Rane is in Maharashtra to take part in Jan Ashirwad Yatra. He made controversial remarks against Thackeray in Raigad. Mumbai Police have registered a total of 42 FIRs in connection with Rane's Jan Ashirvaad Yatra.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has enhanced the number of its teams from 26 to 34 for undertaking rescue operations. The teams are being deployed in affected areas of Mumbai, Ratnagiri, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Satara, Sangli, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Pune and Nagpur for rescue and relief work.
As many as 129 people have died in rain-related incidents, including multiple landslides, in Maharashtra over the last two days, while 84,452 people under the Pune division were shifted to safer places on Friday as heavy showers continued to wreak havoc in the state.
Heavy rains since the last two days have caused massive floods in Raigad, Ratnagiri, Palghar, Thane, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts. Both Centre and State have announced ex-gratia to the kin of the deceased while rescue efforts are continuing at several locations.
Several places in these two districts in the Konkan region are inundated and the government machinery is taking steps to move the stranded people to safety.
More than 50 per cent area of Chiplun, located around 250km from Mumbai and having a population of over 70,000, has got submerged in flood waters.
Watch women falls back into water during the rescue operation in Ratnagiri where heavy rain caused flooding situations.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday took a review of the situation arising out of the continuous downpour in these two coastal districts, the chief minister’s office (CMO) said.
Major rivers in Ratnagiri and Raigad districts in the Konkan region are flowing above the danger mark as a result of incessant rains while government machinery is in process of shifting affected people to safer places, authorities said.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is on a tour of cyclone Tauktae-hit Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts in the Konkan region
Ratnagiri Fire News: A massive fire broke out at MR Pharma's plant in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
Three people were killed and eight others injured after a fire broke out in a chemical company in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district on Sunday morning,police said.
At least five people were killed and several were injured in a blast at a chemical factory in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district on Saturday.
Three properties of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district were sold in an auction for over Rs 1 crore, an official said on Wednesday.
Parts of Mumbai continued to receive heavy rains along with gusty winds of upto 70 kmph for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. According to the officials, normal life was thrown out of gear while suburban train services were disrupted due to the heavy downpour.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel are carrying out restoration work in Alibaug following cyclone Nisarga on June 04.
Ratnagiri Assembly Constituency: With the other 287 assembly constituencies in Maharashtra, Ratnagiri went on for polling on October 21. The constituency recorded 63.38 per cent of voter turnout.
NCP workers on Tuesday staged protest and threw crabs outside the residence of Maharashtra Water Conservation Minister Tanaji Sawant in Pune. The Minister had said that crabs were responsible for Ratnagiri's Tiware dam breach. Tiware dam located in Chiplun tehsil of Ratnagiri district, breached late night on July 2, killing 18 people.
Tiware dam in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri was breached on Wednesday. The breach caused flood like situation in seven downstream villages. About 22-24 people were missing. 12 houses near the dam were washed away. Ratnagiri is approximately 275 kilometres from Mumbai.
Tiware Dam: Advancing a bizarre theory, Shiv Sena Minister in Maharashtra, Tanaji Sawant, has held crabs responsible for the Tuesday dam burst incident in Ratnagiri that has claimed 18 lives so far.
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