KKR makes it to the playoffs, rainy week and more news from Kolkata in pictures

Kolkata Knight Riders beat Mumbai Indians in a match cut short by rain at the Eden Gardens on Saturday to seal an IPL 2024 playoff berth

Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata, conducted Astro Nights featuring space-themed science exhibition, open-air science show, popular talk and telescope demonstration on May 11

Stairs at the Kalighat skywalk in nearing completion

People queue up at Kalighat temple to offer puja on Akshay Tritiya and (above) a woman balances an idol of Lord Ganesh and several garlands after performing puja at the temple

Kolkata experienced heavy rainfall since Monday with hailstorm on Thursday in different places. The highest rainfall of 62.2mm was recorded on Thursday

On Tuesday, personnel of the parks and squares department of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation trimmed the branches of a tree uprooted during Monday’s Nor’wester on the sidewalk opposite The 42 on Jawaharlal Nehru Road

Students and artistes perform on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s 163rd birth anniversary celebrations at Madhabi Bitan in Santiniketan

The flower-bedecked statue of Rabindranath Tagore on the lawn of Jorasanko Thakurbari on Wednesday

Kalyani Expressway is being extended. Another wing is underway on the right of the main road which will pass via Nadia and is being extended to Baro Jagulia via an elevated corridor