In pics: Rose Day, Book Fair and more news from Kolkata

A schoolboy looks at red roses on Rose Day as the Valentine's week begins. Couples across the world observe the entire week before Valentine’s Day as love week or romance week. It begins on February 7 and goes on till February 13. The week starts with Rose Day and is followed by Propose Day, Chocolate Day, Teddy Day, Promise Day, Hug Day, and Kiss Day

With five days remaining for the 46th International Kolkata Book Fair to conclude, book lovers and visitors thronged the boimela prangan, visited stalls, clicked selfies and enjoyed cultural programmes. The book fair will end on February 12

Director-general of state police Manoj Malviya on Tuesday launched the Khoya-Paya portal-app at Bhabani Bhawan to improve the process of identification of missing persons and unidentified bodies. Anyone can register with the portal and provide information about missing or sighted child/person, without waiting to complete the legal formalities. The information supplied by the citizen(s) would be made available for public view after quick moderation, thereby saving the valuable time

Metro Railway work at BBD Bag has gained pace. On February 4, Calcutta High Court had directed the Railway Vikas Nigam Limited to commence with the Joka-BBD Bag Metro construction in the Maidan area. The RVNL, in its plea, had stated earlier that the construction work in the route was delayed as it had to wait for Army clearance

On Tuesday morning, most parts of the city were engulfed in smog. The city is likely to see the end of the winter starting this week, the Met office had said on Monday. The maximum temperature recorded on Monday was 30°C

Visitors at the book fair observed a minute of silence to pay tribute to the victims of the quake that rattled Turkey and Syria. A second earthquake of 5.4 magnitude jolted Turkey on Tuesday. This was the fifth tremor to have rocked Turkey in two days as it grapples with huge devastation caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday. The death toll has now touched 5,000, as per the latest update from the news agency reports