Mumbai Monsoon

Cannes 2013: Anurag Kashyap's Ugly is about Mumbai's dark side

Agence France Presse | Saturday May 18, 2013

A decades-old rivalry between a Bollywood wannabe and a brutal police chief shines a light on Mumbai's dark side, in Indian director Anurag Kashyap's fast-moving psychological thriller Ugly about the kidnapping of a young girl.

This nullah is making Priya Dutt angry

Mid-Day.com | Tuesday August 28, 2012

The familiar 1.2-km long nullah flowing underneath railway tracks on the Bandra-Khar stretch of the Western Railway network is making MP Priya Dutt see red. And she's not alone in her fury. Every monsoon, the shallow nullah 24-25, which has its final...

Mumbai pins hopes on 'artificial' rains

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday August 16, 2012

Worried by the deficient rains this year, Mumbai's civic body has decided to resort to 'artificial rains' at a cost of Rs 6.5 crore, an official said here on Thursday. Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Sitaram Kunte announced the...

On a panic trigger, Mumbai's civic body considers cloud seeding

Written by Yogesh Damle; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Tuesday August 7, 2012

The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) is pulling all stops, including considering cloud seeding to ensure the city has enough water to last a year. Currently, thanks to the poor monsoon, there is enough water to last only a little over 2...

Drought delivers fresh blow to reeling economy

Friday August 3, 2012

A summer drought makes a bad situation worse for an Indian economy already crippled by a sharp slowdown in growth, persistent inflation and a politically hamstrung government. Late on Thursday, New Delhi confirmed the first drought in three years as ...

India declares drought as El Nino reduces rain

Friday August 3, 2012

Monsoon rains will not be enough to save the country from its first drought in three years, the weather office said on Thursday as it forecast that the El Nino weather pattern should reduce rains again in the second half of the June to September seas...

Mumbai waterlogged, but north India still waits for monsoon

NDTV Correspondent | Thursday July 5, 2012

Mumbai witnessed unrelenting rain yesterday; local trains were delayed and flight schedule was hit. But since last night, there has been intermittent rain.

Mumbai slowly recovers after heavy rain

NDTV Correspondent | Wednesday July 4, 2012

Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and surrounding areas, including Thane and Raigad on Wednesday, disrupting road and rail traffic, officials here said. Although the downpour offered respite from the sultry weather, it affected Mumbai's lifeline, the suburb...

Rains in Mumbai: Trains, flights delayed by 15 minutes; 1 dead in building collapse

Rashmi Rajput | Wednesday July 4, 2012

Trains on Mumbai's suburban rail network ( Western and Central ) have been running late by around 15 minutes after intermittent rain since last night. Flights out of Mumbai airport too are running delayed by 15 minutes. Three flights have been dive...

Mumbai hit by heavy rain, eight flights diverted

Written by Abhinav Bhatt | Monday July 2, 2012

As most of the country awaits the monsoon, heavy rains are lashing Mumbai. It is common for the city's roads to be waterlogged due to rains, but this time even the city's air traffic has been hit.

Priyanka enjoys Mumbai monsoons

Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday July 1, 2012

Actress Priyanka Chopra seems to be enjoying every minute of the Mumbai rains.

Torrential rains knock down tree, woman killed

Mid-Day.com | Friday June 29, 2012

The torrential downpours have just begun in the city, and the monsoon menace has already claimed its first victim. Ashwini Satpute, 24, lost her life in a tree-falling incident at Ganpatrao Kadam Marg in Lower Parel.

Just one morning of rain sinks Mumbai suburbs

Mid-Day.com | Friday June 29, 2012

Despite government agencies claiming that the city was ready to tackle the monsoons this year, the rainfall that started yesterday morning in the suburbs once again proved them wrong. Within just a few hours of rain, water logging was witnessed in th...

Aamir Khan jogs his way to film shoot

Mid-Day.Com | Friday June 29, 2012

Not letting the rains affect his work, Aamir Khan, who was stuck in traffic, decided to 'run' to the sets.

Mumbai roads, trains hit by heavy rain, more to come says met dept

Reported by Saurabh Gupta; written by Mala Das with IANS inputs | Thursday June 28, 2012

In the first major downpour of this monsoon season, heavy rains lashed Mumbai today disrupting road and rail traffic.