255mm rainfall in city leaves life paralysed
Sixth heaviest downpour since 1888 crippled life in Kolkata and its adjoining areas that witnessed nine deaths due to electrocution and probable drowning today.
Sixth heaviest downpour since 1888 crippled life in Kolkata and its adjoining areas that witnessed nine deaths due to electrocution and probable drowning today.
The system will bring in rains in the city till Wednesday and may ease from Thursday, said the weather office.
Scattered thunderstorms, accompanied by lightning and gusty winds are expected across Kolkata and other parts of south Bengal on Saturday, the regional weather office in Alipore said.
Zookeepers at the Alipore Zoological Garden, Kolkata, received electric cycles yesterday to easily inspect the enclosures and their surroundings.
In a bid to provide relief to the creatures beat the heat, a series of innovative and thoughtful interventions have been implemented.
According to Miss Banerjee, the facility of “panic button” in the new system will help in monitoring criminal activities and reduction of crime against women.
Location tracking devices being made mandatory on passenger-carrying vehicles
Despite the monsoon arriving with a delay of one day, the city has already received an excess rainfall of 14 per cent excess in the last 11 days of this month.
The visitors will not be allowed to bring plastic bottles, food containers and polythene bags.
Kumar had filed the bail plea on Friday, a day after a city court had said that the CBI did not need a warrant to arrest him in the case.
