Tuesday, July 14, 2009, MUMBAI: Heavy rains in Mumbai crippled normal life on Tuesday. The heavy downpour accompanied by gusty winds since last evening led to traffic snarls at various places.Suburban trains were also running late due to water logging on the tracks.Several low lying areas including King’’s circle, Sion, Andheri Milan subway, Hind Mata were inundated.Visibility at Mumbai International Airport was described as poor. Airport sources said visibility was restricted to just 800 feet this morning.Water logging was reported at the Wadala truck terminus, Maratha Mandir, Khar, Andheri subways, Govandi and deonar colonies.For past many years monsoon rains have been playing havoc in the state bringing about chaos in the entire region.According to the city’s municipal officers, about a billion rupees are spent each year on bracing the city for the monsoon downpours. Yet rains continue to disrupt normal life.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
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