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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Makarand Narwekar has urged the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to install a trash boom at Badhwar Park in Colaba

While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) accomplishment in mitigating the waterlogging issues in Hindmata and Gandhi Market -- two chronic waterlogging junctions in south-central Mumbai -- has been known to all, there has been a slew of localised work related to the city’s storm water drain (SWD) network, which was able to minimize waterlogging to a great extent this year.

It started with the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) junction on SCLR where a sudden VIP movement caused chaos.

As per the official statement, the impact of the incessant rainfall would cause several issues such as water logging and inundation over most parts of low-lying areas and river banks

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) updated about heavy rainfall activity over a few places of Konkan and adjoining ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra. India News | Heavy Rainfall Expected over Konkan and Ghat Areas of Maharashtra: IMD.

Perhaps the best testimony to Mumbai’s struggle with modern-day greed is the way nature expresses its wrath over the city, year after year in the form of large-scale destructive floods. The question then arises as to what went wrong in the decades spent building Mumbai.

The Bombay High Court has directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ensure no illegal slaughtering of animals is carried out during the Bakrid festival at a residential colony in south Mumbai.

Many western suburbs witnessed waterlogging before the situation eased in the evening; Andheri subway shut again

In the wake of heavy rains in Mumbai, the BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal visited low-lying areas in the city and inspected monsoon relief schemes

At least two persons were killed in rain-related incidents as Mumbai and surrounding districts were clobbered with torrential rains since Tuesday night, even as the road, rail and air traffic were largely unaffected, officials said on ...