Considering the wind impact, Mumbai has been placed under a ‘red’ alert. MUMBAI: Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde on Sunday said all Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) schools will remain closed till Tuesday and that the closure could be extended by another day or two amid relentless rainfall in the city.According to news agency ANI, Tawde said…
Heavy rainfall has caused significant disruptions on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway and the old highway, leading to traffic suspension. PUNE/MUMBAI: Traffic on both the Pune-Mumbai Expressway and the old Pune-Mumbai highway was suspended on Monday after incessant rain triggered flooding, waterlogging and a landslide, severely disrupting connectivity between the two cities.Authorities urged commuters to avoid all…
Maharashtra’s Raigad district experienced severe waterlogging on the Mumbai-Goa highway due to heavy rainfall, causing traffic to halt for hours and stranding thousands. MUMBAI: Heavy rain brought traffic on the Mumbai-Goa Highway to a crawl after severe waterlogging inundated key stretches in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, leaving thousands of commuters stranded and triggering hours-long traffic snarls,…
Navi Mumbai: The state govt has formally notified to hand over 22,334 sq m plot to the Matheran Hill Station Municipal Council free of cost for developing a parking lot.A multilayer parking lot can be developed to accommodate more cars of the tourists, easing their inconvenience. The plot is located close to Dasturi Naka. The…
The city witnessed triple-digit rains in the last five days, with July 4-5 recording the highest rainfall so far since the monsoon’s arrival. MUMBAI: As persistent showers broke a five-decade-old record in the island city amid unusually strong winds across Mumbai, a tragedy struck Mankhurd late Sunday when a four-storey structure collapsed onto an adjoining…
The unauthorized structure fell onto an adjoining shanty, injuring a passerby. MUMBAI: Five children aged 2-14 and a 32-year-old woman were killed and a passerby injured after a four-storey slum tenement collapsed onto an adjoining ground-floor shanty in Janta Nagar, Mankhurd, on Sunday night amid heavy rain.Four of the victims belonged to the same family,…
Passengers have been advised to check the latest train status before commencing their journey as restoration work continues in the Karjat-Lonavala ghat section. MUMBAI: Heavy rain triggered a landslide in the South East Ghat section between Karjat and Lonavala late on Sunday, disrupting rail traffic on the busy Mumbai-Pune route. The landslide occurred between Thakurvadi…
Navi Mumbai: A 35-year-old man walking along the pavement near a 3-storeyed Geeta Apartment building in Sector 11, Juhugaon, Vashi node was killed, and a woman pedestrian sustained minor injuries after the balcony portion with iron grille of the said building’s second-floor flat collapsed during heavy rain and fell on the two pedestrians. The NMMC…
Navi Mumbai: The Rasayani police in Raigad, in coordination with NGO Help Foundation, rescued eight passengers travelling in an MSRTC bus after the vehicle got stuck on a rainwater-flooded road near Sarsai village along Karjat-Pen Road on Sunday afternoon, due to the Patalganga river crossing the warning level following incessant rains for the past three…
Vasai: A woman who remained stranded for nearly three hours in a rain-swollen stream at the popular Tungareshwar tourist spot in Vasai was rescued by Pelhar police on Sunday evening, averting a potential tragedy.According to the police, constables Satish Giri and Suyash Mane were on patrol near the Tungareshwar temple at around 4.30 pm when…
