due to poor rainfall.

Even as Mumbai and its fortunes continue to sink steadily with every falling droplet, the mayor and many senior corporators are floating and absorbing ideas in Singapore at a study tour about 'landfill and water management'.

Mumbai witnessed unrelenting rain yesterday; local trains were delayed and flight schedule was hit. But since last night, there has been intermittent rain.

Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and surrounding areas, including Thane and Raigad on Wednesday, disrupting road and rail traffic, officials here said. Although the downpour offered respite from the sultry weather, it affected Mumbai's lifeline, the suburban trains network, with local services running late by 10-15 minutes on the Central Railway and the Harbour Line since m...

Trains on Mumbai's suburban rail network ( Western and Central ) have been running late by around 15 minutes after intermittent rain since last night. Flights out of Mumbai airport too are running delayed by 15 minutes. Three flights have been diverted so far.

In yet another celebrity-related hit-and-run case, 45-year-old Dhananjay Pimple - the driver of Bollywood actor, director and producer Sohail Khan - surrendered to the Bandra police officials an hour after he knocked down a 70-year-old lady near St Andrews Church on B J Road, Bandra (West) at 10.30 pm on Sunday.

The city airport remained shut for operations for around half an hour last evening due to heavy rains and poor visibility, resulting in diversion of 8 flights.

As most of the country awaits the monsoon, heavy rains are lashing Mumbai. It is common for the city's roads to be waterlogged due to rains, but this time even the city's air traffic has been hit.

Actress Priyanka Chopra seems to be enjoying every minute of the Mumbai rains.

The torrential downpours have just begun in the city, and the monsoon menace has already claimed its first victim. Ashwini Satpute, 24, lost her life in a tree-falling incident at Ganpatrao Kadam Marg in Lower Parel.

Despite government agencies claiming that the city was ready to tackle the monsoons this year, the rainfall that started yesterday morning in the suburbs once again proved them wrong. Within just a few hours of rain, water logging was witnessed in the low-lying areas of Andheri subway and Juhu galli.

Not letting the rains affect his work, Aamir Khan, who was stuck in traffic, decided to 'run' to the sets.

In the first major downpour of this monsoon season, heavy rains lashed Mumbai today disrupting road and rail traffic.

There's bad news awaiting residents of Mumbai. With the monsoon playing truant, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to impose 10 per cent water cut from July 1. The water department reached the conclusion only as a precautionary measure and officials said that they would review the situation on July 15 to see if the cut was to be continued. Comme...

Trains on Mumbai's Central Railway are running 35 to 45 minutes late due to heavy rains causing major inconvenience to passengers during peak hours.

The rains have been late this year and the maximum city has minimum water. 18 million Mumbaikars are facing a 10% cut in their water supply from Sunday, July 1.

It's mid-June and Mumbai is still sweltering. While Mumbaikars are unhappy with the late monsoon, the delay offers the city's municipal corporation a chance to ensure the Maximum city doesn't come apart at the seams when the rain starts pouring down.

The city heaved a huge sigh of relief yesterday as it received its first showers giving Mumbaikars a much-needed respite from the terrible heat. However, even as people celebrated the showers, the lives of several were disrupted as train services were affected at different locations. On the Western Railway (WR), technical snags erupted at Elphinstone Road and Dadar st...

Heavy rains here forced Mumbai Indians to split points with Cape Cobras after Harbhajan Singh's side posted a dauting target of 176 in the alotted 20 overs.

Speedy Singhs also fails to excite at the box-office, while Bodyguard continues to rake in the moolah.