Weather forecast for Saturday (9.3.2024)
The maximum and minimum temperatures on Saturday are likely to be around 31°C and 21°C, respectively.
Mainly clear sky
Sunset: 5.44pm
Sunrise: 5.51am
Yesterday’s weather update (8.3.2024)
Temperature
Maximum: 31.1°C (-2)
Minimum: 19.2°C (-2)
Rainfall: Nil
Humidity
Maximum: 82%
Minimum: 31%
Kolkata Traffic Police posted a list of programmes that might affect the city traffic on Saturday (9.3.2024)
- 1pm: Procession from Sealdah Smart Bazaar complex to Rani Rashmoni Avenue via Sealdah flyover, Moulali crossing, SN Banerjee Road, Dorina crossing
- 6.30pm: Musical Programme at 7/2, Queens Park, Ballygunge
MCQs in two HS semesters
Two of the four semesters in Bengal s higher secondary course will be entirely based on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and the answer scripts in one of the semesters will be evaluated through a computerised system. While the MCQs will be there in the first and third semesters, the automated evaluation will be done in the third semester only. It means Class XII students who will write the third semester exams in November 2025 will be the first batch to undergo automated evaluation, Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya, the president of the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, said on Friday.
Cycle stand
The New Town authorities have set up a bicycle stand in front of the Millennium Tower Housing Complex in Action Area I. The bicycle stand will be illuminated with LED lights. The stand has provisions for locking bicycles. E-bikes can also be parked.
Bratya frowns on Malaviya tag
Education minister Bratya Basu on Friday questioned Calcutta University s decision to rename its Human Resource Development Centre as Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, after Madan Mohan Malaviya. On his X handle, the minister wondered why the centre could not be renamed after a scholar from Bengal. Calcutta University wrote on its website: "This changing of name follows the acceptance of the letter issued by the UGC…." The minister wrote in Bengali on his X handle: "I don t have anything to say on the erudition of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. It is also true that he graduated from Calcutta University. But did the university not get the name of a scholar from Bengal to name the Human Resource Development Centre?