Ahmedabad: Palak Shah left his Sarkhej warehouse at 5pm, expecting to reach his Naranpura home soon. Five hours later, he was still stranded near Juhapura after covering barely 3km. “I have never felt so helpless,” said Shah.A 2km-long serpentine queue stretched between Sarkhej and Juhapura as the waterlogged road slowed vehicles and caused several to…
Prayagraj: After basking in bright sunshine during the first half of Tuesday, Prayagraj was lashed by a spell of heavy rain around 3 pm, bringing relief from sultry conditions but creating fresh problems for commuters as several roads and intersections were already grappling with waterlogging following heavy showers a day earlier.The sudden downpour drenched almost…
Kanpur: Monsoon showers that brought much-needed relief from the sweltering heat and humidity across Kanpur also exposed the city’s fragile drainage infrastructure. Nearly 48 mm of rainfall from Sunday evening to Monday afternoon submerged roads, triggered widespread waterlogging, disrupted traffic, delayed office-goers and schoolchildren, and affected normal life across several parts of the city.Several roads…
Vehicles navigate a flooded road in Ranchi on Saturday Ranchi: A few hours of heavy rain threw life out of gear in the city on Saturday, with widespread waterlogging reported across several arterial stretches and residential areas.A minor bridge connecting Lalpur and Kokar via Bhaba Nagar was completely submerged. The situation was equally grim on…
Residents accused the civic body of failing to prevent a repeat of street inundation Surat: Barely 10 days after floods crippled Surat, a spell of moderate rain on Friday once again left several roads waterlogged, exposing the city’s fragile drainage infrastructure and triggering fresh criticism of the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).Residents took to social media…
Vehicles crawl through a waterlogged stretch in Mohali on Friday as heavy rain inundated several roads, triggering traffic snarls and disrupting the morning commute Mohali: Heavy rain Friday disrupted normal life across Mohali district, with waterlogged roads causing traffic chaos and leaving thousands of commuters stranded during peak office hours. Critical stretches in Derabassi, Zirakpur,…
The municipal commissioner said the roads were flooded because the drains do not have the capacity to handle 210mm of rainfall Ghaziabad: A day after heavy rain ravaged the city and flooded the roads, officials responsible kept passing the buck for the failure of civic infrastructure that led to five deaths.On Friday, water receded from…
Waterlogging on VIP Road disrupted travel plans for flyers Kolkata: Heavy overnight rain and waterlogging on the airport access roads brought air travel in and out of Kolkata to a crawl on Friday, delaying multiple flights, disrupting airline schedules, and leaving thousands of passengers stranded on flooded roads and at the airport. Though no flight…
Guwahati: A brief spell of rain on Wednesday once again exposed Guwahati’s chronic waterlogging problem, with several areas going under water after the city recorded 7.4mm rainfall.Anil Nagar, Boragaon, Maligaon and Jorabat were among the areas where water accumulated soon after the showers, slowing traffic and leaving commuters stranded. Vehicles moved cautiously through inundated stretches,…
Potholes on the roads (Chandigarh – tricity story pics) Mohali: Given the potholed and waterlogged roads of Mohali, one might think it has been pouring for weeks. But no, the heavy infrastructure damage is the result of barely one hour of rainfall – twice in the last 48 hours – that too when the rainy…
