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Calcutta Weather

	Temperature Min : 27.6°C (+2) Max : 31.2°C (-1)
Rainfall : 9.5 mm
Relative Humidity:
Max : 95% Min : 79%
Sunrise : 5:6 AM
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Generally cloudy sky with rain or thundershower in some areas.

The City Diary

Dead fish in garden pond

Fishes weighing several kilograms were found dead in a pond at Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur on Thursday morning. The pond, Leram Lake, is one of the 24 water bodies in the garden compound. Morning walkers who noticed the dead fishes on Thursday have shot off a letter to the garden authorities. imadri Sekhar Debnath, the joint director of the garden, said: “I have no clue why the fish died. I don’t think it’s a big news but I’ll look into the matter.” ources said water in most of the ponds was polluted because of accumulation of dead leaves and plastic items over the years. “In 2002, I had filed a public interest litigation in the high court highlighting how the ponds in the garden are becoming polluted because of lack of maintenance. The garden authorities had then promised that they would look after the ponds. They have not kept their word.”

Rs 50,000 snatched

Two motorbike-borne men snatched Rs 50,300 from a trader in Sodepur on Friday morning. Police said Ashit Dey, 45, had just come out of a State Bank of India ATM with the cash in a black plastic bag. The two came from behind and snatched the bag.

Theft

Gold jewellery and Rs 5,000 in cash were stolen from a first-floor flat in Lake Town early on Friday. Police said flat owner Diya Banerjee, a schoolteacher, and her mother Deepti were sleeping when the theft occurred. No one has been arrested yet.

Students arrested

Around 15 first-year students of Uluberia College were arrested on Friday afternoon at Shyampur Siddheshwari College in Howrah after they allegedly damaged property and beat up some teachers and staff members. Police said the youths were caught cheating while writing their political science paper of BA Part I and were disallowed from taking the full test.

CMC post

Mayor Sovan Chatterjee replaced Manzar Iqbal as the leader of the Trinamul Congress municipal party on Friday. According to the Calcutta Municipal Corporation rules, a mayoral council member cannot be the leader of the ruling board. qbal is the mayoral council member in charge of lighting. Chatterjee will now hold the posts of the mayor and the leader of the Trinamul Congress municipal party simultaneously.

Body found

The body of an unidentified woman in her 80s was found floating in a pond beside Sukhchor Bazar in Khardah, on the northern fringes, on Friday evening. The woman was declared dead at BN Bose Hospital. The body has been sent for post-mortem.