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Calcutta Weather
Temperature
Min : 27.1+deg;C (+1)
Max : 31.2+deg;C (-1)
Rainfall : 2.4 mm
Relative Humidity:
Max : 94% Min : 83%
Sunrise : 5:15 AM
Sunset : 6:9 PM
Today
Generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers, maximum and minimum temperatures will be around 31°C and 27°C resptly
 
 
Shooters savour victory
When Abhinav Bindra struck gold in Beijing on Monday, Kuheli Ganguly celebrated the end of her anonymity in Calcutta....  | Read.. 
 
350 tech seats vacant
Around 350 of the 21,000-odd seats in engineering colleges in the state are lying vacant after the second round of counsellin...  | Read.. 
 
Warning to junior doctors
The government will take “strong steps” against junior doctors who disrupt medical services despite efforts to increase their...  | Read.. 
 
Home away from home for elderly
Words are 65-year-old Heena Basu’s passion. After her husband’s death, she wanted to devote her time to writing. But over...  | Read.. 
 
Rare books in click queue
Varnaparichay, the book mall coming up in the new-look College Street market, may still be in the nascent stage, but digitisa...  | Read.. 
 
Slow flow on speed-up connector
It was touted as the solution to the car crawl in an increasingly congested pocket of south Calcutta. Now, 18 months old, it ...  | Read.. 
 
City shoot for Farhan film
November schedule for bilingual on telephone’s entry

After Pradeep Sarkar in 2004, it is Farhan Akhtar in 2008. After Parineeta, it is Voice from the Sky. After Sai ...  | Read.. 
 
Members of North Calcutta Rifle Club celebrate Abhinav Bindra’s gold-winning performance in the Beijing Olympics on Monday. Picture by Amit Datta
Shooters savour victory
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 You share your birthday with...
Pete SamprasYou like to splurge on luxury goods and love to mingle with the swish set. You ...Read.. 
Young Metro
Festful of talent...  | Read.. 
 
Bus bays that hold up traffic
Bus bays are the latest addition to the long list of traffic management ...  | Read.. 

Varsity scraps merit list after protests
Protests by students and guardians on Monday forced the West Bengal Univers...  | Read.. 

Vandalism after negligence cry
Two city hospitals were vandalised by relatives and neighbours of two patients ...  | Read.. 

Students in bike gang
Several students are part of the motorcycle theft gang three of whose membe...  | Read.. 

2 cyber cafe owners held
Two cyber cafe owners were arrested in Ripon Lane and Eliot Road on Sunday ...  | Read.. 

Meteor shower tonight
Sky-gazers can look forward to a spectacular celestial display on Tuesday w...  | Read.. 

4-lane solution to VIP chaos
A four-lane artery will be laid parallel to VIP Road in Baguiati to ease tr...  | Read.. 

 
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