Weekend tourism fair, curtains go up on Ramjhol 2.0 and other Kolkata news in pics

Life and traffic go on as usual on under an overcast sky over the Howrah Bridge on Friday morning. The day was marked by intermittent rain.

(Clockwise from top left) Kolkata Centre for Creativity chairperson Richa Agarwal lights the inaugural lamp at Ramjhol 2.0 at KCC off the EM Bypass; Sourendro-Soumyojit perform at the event and other folk artistes put up a musical show

Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee pays homage to Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy’s 163rd birth anniversary celebrations on Friday

Senior special secretary Soumitra Sankar Sengupta and Akademi Award winner in Bengali literature Swapnomoy Chakraborty inaugurated Kolkata Tourism Fair in the presence of dignitaries from different state tourism departments and association members. The fair is being held at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra from August 2 to 4 between 11am and 8pm. (Right) A visitor checks a pamphlet of tour details at a stall at the fair

(From left) Arryan Choudhary, marketing strategist, Motovolt Mobility Pvt. Ltd., Subhankar Sengupta, chief conservator of forests & director of Zoological Garden, Alipore, and Anirban Chatterjee, head - business transformation, Motovolt Mobility Pvt. Ltd., with the zookeepers who received electric cycles for better mobility