Weather forecast for Tuesday (13.2.2024)
The maximum and minimum temperatures on Tuesday are likely to be around 28°C and 19°C, respectively.
Partly cloudy sky
Sunset: 5.31pm
Sunrise: 6.11am
Yesterday’s weather update (12.2.2024)
Temperature
Maximum: 27.5°C (-1)
Minimum: 17.1°C (-1)
Rainfall: Nil
Humidity
Maximum: 94%
Minimum: 40%
Kolkata Traffic Police posted a list of programmes that might affect the city traffic on Tuesday (13.2.2024)
- 8am: Procession along Suhasini Ganguly Sarani, Ashutosh Mukherjee Road, HM Road
- 10am to 5pm: Meeting at Rani Rashmoni Avenue
- 2pm: Procession along Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Dorina crossing, Mayo Road
- 2pm: Procession along AJC Bose Road
- 2.30pm: Procession along Ganesh Chandra Avenue and Bentinck Street
- 7.30pm: Football match at Salt Lake Stadium
Axe on 36 Madhyamik examinees: Bratya
As many as 36 Madhyamik candidates were barred from writing this year s exams after images of question papers that circulated on WhatsApp were tracked down to QR codes on their question papers, education minister Bratya Basu said on Monday. Addressing a news conference on the last day of the Class X board exams, conducted by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, Basu said a racket was at work to malign the state government by circulating the images. A police probe has yet to conclude that those who circulated the images were politically motivated. On every occasion, images of a question paper surfaced while the test was still on. The minister said they would intensify their campaign to alert students about the rule that they cannot enter examination halls with mobile phones.
New medical college
A medical college and hospital with 800 beds will come up on the northern fringes of Kolkata. The foundation stone of the I-NK Medical College and Hospital was laid by chief minister Mamata Banerjee virtually on Monday. The hospital, coming up in Khamar Naobad near Rajarhat, North 24-Parganas, will be run by the Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata. "In our journey, the next destination is medical education. Furthermore, being a single specialty hospital, I-NK cannot provide service to the patients with conditions other than neurological diseases. So, for education and wider service to the patients, our plan is to establish a medical college named I-NK Medical college and a 800-bed multi-specialty general hospital on a campus to be known as Snayu Tirtha," said a spokesperson for I-NK, a non-profit collaboration of Neurosciences Foundation Bengal, Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the department of health and family welfare of the state government.
Jadavpur University flags fund woes in NAAC report
Jadavpur University has written to the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in its self-study report that it is facing a "considerable shortage of funds" and cited a "growing disparity between state and centrally-run educational institutions" in regard to funding from government agencies. A NAAC team is expected to visit the campus in April.