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Rain crosses 3,000mm in Mumbai; brace for more today

The calm is coming to an end, and there will be more rain pain this week. Meteorologists and weather observers predict that starting from Tuesday, Mumbai and adjacent areas will usher in moderate to extremely heavy rains. According to officials of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), rainfall activity will reappear between August 11 and August 15. IMD officials said there is a possibility that medium to heavy showers may hit Mumbai and the suburbs again.

“We don’t expect the rainfall to be as great as we saw last week, but the possibility of flooding in low-lying areas cannot be ruled out during this period,” an IMD official said. Even after the intensity of the rain weakened this weekend, light showers and thundershowers continued in Mumbai and its suburbs. Experts on the Skymet website, a private weather forecasting agency, said that in the past 24 hours, Colaba and Santacruz observatories both recorded 12 mm of rain. “We don’t expect much rainfall in Mumbai and its neighboring areas on August 10, but a short-term local area cannot be ruled out in the city. Temperatures in Mumbai and suburbs may rise slightly, again leading to muggy weather conditions. The monsoon surges.

Mumbai and neighboring areas are expected to be active again around August 11. It is expected that rainfall activities in Mumbai and the suburbs will also increase by August 11,” Skymet quoted experts as saying. At the same time, the self-taught meteorologist Rajesh Kapadia said: “Monday to Wednesday, Mumbai will witness increased rainfall, cloudy skies and frequent showers, not long and non-continuous, but intermittent. The rainfall will be intermittent. Including some heavy rains and normal monsoons.” Another independent weather enthusiast, the “Indian Weatherman” wrote on Twitter: “Rain activity will increase from August 11th. Rainfall will be the highest from August 12th to August 15th. Total rainfall should More than 400 mm”. Indian meteorologists further tweeted: “Last week Mumbai’s rainfall exceeded 600 mm.

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This week’s rainfall is unlikely to exceed 600 mm. Rainfall in Mumbai and the suburbs will again exceed the surrounding areas. Mumbai’s seasonal rainfall has already exceeded. Our rainfall until September is 30 times a year. The Santacruz Observatory has recorded 2507 mm and the Colaba Observatory has recorded 2441 rains. The catchment area/lake has reached 49% of its full capacity. Given that there will be two back-to-back low pressure zones, too On August 20, the rainfall in Mumbai should exceed 3000 mm, and the catchment area should span 70%.” Although the city needs to store 1,447.363 billion liters of water to provide the city with one year’s water supply, as of August 9, the storage of living water was 731.283 billion liters (about 6 months of water storage).

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The stock market opened in red on Thursday, with the Sensex trading below 187.91 points and the Nifty below 46.45 points. The 30-share Sensex rose by 520.90 points or 0.65% to settle at 80,116.49, the highest closing level since December 18. Eight of the 13 major sectors declined at the open, while the broader, more domestically focused small-caps and mid-caps traded flat.

Ajay Bagga, market expert, said that the overhang remains for the next 10 to 15 days, the time it took in the previous two instances from the terrorist strike to the retaliatory Uri and Balakot strikes. On Wednesday, stock markets extended their surge to the seventh day, with Sensex share jumping 520 points to close above 80,000 level for the first time in four months.

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The stock market closed in green for the 7th day on Wednesday, with the 30-share Sensex rising by 520.90 points or 0.65% to settle at 80,116.49, the highest closing level since December 18. During the day, it surged by 658.96 points or 0.82 per cent to 80,254.55. The NSE Nifty rallied 161.70 points or 0.67 per cent to 24,328.95. HCL Tech surged the most by 7.72 per.

Cent after posting an 8.1% increase in consolidated net profit at ₹4,307 crore for March quarter 2024-25, mainly on account of large deals with a total contract value of about ₹25,500 crore. Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India, Axis Bank, ITC, and UltraTech Cement were also among the laggards, according to PTI Both the Sensex and Nifty reversed their seven-day.

Uptrend and settled lower on Thursday, amid profit-taking and disappointing Q4 earnings of Hindustan Unilever. Selling in blue-chips ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, and a largely muted trend in Asian and European equities also dragged the markets down, PTI reported. In the past seven trading days, the BSE benchmark gauge zoomed 6,269.34 points or 8.48 per cent, and the Nifty.

jumped 1,929.8 points or 8.61 per cent ​Indian stock markets experienced significant declines on April 25, 2025, amid escalating geopolitical tensions with Pakistan following a deadly militant attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, which resulted in 26 civilian deaths. The BSE Sensex fell by 1,195 points during intraday trading, closing 570.8 points lower at 79,227, while the NSE.

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The market downturn was driven by widespread losses across sectors, with 12 out of 13 major indices ending in the red. Broader markets were also affected, as mid-cap and small-cap Nifty50 dropped 207.3 points to settle at 24,039 indices declined over 2%. Investor sentiment was further dampened by India’s strong diplomatic response to the attack, which included.

suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, closing the Attari border crossing, and revoking visa privileges for Pakistani nationals The Indian rupee weakened, closing 0.2% lower at 85.45 against the U.S. dollar, influenced by month-end dollar demand and increased geopolitical uncertainty. Bond yields also rose, reflecting heightened risk aversion among investors

Analysts caution that the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan could continue to impact market stability. While a full-scale conflict is considered unlikely, the situation remains fluid, and investors are advised to monitor developments closely In Pakistan, the Karachi Stock Exchange’s KSE-100 index fell by 2.12%, or 2,485.85 points, as investors reacted to India’s.

The United Nations has urged both nations to exercise restraint and resolve their differences through peaceful dialogue diplomatic measures and the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty Indian stock markets slipped into the red on April 25, 2025, following India’s strong diplomatic actions against Pakistan after a deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir. The BSE Sensex.

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