Ranchi-Howrah Vande Bharat flag-off, Durga Puja prep, & more news in pictures from Kolkata

Railway staff and school students pose in front of Jharkhand’s second Vande Bharat Express train on Sunday. The train that will connect Ranchi with Howrah was virtually flagged off by Prime minister Narendra Modi. A Vande Bharat already runs between Ranchi and Patna. The Howrah-Ranchi train will run six days a week and complete the 463km distance in seven hours

The weather in Kolkata remained gloomy on Sunday with intermittent rainfall. The rainfall recorded by IMD in the last 24 hours was 40.0 mm

An artist puts the finishing touches to miniature Durga idols at Kumartuli

Dancers performed in front of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) headquarters on Friday during the curtain-raiser event of Kolkata Shree. KMC had initiated the Kolkata Shree competition in 2011 among Durga puja committees in areas under KMC’s jurisdiction to showcase their brilliance and creativity

A photo exhibition on ‘The City of Calcutta & Its Life’ by Biplab Roy was held at the Town Hall, Kolkata, from September 22-24

Amid rising cases of dengue, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) workers of the vector control and Solid Waste Management (SWM) teams conducted a cleanliness and awareness drive around the city on Thursday

Music composer Debojyoti Mishra launched singer Anwesshaa’s Durga Puja song ‘Brishti’ composed by Shiladitya-Som in the presence of Apeksha Lahiri, director, Asha Audio, at the retro dining restaurant, Chapter 2, on September 20

Devotees in Kolkata bid adieu to idols of Lord Ganesh on the second day of Ganesh Chaturthi on Wednesday