Mumbai rains turn Monday morning into crawl for commuters, city receives 540 mm rainfall in less than two days
Fp Staff • 6 years agoMumbai Rains: Extremely heavy rainfall, coupled with massive traffic jams and water logging in several parts of Mumbai, stalled life for commuters on Monday morning. Monsoon gained strength in the city and adjoining areas as Mumbai witnessed rainfall through Sunday night and all through Monday morning.
Mumbai rains LIVE updates: Next high tide expected at 10.44 pm, rainfall highest in decade, says BMC
Fp Staff • 6 years agoMumbai rains LIVE updates: According to the website tide-forecast, the next high tide in Mumbai is expected at 10.44 pm, and the tide is expected to reach a height of 3.76 metres.
NCP proposes MNS as member of grand alliance to overthrow BJP; Congress rejects proposal
Fp Staff • 6 years agoAhead of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has proposed Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) as a possible ally in the Congress-NCP grand alliance, to put up a strong front against the BJP. The Congress has reportedly rejected the proposal.
Rains lash Mumbai, flights delayed and transport affected as city experiences water-logging
Fp Staff • 8 years agoThe Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning saying that Mumbai residents should expect heavy rainfall over the next three days.
MNS workers force Mumbai shopkeepers to remove Gujarati signboards, seven arrested
• 8 years agoWorkers of the MNS protested against a jewellery shop in Dadar and a hotel in Mahim here, asking them to remove the signboards in Gujarati, police said.
Stolen battery box brings Mumbai's Western Railway to grinding halt: Trains delayed for 90 minutes
Fp Staff • 9 years agoIt took one thief, who stole the battery box fom Mahim substation, to halt the all-time-busy Western suburban railway services to come to a grinding halt on Monday morning.
Yakub Memon's last journey: Noose in Nagpur and finally Mumbai's bada qabristan
Fp Staff • 10 years agoThousands turned up to pay their respects to Yakub Memon after he was hanged on Thursday in the Nagpur central jail.
Mumbra to Mahim: How lack of cheap housing forces poor into a death trap
Fp Archives • 12 years agoThe Mumbra building collapse underscore the government's failure to develop policies to house the millions of people who flood from rural India into cities to do the low-wage jobs in a modernising economy.
More bad news for Raj Thackeray: MNS to lose regional party status after pathetic showing
Vishwas Waghmode • 10 years agoAfter the poor show in the Lok Sabha election in May this year, the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has received its biggest drubbing in the assembly election in Maharashtra by wining in just one seat. It could be the end of Raj Thackeray, say political observers pointing to its performance.
Images: Salman Khan, Raj Thackeray inaugurate Koli Festival 2013
Fp Archives • 11 years agoMNS chief Raj Thackeray and actor Salman Khan inaugurated the Koli Mahotsav on Friday.