Father’s Day, Ganga Puja and more news from Kolkata in pictures

Craft-making, quizzing, public demonstration and more kept children and their parents engaged at Birla Industrial and Technological Museum on Father’s Day

Ganga Puja was performed on the banks of river Hooghly at Bagbazar Ghat and Babu Ghat on Sunday. Several devotees were seen offering prayers in the morning

Ganga Puja being performed at Belur Math

71 Palli Baishakhi Sarbojanin Durga committee began the countdown to Durga Puja 2024 with Khuti Puja. Khuti Puja formally marks the commencement of Durga Puja

Bengal Tourism Fest is being held at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra from June 16 to 19 to promote state tourism

Local residents help pull out a car that fell into the Hooghly river with a boy inside on Sunday morning. The boy had allegedly fiddled with the steering wheel, causing the vehicle to roll into the river. Prompt action by onlookers helped save the child

A fire broke out at 1 Camac Street on Tuesday morning. Just three days on, a fire broke out on the third floor of Acropolis Mall on the busy Rashbehari connector around Friday noon. The mall has been shut till further notice

Kolkata and several parts of south Bengal are once again reeling under a pre-monsoon heatwave. The weather on Sunday was hot and humid with the maximum temperature touching 36.4˚C. The condition is unlikely to improve in the next two days, IMD officials said on Sunday