Every monsoon, Mumbai residents hear the same warning from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC): High tide expected. Heavy rain possible. When the two forecasts coincide, officials gear up for flooding, gridlock, and disruption to suburban train services.But what makes this particular combination so troublesome?The answer is a simple but…
MUMBAI: Mumbai came to a standstill on Monday as heavy rain and gusty winds lashed it for the third day running and torrential showers disrupted life in other parts of the state, Palghar district being the worst-hit. While IMD downgraded the alert for Mumbai for Tuesday from red to orange, the BMC has again declared…
From 7-8am, high wind speeds were recorded across Mumbai areas, including 66kmph in Malabar Hill; hoarding collapses were also reported. MUMBAI: In just the first six days of July, Mumbai has received more than its average rainfall for the month, with the IMD’s Colaba and Santacruz observatories recording 823.4 mm and 898.4 mm respectively. The…
MUMBAI: Mumbai’s roads get flooded, train services get disrupted, traffic snarls and daily life come to a standstill every monsoon season. Heavy rain is the immediate trigger, but experts say it’s a combination of natural and man-made causes behind the city’s annual flooding.Because of the increased frequency of extreme rainfall events, which often take place…
MUMBAI: Barely a fortnight into the monsoon, Mumbai has lost 826 trees—59 every day, or more than two every hour—highlighting the growing danger posed by ageing trees, infrastructure works and unusually strong monsoon winds.Even before monsoon diseases peak, Mumbai is grappling with another public safety crisis: falling trees. The problem seems acute this year compared…
Mohammed Abuzar, the 13-year-old boy Bhiwandi/Navi Mumbai: A 13-year-old boy, Mohammed Abuzar, was swept away in a stormwater drain while playing with friends in Bhiwandi on Monday. This was the third such tragedy involving minors in Bhiwandi in the last three days. The other victims are still missing.According to the civic body, Abuzar lost his…
Municipal Engineers Union workers protest outside BMC’s M-West ward office on Monday Mumbai: The Municipal Engineers Union on Monday staged a protest outside BMC’s M-West ward office against the suspension of civic engineers in connection with two recent monsoon-related incidents, demanding that the disciplinary action be revoked.Calling the action “premature and unjust”, the union said…
Mumbai: Mankhurd police on Monday arrested the contractor and owner of the unauthorised ground-plus-three-storey slum tenement that collapsed onto an adjoining ground-floor shanty at Janata Nagar in Mandala area on Sunday night, killing five children and a woman and injuring a man.Based on a complaint lodged by Mohammad Mukhtar Abdul Ali Shaikh (53), police registered…
Navi Mumbai: A group of 125 trekkers from different parts of Pune was stuck in Roha, Raigad, since Saturday evening. Also, more than 1,000, including tourists, landed up at Kolad in the same taluka due to the Mumbai-Goa highway flooding. Further, three teams in a joint operation on Sunday night rescued 36 inmates of a…
Bombay high court accepted BMC’s affidavit filed on Monday that said the civic chief has directed all 26 wards to ensure 100% inspection of manhole covers across Mumbai in 10 days, and officers were acting on it. Mumbai: Coming down on the BMC for an “eyewash” of earlier compliance affidavits, Bombay high court on Monday…
