Weather forecast for Tuesday (27.2.2024)
The maximum and minimum temperatures on Tuesday are likely to be around 29°C and 19°C, respectively.
Partly cloudy sky
Sunset: 5.39pm
Sunrise: 6am
Yesterday’s weather update (26.2.2024)
Temperature
Maximum: 28.4°C (-3.2)
Minimum: 18.5°C (-1.8)
Rainfall: Nil
Humidity
Maximum: 83%
Minimum: 38%
Wind drags down Celsius
The minimum temperature dipped to 18.5 degrees Celsius in Kolkata on Monday, two notches below normal.
The minimum slid below 20 degrees after nine days. At 28.4 degrees Celsius , the maximum was three notches below normal
Met officials attributed the hint of chill to the northwesterly winds from the northern parts of the country. "The absence of moisture meant free passage for northwesterly winds," said a Met official.
The minimum temperature is likely to stay under 20 degrees for another day.
Kolkata Traffic Police posted a list of programmes that might affect the city traffic on Tuesday (27.2.2024)
- 2pm: Rally from Raja Woodmunt Street to 37, Canning Street via Brabourne Road
Youth with Covid dies
A 24-year-old youth from Regent Park, who was suffering from tuberculosis and meningitis and had also tested positive for Covid, died at the Beleghata ID Hospital on Sunday.
The death certificate mentioned that the youth died at 10.20pm on Sunday. He was admitted to the hospital on Saturday.
The death certificate also mentioned "TB Meningitis, Miliary TB and Covid-19 Pneumonia" as the cause of death.
A doctor not associated with the treatment of the youth said miliary TB meant that it had spread in his lungs. "It cannot be said that the man died because of Covid, but he had tested positive for Covid," he said.
An official of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said Covid deaths were few and far between but still a few deaths were reported in some months.
The bodies of patients dying after testing positive for Covid are still not being handed to their families but being sent to Dhapa for cremation.
A senior KMC official said as there has been no change in guidelines by the state government, they are not handing over the bodies to families.
Railway projects
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday virtually inaugurated around 2,000 railway projects, some of which are in West Bengal. The revamp of 550 stations in 12 states is part of the drive. Forty-five stations that will be revamped are in Bengal, said a railway official. Twenty-eight of the stations are in the Sealdah, Howrah, Asansol and Malda divisions, he said. “A highlight of the programme was the announcement of a transformation plan for Bandel station at an investment of Rs 307 crore. It will become a vital junction in the Howrah division,” the official said. The combined worth of the projects inaugurated was over Rs 41,000 crore, said the official. "Whatever India does today, it does it on an unprecedented speed and scale. We dream big and work tirelessly to realise them," Modi said. Governor C.V. Ananda Bose was at Bandel station with senior railway officials to watch the programme being live-streamed.