Fishermen boats sail in the Ganga at Diamond Harbour during rain on Sunday (August 4) afternoon. It has been a rainy week for Kolkata. Dum Dum recorded 100 mm rainfall since Friday while Salt Lake recorded 81.1 mm rainfall and the Alipore area 31.9 mm. IMD predicts the rainfall is likely to continue till August 6
Soumyajit Dey
India Autism Centre organised Dil Se Friendship at Rotary Sadan on August 2 to celebrate Friendship Day and encourage children to build new bonds. Students from three schools, Riddhi, Pradip and Shibmandir, came together for the programme, which featured a string of cultural performances. An engaging Q&A session was held involving students, parents and teachers on what "friend" means to them. Tollywood actress Debleena Dutt was the chief guest for the event and spent time exchanging friendship bands with the children
Ashmita Banerjee
Students sport tiger masks at a programme to mark International Tiger Day at the Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata on July 29 and (left) a Bengal Tiger at the zoo. The zoo authorities conducted a sit-and-draw competition for school students and a poster-making competition for college students. Environmentalist Pradeep Vyas, often called the Tiger Man, made a presentation on the occasion. (Top) In picture (from left), Saurabh Chaudhuri of the West Bengal Forest Directorate, Vyas and other dignitaries
Press Release
