IIT Mandi researchers have developed an early warning system for landslides. MANDI: With climate change fuelling a rise in extreme weather events and slope failures, IIT Mandi researchers have developed an operational landslide early warning system for the Indian Himalayan Region, one of the country’s most landslide-prone belts.The Landslide Early Warning System, or LEWS, has…
MUMBAI: The ongoing wet spell has pushed rainfall at the IMD’s Santacruz observatory past the 1,000 mm mark within the first seven days of July. Between July 1 and 7, Santacruz recorded 1,017.5 mm of rainfall, already exceeding the 798.3 mm recorded during the entire month of July last year.On Wednesday, the IMD’s Colaba observatory…
MUMBAI: A 50-year-old man from Virar suffered a head injury after a tree branch broke and fell on him during heavy wind and rain in Andheri (East), police said.The incident occurred at around 8.50 am when Aadesh Gaikar was riding his motorcycle from Virar to his workplace in Andheri, police said.People who witnessed the incident,…
Responding to the controversy, Mhatre said he had not raised his hand against the doctor and attributed the impression created by the CCTV footage to the camera angle. MUMBAI: Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre on Wednesday expressed regret over the altercation at a civic-run hospital in Dombivli, while denying allegations that he assaulted a female…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only MUMBAI: An Air India flight from Mumbai to Delhi on Tuesday aborted its take-off run as an Air India Express aircraft that had landed seconds ago was still on the runway, said an aviation source.The incident occurred around 9.40 pm when Air India flight AI 816 to Delhi entered…
Thane: A proposed data centre at Balkum in Thane has drawn fresh political opposition, with Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske demanding an immediate halt to the project and an independent inquiry into alleged large-scale tree felling at the site.Mhaske submitted a memorandum to the Thane civic chief and the district collector after meeting representatives of…
The petition before the Bombay High Court was a dispute concerning a ‘loop road’ at Mandale village on land which the BMC said was not its land, but belonged to the Department of Atomic Energy where Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Colony is located Mumbai: Citizens should not blame the C alone for Mumbai’s chronic monsoon…
Mumbai recorded its wettest July days in recent years with intense downpours. MUMBAI: Mumbai received as much rain between June 30 and July 6 as several major metros typically do in an entire year.IMD’s Colaba observatory recorded 882. 6mm of rain and Santacruz 988. 8mm during the seven-day period, surpassing the average annual rainfall of…
Emergency services weren’t hit, but patients seeking OPD consultations and routine treatment faced inconvenience Kalyan: Routine medical services and OPD consultations across all major civic-run hospitals and centres in Kalyan-Dombivli were suspended on Tuesday after their doctors, nurses and paramedical staff went on a strike to protest the assault of a hospital’s staffers by Shiv…
Ashwini Bhide said strong winds over the past two days has caused extensive damage to the city’s green cover Mumbai: It would be a “sweeping statement” to attribute tree-fall incidents solely to concretisation, BMC commissioner Ashwini Bhide said on Tuesday even as she announced that the civic body would engage expert institutions and arborists to…
