Mumbai, Aug. 21 -- After torrential rains battered Mumbai and its suburbs for the past three days, the country's commercial Capital began to limp back to normal, even as the number of rain-related deaths mounted to 27 and more than 5,000 marooned people were rescued and shifted to safer places in the rain-ravaged State.
With some let up in the rains and consequent recession in floods in the metropolis, the suburban trains on the Central Railway's Main and Harbour line networks and Western Railway - considered the lifelines of Mumbai - operated behind the schedule during the day. However, road traffic chaos continued for the fourth consecutive day.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) r...