Weather forecast for Thursday (18.4.2024)
The maximum and minimum temperatures on Thursday are likely to be around 40°C and 29°C, respectively.
Hot and uncomfortable
Sunset: 5.58pm
Sunrise: 5.14am
Yesterday’s weather update (17.4.2024)
Temperature
Maximum: 39.4°C (+3.8)
Minimum: 29.5°C (+3.4)
Rainfall: Nil
Humidity
Maximum: 87%
Minimum: 39%
Kolkata Traffic Police posted a list of programmes that might affect the city traffic on Thursday (18.4.2024)
- 4.30pm: Procession along Bidhan Sarani, KC Sen Street, Balai Singha Lane, Kailash Bose Street, Amherst Street, Maniktala Chaltabagan, Vivekananda Road, Duff Street, Goabagan, Sahitya Parishad Street
East-West Metro footfall
More than 4 lakh passengers travelled to the Esplanade station on East-West Metro (Green Line) between March 15 and 31, the carrier said. Commercial services started in the truncated Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section from March 15. "From March 15 to 31, around 4.65 lakh passengers travelled to Esplanade. Around 2.51 lakh passengers terminated their journey at Esplanade and the rest travelled to various stations of the north-south Metro (Blue Line)," an official said.
Esplanade has an interface between the two lines. "After getting off at Esplanade, around 25,000 passengers travelled to Dum Dum and 21,000 travelled to Kalighat." Trains cancelled n DUM DUM: Around 20 local trains will remain cancelled every day from Thursday to May 7 for a traffic block at Dum Dum Junction station of the Sealdah suburban section. The block is needed for renovation of platform 5 at Dum Dum Junction.
Summer break brought forward
The summer vacation in government and government-aided schools has been brought forward and will start on April 22 because of the heat spell, education minister Bratya Basu said on Wednesday evening.
The vacation was scheduled to start from May 6.
Several private schools, too, have brought forward their summer break by about a week ahead of the usual date. The schools usually close in the second or third week of May.
Sources in the school education department said chief minister Mamata Banerjee spoke to them about bringing the summer vacation forward in the wake of the heat wave alert on Wednesday.
After getting the nod from the chief minister, the education minister announced that the summer vacation was being brought forward, an official said
The official added that schools affiliated to the CBSE board and the ICSE council would be also requested to start the summer vacation from April 22.