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Kolkata and rest of south Bengal are witnessing an average temperature of 40 degree Celsius. In places like Bankura, the temperature even went up to 45 degrees.
Increasing Covid cases in the country are unlikely to dampen large-scale New Year's Eve festivities, as there are currently no restrictions on crowd size, according to hoteliers and restaurateurs. Plans for celebrations and parties are proceeding as usual, with no numerical limits mentioned.
According to restaurant and hotel owners, they expect a full house on the match day.
Kaali Peeli Taxi Last Day: Fifty golden ‘black cabs’ were produced for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee celebrations in London in 2002. Enhancing a cultural symbol of London, and contemporising it. Could we have done something similar with the fast depleting Fiat fleet? Methinks it was do-able. And possible. Provided the mandarins of the city understood the value of the “sights, sounds and smells” of the city and learnt to value them.
A report card of how Kolkata celebrated the festival after early start and apprehensions of snarls