In pics: Eden warms up for KKR-PBKS match, Cyclone Mocha control room & more from Kolkata

Teams Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Punjab Kings(PBKS) at a practice session at the Eden Gardens today ahead of their face-off on May 8

An integrated control room has been set up by the Kolkata Police at Lalbazar to stay prepared for the impact of Cyclone Mocha. The cyclone is expected to make landfall in Myanmar between May 13 and 14, sparing the Indian coastline

Paddy being harvested in a Birbhum village on Sunday

Students busy drawing alpana at Jorasanko Thakurbari on Saturday. Rabindra Jayanti or Pochishe Baisakh, Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary, falls on May 9 this year

Children in Kolkata pray on the occasion of Buddha Purnima on Friday

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee poses with a child in Murshidabad during a programme on Friday

Actor Chiranjeevi was spotted near Victoria Memorial on Thursday morning. He is in the city for the shooting of his upcoming film ‘Bhola Shankar’

A cannon being excavated on Strand Road near the Eastern Railway building on May 4. Earlier, a heritage cannon was unearthed near Central Jail More and Jessore Road crossing on April 5

Actor Vidyut Jammwal poses with a policeman on a Kolkata street. Jammwal is in Kolkata for the promotion of his upcoming film, ‘IB71’. The spy thriller set against the India-Pakistan war of 1971 is directed by Sankalp Reddy and produced by Jammwal

Sandip Ray pays tribute to Satyajit Ray on the maestro’s 102nd birth anniversary on Tuesday

Trial runs were conducted again on the Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (Ruby) route before the commencement of commercial services on this stretch

The sky on Sunday afternoon. Kolkata is once again experiencing a hot spell with the mercury touching 38°C on Sunday