Calcutta

Park Street, the crown jewel of the city's party scene, is among three neighbourhoods chosen for a pilot project to untangle the jumble of overhead cables after chief minister Mamata Banerjee called them an eyesore.

Her slight build and soft voice belie the steel she has shown in smashing the glass ceiling.

The sun beat down hard on Wednesday morning and it seemed the mercury would follow the forecast of 40-plus degrees Celsius, but conditions changed dramatically in a matter of minutes around 11am. The skies quickly darkened and rain swept away several days of relentless heat and humidity.

The Archdiocese of Calcutta on Wednesday issued a circular to schools run by church organisations, advising them to reduce working hours instead of declaring a long holiday in response to the ICSE council's advisory to all its affiliates.

Sergeant Sudip Roy, who resumed duty after a year on Tuesday with a prosthetic limb, has retrofitted his car with easy-access features for ease of driving.

The state government will hire over 300 drivers and conductors on contractual basis and add 80 battery-operated buses.

A member of the All India Council for Technical Education on Wednesday termed the the state technical university's proposal on Plus II physics score "unrealistic".

At least 10 shops were gutted in a fire at a market in Kulpi's Dholahat, South 24-Parganas, late on Tuesday.

A city police homeguard who was suspended after his arrest in January on the charge of outraging a woman's modesty with words and gestures was found hanging in Hooghly on Tuesday.

The body of a 24-year-old Karaya resident who went missing from the Old Digha beach on Tuesday was found on Wednesday.