Weather forecast for Tuesday (1.8.2023)
The maximum and minimum temperatures on Tuesday are likely to be around 32°C and 28°C, respectively.
Partly cloudy sky
Sunset: 6.18pm
Sunrise: 5.08am
Yesterday’s weather update (31.7.2023)
Temperature
Maximum: 34°C (+1)
Minimum: 29.1°C (+3)
Rainfall: 3mm
Humidity
Maximum: 67%
Minimum: 84%
Kolkata Traffic Police posted a list of programmes that might affect the city traffic on Tuesday (1.8.2023)
- 9am to 5pm: Demonstration at the crossing of BB Ganguly Street and Sashi Bhushan Dey Street near Bank of India
- 9am: Meeting on Howrah Bridge near pillar no. 12
- 11.30am: Demonstration in front of office of the Public Service Commission of West Bengal
- 2.30pm: Demonstration in front of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation head office, SN Banerjee Road *** Assembly point: Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and SN Banerjee Road crossing
- 4pm: Procession from in front of 6, Abinash Chowdhury Lane towards Zeeshan restaurant, Park Circus via No. 4 bridge etc
- 5pm: Programme at Kshudiram Anushilan Kendra
Aviation security week
The aviation security culture week commenced at Calcutta airport on Monday. C. Pattabhi, airport director, inaugurated the programme in the presence of senior officials of the Central Industrial Security Force and the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security and representatives of airlines. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security will observe the aviation security culture Week from July 31 followed by various programmes, including awareness sessions, quiz contests, reward and recognition and a walkathon among other events, said an official.
Jadavpur University rule tweak for 5-year tech evening classes
Jadavpur University has reintroduced a clause that states only working professionals would be allowed to enrol in the five-year evening engineering programme. The university had dropped the clause amid Covid because many had lost their jobs during the lockdown, said a JU official. The official said that as the pandemic is now past, they have reintroduced the clause mandating at least a one-year job experience for pursuing the evening engineering programmes.
1 held for ‘selling’ govt land
A man in his early 40s has been arrested for allegedly duping people by showing plots in New Town owned by the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) and selling them by using forged documents. The Bidhannagar commissionerate arrested Tanmay Nayek early on Monday.
According to the officer, Nayek had also sold a government-owned plot in Lake Town by using forged documents. Biswajit Ghosh, deputy commissioner of Bidhannagar Commissionerate s detective department, told Metro that so far nine cases have been registered with the department regarding a scam where fraudsters have sold Hidco plots in New Town to various buyers.