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Calcutta Weather

	Temperature Min : 25.60°C (+1) Max : 33.80°C (+1)
Rainfall : 5.00 mm
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Max : 98.00% Min : 63.00%
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Partly cloudy sky. Rain or thundershower may occur.

Presi in 48-hour VC hunt

Interim head till search panel finds full-time one

Presidency University will get within two days a stand-in vice-chancellor to hold the fort till a search committee finds a full-time incumbent for the fledgling university that Mamata Banerjee aspires to turn into a centre of excellence. ... | Read..

Poverty of tradition on Lakshmi Puja

A centuries-old tradition of art and worship has become poorer this Lakshmi Puja.... | Read..

Metro relies on paper tickets

Metro Railway prefers to rely on the printed card ticket to prevent rush-hour chaos during the “festive season” instead of up... | Read..

Festive frames from shutterbugs

Metro selects some more festival pictures clicked by our readers from the hundreds that flooded our inbox over the past week.... | Read..

Resource hurdles trip cops in added areas

Calcutta police acquired 17 police stations on September 1, almost doubling the area under their control at one go. But th... | Read..

Civic switch to power-saver lights

The civic body has drawn up a Rs 50crore project to replace sodium vapour street lights with light-emitting diode lamps (LEDs... | Read..

3D laser sorcery tribute to Sorcar Sr

When the legend of PC Sorcar turns 100 in two years, he’ll walk in 3D.... | Read..

A row of identical Lakshmi idols at a Kumartuli workshop leaves this little boy confused about which deity to take home on the eve of the festival to ... | Read

Hello It's Tuesday , October 11 , 2011

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Amitabh Bachchan, Ronit Roy and Aman VermaYour ability to take the right decisions, even u ...Read..

Howrah traffic blueprint

The new police commissionerate of Howrah has chalked out the blueprint of a drive against illegal pa... | Read..

Leopard skin seized from shop
A leopard skin was seized from a motor spares shop at Sinthee in north Calc... \| Read..
Man held for killing ‘brother’
A plumber who had complained that his “brother” had been killed was arreste... \| Read..
Fishing ban hits supply of Padma ilish
An 11-day ban on fishing hilsa in Bangladesh has created a shortage in Calc... \| Read..
Upgrade key to 5-day Frankfurt
German carrier Lufthansa might consider reverting to five-days-a-week sched... \| Read..

The City Diary

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New director for wetlands body

Fewer Metro trains today