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Streets, houses submerged after heavy downpour in Nagpur

Residents of low-lying areas on Thursday woke up to flooded streets, under bridges, and homes after heavy rain lashed the city. As is the case during every monsoon in the city, the roughly an-hour heavy downpour from 12 midnight to 1 am inundated many parts of the city. "The streets were waterlogged and rainwater entered many houses in north, east, south and west Nagpur," officials from Nagpur Municipal Corporation's fire and emergency services department.

Santacruz 145.1, Colaba 223.2 (Extremely heavy rain), Bandra 106.0, Dahisar 70.5, Ram mandir 161.0, Chembur 86.5, Byculla 119.0, CSMT 153.5, Matunga 78.5, Sion 112.0

Senior colleges under Mumbai University’s jurisdiction will remain shut on Thursday. The university has postponed all exams scheduled on Thursday; revised exam dates will be announced later. Earlier on Wednesday, BMC administrator I S Chahal said that a school holiday (all classes, till XII) had been declared considering the safety of students.

The Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation on Wednesday began demolishing a four-story dilapidated building that had begun to tilt. On Tuesday evening, civic staff and an NDRF) the team evacuated 16 families residing in JNM Building, Hanuman Nagar, Nalasopara after the structure developed cracks.

BEST commuters were affected in waterlogged areas, especially in parts of Andheri (West), Aarey Colony, and LBS Road as buses on seven routes took long detours. Before the BMC’s declaration of a school holiday for Thursday (owing to IMD’s alert upgrade), the School Bus Owners’ Association had said that several operators would not run buses over potholed roads if heavy rain continued. Amid Wednesday’s rain, an electric substation caught fire on the ground floor of a residential building in Thakurdwar, south Mumbai, in the morning, leading to the tripping of four other substations, causing a power outage in Girgaon-Thakurdwar for nearly an hour.