Eighteen Dead, Sixty-Five Injured in Maharashtra’s Pre-Monsoon Downpour as IMD Yellow-Alerts Thirty Districts and Fadnavis Convenes an Emergency Cabinet Meeting (opens in new tab)

Eighteen people are dead and sixty-five injured in Maharashtra from rain-related incidents in the past week as the southwest monsoon, which the India Meteorological Department has now declared has crossed into central India, races up the western coastal corridor. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis convened an emergency meeting Friday with the state's water resources, agriculture, and disaster management departments. IMD yellow alerts cover thirty districts including Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raig...