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'Mumbai Monsoon' app to provide weather updates

June 06, 2014 2:54 am

The BMC is also looking to update the application with information on traffic diversions in the city.

Civic body gears up to tackle double celebration

September 03, 2013 12:59 am

BMC will make special arrangements in the southwest suburban region of Mumbai during the next week as the Mount Mary Churchs Bandra Fair week

BMC mobilises 850 lifeguards,two NDRF teams

September 03, 2013 12:56 am

Ahead of the 10-day-long Ganeshotsav celebrations beginning next week,the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has raised its disaster preparedness.

With 150 hoax calls daily,BMC operators have work cut out

June 26, 2013 1:59 am

Namaskar,BMC disaster control room, greets a voice from a 250-sq ft hall on the ground floor of the civic bodys annexe building,opposite CST,when citizens dial 108 or 1916.

'Unfinished infrastructure projects a gap that needs to be plugged'

June 26, 2013 1:51 am

Four building collapses in less than four months with more than 100 lives lost,huge water-logging at chronic spots choking traffic on Day One of monsoon this year,and a city paralysed with tree falls,potholes and cave-ins. In an interaction with The Indian Express,Mahesh Narvekar,Chief officer,Disaster Management Cell,Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation,defends the civic authoritys preparedness,but says it can do better with more robust weather forecasts.

CCTVs at beaches to prevent drowning cases

June 24, 2013 2:16 am

To prevent cases of drowning this monsoon,BMC has installed 16 CCTV cameras at the citys six beaches. This is part of BMCs beach-safety plan.

BMC's SOP story: Downpour exposes lapses

June 17, 2013 1:07 am

In its 247-page glossy manual titled Flood Preparedness Guidelines,BMC has set for itself 45 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to be followed before and during monsoon.

21 major high tide days during monsoon this year,says BMC

May 08, 2012 2:24 am

This monsoon,Mumbaikars will have to brace for 21 days of high tide when the tide levels will be higher than the danger mark of 4.5 m.

Faced tsunami in 1945,but city kept out of crucial drill

October 14, 2011 12:56 am

India's financial capital and one of the few cities in the state to have ever faced tsunami waves did not participate in the first-of-its-kind drill to test the countrys new tsunami warning system on Wednesday.

UN picks Mumbai as role model city for handling floods

May 06, 2011 1:03 am

The Brihanmumbai stormwater drainage (BRIMSTOWAD) project may be only 40 per cent complete and the Mithi river rehabilitation project may be crawling after the first phase was completed under a court-appointed deadline

Massive Fire Hits Trauma Centre ICU at SMS Hospital

Axed from job, doctor claims warnings about ‘current leakage’ were ignored

India2 hr ago

A hospital official has alleged that repeated warnings about safety lapses and poor maintenance at Jaipur's SMS Hospital were ignored by higher authorities. The trauma centre's in-charge, Dr Anurag Dhakad, had raised concerns about faulty electrical systems, water leakage, and unsafe construction work, but no action was taken.

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