New Delhi, June 19 -- Amid the incessant rains in Maharashtra, the India Meteorological Department issued an orange alert for Mumbai and suburbs on Thursday. The Met department predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in the financial capital.

Major roads and train stations in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) - Mumbai, Thane and Palghar - have been submerged.

Though the IMD forecast indicates that the intense rainfall is likely to diminish on Friday, the heavy rain is predicted to persist on June 21 and 22.

Amid other details, the IMD issued a red warning for Palghar, Ghat of Nashik, Ghats of Pune predicting heavy to extremely heavy rainfall on Thursday. However, the intense rains would diminish decline, but rains would continue in t...