
Amid heavy rainfall in Maharashtra, boulders fell from a hillock in Thane and a house collapsed in neighbouring Palghar, news agency PTI reported. No casualties have been reported so far in the incidents. Earlier, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde directed officials in six districts including Thane and Palghar to stay alert and monitor the situation.
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Both Colaba and Santacruz observatories in Mumbai recorded rainfall in the triple digits, 117 mm and 124 mm, respectively, over the past 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Tuesday. Heavy rainfall is on the cards on Tuesday as well for the entire Konkan region.
Meanwhile, in a speech after winning the floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly on Monday, Shinde stated, “Balasaheb Thackeray had said once that Shiv Sena will never go along with NCP and Congress to form a government… ‘Congress and NCP are our enemy and will remain the enemy of Shiv Sena. I am here till Shiv Sena is there. When I will not be there, then Sena will turn into Congress’. The moment he (Balasaheb) realises that Sena is becoming Congress, he will dissolve the party. These are the words of Balasaheb Thackeray. So, we have done nothing wrong.”
The following BEST routes have been diverted due to heavy rains in Mumbai.
At National College 4,33,241,84 via Linking Road
At Sheetal Talkies. 22,25,303,302,7,385 via SLR Bridge
At Air India Colony -311,322,330,517 via SCLR Bridge.
At Hindmata Cinema - 1, 6, 15, 11, 8, 4, 51, 66 via Flyover.
At Hindmata Cinema 368,25,40 via Bhoiwada
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will be visiting the Disaster Control Room of the BMC at 4 pm today.
A drone was used to shower petals on Maharashtra's Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis during his roadshow in Nagpur.
The Andheri Subway has been closed for pedestrian and vehicular traffic due to 3.5 ft of waterlogging following heavy rains.
The subway in Andheri was severely waterlogged on Tuesday after heavy rainfall in Mumbai.
Amid heavy rain in Mumbai, a portion of a compound wall of a house collapsed on Tuesday morning.
The incident was reported at around 9:40 am. According to preliminary information from the BMC, the house was empty and the collapse happened after a tree had fallen on one of the portions of the house. No casualty has been recorded.
Amid rainfall in Navi Mumbai, the Ulwe road on Tuesday was blocked due to severe waterlogging.
Maharashtra's deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis Tuesday received a warm welcome in Nagpur.
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With severe waterlogging in Mumbai's Sion and Chembur, the following BEST bus routes have been diverted:
At Chembur Shell Colony Rd 357, 360, 355(L) via Ambedkar Udyan, Chembur Naka to Suman Nagar.
At Sion Road no. 24 - All Bus route cia Main Road.
As per the latest radar observation at 10.50 am from Mumbai, intermittent intense spells are likely to continue for the next 3-4 hours over Mumbai, Thane, and parts of Raigad and Palghar.
As Mumbai recorded 95.81 mm of rain in the last 12 hours, Sion Circle faced severe waterlogging.
Parts of Mumbai including Sion, Mulund, Chembur, Andheri East, Patanwadi in Malad East, and Kandivali witnessed flooding after the rains
With the Konkan region set to witness heavy rainfall Tuesday, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has directed the administration in six districts to remain on alert and prepare to shift residents out of flood-prone areas if needed.
The district administration of Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and Kolhapur have been put on alert. NDRF teams have been deputed, said the CMO.
The CM has also asked the state administration to monitor the situation in Mumbai which is witnessing heavy rainfall since Monday evening.
Both Colaba and Santacruz observatories recorded rainfall in the triple digits, 117 mm and 124 mm, respectively, over the past 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Tuesday
As drama swirled around the Maharashtra government’s survival, one of the characters at the heart of it was a politician from Haryana, Sonia Doohan. The 30-year-old national president of the NCP students’ wing was held along with an aide for allegedly using fake identification documents to check into a hotel in Goa, where Sena rebels were staying. Doohan, who played an "important role in the fall of the three-day BJP government in 2019" according to NCP's Dheeraj Sharma, has denied the allegations. Read more

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Monday held a meeting with all the shiv sena district heads at Shiv Sena Bhavan.
As the Shiv-Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra cleared the floor test with a majority of 164 votes in the 288-member House, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said development and Hindutva are on the new regime’s agenda.
Speaking in the Assembly, Shinde broke down remembering the period after the 2019 state elections, and said he was very disturbed at the way he was treated during the polls.
“They (the Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena) must understand why such a big incident (the rebellion) took place. They should find out the root cause of it,” he said, adding that he was ready to be a “martyr” to save the party. Read full story here
Ajit Pawar elected as Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra assembly.
He said that in next election, his faction of Sena and BJP together will get 200 MLAs elected.
"We were Shiv Sainiks, we are Shiv Sainiks and will continue to be Shiv Sainiks," said Eknath Shinde. "We are sainiks of late Balasaheb and Anand Dighe. Development and Hindutva are on our agenda."