Mumbai Floods

There is a need for greater precision in weather forecasting in India

While govt administrations are learning to respond to predictions, the forecasts themselves need improvements.

Mumbai Rains: Heavy downpour results in slow-moving traffic, waterlogging across city

The India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mumbai, forecast that the city will receive a day of intermittent rainfall with heavy fall in the adjoining suburbs. KS Hosalikar,deputy director-general (meteorology), regional IMD also took to twitter to share the weather forecast.

Could emulating China's 'sponge cities' help prevent the worst of flooding in urban India?

Cities in India, with their impermeable surfaces, blocked drains, and rampant construction on lake beds and other water bodies, have metamorphosed into water-resistant barriers, prone to flooding.

Mumbai rains as it happened: 6 inter-city trains, 108 flights cancelled due to inclement weather

Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and its suburbs on Tuesday afternoon, but there was no report of waterlogging or disruption of transport services.

Mumbai rains throw life out of gear; schools shut, flight operations hit, local trains delayed

Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and its suburbs on Tuesday afternoon and the rains continued through the night till Wednesday morning reviving memories of the 29 August deluge that had paralysed life in the city.

Deepak Amrapurkar death case: Four men arrested for opening manhole in which doctor fell during Mumbai floods

Police have arrested four persons in connection with the death of a renowned doctor, who fell into an open manhole while walking along a flooded street during torrential rains in Mumbai on 29 August.

Mumbai rains: Deepak Amrapurkar's family has a host of legal options against BMC, Maharashtra govt

As the cry for justice for Amrapurkar becomes loud, his family can seek legal recourse to at least punish those due to whose negligence a bright medical career made with an untimely and sad end.

Mumbai floods: Rains claim 6 lives as city slowly gets back on its feet; political blame game begins

As the skies opened up a day after torrential rain and high waves on Tuesday, life in Mumbai slowly came back on its feet on Wednesday

Mumbai rains: City receives 418 mm of rain in 12 hours; IMD predicts more of the same today

Torrential rains lashed Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad and other parts of Maharashtra for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday, severely affecting normal life and paralysing the lifelines — local train and bus services — in the state capital and leading the state government and civic authorities to sound a high alert.

Mumbai rains: Two days after deluge, city starts to limp back to normalcy

As the skies opened up a day after torrential rain and high waves on Tuesday, life in Mumbai is slowly came back on its feet on Wednesday.