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Calcutta Weather
WeatherTemperature
Min : 13.20°C (-1)
Max : 17.20°C (-10)
Rainfall : 0.00 mm
Relative Humidity:
Max : 92.00% Min : 54.00%
Sunrise : 6:19 AM
Sunset : 5:15 PM
Today
Generally cloudy sky with fog. Temperature likely to range between 11°C and 18°C.
 
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Home they brought the leader dead
Sunday, 3.03pm. The hearse carrying Jyoti Basu’s body, draped in a red flag bearing the hammer and sickle symbol of the CPM, left the Salt Lake hospital where the 95-year-old former chief minister had been battling for life since January 1....  | Read.. 
 
State mourns for Basu’s final farewell
Bengal will for the next 48 hours mourn the man who ruled the state for 23 years and bid a final farewell on Tuesday evening....  | Read.. 
 
Day of shiver at minus 10
Sunday was one of coldest days the city has ever seen though the minimum temperature was only a degree below normal. ...  | Read.. 
 
‘Vanilla with chocolate sauce was his favourite’
For years, she was the one person Jyoti Basu would listen to at home. Dolly Basu, the former wife of son Chandan, tells ...  | Read.. 
 
Where Basu wanted to be
Jyoti Basu wanted to return home one last time. On Sunday afternoon he did return. But in a hearse. The last wish of the lead...  | Read.. 
 
Jyoti Basu’s body being brought on Sunday afternoon from AMRI Hospitals to Indira Bhavan, which was his home from 1989. Picture by Pabitra Das
 
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