Police personnel in adequate strength were deployed across the state to maintain law and order, officials said.
The metropolis has received heavy rains in the last 24 hours.
Track restoration has been delayed by rains.
This unheralded, mandatory holiday of sorts provided one such occasion. It proved to be a blessing in disguise for those who otherwise have to slog it out round-the-clock.
Mumbai Dabbawala Association is skeptic about resumption of services in full capacity amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Train services on both suburban and long-distance routes in Mumbai are expected to be hampered on January 26 due to the call given by motormen and drivers, who plan to avail their leave on Republic Day. The motormen of suburban trains and drivers of long distance trains would be doing so to highlight their long pending demands related to payment and working conditions.
The place of work turned into place of stay or a dormitory for the office goers and almost all the offices, especially those of state-run institutions that dominate the south Mumbai area, hosted employees for the night.
The Mumbai civic body asked all schools to remain shut and to ensure that the students were sent back home safely.
Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said at the function that he would request CM Shinde to rename Ahmednagar city as Ahilyanagar'.
Mumbai's dabbawalas have also suspended their services on Tuesday.
'The persons who are arrested are the ones who have played an active role in the blasts.' Maharashtra Director General of Police A N Roy defends the investigation into the July 11, 2006 blasts in Mumbai.
Incessant heavy rain lashed Mumbai, prompting the meteorological department to upgrade the 'orange' alert to 'red' with effect from Wednesday night till Thursday afternoon, officials said.
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Mumbai's six million train commuters may soon be able to ride in relative comfort. Western Railway on Monday unveiled first of the new train. This is the first of 157 new rakes which will be rolled out in near future. The new train looks plush. It has a roof-mounted ventilation package units, the windows are larger and fitted with polycarbonate lookout glass. Other features include modular switches for the fans, lighting along the central aisle and emergency lights.
While they have successfully put one of the partially destroyed coaches back into service, the remaining six are still in the repairing yard.
Indian Railways plans Rs 39,000 crores non-fare revenue. Via: Branding of trains. Vinyl-wrapping of Rajdhanis, Shatabdis and Garib Raths. Moving billboards.
Ending much speculation, Brian Lara finally touched down in India as the most high-profile recruit of the Indian Cricket League.
"At least 300-400 passengers are stuck near Dakor town in Kheda district since 11 am yesterday [Thursday]," Western Railway's Public Relations Officer K K Dubey said.
The registration number of the car used by Riaz has turned out to be fake one, the ATS chief said adding other information like where did the ammunition cache arrive from will be disclosed later.
Bansal has been named as the 39th prosecution witness in the case in which Singla, the then Member (Staff) of Railway Board Mahesh Kumar and eight others have been chargesheeted for the offence of criminal conspiracy under the IPC and relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
'You need to have enough funds to maintain the primacy of public transport and it should not suffer because of lack of funds.'
If Saudi Arabia, with just two Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina, can create a huge tourism-based ecosystem beyond oil, Ayodhya is sure to become the world's hottest religious tourism site in less than a decade, predicts R Jagannathan.
After nine trips by a 10-wagon water train, a 50-wagon water train carrying 25 lakh litre water was later pressed into service.
RLDA is a statutory authority established by the ministry of railways for generating non-fare revenue from railway land.
Track restoration work, which was going on in full swing, was hampered due to rain.
However, some areas in south Mumbai, which witnessed a record rain on Wednesday, were still water-logged, they said. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted moderate to heavy rainfall in the city and suburbs and intense showers in some parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in next 24 hours.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the Union government is making record investment for railway infrastructure modernisation.
The seven first class compartments, which were ripped apart in the serial blasts of July 11 are awaiting a facelift at Mahalaxmi car shed in Central Mumbai, according to Western Railway sources.
To facilitate foreign direct investment (FDI) in high- speed rail projects, the government is likely to allow private sector entry in operations.
The shuttle train derailed between Palgarh and Umroli on the Virar-Dahanu Road section. Two were injured.
He believes that more than 25 injured were removed from the bombed out compartment.
