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Mumbai rains: City recorded highest amount of showers on an August day since 1997, says IMD
•The metropolis on Tuesday recorded 298 mm of rainfall, the highest in a day in August since 1997, according to data from the India Meteorological Department.
It's not the rain-gods, silly. It's the govt that's failed
Jagannathan •It's not just the prospect of a weak monsoon that should worry the UPA. The problem is the long-period average rainfall has been consistently declining for the last 50 years, and this calls for doing more than pray to Indra for copious rain.