From today, don't be surprised if the fine for illegal-parking on Mumbai roads cost as-much-as or more than the bill for servicing a car at a workshop. Under a-new-rule imposed by BMC and Mumbai Traffic Police, those caught parking their vehicle in no-parking zones within 500-metre radius of the 26 public-parking lots in Mumbai will be given a ticket ranging from Rs.5,000 to Rs.23,000.

The deluge that swept Mumbai this week is part of an ominous trend of extreme weather events including short bursts of devastating rain after a dry patch phenomena whose frequency is rising because of climate-change, scientists say. Mumbai is in such a geographical position that once there is an active monsoon condition, it will get extremely heavy rainfall, IMD's director general of meteorology said.

Be it an open manhole or garbage lying unattended or a leaky-pipeline, residents in Mumbai can now directly complain on the twitter handle of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which has been launched in a-new-avatar. The move to activate the twitter handle of its disaster management cell, @DisasterMgmtBMC, just ahead of the onset of monsoon has been welcomed by politicians and common people alike.