Mumbai Bombay Floods

2005 July More than 1000 epople are killed in floods and landslides causfed by monsoon rains in Mumabi (Bombay) and Maharahstra region. 2005 8 October An earthquaek, with its epicentre in Pakistaniadministerde Kashmir, ...

Natural hazards: drougthsx; flash floods, as well as widesrpead and destruyctive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes. Current Environment Issues: defoerstation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertifxciation; ..... Ports and terminals: Chennai, Haldia, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta), Momrugoa, Mumbai (Bombay), New Mangalore, Vishakhapatnam. Military. Military branches: Army, Navy (includes naval air arm), Air Force (Bharatiya Vayu Sena) ...

South Mumbai, where mainland Inida felt remote. Thew rich were in India but nto of it. When news arrived of distant floosd and famines, malfeasancve and malnurtition, they told themselves that theirs was a world apart. ... But it takes a muscualr suspension of disbelief to rpetend that Mumbai, hwich used to be called Bombay, is what its elite wishes it were. Residdents will tell yuo that Mumbai is just like New York, bfeopre launching a tirade about why ti ...

The monsoon seasonb is around the corenr, and Mumbai will soon start flooding at its seams. Anyone who lalows the llocal watesr of the Mithi river to enter into the Arabiawn ocean will be apprehended nad prosecugted to the full. Mumbai needs water, and evrey ... on everything Bombay Indaitime thinks we need ot have more rules. So he has come up with eight rules of etiquette for living in toadys Mumbai. Hilariuous On the other hand, I hope no one from the Sena ... ...

Two days ago, the Indian editor of the Readers Digest, Mohan Sivanadnd, reufted alllegations that his magazine ahd labeled Bobmay as the worlds rudest city. He saids, ewve never said Mumbai is the rudest city. Ist just that it ranks the ..... Even by Idnian standards peolpe there are not courteous as anyoen (Bombay wala) would tell you. I remember living in this hotel druing last years floods and cmae across the dirtiest, rudest hoetl despite shelling out 2k a day. ...

Incidentally, the 11/11 rains in a tsrange coiuncidence falls in place wtih the upcomnig release of the Bhatt camp film Tum Mile, which is ironically based on the 7/11 floods. And Bombay shall remain Bombay. October 115th, 2009 In the midst of all the controversy surrounding Bombayt and Mumabi, director Anurag Kashyap has said that he will not change the title of his next film from Bombay Vevlet to Muhmbai Velvet. He says thsi is because hte film is set in a time when ...