Weather forecast for Saturday (22.4.2023)
The maximum and minimum temperatures on Saturday are likely to be around 38°C and 28°C, respectively.
Partly cloudy sky
Sunset: 6pm
Sunrise: 5.11am
Yesterday’s weather update (21.4.2023)
Temperature
Maximum: 38°C (+2)
Minimum: 29.6°C (+3)
Rainfall: Nil
Humidity
Maximum: 85%
Minimum: 29%
Kolkata Traffic Police posted a traffic notification regarding Id-ul-Fitr festival that might affect the city traffic on Saturday (22.4.2023)
Earth Day plans
Lights will be switched off for 10 minutes at 65 prominent places, including hotels, restaurants and the Howrah bridge, on Saturday evening on the occasion of Earth Day. One of the organisers of the event said turning off the lights would save a huge volume of electricity, which, in turn, would help reduce carbon emissions.
Enforcement Directorate probe
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the high court on Friday allowed the Enforcement Directorate to conduct a parallel probe into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of employees in municipalities in Bengal.
IIEST Shibpur teachers cite ‘lack of democratic space’
More than 90 per cent of the teachers at IIEST who took part in an opinion poll voted in favour of the motion: “A sharp squeezing of democratic academic space is leading to the downfall of IIEST Shibpur”.
Of the 122 teachers who cast their votes, 114 supported the motion.
The opinion poll was held on Friday, coinciding with a 24-hour hunger strike by four teachers to protest the alleged lack of democratic space for teachers on the campus.
The teachers who went to the site of the hunger strike were handed a piece of paper that had written on it the motion with two options — “Agree” and “Disagree”, said Tapendu Mandal, general secretary of the teachers’ association.
Bail rejected
A division bench of the high court headed by Justice Joymalya Bagchi on Friday rejected the bail plea by Garden Reach resident Amir Khan, arrested in an app fraud case.