Heavy Rain Along With Thunderstorms Hit Mumbai, Festival Celebrations Hit

Heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning lashed several parts of Mumbai late Thursday evening.

The Zomato food delivery partner walked in heavy Mumbai rains on Wednesday to deliver the food after his bike broke down.

The death of 45-year-old Vimal Anil Gaikwad after she fell into a manhole in a waterlogged street last night has put the spotlight on Mumbai's manhole tragedies and the lives they have claimed in the past few years.

The India Meteorological Department earlier issued a red alert for Mumbai and its adjoining districts Thane, Palghar, and Raigad for Thursday.

Mumbai Police have filed an accidental death report (ADR) over the death of a 45-year-old woman after falling into a drain during heavy rain yesterday. Thecivic body has also ordered an inquiry into the incident thatoccurred late at night in Andheri.

A 45-year-old woman drowned in a nullah overflowing due to heavy rains in suburban Andheri on Wednesday, police said.

Heavy rain in Mumbai this evening flooded many roads and led to some flight diversions. Vehicles moved slowly on the flooded roads, leading to traffic jams in many parts of the country's financial capital.

The passenger also expressed his frustration at what he perceived as "preferential treatment" given to the Vande Bharat Express

Mumbai and its neighbouring Thane and Palghar districts and many other parts of Maharashtra are expected to receive heavy rainfall over the next four to five days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said.

Hina Khan enjoyed the rains while on a relaxing getaway to Lonavala

A 42-year-old fisherman from Mumbai lost Rs 96,870 after he was tricked into logging his details into a digital payment app by fraudsters who posed as executives of an online streaming platform.

Mumbai is bracing for heavy rain today with residents being requested to stay indoors, a day after continuous downpour led to waterlogging and the cancellation of at least 11 flights.

In a sigh of relief amid heavy downpours, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation declared that all the schools and colleges in its area will operate normally on Friday.

The police have asked residents of Mumbai to stay indoors till 8.30 am today after the weather office forecast heavy rain in the coastal city.

Four people have died - three were electrocuted - in Pune, two drowned after falling into Thane's Barvi Dam, and a red alert has been declared for Mumbai and Palghar after heavy rainfall, overnight and this morning, battered Maharashtra.

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has also requested all citizens to avoid stepping out if not necessary and has asked them to cooperate.

Multiple flights have been delayed and cancelled due to heavy rain in Mumbai. Several areas have been flooded and two out of the seven lakes that supply water to the city are overflowing

Three men died of electrocution in Maharashtra's Pune in the early hours of Thursday while trying to move their handcart that got submerged due to heavy rains, police said.

Heavy rain has led to waterlogging in several areas in Pune and Kolhapur and paralysed normal life. Schools have been shut and scores of residential apartments in Pune's Pimpri Chinchwad area have been flooded

The Andheri Subway in Mumbai has been closed for vehicular movement following waterlogging from the persistent rainfall.

Following heavy rains that pounded Mumbai and its suburbs, flight operations have been affected, resulting in the cancellation and diversion of some of the flights.

Mumbai and its suburbs received over 100 mm of rainfall in 12 hours till 8 PM on Sunday, inundating roads in many areas, diverting flights, and briefly affecting local train traffic between Dadar and Matunga stations due to water-logging.

Some roads in Mumbai are flooded after rain, and the weather office has forecast more rain today in the crowded, humid city.

An 80-year-old woman was killed, and four others sustained injuries after a portion of a balcony of a four-storey residential building in south Mumbai came crashing down on Saturday, officials said.